🟡06.05.2022
21:21 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister
Today we managed to extract 50 women, children, and the elderly from Azovstal. Tomorrow morning we will continue the evacuation operation.
20:56 Interfax-Ukraine
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has documented 300 episodes of war crimes by Russian troops against Ukraine’s cultural heritage, the ministry’s press service said.
20:21 Evropeiska Pravda
In the coming days, US President Joe Biden will sign a new arms package for Ukraine worth at least $100 million.
According to European Truth, this was reported by Reuters, citing information from three US officials.
Officials said on condition of anonymity that the package was likely to include more ammunition for weapons such as howitzers.
19:34 Interfax-Ukraine
The Chiefs of Staff of Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden will take part in a meeting of the NATO Military Committee on 19 May in Brussels, Belgium, according to the Alliance’s website.
“A meeting of the Military Committee of the Commander-in-Chief of NATO Defense Forces will allow 30 commanders of NATO forces to meet and discuss issues of strategic importance to the Alliance. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will join the Commanders-in-Chief at the first meeting to discuss in July”, it is told in the message.
18:59 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 6, 2022.
The seventy-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
- russian enemy does not stop the offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
- The greatest activity of the occupiers continues to be observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions.
- The enemy launches missile strikes on transport infrastructure and residential areas of settlements of our state.
- In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. Certain forces and means of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions.
- Currently, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation remain in the Republic of Belarus, consisting of up to eight launchers of Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems and up to six aircraft of various modifications that may be involved in air and missile strikes on Ukraine.
- Some units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions. The engineering equipment of the positions was carried out near the border crossing points.
- According to the available information, in the settlement of Klyntsi, Bryansk region, units of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th All-Military Army of the Western Military District are conducting combat coordination in order to further participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to increase the number of troops. From the area of the settlement of Urazovo of the Belgorod region to the territory of Ukraine carries out movement of divisions from structure of the Eastern military district.
- The enemy is blocking some remote settlements in the Kharkiv region, carrying out systematic high-intensity shelling, including with the use of rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in areas where our troops are concentrated. Also, the enemy led the offensive in the direction of the settlement of Nova Dmytrivka, had no success.
- As a result of the offensive, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine regained control over the settlements of Oleksandrivka, Fedorivka, Ukrainka, Shestakovo, Peremoha, and part of the village of Cherkaski Tyshky.
- In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, in order to restrain the actions of our units, the enemy fires along the entire line of contact. Continues airstrikes and missiles.
- In the Lyman direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Shandrygolove. He tried to establish control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Voevodivka in the Severodonetsk direction, but was unsuccessful. In the Popasnyansky direction he carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Nyzhne. In the Avdiyevsky and Kurakhiv directions, he limited himself to shelling the positions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
- In the city of Mariupol, the enemy focused its efforts on blocking and defeating units of Ukrainian defenders in the Azovstal area.
- The occupiers conducted reconnaissance by fighting in the direction of the settlement of Prechistivka, were unsuccessful, and retreated.
- In the South Bug direction, the enemy did not conduct active offensive operations, inflicting fire damage on the positions of our troops in some areas. He focused his efforts on maintaining the occupied frontiers, replenishing ammunition and engineering equipment positions.
- In the Bessarabian direction, the Russian Federation continues to provoke tensions in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova. The personnel of the operational group of the Russian troops are in combat readiness “Full”.
- The enemy continues to suffer significant losses in personnel and equipment. According to available information, up to 800 wounded and up to 200 bodies of dead enemy servicemen are in the psychiatric hospital of the village of Malotokmatsky, Rostov region, which was partially transferred to the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
We keep the fighting! We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Together to victory!
Glory to Ukraine!
#stoprussia
18:04 Ukrinform
The Russian and Belarusian tennis federations have been excluded from the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
The decision was made at an ITF conference. As a result of a secret ballot, 80% of the conference delegates supported the expulsion of the federations of the aggressor countries from the ITF, 20% were against.
Also, the executive director of the Tennis Federation of Ukraine Ievhen Zukin announced that the FTU supports the removal of individual tennis players. This issue will be discussed in the future.
17:48 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister
Another exchange of prisoners took place. 41 people were returned, including 11 women.
28 military and 13 civilians are returning home.
17:00 Interfax-Ukraine
Since the beginning of Russia’s military aggression, Estonia has sent Ukraine arms and ammunition totaling EUR 230 million.
16:56 Evropeiska Pravda referring to Reuters
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take a “powerful step” and visit Kyiv on May 9.
He said this in a speech to representatives of the British think tank Chatham House.
16:22 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
Russian occupiers shelled Kamianske village, where a “green corridor” was agreed on May 6
15:42 Artem Dekhtiarenko, spokesman of the Security Service of Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine reports that it captured 11 enemy snipers as a result of a special operation in Kharkiv region
15:03 Novoye Vremya
Denys Shmygal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, states that, according to partner intelligence services, Russia intends to declare full-fledged war on May 9.
“We will see if this happens. But if this happens, it will be another confirmation that Russia has declared war on a civilized democratic world, democratic values,” Shmygal said after an international donors’ conference in Warsaw in support of Ukraine.
14:56 Mariupol city counsil
During the ceasefire on the territory of the Azovstal plant a car was hit by Russians who used anti-tank guided weapon. This car was moving towards civilians in order to evacuate them from the plant. As the result of the shelling, 1 fighter was killed and 6 were wounded. The enemy continues to violate all agreements and fail to adhere to security guarantees of of civilians evacuation.
The consequences of the evacuation vehicle shelling (video)
13:55 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for the Human Rights
It became known from the aggressor’s media that a bill on simplified registration of orphans and children deprived of parental care has already been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
These changes provide for the accelerated acquisition of citizenship and documents of the Russian Federation by children who were forcibly transferred from Ukraine.
Representatives of the State Duma of Russia note that the bill is aimed at enabling Russian citizens to adopt Ukrainian children, as the law currently prohibits the placement of foreign children in russian families.
The adoption of such a law will significantly complicate the ability of children to return to Ukraine and will violate their right to maintain contact with relatives in Ukraine.
13:18 Ukrinform
The Foreign Ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, Gabrielius Landsbergis, Edgars Rinkevics, and Eva-Maria Liimets, arrived in Kyiv.
13:05 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
we urge you to be especially attentive to air alarm signals on the eve and during May 8-9.
As Russian troops can not boast of significant achievements at the front before Victory Day, the risk of massive shelling of Ukrainian cities these days is increasing.
12:50 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
Today at about 11:00 the enemy actively used aircraft and artillery on Huliaipole. Massive shelling of the Russian army destroys the peaceful infrastructure of Orikhiv with missiles and air strikes
12:39 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration
Our military shot down a drone over Dnipro
12:38 Evropeiska Pravda
The Ukrainian Embassy in the Netherlands strongly condemned the act of vandalism committed on May 3 at the Yonkerbos military cemetery in Nijmegen.
“We consider this act a gross insult to the memory of the victims of World War II and a provocation, in particular against Ukraine. We are deeply concerned and saddened that the act of vandalism was committed on the eve of Remembrance Day, days when European nations honor the memory of all those killed. in the struggle for liberation from Nazism”, the Embassy expressed hope that the law enforcement agencies of the Netherlands will promptly find and bring to justice those responsible for this crime.
11:42 Vitaliy Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv
I handed over to the command of the Land Forces of Ukraine the military equipment received from the World Congress of Ukrainians. As part of the global action “Unite with Ukraine”, цу raised funds and purchased 5,000 high-class bulletproof vests and 5,000 Kevlar helmets for $4.5 million for the defense of Kyiv.
11:34 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Ukrainians are forced to accept the citizenship of pseudo-republics, in case of refusal they are threatened with repressions
▪In the occupied city of Sorokine (Luhansk region), the process of issuing “LNR” passports for Ukrainian citizens displaced from recently occupied territories has begun. People are deprived of homes, property and money. Therefore, they are forced to agree to these conditions, because this is the only way to receive payments in rubles, food kits and medical care.
▪Preventive talks are held with people. It is reported that in case of refusal to acquire the citizenship of the pseudo-republic – people will lose any means of subsistence and repressive measures will be applied to them.
11:17 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
The injured 15-year-old girl took four adults out of Popasna.
They evacuated from Popasna on their own, but the car was shot by the Russians. Two men, including the driver, were seriously injured by shell fragments. And the girl had to get behind the wheel. The road to Bakhmut was mined – the enemy set the explosive traps in a checkerboard pattern.
The girl was driving a car for about 30 km. For most of this distance, she had her legs shot because the Russians hit the car again.
10:52 Suspilne citing the First Deputy of the Kherson Regional Council Yurii Sobolevskyi
The situation in the Kherson region is difficult, but there is no famine.
“People have food. People have a very big problem with money. The economy has stopped, and not everyone gets paid in these conditions,” Sobolevskyi said.
According to the official, the vast majority of goods are still Ukrainian.
“Farmers are helping – they are supplying their products to the markets. Prices are not quite adequate, unfortunately, but there is no hunger,” Sobolevskyi said.
The official of the Kherson Regional State Administration stressed that the difficult situation is with the provision of medicines.
“There are practically no drugs. And after we were blocked from importing at least small batches, the situation became even worse. Before that, small batches were imported from Mykolaiv and Odesa. Now everything is difficult,” he explained.
According to Yurii Sobolevskyi, the Russian ruble has not yet been introduced in the occupied region.
“In the Henichesk community and the city of Henichesk, they are trying very hard to introduce it, they have a platform there for experiments. But there is information that counterfeit banknotes have appeared. That is, they have not yet tried the ruble zone, as they have already started to plunder in this way,” the official said.
10:30 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
Two rescuers who were carrying water to Nyzhnie disappeared.
On May 4, two SES officers – Denys Kolotilov and Hennadiy Muratov – were carrying out a humanitarian mission to bring water to the Nyzhnie Mountain Community in a company car. They stopped communicating this afternoon.
No further search was made – no rescuers or fire truck were found.
There is a possibility that men were taken prisoner by the Russians because that day there were fights near the village.
10:29 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
American economist Jeffrey Sachs is calling on the United States to abandon NATO enlargement.
On May 4, Russian propaganda circulated an interview with Sachs in which the economist said that the “conflict in Ukraine” had already caused world hunger. But Sachs blames the United States for Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine because he said it was NATO’s “open door” policy that provoked Russia.
In general, Sachs has been promoting the narrative of a strong Russia on which the whole world depends for more than 10 years. Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the American economist has repeatedly called for the lifting of sanctions against Russia, saying that restrictions “will not bring Russia to its knees.”
9:37 European Pravda citing Die Welt
Germany has agreed to supply Ukraine with 7 self-propelled howitzers Panzerhaubitzen 2000. This was confirmed in Slovakia on Friday by Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht.
Howitzers must be supplied with current repairs. Germany will also train the Ukrainian military to use these weapons systems.
9:18 Mariupol City Council citing the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
“In a joint UN and ICRC operation, two safe passage convoys successfully evacuated nearly 500 people from the Azovstal plant, Mariupol, and surrounding areas,” wrote Guterres.
“We are grateful for the rescue of our residents. We hope to expand the mission and increase the scale of the evacuation. After all, tens of thousands of civilians remain in Mariupol. They all live in difficult conditions of the humanitarian catastrophe. There is a total shortage of food, drinking water, and medicine in the city. Therefore, the evacuation must continue,” commented the City Council.
8:46 Suspilne citing the UK Ministry of Defence
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine on May 6 of 2022.
Russian forces in Mariupol have continued their ground assault on the Azovstal steel plant for a second day, despite Russian statements claiming they would seek only to seal it off.
The renewed effort by Russia to secure Azovstal and complete the capture of Mariupol is likely linked to the upcoming 9 May Victory Day commemorations and Putin’s desire to have a symbolic success in Ukraine.
This effort has come at personnel, equipment, and munitions cost to Russia. Whilst Ukrainian resistance continues in Azovstal, Russian losses will continue to build and frustrate their operational plans in southern Donbas.
8:43 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
The premises of the Dzhereltse kindergarten in Huliaipole, a house in Polohy, and a one-storey residential building in Orihiv were on fire as a result of the shelling. Firefighters extinguished the fire.
8:25 Operational Command South
In the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Mykolaiv, the Russians continue campaigning for the introduction of the leadership of collaborators. Stocks and reserves of agricultural enterprises are being stolen. At the same time, the occupiers accuse the Ukrainian authorities of creating a humanitarian catastrophe. The invaders themselves imitate humane treatment, demonstratively distributing food kits and medicines to the local population.
The enemy continues the tactic of consolidating positions without active action but focuses on fire damage along the line of contact.
Reconnaissance drones are used to adjust the artillery fire, but two Orlan-10 were destroyed by the accurate actions of the Ukrainian units in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
Twenty-four Russians were killed, and two Orlans were added to the morning results of the destroyed equipment and weapons.
In the Mykolaiv region, the enemy again struck with BM-30 Smerch and a P-270 Moskit anti-ship missile. There are no victims among the local population.
In Transnistria, bordering the Odesa region, Russians tried to disperse information allegations about shots heard from Ukraine. The enemy continues to look for ways to provoke armed conflict in the troubled region.
The cynicism of the Russians knows no bounds: this is not the first time the enemy has tried to justify its insidious plans to strike at infrastructure facilities, accusing the Armed Forces of Ukraine of placing its command posts in hospitals, maternity hospitals, schools, and other socially sensitive facilities.
Thus, the Ministry of Defense of the Russians on its official resource accused the Ukrainian authorities of locating the command post of the Armed Forces in the Odesa regional hospital, and the sick imagination of the Russians completed its yard with armoured vehicles, artillery, and volley fire systems.
At the same time, in the north-western part of the Black Sea, a ship group with cruise missile carriers continues to manoeuvre, keeping the probability of missile strikes on Ukraine quite high.
8:17 Office of the Prosecutor General
More than 631 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 223 children were killed, and more than 408 received injuries of varying severity.
Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 116, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 46, Mykolaiv – 44, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 27, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, and Zhytomyr – 15.
These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.
8:09 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of May 6, 2022:
- Manipulation: Russia’s post-envoy to the UN, Vasilii Nebenzia, said that “events in Ukraine are a “proxy war” of the collective West with Russia,” and Western countries “seem to be waiting for a moment and preparing for economic war”;
- Disinformation: Despite the blockade of southern Ukraine by Russian troops and obstruction of the sowing campaign, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatolii Antonov said that “Americans refuse to admit mistakes in the economy and therefore accuse Russia of provoking a food crisis”;
- Manipulation: The Russian media continue to generate negative theses about the decline in the level of support for Ukraine by the West. Thus, the propagandists reported that “Bulgarians removed the Ukrainian flag from the city administration in Sofia,” and they “respect other people’s symbols, but the Ukrainian flag has a place in the embassy.”
7:52 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
The Russians aimed at PJSC Azot, but the threat of burning industrial tanks was prevented.
The shelling took place on the evening of May 5. At about 6 p.m., enemy shells hit one of the last gas stations in the Luhansk region and the nearby Sievierodonetsk Azot railway facility. Sleepers and grass on a total area of 400 square metres caught fire. There was a threat of conflagration of the company’s tanks, but rescuers prevented it.
16 times the enemy opened fire on residential neighbourhoods and infrastructure. This is half of the recorded number of shellings throughout the region. 12 houses, an electric substation, and a complex of commercial buildings were damaged. There are two civilian casualties. Seven more houses were destroyed in Rubizhne, two – in Novodruzhesk. There are destructions in Lysychansk, Orikhove, Hirske, and Popasna.
7:40 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko
The Russians launched a missile at the Pokrovsk community. The shell fell in the field – no one was injured. Russia also shelled with BM-21 Grad two villages in the Zelenodolsk and Shyroke communities. Information on the consequences is being clarified, no one has been injured.
7:31 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 6, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlo Kovalchuk)
The seventy-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.
The Russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
- The Russian enemy does not stop the offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
- The Russian enemy did not take active action in the Volyn and Polissia directions. The units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are checking the combat readiness of the response forces.
- In the Siversky direction, no signs of the formation of an offensive group by the Russian enemy were found. In the border areas of Ukraine in the Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions, a small number of personnel, weapons, and military equipment are kept at positions and bases.
- The Russian enemy did not take any active action in the Slobozhansky direction. It continues to fire from jet and barrel artillery in residential areas and suburbs of Kharkiv.
- The Russian enemy continues to build up the air defence system, logistics, and fire damage. Carries out regrouping and restoration of combat capability of units.
- According to available information, there are up to 300 Russians wounded in the hospital established by Russian occupiers on the basis of Kupiansk City Hospital
- In order to clarify the positions of Ukrainian troops and the directions of further advance, the Russian enemy conducts air reconnaissance.
- In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy continues to conduct active hostilities.
- The Russian enemy is shelling the positions of our troops in the Lyman direction.
- In the Popasna direction, the main efforts were focused on establishing full control over the settlement of Popasna and resuming the offensive on the settlements of Lyman and Siversk.
- In the city of Mariupol, the blockade of units of the Defense Forces in the Azovstal area continues. In some areas, with the support of aviation, assault operations resumed to take control of the plant.
- The Russian enemy did not conduct active hostilities in the Sievierodonetsk, Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Novopavlivka, and Zaporizhzhia districts. The Russian enemy exercises fire in order to restrain the actions of our troops and destroy artillery units.
- In the South Buh area, the Russian enemy did not conduct active hostilities, kept the occupied frontiers, and strengthened air defence systems and electronic warfare. It fired on the positions of our troops. In the north of Kherson and Mykolaiv, the Russian enemy carries out attacks on the settlements which left.
- The Russian enemy conducted air reconnaissance in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandrivka, Serhiivka, and Volodymyrivka.
- Fifteen air targets had been hit by the Air Force and Land Forces of the AFU in the past 24 hours: fourteen Orlan drones and one aircraft.
- In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, defenders of Ukraine repulsed eleven enemy attacks and destroyed eight tanks, eleven units of armoured combat vehicles, and five units of enemy vehicles.
4:25 Ukrainska Pravda citing NYT
The United States provided intelligence that helped Ukrainian forces locate and strike the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet last month, another sign that the administration is easing its self-imposed limitations on how far it will go in helping Ukraine fight Russia, U.S. officials said.
Two senior American officials said that Ukraine already had obtained the Moskva’s targeting data on its own, and that the United States provided only confirmation. But other officials said the American intelligence was crucial to Ukraine’s sinking of the ship.
The U.S. intelligence help to strike the Moskva was reported earlier by NBC News.
On April 13, Ukrainian forces on the ground fired two Neptune missiles, striking the Moskva and igniting a fire that eventually led to the sinking of the warship. Attention has also focused on whether the ageing ship’s radar systems were working properly. Ukrainian and U.S. officials said the Moskva was possibly distracted by Ukraine’s deploying of a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone nearby.
Immediately after the strike, Biden administration officials were scrupulously silent, declining to confirm even that the Moskva had been struck. But in recent days, American officials confirmed that targeting data from American intelligence sources was provided to Ukraine in the hours before the Neptune missiles were launched.
0:52 Ukrinfrom
Russia’s actions in Ukraine can be recognized as war crimes.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) collects testimonies and evidence of violations committed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that could be considered war crimes.
This was stated by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday.
“The OHCHR mission continues to investigate allegations of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. In the context of the Russian Federation’s armed attack on Ukraine, many of these allegations relate to violations that could be considered war crimes,” she said.
0:43 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
In Chernihiv, the occupiers want to appropriate people’s land. Residents are forced to fill in a form by May 8, which states how much land the owner has, and how much is for rent. Only then will a land use licence be issued. Otherwise, the commandant will seize all the land that is not specified in the papers of the occupiers.
0:10 UkrinformGoogle is adding another $ 10 million to the aid already provided for the humanitarian needs of the people of Ukraine and $ 10 million to counter the spread of inaccurate information in the region, as disseminating such information in times of war can be a matter of life and death. Matthew Brittin, head of Google’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa division, said this at a donors’ conference to help Ukraine in Warsaw, Ukrinform’s correspondent reports.
