On February 24, 2022, Russian Federation started a full-scale military invasion in Ukraine.

LIVE UPDATE, MAY 2022

🔵31.05.2022

21:10 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In one of the Russian airstrikes on Sievierodonetsk, where fierce battles continue, a tank with nitric acid was hit at a chemical plant, causing a leak

17:41 Security Service of Ukraine

In the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian military captured a sniper of the Russian army. During interrogations at the Security Service of Ukraine, he said that they were ordered to sign an agreement to kill civilians. 

12:59 Ukrinform

Two Russian servicemen, Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov, who had shelled Kharkiv region from Grad multiple rocket launchers, were sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison.

9:15 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian military are controlling part of Sievierodonetsk and planning an operation to clear the surrounding villages. The Lysychansk-Bakhmut route is not controlled by Russian troops but is constantly under fire 

9:08 Prosecutor General’s Office

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 243 Ukrainian children have died, 446 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region. 

8:44 Charles Michel, President of the European Council 

EU member states have reached an agreement that will impose a partial embargo on the purchase of Russian oil, disconnect Russia’s Sberbank from the international payment system SWIFT, and ban three more Russian state broadcasters.

8:03 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

The enemy continues to shell the Zelenodolsk community of the Dnipropetrovsk region. People were not affected – NV reports

7:42 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

The invaders launched a missile strike on Sloviansk overnight, killing at least 3 people and injuring 6.

7:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the occupiers fired at Ukrainian troops with mortars, artillery and multiple rocket launchers along the line of contact. The main efforts of the occupying forces are focused on establishing control over the city of Sievierodonetsk

6:15 Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol

In Mariupol, the occupying forces have started the procedure of accepting documents for obtaining Russian passports.

5:51 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine (as of May 29), the OHCHR has recorded 4,074 deaths and 4,826 injuries to civilians in Ukraine [conservative estimates, real numbers are likely higher]. 

4:12 Operational Command SouthThe Ukrainian Armed Forces have killed 78 Russian troops and destroyed Russian tanks, howitzers, and other equipment while defending the southern borders of Ukraine.

🟡30.05.2022

22:34 Suspilne

In the Donetsk region, 115 miners who remained underground due to the power outage on May 29 were raised to the surface, Vasyl Shcherban, the head of the Toretsk trade union committee.

22:30 Institute for the Study of War

Mounting casualties among Russian junior officers will likely further degrade Russian capabilities and lead to further morale breakdowns. Domestic dissent within Russian military circles, claiming that the Kremlin is not doing enough to win the war, continues to grow. 

21:47 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Three people were killed and four injured as a result of Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast on 30 May.

21:31 National Guard of Ukraine

In Zaporizhzhia Region, a National Guard conscript has shot down three enemy attack aircrafts over one and a half months.

21:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

During the successful offensive of the defense forces, the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka, Kherson region, stirring panic among servicemen of other units of the Russian Armed Forces

20:09 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

An attempt to evacuate civilians from Luhansk Oblast has been halted after a French journalist documenting the operation was killed by Russian shellfire.

18:08 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

In the Donetsk region, as a result of the fighting, the Tolyatti – Odesa ammonia pipeline was damaged; an ammonia cloud was moving towards Bakhmut, but there was no threat to the city.

16:00 Office of the Prosecutor General The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has opened the first case of rape during the war: a Russian serviceman, who tormented Ukrainians in Kyiv region, will be tried.

14:30 Suspilne

On the morning of May 30, the Russian armed forces again shelled the residential quarters of one of Mykolaiv’s districts. As a result of the shelling, one person was injured and 21 houses were damaged.

13:22 Suspilne

The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that Russia had sent troops and additional weapons to the region bordering the Sumy region of Ukraine.

12:36 Ukrains’ka Pravda

The Security Service of Ukraine has established that Russian special services have carried out a series of provocations in the temporarily occupied areas of southern and eastern Ukraine to discredit the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

12:19 Ukrains’ka Pravda

Lviv paratroopers destroyed a platoon of the 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment from the Pskov region of Russia.

11:14 Ukrinform

Russian invaders have opened fire on a car with two volunteers inside, and three doctors have gone missing in Sievierodonetsk.

11:05 The New Voice of Ukraine

Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadym Denysenko said that in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia directions, the Ukrainian military managed to advance by 8-10 kilometers.

10:31 Suspilne Zaporizhzhia

On the morning of May 30, a powerful explosion took place in the center of the temporarily occupied Melitopol. Acc. to preliminary information, a man and three women were injured, incl. the niece of the “governor” appointed by the Russian occupiers Yevgeny Balitsky, local media reported.

9:46 Ukrains’ka Pravda

Serhii Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, said that fighting in Sievierodonetsk is now taking place on the city’s streets.

9:00 Ukrains’ka Pravda 

Between 00:00 and 08:00 on 30 May, Russian troops opened fire four times on border-adjacent areas in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

8:13 Ukrainska Pravda

In Luhansk Oblast, heavy fighting for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk continues. According to the head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, Russian troops have entered the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk.

6:15 Ukrinform

In the southern direction, the Ukrainian defenders eliminated 67 Russian aggressors, an enemy command post, and a large number of military equipment over the past day.

1:00 CNN

Ukrainian prosecutors’ investigation into Russia’s infamous 64th motor rifle brigade has led to the identification of 11 suspects accused of war crimes, CNN reports from the crime scenes.

00:30 Institute for the Study of War

New reports confirmed that Ukrainian forces conducted a successful limited counterattack near the Kherson-Mykolaiv oblast border on May 28, forcing Russian forces onto the defensive.

🔵29.05.2022

23:27 Ukrainska Pravda

On 29 May, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed five UAVs, two cruise missiles, a company-tactical group and an ammunition depot belonging to the invaders.

22:54 Ukrainska Pravda

Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, has said that Russia’s absolute priority in the war against Ukraine is to capture Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts; he added that people who live in other Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine will have to “decide their future” themselves.

13: 46 Petro Andriushchenko, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol

For the second day in a row, Russian looters have been loading Ukrainian rolled metal products in the trade port of temporarily occupied Mariupol onto a Russian cargo ship

17:54 State Border Guard Service

Russian troops have opened fire on border areas in Chernihiv Region and Sumy Region 10 times over the past day.

16:47 Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv

Shelling of a residential quarter in Mykolaiv resulted in the death of one person – another two were injured, and three high-rise buildings were damaged.

16:18 Ukrainska Pravda

A patriotic rally in support of Ukraine was held in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, on Sunday

14:48 Liudmyla Denisova, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights

Over the past week, the Russian military have forcibly removed nearly 3,000 Ukrainians, including more than 300 children, to a filtration camp in the village of Bezimenne. 

After the filtering measures, the occupiers are forming groups of Mariupol residents, who are first deported to the Russian city of Taganrog, and then to the depressed regions of Russia.

11:31 Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv

On the morning of 29 May, the Russian occupying forces shelled the residential quarter of Mykolaiv, and there were casualties.

11:06 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

On May 28, the Russian military fired artillery at Huliaipole again. It is known about one injured person as of now

9:00 Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Russians lost about a third of their modern tanks in the war with Ukraine. According to UA official, T-34 tanks, which Russia can take from long-term storage for the war with Ukraine, “will not drive far.”

8:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the occupied Crimea, hospitals were ordered to prioritize Russian wounded soldiers over civilian patients.

8:03 Suspilne

Over the past 24 hours, the shelling of the Russian military has damaged about 60 houses in the Luhansk region, killing two people in Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk, said the head of the regional military administration Haidai

8:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Southern Buh direction, the occupiers suffered losses as a result of offensive actions of Ukrainian units and took up unfavorable defensive positions near the settlement of Kostromka. 

5:46 Security Service of Ukraine

In Russia’s Belgorod region, which serves as staging grounds for Moscow’s invasion force, a sharp uptick in instances of rape has been recorded in recent months, according to an audio intercept published by the Security Service of Ukraine

5:11 South Operational Command

Russia is attempting to retrieve its sunken Raptor boat from the Black Sea

3:30 Institute for the Study of War

RU forces pressed the ground assault on Sievierodonetsk and its environs, making limited gains. Russian forces in Kharkiv continue to focus efforts on preventing a Ukrainian counteroffensive from reaching the international border between Kharkiv and Belgorod. 

3:05 Bloomberg

Russia is back in default countdown, with another bond payment in question: as of Friday evening, coupon payments in euros and dollars worth about $100 million hadn’t landed in investors’ accounts, kicking off a 30-day grace period.

1:05 NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

The Japanese government has decided to grant Ukraine additional $1,7 million to transport humanitarian aid. 

1:00 Kyiv School of Economics

As of May 25, the total amount of direct damage to Ukraine’s economy from damage and destruction of residential and non-residential buildings and infrastructure reached $105.5 billion, or over UAH 3.1 trillion

0:47 Oleksii Kuleba, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration

All is calm near the border with Belarus in the Kyiv region, but the region remains under constant threat of Russian invasion.

0:07 Donbasenergo power generation company 

The operation of Sloviansk thermal power plant (TPP) in Donetsk Oblast has been suspended due to constant hostilities in the area

0:06 Vadym Boichenko, mayor of Mariupol 

There is a threat of infectious disease outbreaks in Mariupol this summer.

🟡28.05.2022

23:35 Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih Military Administration

One of the plants in Kryvyi Rih has been practically destroyed as a result of a missile strike

22:18 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Sievierodonetsk is under the Ukrainian flag. Russian troops have not advanced beyond the hotel Myr and have sustained heavy losses.

20:36 State Border Service of Ukraine

A woman was wounded in an unguided missile strike on two towns near the Ukrainian-Russian border in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

20:19 Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv

One person was killed and seven others were wounded, two of them in critical condition, after Russian forces shelled residential areas in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on May 28

19:53 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukrainian forces have launched an offensive in the Kherson region, with Russian invaders suffering losses and defending on unfavorable positions

19:00 Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have killed the Russian commander of the assault battalion of the 104th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Dosiagaev

16:05 South Operational Command

Russian military blocked exits from the Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine. The cars that people are trying to use to leave are being filtered and returned back 

10:19 Suspilne Kherson

Inscriptions “Kherson is Ukraine”, “Kherson, Believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine” appeared on the streets of Kherson.

9:26 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of Sumy Regional Military Administration

On the night of 27-28 May, Russian troops bombarded Sumy Oblast with mortars and artillery; a Russian missile hit a civilian target in the oblast.

9:22 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukraine’s defense forces inflicted heavy losses on the Russian army and forced it to retreat in the areas of the settlements of Novopil (Donetsk Oblast) and Novodarivka (Zaporizhzhia Oblast), which are located on the border of two regions

9:17 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian army suffered significant losses and was forced to retreat in the area of Sievierodonetsk, Toshkivka and Oskolonivka.

7:58 General Stuff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Occupying troops are conducting active offensive operations in the Donetsk direction, and the threat of airstrikes from the territory of Belarus remains – Belarusian troops have moved the Iskander-M OTRK division to the Luninets settlement in the Brest region

7:50 Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

On the night of 27-28 May, Russian troops opened fire on Zelenodolsk hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, hitting a church in one of the villages. There were no casualties.

6:20 South Operational Command

Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military in the southern direction eliminated 63 Russian invaders and a large number of military equipment

3:49 South Operational Command

Russia has deployed in Kherson Oblast 30 T-62 tanks that were manufactured 50 years ago

2:18 The Wall Street Journal

The Biden administration is expected to announce as early as next week it will send to Ukraine long-range rocket systems Kyiv says are necessary to fight off the Russian onslaught in the Donbas region, U.S. officials said Friday

0:15 Joint Forces CommandThe Joint Forces repelled 8 attacks by Russian occupiers in the east of Ukraine on May 27. Battles continue in 5 more locations, and 19 Russian armoured vehicles have been destroyed

🔵27.05.2022

23:20 Yurii Ihnat, Spokesman of Air Force Command

During the 24 hours of 27 May, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed three Russian air targets and a company-tactical group of the Russian army

21:46 North Operational Command

Russian troops have opened fire on settlements in Sumy Region with mortar systems. The data on casualties among civilians are yet to be updated.

21:20 Air Assault Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ukrainian paratroopers have destroyed Russia’s Ka-52 ‘Alligator’ combat helicopter in Kharkiv Region

19:35 Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 

Ukrainian troops continue to fight in the northern part of Lyman, Donetsk region, and repel the Russian army’s offensive in the direction of Avdiivka and Bakhmut  

19:10 Ukrainska PravdaBelarus has restricted the temporary stay of citizens in the border zone on the territory of the Brahynskyi, Loievskyi and Khoinytskyi districts of the Homel region bordering Ukraine for the whole summer.

13:46 Hennadii Korban, head of the Dnipro Territorial Defense

The Russian military fired three missiles at the Dnipropetrovsk region this morning, killing ten people and wounding at least 35 others after one missile hit a Ukrainian National Guard base in Dnipro.

10:45 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

70 bodies of dead civilians have been found under the rubble of destroyed buildings by Russian occupiers on the territory of the former Oktyabr plant in Mariupol. The bodies of the victims were taken for burial in a mass grave in the village of Staryi Krym. 

10:31 Police press service in Donetsk region

On May 26, the Russian occupiers fired on 11 settlements in the Donetsk region. Six people were killed, one was injured and 94 civilian objects were destroyed – press service of Donetsk region’s police, Suspilne reports.

09:40 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy regional military administration 

The Russian army fired on the Sumy region from its territory. Every half an hour, mortar shots were heard in the Shostka district: private houses were damaged. The outskirts of the Stari Vyrky village were also shelled – head of the regional military administration Zhyvytskyi.

08:27 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

The enemy fired on the Dnipropetrovsk region at night and in the morning. Rescuers are dismantling the rubble and looking for people.

08:12 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Russian army has renewed its assault on the town of Sloviansk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The enemy is trying to make some gains in the Bakhmut direction, disrupt Ukrainian supply chains and cut off Ukrainian units from the main forces.

07:38 Oleksandr Striuk, the head of the Sievierodonetsk Civil–Military Administration  

In Sievierodonetsk, a Russian occupying forces’ sabotage and reconnaissance group, which was being driven out by the Ukrainian military, broke into a hotel.

05:53 Zaporizhzhia military administration

The Russians are transferring personnel and military equipment, in particular Grad multiple rocket launchers, from Crimea to the Zaporizhzhia region.

05:36 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Air Force of the Canadian Armed Forces has shown how they load another aircraft with military assistance for Ukraine – 155-mm M777 howitzers. The video was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

01:24 “Pivden” (South) Operational Command

On May 26, Ukrainian military personnel completed 100 fire missions, killed 35 invaders and several infantry fighting vehicles on Ukraine’s southern defence frontiers.

00:48 Serhii Osachuk, Head of Chernivtsi Oblast Military Administration 

A Russian missile has been destroyed in Chernivtsi Oblast airspace.

00:25 US Department of Defense 

Despite an enormous advantage in numbers, Russian forces attacking the Donbas region of Ukraine have made only “incremental progress,” a senior US defense official said on May 26.

00:02 Institute for the Study of WarRussian forces have made steady, incremental gains in heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past several days, though Ukrainian defenses remain effective overall, says The Institute for the Study of War.

🟡26.05.2022

21:37 Ihor Klymenko, head of the National Police 

The death toll from the May 26 shelling of Kharkiv has risen to eight. Among them – a five-month-old child and her father, the mother is in serious condition 

18:55 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Seven people have been killed and another 17 civilians wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the city of Kharkiv on May 26

18:17 Suspilne

Lukashenko announced the creation of an operational command in the Ukrainian direction. This was stated by the self-proclaimed president of Belarus at a meeting of the Ministry of Defense on military security 

18:10 Petro Andriushchenko, Mariupol mayoral adviser

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers have installed 12 TV sets showing Russian propaganda near the points of issue of the humanitarian aid, points of registration of various papers and places of access to water. 

16:55 Oleksiy Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Between May 19 and 26, the Russian invaders launched 63 missile strikes and 41 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine, mostly aimed at railway transport infrastructure.

14:39 Petro Andriushchenko, Mariupol mayoral adviser 

Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol have canceled the summer break in the city’s schools, in order to prepare students for Moscow’s curriculum

12:13 Center for Strategic Communications and Information SecurityTwo people were killed, and two more were wounded as a result of attacks on the settlements of the Mykolaiv region by the Russian armed forces on the night of May 26

9:37 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry

Russian troops are regrouping their forces in the south of Ukraine, trying to gain a foothold in the already occupied territories 

8:24 Serhii Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration

Three civilians were killed in the Russian shelling of the city of Lysychansk and its outskirts. In Severodonetsk, an agricultural business and many residential buildings were damaged.

7:17 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the occupiers are focused on taking full control of Lyman and attempts to improve the tactical situation near Sievierodonetsk and Avdiivka

6:34 Ukrainian delegation to the UN

Russia abducts Ukrainian children and deports them to its territory aiming to destroy the Ukrainian nation. This is underscored in the statement of the Ukrainian delegation to the UN

5:23 Reuters

As of May 26, the European Union has frozen about €23 billion in Russian central bank assets. 

0:55 Operational Command “South”

A small armored artillery boat of the Ukrainian Navy, captured by the Russians in Berdiansk at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was spotted near Zmiinyi Island. The Operational Command “South” considers that the enemy may try to use the boat for provocations

0:30 The TelegraphBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will on Thursday address the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and warn against the West’s attempts to “appease” dictator Putin

🔵25.05.2022

20:54 Serhii Haidai, Head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration

95% of the oblast’s territory has been оccupied by Russian troops. The situation in Donbas is critical.

Police officers in Luhansk Oblast were now carrying out the work of funeral homes. In this way, 150 people have been buried in a mass grave in Lysychansk.

19:53 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian occupying forces fired on the Kryvyi Rih district several times on 25 May. A kindergarten, a church and houses have been damaged

19:11 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

At the end of May, the Belarusian Armed Forces will hold the next stage of exercises at the training grounds in Brest, Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev regions. They plan to remove weapons, military equipment from storage and march

17:21 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers began the procedure of issuing Russian passports on Wednesday, May 25

Russians in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine have begun to withdraw Ukrainian books with “extremist content” from libraries, schools and other book collections.

15:44 Suspilne Odesa

In the area of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island in the Odesa region, the Russian military raised their sunken ships. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, made this announcement during a briefing at the Ukraine-Ukrinform media center, Suspilne reports

15:37 Suspilne

Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov will sue Russia over the destroyed Azovstal plant. He will also demand compensation for all losses for his other enterprises, which are partially or completely destroyed. 

15:31 Novoye Vremya

More than 200 residents of the Russian-occupied areas of Donetsk Oblast, mobilized for war with Ukraine, have demanded that they be returned home, Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazansky reported on Facebook on May 25, posting a video address by the proxy forces.

14:10 Suspilne

Putin signed a decree on the simplified granting of Russian citizenship to residents of the occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Previously, Russian citizenship under the simplified procedure could be obtained by residents of the occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

13:51 Novoye Vremya

Russia has finished demining the port in Mariupol and is ready to release foreign ships, the head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, was quoted as saying in an update on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry.

10:46 Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Due to Russian military aggression, there is no gas supply in the entire Luhansk region. 

10:22 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

On May 24, Russian occupiers deported about 346 Ukrainian citizens, including 24 children, from Mariupol to a filtration camp in the village of Bezimenne, in the Donetsk region.

9:46 Prosecutor General’s Office

Russian troops have killed 238 children and injured at least 433 in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion started on February 24. It has recently become known that three teenagers aged 14, 15 and 17 were killed by Russia’s shelling of Mariupol, Donetsk region

9:27 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Missiles fired by Russian invaders at the city of Zaporizhzhia hit a shopping center and private homes, killing at least one person and injuring three others.

9:19 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration 

On the night of May 25, Russia struck missiles on Krasnopillia of the Sumy region. About 20 houses and electric power transmission lines were damaged as a result of the attack. Half of the village was left without electricity.

8:38 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Since the morning of May 25, Russian invaders have been conducting an offensive on Sievierodonetsk with the support of artillery. Yesterday only, six people were killed and eight wounded in the city 

8:16 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

On the morning of 25 May, Russian forces launched three missile strikes on the town of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, damaging a manufacturing plant.

3:35 Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Russian forces fired on the town of Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast with three cruise missiles, one of which was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. The number of victims was not clarified. In the village of Savyntsi, two people were wounded as a result of the attack.

2:41 National Guard of Ukraine

On May 23, a Ukrainian National Guard сonscript has successfully downed a Russian Su-25 Grach attack aircraft. According to the National Guard’s press service, it is the second accurate shot of the fighter on an enemy aircraft in a month

2:00 Ukrainska Pravda

About 90% of pharmacies in the temporarily occupied Kherson region are closed, and prices for most drugs have increased three- to fivefold.

1:16 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

On May 24, Russian criminals killed 12 civilians in Donetsk region 

0:18 The Guardian

Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian forces after the three-month siege of the Azovstal steel plant are being held in “satisfactory” conditions, according to the unit commander’s wife, amid uncertainty over the fate of the prisoners.

0:05 Joint Forces Task Force

On May 24, soldiers of the Ukrainian Joint Forces repulsed 9 Russian attacks and destroyed 38 pieces of Russian military equipment; fighting continues at 6 locations.

🟡24.05.2022

19:02 Oleksandr Motuzianyk, spokesman of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense

Russia is preparing for a long war. Now their task is to surround the Ukrainian military near Severodonetsk and Lysychansk and gain control of the whole Luhansk region.

18:33 Bloomberg

Orban: The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency over the war in Ukraine “to have room for maneuver to respond quickly to challenges”. Also, Hungary still does not agree to an oil embargo against Russia.

17:08 Reuters

EU proposes to make the confiscation of assets easier, including of sanctioned Russian oligarchs.

14:33 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian occupiers shelled the Azot chemical plant in the Luhansk region. 4 people were killed.

14:15 The Times

The UK may send warships to the Black Sea to protect freighters carrying Ukrainian grain and break Russia’s blockade by providing a “protective corridor” from Odesa through the Bosphorus.

13:30 European Council

The European Council adopted a regulation allowing for temporary trade liberalization to certain Ukrainian products. This means that for one year import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the EU will not be due. This will support Ukraine’s economy during the war.

12:55 European Council

The European Council agrees on further increase of support of Ukraine. The fourth tranche will add €500 million to the resources already mobilized for Ukraine, bringing the total amount to €2 billion.

12:41 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

During 3 months of full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian army destroyed and damaged 30 facilities in Donetsk region, which were reconstructed at the expense of the European Investment Bank. Half of these buildings were located in Mariupol. The bank has financed 117 projects, inc. schools, kindergartens, and hospitals. 

For 7 years, the bank has allocated 3.5 billion hryvnias for 117 projects in 34 settlements of the region. Most of them were schools, kindergartens, and hospitals.

12:20 Ukrinform referring to Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

For 82% of Ukrainian citizens, any territorial concessions to Russia for the sake of achieving peace in the ongoing war with Russia are unacceptable.

11:53 Zaxid.net

Due to the constant Russian shelling of the city of Soledar in the Donetsk region, Artemsil, the largest salt producer in Europe, has shut down. Salt was exported to Hungary, Poland, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Romania.

11:40 Espreso TV

During the full-scale war, the cost of grain exports from Ukraine quadrupled. Ukrainian seaports remain the best way to export products abroad. Other routes are either not suitable for transportation or too expensive in terms of logistics.

9:55 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

In Mariupol, the bodies of 200 victims were found under the ruins of a high-rise building.

7:39 Forbes

Russian war destroyed about $100 billion worth of infrastructure in Ukraine.

7:05 Variety

European Film Academy president Agnieszka Holland has criticized the Cannes Film Festival for inclusion a movie of Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov to the main competition. The presence of Russian culture in the West keeps legitimizing the aggressor state.

0:27 CNNSatellites recorded Russian ships in the port of occupied Sevastopol, which are probably carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. Images by Maxar Technologies, dated May 19 and 21, show Russian ships moored next to the grain silage. The grain pours into the open hold.

🔵23.05.2022

22:37 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Since February 24, the Russian army has launched 1,474 missile strikes on Ukraine, using 2,275 different missiles, mostly on civilian objects. Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons and combat aircraft to save people’s lives.

22:34 Lloyd Austin US Secretary of Defense 

20 countries announced new security assistance packages, inc. donating critically needed artillery ammunition, coastal defense systems, tanks, and other armored vehicles.

22:01 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

Russia wants to remove metal-roll and grain residues from the port of Mariupol by rail. The repair of the railway line has started urgently. Also, 🇷🇺 army blocks 22 million tons of grain and sunflower in Ukraine, which threatens the world with food crisis. 

20:55 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights 

In the Kherson region, Russian troops raped children aged 6 months, some of them died. Russia systematically uses rape and sexual violence in its military tactics.

19:23 Energoatom

In Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, the Russians broke into the house of Serhii Shvets, an employee of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and shot him. He was hospitalized with numerous injuries. Doctors are fighting for his life. 

19:02 Militarnyi

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus is starting the next stage of examining its response forces.  The Belarusian army is conducting intensive reconnaissance activity in the Volyn and Polissya areas.

17:52 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine48 more Russian soldiers to face war crimes trials. About 13,000 cases of Russian alleged war crimes are being investigated.

17:14 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Up to 100 people are being killed each day while fighting in eastern Ukraine, where Russia has centered its military efforts in recent weeks.

16:06 Bild

Germany has Marder vehicles that could be transferred to Ukraine but Olaf Scholz’s government blocks the supplies. 

14:53 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine 

We need to create a global structure to provide sufficient support within 24 hours to any country that has suffered a military attack, natural disaster, or pandemic. This is a new format of security guarantees based on what is happening now.

14:15 CNN

Denis Pushilin, the leader of the puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic”, says Azovstal defenders are being held on the territory of the “republic” and will face an “international tribunal” there. Some Russian lawmakers have already urged the death penalty for captured Mariupol defenders. In the puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the death penalty is used as a punishment for “crimes”, which is a violation of all fundamental principles of the right to a fair trial.

14:05 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

At least 4,600 Ukrainian civilians have died as a result of Russian aggression, not including data from the occupied territories, where the situation is catastrophic with many cities and towns completely destroyed.

13:59 Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Intelligence Chief 

There has been an attempt on the life of Vladimir Putin since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

12:55 Livyi Bereh

Russian soldier Vadim Shyshymarin was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing an unarmed civilian in the Sumy region on Feb. 28, 2022. He has become the first Russian soldier to appear before the court for war crimes in Ukraine.

10:56 The Guardian

#WEF2022: Ukrainian President calls for ‘maximum sanctions’ against Russia, among them:

📍a full oil embargo;

📍no trade with Russia;

📍barring ALL Russian banks from global systems;

📍cutting ties with Russia’s IT industry.

10:22 Security Service of Ukraine

Detained Putin’s ally Medvedchuk says Ukraine’s ex-president Poroshenko was involved in the withdrawal of part of the main oil pipeline “Samara — Western direction” from state ownership for further pumping of diesel fuel through it. The European Solidarity political party, led by Poroshenko, has already called Medvedchuk’s statement “an obvious information subversive attack in the interests of the aggressor’s country as today the collapse of internal political unity would not work in Ukraine’s interests”.

9:03 Wprost.pl

Poland has terminated its contract with Russia’s Gazprom, which provided for the supply of gas until the end of 2022.

6:39 The Guardian

New Zealand to send 30 troops to the UK to train the Ukrainian military how to use a howitzer gun.

0:05 United NationsOver 6.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24. Also, 2 million have returned home from abroad since February 28.

🟡21.05.2022

10:44 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration 

In the morning of May 21, 2022, Russian troops shelled Sumy Region with artillery systems from the territory of Russia. No casualties were reported.

8:33 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Fighting with the Russian occupiers is taking place on the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region. In just one day on May 20, six civilians were killed in the region as a result of attacks by the occupiers

6:57 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russian invaders plan to resume offensives towards the towns of Yampil – Siversk by crossing the Siverskyi Donets river.

1:17 Reuters

The Pentagon said on Friday there were no indications that Russia had used laser weaponry in Ukraine, following claims by Moscow that it was fielding a new generation of powerful lasers there to strike enemy drones.

0:37 Suspilne

Russian media published a video with the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, Serhii Volynskyi, callsign “Volyna”, who left Azovstal. In the video, he said that there were no more Marines on the territory of the plant 

0:10 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

On 20 May, 3 more civilians were killed in the course of Russian operational activity in Donetsk Oblast, and 400 people are known to have been killed since the invasion began.

0:05 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General The prosecutor’s office identified the company commander of the 64th separate Motorised Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation who ordered the killing of civilians in the Kyiv region.

🔵20.05.2022

16:14 Novoye Vremya

Active combat in Ukraine’s territory is reducing air quality, polluting lakes and rivers, and ruining crops, negatively impacting the ecosystem of Eastern Europe and lowering Ukrainian life expectancy.

14:23 Oleksandr Sytaylo, Mayor of Malyn

As a result of a missile attack on the town of Malyn in the Zhytomyr region, an infrastructure object and almost 100 houses have been damaged; three people have been injured.

13:51 Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration

Russian troops fired a missile at the infrastructure facility of the Lubny community in the Poltava region.

13:24 Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment 

Ukraine’s military leadership issued an order to stop the defense of Mariupol and save the lives of the military. According to Prokopenko, the process of evacuating the bodies of the dead soldiers is underway 

11:20 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian invaders have effectively destroyed the town of Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast – not a single building has escaped damage, and many of them cannot possibly be restored.

10:27 Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Energodar

In the Russian-occupied Enerhodar of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a fire brigade had protested after enemy troops abducted their chief Vitaliy Troyan. The occupiers used force against rescuers.

9:37 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

12 civilians were killed in Sievierodonetsk and one more in Hirske amalgamated territorial community on Thursday, 19 May.

9:04 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

On the night of May 20, 2022, Russian troops again opened fire on Velyka Kostromka, Dnipropetrovsk Region.

8:58 Prosecutor General’s Office

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 232 Ukrainian children have died, 427 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region. 

7:27 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, RU enemy hit infrastructure and peaceful households with missile, artillery and mortar fire, and waged a counter-battery struggle. In the area of Novodarivka it suffered losses and retreated to its former positions.

1:31 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops failed to block the road to Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast; the Ukrainian Armed Forces repulsed the Russian attack.

0:15 Associated Press

Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paievska, better known as Taira, strapped on a bodycam when the war broke out to show the world the unfolding horror in Mariupol. After an Associated Press team got her footage safely out, Russian forces took her captive.

0:10 Ukrainska Pravda

On Thursday, 19 May, the Ukrainian Joint Forces repulsed 14 Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Luhansk fronts; fighting continues at 2 locations.

0:07 The New York Times

Witness testimony and videos show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha on March 4, a potential war crime.

0:05 John Kirby, Pentagon Press Secretary 

The next security assistance package for Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Biden on Thursday, will include weapons and equipment totaling about $100 million.

0:02 TimeUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has won the 2022 TIME100 reader poll, in which readers voted for the people they thought deserved a spot on TIME’s annual list of most influential people of the year.

🟡19.05.2022

20:44 Ukrainska Pravda 

The deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, Sviatoslav Palamar, announced that both he and the command are on the territory of the Azovstal plant as of 19 May.

19:18 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, Russian invaders killed 12 people and injured more than 40 on May 19

16:38 Oleksii Hromov, Deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Over the last two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated 23 settlements in the Kharkiv region from Russian occupiers.

14:11 International Committee of the Red CrossA team from the International Committee of the Red Cross says they have registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war this week from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

12:18 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

In the Donetsk region, Russian invaders launched another airstrike on Bakhmut town, hitting a five-story apartment block, a private house, and an administrative building. Rescuers removed six people from the rubble. Their health condition is satisfactory.

9:38 Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office

Russian troops have killed 231 children and injured at least 427 in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion started on February 24.

9:19 Operational Command South

The Ukrainian army hit 90 enemy targets in southern Ukraine on May 18, including two self-propelled howitzers, armored vehicles and manpower.

8:59 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian occupiers continue shelling the settlements of the Luhansk region, the enemy actively used aircraft in the area of Popasna. In Severodonetsk, four people died and three others were injured on May 18. Another person was injured in Lysychansk 

7:52 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

On the night of 18-19 May, Russian forces shelled the village of Velyka Kostromka in Zelenodolsk amalgamated territorial community of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 5 times.

7:37 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

A grenade exploded near the Russian commandant’s office in occupied Melitopol on May 18.

6:15 Operational Command South

The occupiers are preparing a so-called “press tour” for Russian and foreign media from Rostov-on-Don to the captured cities of Ukraine. The occupiers are using classic forms of hybrid warfare

5:32 Dmytro Zhyvytskiy, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

Overnight RU invading forces were shelling Sumy Oblast, a northeast Ukraine region that was liberated from Russian occupiers in April.  After several failed attempts to break the border, the invaders started shelling the region from the Russian territory “like crazy”.

1:51 Yulia Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada 

Canadian Parliament has unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatar People by the Soviet regime as an act of genocide

0:39 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defence Minister 

Ukraine is doing everything possible to save the defenders and heroes of Ukraine who were at Azovstal. Public comments can harm the process

0:05 East Operational and Tactical Group

At least 15 civilians, including two families with children, were killed and seven civilians were injured in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as a result of Russian shelling on Wednesday. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 16 attacks.

🔵18.05.2022

21:49 Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Rescuers have found the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 2-year-old child when dismantling the rubble of a five-storey apartment block, which was hit with a Russian missile in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, on May 17, 2022

18:49 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated the village of Dementiivka in the Kharkiv region. 

17:57 Ukrinform

Vadim Shishimarin has become the first Russian soldier who fully admitted his guilt in court in the murder of a civilian in the Sumy region

16:36 Mariupol City Counsil

There is a threat of complete extinction in the Sea of ​​Azov due to possible damage to the technical facility, which restrains the concentrated hydrogen sulfide solution, amid the Russian bombardment of the Azovstal steelworks.

16:17 Ukrainska Pravda

In captured Melitopol, the Ukrainian resistance movement has managed to blow up a Russian armoured train as it was transporting soldiers and equipment

15:57 Andrii Niebytov, head of the National Police of the Kyiv region

Bodies of 1,288 civilians killed by the occupiers were found in the Kyiv region as of 18 May.

13:02 Oleksii Reznikov, Defense Minister 

Seventeen battalion tactical groups (BTGs) of the enemy have been completely destroyed by the Ukrainian Army in 80 days of the war

11:46 Ukrinform

Russian troops have shelled a column of civilian cars near the village of Davydiv Brid, Kherson Region, with the Grad multiple launch rocket systems, killing at least three people

10:34 South Operational Command

The Russian military have launched a missile strike on Odesa Region from the Black Sea.

10:00 State Border Guard Service

Russian troops continued to fire on the Sumy region on the night of 18 May using Grad multiple rocket launchers.

9:03 Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council

The Russian occupiers again shelled the border areas of the Zelenodolsk and Apostolove communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region. 

8:51 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

On the morning of 18 May, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Mykolaiv, causing destruction and a fire in the residential sector. 1 person is now known to have suffered shrapnel wounds

8:46 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Last night, the Russian occupiers continued shelling the settlements of the Luhansk region. Sievierodonetsk withstood 15 artillery attacks. The enemy opened fire on the Azot chemical plant. Four people have been killed.

8:17 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

Russian invaders launched two missile strikes on the city of Dnipro this morning, injuring a woman and destroying a transport infrastructure object.

08:14 Prosecutor General’s Office

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 229 Ukrainian children have died, 424 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region. 

7:50 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In Bakhmut and Sievierodonetsk directions in Luhansk region, the aggressor amassed up to 15 helicopters to provide air support for the offensive.

3:03 Press service of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian occupiers have kidnapped 280 Ukrainian civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region.

🟡17.05.2022

16:50 Radio Liberty

Belarusian military personnel intensified their activities on the border between Belarus and Ukraine: these actions are aimed at “protection from Ukrainians and NATO troops,” according to the leadership of the Belarusian Armed Forces.

16:21 State Emergency Service

One person has been killed in Russia’s missile strike on a five-storey apartment block in Bakhmut, Donetsk Region. A child born in 2013 was rescued from under the rubble in moderately grave condition.

15:27 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine

The operation to rescue the Ukrainian military from Azovstal will continue until their full return home from uncontrolled territory. Ukraine was forced to exchange wounded Ukrainian servicemen in Mariupol for Russian POWs, as there was no other way to save them.

15:00 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

In the Shostka district of the Sumy region, Russian invaders are trying to break through the land border. Fighting is ongoing.

14:39 Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

Negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation are currently suspended due to several reasons

12:54 State Emergency Service of the Chernihiv region

As a result of the Russian troops’ air strike on the settlement of Desna in the Chernihiv region, eight people were killed, 12 more were injured 

10:17 Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration

As a result of missile strikes by Russian occupation forces in the Lviv region, the railway infrastructure was damaged 

10:14 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Russian occupiers fire on the Hirske community of the Luhansk region, the whole streets of houses are burning 

9:34 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration

At dawn today, Russian troops launched a missile strike on the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region. At least five people have been injured.

9:20 Ukrainian Air Force Command

A unit of anti-aircraft missile forces of Ukraine’s Air Command South has shot down a Russian cruise missile over the Mykolaiv region. The missile was flying toward the western regions of Ukraine

8:18 Viacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration 

In the morning of 17 May, the village of Desna in Chernihiv Oblast was hit by a missile strike, as a result of which there are dead and wounded

8:08 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

The Russian military has once again shelled the only functioning hospital in Sievierodonetsk, where two more buildings are now damaged. They also carried out air strikes in the Popasna area

6:20 Ukrinform

Explosions were heard in Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, overnight Friday. According to tentative reports, the enemy hit a military infrastructure facility in Yavoriv district.l

6:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Commanders of units defending the Azovstal steelworks, Ukraine’s last stronghold in Mariupol, received an order from the highest military command “to save the lives of personnel.”

0:54 Andrii Niebytov, Kyiv regional police chief

Another mass grave with 4 dead civilian victims of Russian occupiers with gunshot wounds has been found in the Kyiv region. 

0:24 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine 

UA forces started a rescue operation from Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, the last Ukrainian stronghold. 53 heavily wounded soldiers were taken to Novoazovsk, another 200 soldiers were taken to Olenivka, both occupied settlements in Donetsk Oblast

0:10 Radio Liberty

Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and French carmaker Renault have become the latest major corporations to announce their exit from Russia, joining dozens of others in an exodus over Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

0:05 The GuardianVladimir Putin has become so personally involved in the war against Ukraine that he is making operational and tactical decisions “at the level of a colonel or brigadier”, according to western military sources

🔵16.05.2022

21:29 Radio Liberty

Sweden has joined Finland in deciding to apply to join the NATO military alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will “certainly” react to the alliance’s expected enlargement into the two Nordic countries.

20:22 Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD)

After dismantling the ruins in Mariupol to find all of the dead, Russia is now planning to produce fake news about the situation in the city

18:14 Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Russian troops have shelled a hospital and residential houses in Sievierodonetsk, killing at least 10 civilians. Over the past day, Russian troops have been purposefully firing on the city.

16:26 Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

As of May 16, more than 37,000 Ukrainians had gone through “filtration.” At the moment, people deported to Russia are also undergoing this procedure. According to Denisova, Ukrainians are being examined, humiliated and tortured

14:54 Mariupol city counsil

Fifteen young women – military and health workers – died at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol

14:51 Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops had struck an ammonia nitrate warehouse in Kharkiv Oblast; there is no threat to the residents of the adjacent areas.

14:43 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Hlukhiv city counsil

On 16 May, border guard Oleksandr Popovchenko was killed in a battle with a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Russian soldiers, which attempted to cross the state border of Ukraine in the Sumy region:

14:26 Novoye Vremya

Six civilians were killed and another 12 injured after Russia launched missile strikes on 10 settlements in Donetsk Oblast on May 15, the regional office of Ukraine’s National Police has reported 

11:32 Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of Sumy Regional Military Administration 

Russia has launched missiles at the bridge across the Kleven River in Shostka district of Sumy Oblast, destroying it.

In the morning, Russian troops tried to break through the state border in the Sumy region, according to Zhyvytskyi. The fire was opened from mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and submachine guns. 

10:12 Suspilne

On May 16, Russia launched a missile strike on the Odesa region from strategic aviation. As a result of the explosion, three people were injured and tourist infrastructure was damaged – head of the press center of the South Defense and Security Forces Humeniuk, Suspilne reports.

8:57 Office of the Prosecutor General of UkraineIn Ukraine, 229 children have been killed and another 421 have been injured as a result of Russian full-scale armed aggression.

8:50 State Emergency Service of Mykolaiv region

On the morning of May 16, Russia shelled the Ingulsky area of Mykolaiv. A fire broke out in a furniture store and a car parked nearby. Remains of a cluster warhead of an MRL missile were found near the site of the explosion. 

6:16 Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian defenders of one of the Territorial Defense battalions pushed back the Russian military and reached a section of Ukraine–Russia state border.

3:04 Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol

Russian occupiers have deported more than 3,000 civilians from Mariupol to a filtration prison in the village of Olenivka in the Donetsk region

🟡15.05.2022

14:33 Ukrinform

The relatives of the Azov Regiment fighters have left for Turkey to thank President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his readiness to help rescue the defenders of Mariupol.

Previously, Turkey proposed carrying out a sea evacuation of wounded fighters holed up in a steel works in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman said on Saturday

11:38 Suspilne

In the morning, the forces of Ukraine’s air defense shot down a missile in the Oleksandriia district flying in the direction of Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad region – head of the regional military administration Raikovych 

9:39 Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

In Kharkiv, a relative silence has been observed for several days, but the threat of shelling by the invaders remains. The enemy continues to attack the settlements of Kharkiv region. Four people were injured in the region, among them a child

During demining efforts in one of the liberated settlements in Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian bomb squad found an IED planted in a baby crib.

8:37 Petro Andriushchenko, Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol

Russian troops have deployed either phosphorous or incendiary ammunition on Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

8:02 Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration 

Russian troops have launched a missile strike on a military infrastructure facility in the Lviv region.

7:55 Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration 

Last night Russian troops shelled the Shyroke territorial community in Dnipropetrovsk Region with the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).

6:55 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Twelve enemy attacks were repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions over the past 24 hours, eight tanks, five artillery systems, nine units of armoured combat vehicles and five enemy vehicles were destroyed. Russian occupiers have losses in other areas as well

6:16 Oleksii Arestovych, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office  

Ukrainian defenders in the Kherson region struck at a Russian command post of a major level

4:08 ICC Prosecutor Karim Han to Le Monde

42 investigators of the International Criminal Court will come to Ukraine next week to investigate Russia’s crimes

1:39 Reuters

A large convoy of cars and vans carrying refugees from the ruins of Mariupol arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday after waiting days for Russian troops to allow them to leave

1:36 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops were preparing for crossing the Siverskyi Donets river and conducting the offensive on Sievierodonetsk 

0:05 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military AdministrationThe Russians in Zaporizhzhia Oblast are burning the bodies of their dead soldiers in a poultry shed, and they have set up a prison in the school for those who refuse to fight

🔵13.05.2022

20:57 Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 

Most of the active combat actions will have finished by the end of this year, and Ukraine will regain control over territories occupied by Russia

20:38 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The enemy continues the offensive in the east. At the same time, it focuses its efforts on securing the withdrawal of its units from Kharkiv and preventing the units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces from advancing to the rear of the Russian troops near Izium.

18:18 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Ukrainian military intelligence has data on Russia’s deployment of Pantsir air defense missile system and Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile system on Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea, which are to secure Russia’s short-range air defense.

17:04 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Three people were injured and 8 high-rise buildings were destroyed in Russian shelling of the town of Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on May 12.

14:15 Associated Press

A Russian soldier is scheduled to go on trial on Friday in the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first time since the start of the invasion that a member of the Russian military will be prosecuted for a war crime.

11:59 Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defense 

A new, long-term phase of the war is now beginning after a series of failures of RU troops and the deterrence of Russian troops by Ukrainian defenders, in particular, in Mariupol and the east of Ukraine

10:49 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

On May 12, 2022, two civilians were killed and four injured in Russia’s shelling of Derhachi, Kharkiv Region

10:11 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops are firing at all communities of the Donetsk region without exception, with the fiercest action in the direction of Avdiivka, where the occupiers bomb the coke and chemical plant for the second day

9:40 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

Russian troops try to break into the territory of the Azovstal steelworks, where the Ukrainian fighters of Mariupol garrison hold the defense

9:25 Ukrinform

During the night of May 12 to 13, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Zaporizhzhia and two missile strikes on Sumy region. According to updated information, there are no casualties.

9:12 Suspilne

The Russian occupiers destroyed the House of Culture in Derhachi with a missile strike, where humanitarian aid was being distributed – Derhachi city council

8:32 Office of the Prosecutor General of UkraineThe number of Ukrainian children injured due to Russian aggression rises to 420: As of May 13, 226 children were killed and 420 were injured in Ukraine as a result of the military aggression waged by the Russian Federation.

8:06 Serhii Haidai, head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

The Russians are focusing their efforts on establishing full control over Rubizhne and have destroyed the bridge to Sievierodonetsk

7:13 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Russian enemy is transferring additional artillery units to the border areas of Russia’s Bryansk region to increase provocative shelling of settlements in the Chernihiv region, located near the state border of Ukraine.

In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions alone, the defenders of Ukraine repulsed eighteen enemy attacks, destroyed thirteen tanks, eight artillery systems, twenty-seven units of armoured combat vehicles, two units of special engineering equipment and five enemy vehicles.

5:35 CNNThe Russian military is continuing to use a Ukrainian air base outside the occupied city of Melitopol, satellite images from BlackSky show. At least seven helicopters are seen at the air base in a satellite image taken on May 12

🟡12.05.2022

20:14 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

On May 12, 4 people died in the Donetsk region as a result of shelling by the Russian army.

17:26 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister 

Ukraine is in “tough negotiations” to evacuate severely wounded defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal steelworks, in exchange for captured Russians, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said on Telegram messenger on May 12.

17:29 Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration 

The Russian occupiers have once again bombed the Kremenchuk refinery. According to local authorities, 4 shells arrived.

15:54 CNN

Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. CNN has obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime by Ukrainian prosecutors

15:03 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Since the beginning of the war, Russian aggressors have forcibly deported almost 2 million Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and the Donetsk regions to the Russian Federation 

11:02 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration 

On 12 May, at about 10:00,  Russian troops launched a cruise missile at Zaporizhzhia. A residential building is reportedly on fire.

10:00 Kyiv School of Economics

As of May 10,  the total amount of direct documented infrastructure damages in Ukraine, based only on public sources, is >$94 billion. Over the past week, the direct losses of the economy due to the destruction and damage to infrastructure increased by >$2.4 billion.

9:15 Novoye Vremya

Almost all ships with missile weapons on board were brought to sea from the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol – Crimea.Realities’ correspondent, NV reports

8:53 Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 26 attacks on towns and villages of the Luhansk region, damaging at least 24 houses.

7:50 Novoye Vremya

According to the military administration in occupied Popasna, the Russians are inspecting every building in the city. They are deporting locals to Pervomaisk, which has been occupied since 2014 

7:48 Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

Russian troops have once again shelled the Zelenodolsk Amalgamated Territorial Community (hromada) in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing one person and injuring another.

7:34 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, Russian enemy units are trying to develop offensive operations in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Kurakhove directions. The main task remains to establish full control over Rubizhne, capture Lyman and Severodonetsk.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy crossed the Siverskyi Donets River to enter the main forces and conduct an offensive. In the direction of Siversk, it leads the offensive in the direction of Zelena Dolyna and Novoselivka. Fighting continues. 

7:13 Vyacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration 

On the night of May 12, Russian aircraft struck Novhorod-Siversky in the Chernihiv region. Schools, administrative buildings, and private houses were damaged. The attacks killed and injured several people.

3 people died and 12 were injured in an air strike. This was reported to Suspilne at the press service of the State Emergency Service of the region

4:33 Operational Command South 

On May 11, 23 occupiers and four units of equipment were eliminated in the southern direction. An enemy ammunition depot was also destroyed in the Kherson region

1:34 Oleksandr Starukh, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian occupiers have kidnapped 271 Ukrainian civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region 

🔵11.05.2022

21:58 Ukrainska Pravda

A civilian has been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Lozova community, Kharkiv Oblast

21:47 Ukrainska Pravda

Ukrainian soldiers have destroyed Russian troops’ pontoon crossings across the Siverskyi Donets river near the village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast.

21:11 Iryna Vereshchuk, Vice Prime Minister 

The Ukrainian side offers the Russians to exchange the severely wounded Ukrainian servicemen who remain at Azovstal for the captured servicemen of the Russian Federation. There is no agreement yet. Negotiations are ongoing.

20:11 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Oblast Military Administration

On Wednesday, Russian troops again launched a missile strike on the Odesa Region, with no casualties or damage. “The enemy is trying to destroy our infrastructure to prevent its further use,” the region’s military governor said

18:39 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated the settlement of Pytomnyk in the Kharkiv region 

12:11 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The first Russian military will appear before the court for killing a civilian in the Sumy region

11:23 Oleksandr Striuk, Head of the Sievierodonetsk City Military Administration

About 70% of residential buildings in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, have been damaged due to the shellings by Russian troops 

9:30 War.Ukraine.ua referring to the New Zealand Government

New Zealand has imposed new sanctions against Russia. They include 8 Russian individuals and legal entities. In particular, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman and the company “Internet Research Agency” are among them

9:29 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

The enemy fired a missile at Zaporizhzhia, but the missile was shot down by the Ukrainian military. The missile exploded over an infrastructure facility in a settlement outside the regional center

9:28 Vadim Boichenko, mayor of Mariupol

By the end of the year in the devastated city of Mariupol more than 10 thousand people may die from diseases and unbearable conditions; the city currently has 150-170 thousand inhabitants.

8:58 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian occupiers fired on humanitarian vehicles on the “road of life” on the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway. The truck with only a driver inside was already returning from Lysychansk, where it was delivering food to residents

8:40 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

Russian military fired on a boarding school for children with special needs in Luhansk region

8:16 Prosecutor General’s Office

226 children were killed and 417 were injured in Ukraine in a full-scale invasion unleashed by the Russian Federation. Among the recently reported cases – on May 9, a boy, 13, was wounded in Russian shelling of a household in Lysychansk, Luhansk region

7:13 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on continuing the offensive to take complete control of the city of Rubizhne, capture the settlements of Lyman and Sievierodonetsk 

5:13 Novoye Vremya referring to the Prosecutor General’s Office

The Russian occupiers stole historical and cultural valuables, Scythian gold – among them, that were stored in the Melitopol Museum of Regional Ethnography

4:52 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Russia continues shelling the Ukrainian positions along the entire contact line and in the depths of Ukraine’s defense in the Zaporizhzhia direction. The greatest activity of the enemy is near Polohy, Orikhiv and Huliaipole

3:55 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military AdministrationRussian invaders smuggle grain and vegetables out of the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Region to Crimea

🟡10.05.2022

21:42 Suspilne.Sumy

On the evening of May 10, the planes of the Russian Federation twice struck unguided missiles on the border territories of the Sumy region – the State Border Guard Service

20:18 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Kharkiv region, the enemy suffers significant losses and withdraws its troops to the Belgorod region (Russia). The units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces liberated the settlements of Cherkaski Tyshky, Ruski Tyshky, Rubizhne, and Bayrak

17:05 Odesa City Council with reference to “Pivden” (South) Operational Command

Russia has once again launched a missile attack on a damaged bridge across the Dniester estuary in Odesa Region

16:33 Suspilne referring to the General Staff of Belarus

On May 10, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced the second phase of combat capability testing in response to the “increased military presence” of NATO and Ukrainian forces near the Belarusian border

14:31 Novoye Vremya

Some of the grain that Russia stole from occupied territories in Ukraine is already on Russian ships in the Mediterranean region, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry Main Intelligence Directorate has reported. “Their most likely destination is Syria. From there, grain can be smuggled to other countries in the Middle East,” Ukraine’s intelligence says

12:40 Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lithuania has acknowledged that the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine constitute genocide of the Ukrainian people

12:04 Suspilne referring to Kharkiv regional police

The bodies of three civilians were found on the way out of Kharkiv towards the Tsyrkuny village. 

“Tsyrkuny is now a continuous war crime of the Russian Federation,” says Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.

11:29 Suspilne.Volyn

Fighters of the Volyn brigade showed how the artillerymen of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great attack the positions of the Russian army 

10:16 Oleh Synehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

44 bodies of dead civilians have been found under the rubble of a destroyed residential building by Russian occupiers in Izium, in the Kharkiv region. The five-story building was destroyed back in March

8:31 War.Ukraine.ua referring to Reuters

Japan has imposed new sanctions against Russia. The new sanctions list includes 70 Russian companies and more than 130 Russian officials, incl. Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the RF, Rashyd Nurhaliiev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council, and many others

8:24 Prosecutor General’s Office

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 226 Ukrainian children have died, 416 children have been injured. Most victims among children are from the Donetsk region [conservative estimates, real numbers are likely higher]

7:45 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

On the morning of May 10, Russian troops fired artillery at the Zelenodolsk community. In Zelenodolsk, several houses were damaged by the shelling. They also aimed at the outskirts of Velyka Kostromka in the Kryvyi Rih district

7:11 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russian invaders may conduct acts of sabotage at the Ukrainian chemical industry facilities to further accuse the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of them

1:48 Operational Command “South”

One person was killed and five more were injured as Russians fired seven missiles on Odesa, south of Ukraine. A shopping mall and a warehouse of finished consumer goods were hit.

🔵09.05.2022

19:50 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been holding the line of defense in Rubizhne and Voievodivka, Luhansk region, and remain in control of Sievierodonetsk, a city where the Russian invaders “never set foot.”

19:10 Ukrinform referring to PM Denys Shmygal

The Russian military continues to strike Odesa, including during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal

18:05 Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine

According to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Russia has used up around half of all the missiles in its existing arsenal but still has the capacity and component parts to produce new ones

17:47 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

In the city of Popasna, Luhansk Region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are keeping the defense at the new fortified positions. 

“Reinforcements have arrived, and we will be gradually clearing settlements nearby,” the region’s military governor Haidai noted

17:26 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol 

In Mariupol, the Russian army is trying to blow up the bridge where the evacuation took place

17:21 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Ukrainian military are clearing Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region of the enemy troops, where they crossed the pontoon bridge, said Haidai, head of the regional military administration. More than 40,000 people still remain in the controlled territory of the Luhansk region

17:10 Ukrinform

On May 8, 2022, the Russian military launched a missile strike on a hotel and restaurant complex, which is situated on the coast in the city of Odesa. Ukrinform’s photojournalist paid a visit to the scene in the recreational space

17:08 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Russian aggressors have forcibly deported almost 1,2 million Ukrainian citizens, including 200 thousand children, to the Russian Federation 

16:21 Ukrainska Pravda

Oleksandr Lashyn, Councilman from Mariupol, said, citing his sources, that Russian occupation forces are planning to deploy chemical weapons in an attack on Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steel works on 11 May

15:43 Oleksandr Motuzianyk, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

As of 9 May, Russia has doubled the number of Kalibr-type sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM) carriers in the Black Sea – their total arsenal is up to 50 missiles.

13:45 Ukrainska Pravda

The Russian military failed to gather residents of occupied Melitopol to celebrate 9 May, said Mayor Ivan Fedorov, adding that people continue to flee the occupied city, even though it is difficult to do so

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13:34 Novoye Vremya

Russian invaders launched a “Victory Day” parade in destroyed Mariupol, while mass graves of civilians they murdered are still being filled with new and new corpses. Mariupol mayor’s advisor has reported the occupiers were celebrating while Russian forces were bombing AzovStal

11:04 Odesa City Council

On May 9, Russian troops attacked the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with four Oniks cruise missiles fired from the temporarily occupied Crimea.

10:31 Ukrainska Pravda

During a Victory Day parade on Monday, May 9, President of Russia Vladimir Putin delivered a propagandistic speech justifying the full-scale war against Ukraine, but did not announce a full-scale mobilization

9:36 Suspilne.Kherson

In occupied Kherson, the Russian military held a celebration on May 9. A small group of people with red flags gathered in the Park of Glory. Everything was being filmed for the Russian media. Earlier it was reported that people from Crimea would be brought for this purpose

9:30 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian army is attempting to “cut” the Luhansk Region “off” from the rest of Ukraine by seizing control over the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway. Russian military equipment has already managed to cross the Siverskyi Donets river.

9:13 Office of the Prosecutor General

A total of 226 children have been killed and 415 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started on February 24. Among the recently reported cases – death of a 13-year-old girl who was killed while in a convoy of private cars in the Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region, on May 4

9:03 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russian occupiers, with the support of aircraft and artillery, focused their efforts on trying to take control of Rubizhne and preparing to continue the offensive in the direction of Lysychansk – head of the Luhansk regional military administration

8:54 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol

In Mariupol, the occupiers resumed the assault on Azovstal. After the UN evacuation convoy left the Donetsk region, the Russians attempted to break through the bridge which was the gate of the evacuation

8:42 Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration 

Two volunteers from the Zakarpattia region, Nazar Dychuk and Dmytro Byts, were killed in an air strike on a school in Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast

8:00 Sviatoslav Palamar, Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment 

The situation at the Azovstal metallurgical plant has become critical as wounded soldiers are dying with no proper medical assistance available.

3:10 Press service of the British government

The UK’s government has imposed new sanctions against Russia: the ban on the import of Russian platinum and palladium products, as well as, the ban on the export of chemicals, plastics, and rubber to Russia 

1:50 “Pivden” (South) Operational Command

On May 8, in defence of Ukraine’s southern front, Ukrainian defenders exposed and thwarted an attempt by the Russian forces to take out a reconnaissance team, as well as killing 51 invaders and destroying their equipment

1:03 Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

The Canadian government is imposing new sanctions against Russia. In particular, the new sanctions list includes 21 oligarchs and supporters of the Russian regime, as well as 19 people from the Russian defense sector. The Canadian government is also abolishing import duties on Ukrainian goods for 12 months – 

0:39 ZN.uaIn Russia, covert mobilization may have already started. Call-up papers received by Russians of the military age are widely published on Russian social media

🟡08.05.2022

19:29 Ukrinform

The invaders failed to force the abducted former head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Andrei Putilov, to recognize the temporarily occupied Crimea as Russian. This was reported by the local media Most.

18:46 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

There was a missile attack on the territory of the Shostka district of the Sumy region.

18:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 of May 8, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlo Kovalchuk).

The seventy-fourth 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 conducting offensive operations 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 main focus of the Russian enemy’s efforts was to destroy the airfield infrastructure in order to prevent the actions of Ukrainian aircraft, including the Bayraktar UAV, to support the actions of air units in the area of ​​responsibility of the Joint Forces and the Black Sea Operational Zone. Increased the intensity of operational and tactical aviation over the northwestern Black Sea.
• In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. Until May 27 this year, a training meeting of territorial defence units will be held in the Minsk district with the involvement of conscripts who are in reserve.
• There is a possibility that the units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation will launch missile and bomb attacks on the infrastructure of Ukraine from the territory and airspace of the Republic of Belarus.
• The Russian enemy did not take active action in the northern direction. Intensified units of the Border Guard Service, as well as units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to be detained at checkpoints and in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions.
• Further fire damage to our troops and infrastructure in the border areas is not ruled out.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy is concentrating reserves in the Belgorod region for hostilities near the state border of Ukraine. The deployment of separate units from the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District has been confirmed in these areas.
• Russian occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations in the Kharkiv direction. The main efforts were focused on preventing the advance of Ukrainian troops. The group of Russian enemies was strengthened by relocating units from the Western Military District from the area of ​​recovery. Military and civilian infrastructure continues to be shelled.
• In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy regrouped its units, replenished its reserves in order to increase its offensive capabilities, and conducted air reconnaissance with the use of the Orlan-10 UAV in order to clarify the positions of Ukrainian troops.
• In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the Russian enemy is fighting to restrain the actions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
• During the last day, the Russian enemy intensified hostilities. It is trying to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Carried out regrouping, replenishment of losses, and increased air defence systems and logistics, presumably in order to intensify hostilities in the settlements of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.
• In the Lyman direction, separate units of the 90th Tank Division tried to take full control of the settlement of Oleksandrivka, as well as, with the support of artillery, gain a foothold in the northern outskirts of the settlement of Shandryholovo. It was not successful.
• In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the Russian enemy is trying to seize the settlement of Rubizhne, but without success.
• In the Popasna direction, the Russian enemy is trying to take up positions in the settlement of Popasna and take control of the section of the Popasna-Bakhmut highway.
• The Russian enemy is advancing in the direction of the settlement of Novoselivka, it has no success, and the fighting continues.
• In the Kurakhiv direction, the Russian enemy is trying to improve the tactical situation in the direction of the settlement of Novomykhailivka but has had no success.
• In the Mariupol direction, the intensity of hostilities has been reduced.
• In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, the Russian enemy intensified air reconnaissance in the areas of the settlements of Orikhiv, Huliaipole, Komyshuvakha, and Yasna Poliana.
• In the South Buh area, the Russian enemy is trying to hold positions with forces of up to 15 battalion tactical groups. It does not carry out active hostilities. It fired mortars, artillery, and rocket-propelled grenades at the positions of our troops. Carried out replenishment of losses. It used military aircraft in the area of ​​the town of Careyerne.
• Measures of the administrative-police regime in the temporarily occupied territories are underway. Thus, there is an intensification of filtering measures by Rosguard units in the areas of Heroiske, Hola Prystan, and Kherson settlements.
• There is a possibility that assault operations will be carried out in certain areas in order to improve the tactical situation, bind our troops and prevent the transfer of reserves.
• The moral and psychological condition of the Russian occupiers remains low, there is a systematic use of alcohol and desertion. The personnel of the Russian enemy’s units complain about the ineffectiveness of their attacks on the position of the Defence Forces of Ukraine in the Huliaipole area.

18:21 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

The enemy continued shelling the settlements of the Kharkiv region. As a result of fire strikes of occupiers, 5 people were wounded, and 3 died.

In the city of Bohodukhiv and the district, 3 people were injured, and 2 died. In the Kharkiv district, 2 people were injured, and 1 person died.

17:45 European Pravda 

The US Embassy has announced the return to Kyiv of Chargé d’Affaires Kristina Kvien and other US diplomats, according to a press release issued by the US Embassy in Ukrainian media.

17:09 Office of the President of Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President of the Norwegian Storting Masud Gharahkhani who paid a visit to Ukraine.

16:40 European Pravda

Hungary has once again blocked the approval of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which provided for the gradual introduction of an oil embargo on petroleum products.

16:31 Irpen Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn 

The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau visited Irpin.

16:22 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for the Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

“Dozens of corpses of civilians are found under each dismantled house. Therefore, there are well-founded suspicions that the official figures for human losses in Mariupol will be much higher than 20,000.”

15:19 Zakarpattia Regional Council

US First Lady Jill Biden is currently visiting Uzhhorod.

14:55 European Pravda 

The Croatian Embassy resumes work in Kyiv.

14:04 Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov

According to law enforcement agencies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers plan to shoot civilians, disperse protesters, do everything possible to provoke chaos and panic during the May 9 celebrations, and then accuse the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:36 Operational Command South

During the night, the enemy continued to launch missile strikes on the Odesa region. Two missiles were shot down by air defence forces. Another 6 were hit at various sites in the region. Including damage to private homes of civilians, and critical infrastructure. There are victims among the locals.

At the same time, 44 combat missions were completed by the forces and means of our units, in particular with the use of the Bayraktar UAV.

With skillful actions, Ukrainian units prevented the naval landings on the island. The enemy tried to do it with 3 speedboats. After hitting and damaging one of the boats, the other two fled from the island as far into the sea as possible under the threat of a strike from the Bayraktars.

12:13 Suspilne

Bärbel Bas, President of the German Bundestag, pays an official visit to Kyiv. She will take part in commemorative events dedicated to the end of World War II.

8:59 Suspilne 

The Russian military kidnaps Crimean Tatars in the Kherson region and sends them to the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre.

8:55 European Pravda

Biden and Trudeau coordinated steps to respond to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

“We focused on Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and our ongoing coordinated response. We’re committed to supporting Ukrainians and holding the Russian regime accountable – and tomorrow, we’ll speak about that more with other G7 leaders,” wrote Trudeau on Twitter. 

🔵07.05.2022

22:45 Ukrinform citing the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukraine is preparing the second stage of the evacuation mission from Azovstal for the wounded and medics. Work is also underway to remove the military from the plant.

21:43 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians dropped an air bomb on a school in Bilohorivka. There were about 90 people in the school. About 30 people have already been rescued from the rubble. The rescue operation continues. According to preliminary information, 60 people died.

20:20 Energoatom

One of the flasks with radioactive material stolen by Russian troops, which they took out of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant during the occupation, was found in Bucha.

20:01 Luhansk Regional Military Administration

The Russians fired on Pryvillia with BM-21 Grad. Two children died. A woman and two other children were seriously injured.

19:11 Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk

All women, children, and the elderly were evacuated from Azovstal. This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation has been completed.

15:15 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian aircraft fired on the Sumy region and the territory of the Russian Federation.

14:16 The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine

The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine launched a digital platform that displays in real-time the territories that are temporarily occupied, as well as those that are surrounded (blocked) and where active hostilities are taking place.

06:35 Ukrinform

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi supports Ukraine’s appeal to Congress to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism. 

“Putin is a coward. He’s fighting – instead of fighting a war, he’s fighting against civilians. He’s fighting against children. He’s using that as a weapon of war. So I think, absolutely, that they should be on that list of state-sponsored terrorists, and I’m hoping that will happen,” said Pelosi.

01:40 SuspilneThe National Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Skovorodynivka, Zolochiv district, Kharkiv region, was destroyed by a direct hit of a Russian missile.

🟡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.

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22:16 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 May 5, 2022:

• Fake: In an interview with the Associated Press, Lukashenko said that “what happened in Bucha is a show. There were Englishmen who came from Lviv in cars, took pictures in Bucha, and then uploaded them into the information space”;
• Disinformation: The Russian Defense Ministry said that “Kyiv uses the civilian infrastructure for military purposes.” These are medical institutions in Kharkiv, Sloviansk, Lysychansk, and Odesa, where “nationalists have installed heavy military equipment”;
• Manipulation: Russian propagandists continue to demonise the Ukrainian military. In particular, the Russian media claim a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, citing as evidence a video in which “a Georgian mercenary forces a prisoner to repeat offensive phrases.”

22:02 Ukrinform

Russia’s war against Ukraine could significantly increase the risk of food insecurity for many countries around the world.

According to Ukrinform, this is stated in the report of the Global Network Against the Food Crisis, which is published on the website of the European Commission.

According to the 2022 Global Report, in 2021, some 193 million people in 53 countries or territories experienced acute food insecurity and needed urgent food assistance. Last year, that number was 40 million higher than in 2020, which showed a record number of people who were already at risk of starvation at the time.

21:33 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

On May 5, 25 citizens were injured in a Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk. It was also possible to clarify information about one wounded man in Lyman and two people who died earlier in Chasovyi Yar and Novomykhailivka.

In addition, one person died in Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, and was injured in the Luhansk region. Another 5 wounded from the Luhansk region received medical treatment in Bakhmut.

21:27 Ministry of Interior

The Interior Ministry has begun working with Amnesty International to record and investigate war crimes.

Today, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, headed by Deputy Minister Kateryna Pavlichenko, met with the team of the international human rights organization.

Amnesty International experts work with local authorities and the Government of Ukraine to investigate war crimes committed by Russia so that the world can know about them. They also have a tough stance on countries that are not ready to express strong protest to Russia and believe that neutrality in the war against Ukraine is appropriate.

20:48 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Bloomberg

European Union has proposed to extend sanctions to Alina Kabayeva, a former gymnast who heads the National Media Group and is closely linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The EU ambassadors are expected to meet on the morning of May 6 to discuss and potentially approve a sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which also includes measures to phase out Russian oil imports.

19:59 Regiment Azov in Mariupol

For the third day, the occupiers continue to storm the Azovstal plant, which houses Ukrainian defenders and civilians.

Defenders keep control over the plant under heavy fire. The enemy uses aircraft, artillery and infantry.

Video of enemy assault and fire on Azovstal

18:50 Reuters

Reuters journalists conducted their own investigation in Bucha and found that the city was occupied by fighters of the Rosguard Regiment “Vityaz” and paratroopers from Pskov.

In the three weeks since Bucha’s release by the Ukrainian military, Reuters interviewed 90 witnesses, inspected crime scenes and found several personal belongings of the Russian occupiers.

18:33 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 5, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlo Kovalchuk)

The seventy-first 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 conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the occupied Crimea.
• At the same time, russian enemy provokes tensions in the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova and in the territory of the republic of belarus. Carries out regrouping, takes measures to replenish ammunition and fuel. russian enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of his troops.
• In the temporarily occupied territories, russian occupiers continue to steal the products of agricultural enterprises. russian side continues to accuse the Government of Ukraine of creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the territory controlled by the occupiers. Also, russian invaders imitate humanitarian activities with demonstrative distribution of food kits and medicines to local residents.
• russian enemy continues to launch missile strikes on transport infrastructure to prevent the movement of humanitarian aid and military-technical assistance.
• The use of mortars and artillery along almost the entire line of contact continues.
• russian enemy did not take active action in the Volyn and Polissya directions. In the armed forces of the republic of belarus, it has been noted that certain units have been brought to a higher level of combat readiness for the purpose of verification.
• Engineering equipment for positions in the border areas of the Kursk region continues in the Seversky direction.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy tried to restore the lost positions near the city of Kharkiv, made an unsuccessful attempt to attack near the settlement of Stary Saltiv.
• Due to the constant sanitary losses of personnel, russian enemy is increasing the system of medical support of troops, using a network of civilian medical institutions in the temporarily occupied territories of Kharkiv region. The occupiers built a hospital on the basis of Kupyansk City Hospital.
• russian enemy does not stop trying to improve the tactical position of its units in the area of ​​the city of Izium, carries out artillery shelling of nearby settlements, and it has no success.
• Due to heavy losses, russian enemy withdrew units from the 4th Tank Division of the 1st Tank Army and the 106th Airborne Division of the Armed Forces of the russian federation to rebuild.
• In the Donetsk direction, russian enemy tried to capture Popasna, take full control of the city of Rubizhne and provide favorable conditions for the continuation of the offensive in the direction of the cities of Lyman and Severodonetsk, but was unsuccessful.
• In the South Bug area, russian enemy focused on fortifying positions, replenishing ammunition, fuel and logistics.
• Administrative and police measures are underway in the temporarily occupied territories. russian occupiers continue to carry out filtering measures against local residents, preventing evacuations to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. At the same time, russian occupiers are taking measures to replenish personnel losses through accelerated training of military servicemen under contract.

We keep the system! We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Together to victory! 

Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia #StandWithUkraine

16:09 Anatolii Kurtiev, acting mayor of Zaporizhzhia

There will be a long curfew in Zaporizhzhia again. According to the decision of the military commandment, it will last from 19:00 on May 8 to 5:00 on May 10.

The observance of the curfew will be monitored by law enforcement officers, servicemen and fighters of the Territorial defense units.

Stay at home during this period. During the curfew, you can only go to the shelters in case of an alarm.

15:22 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

According to the official city authorities of the resort city, in Berdiansk the occupiers are threatening to prevent the receipt of humanitarian aid by the population.

Armed occupiers visited the offices and homes of some Berdiansk volunteers demanding to stop the distribution of medicines and food among the local population. And also to provide contacts of all volunteers and carriers who work to support the population and remain on the side of Ukraine.

15:15 Ukrzaliznytsia

During the great war, Ukrzaliznytsia’s passenger trains evacuated 102,500 pets. Dogs and cats continue to be the most frequent passengers on evacuation rides, in particular the well-known case of evacuation of a Mariupol family with 5 children and 9 dogs in early March.

Among the animals transported in the cars are domestic foxes and pigs, iguanas, boas, raccoons, weasels, ferrets and minks, ducklings, snails, turtles and aquarium fish for all tastes.

Ukrainians do not leave those they love.

15:08 Evropeiska Pravda

European Union is ready to allocate 200 million euros to support Ukrainians who have moved to other cities and regions due to the war.

This was stated by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the international donors’ conference for Ukraine.

14:37 Ruslan Martsinkiv, mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk

The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk received information about possible missile attacks on May 7-9 on the city.

“On the City Day (May 7), Remembrance Day (May 8) and May 9, all the events planned in the city are cancelled. For your safety, I urge you to stay at home or out of town all these days,” wrote Ruslan Martsinkiv

14:13 Suspilne

The Russian occupiers once again fired on an eco-park in the Kharkiv region. A 15-year-old volunteer was killed and two workers were injured.

13:53 Ukrinform A torture chamber with blood on the walls was found at a former Russian headquarters at a railway station in Trostianets, Sumy region. This was reported by a member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Serhii Leshchenko.

13:27 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal

The Prime Minister is on a working visit to Warsaw, where an international donors’ conference in support of Ukraine is being held.

13:14 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

For propaganda purposes, Russians endanger the lives of young children.

Yesterday in the Donetsk region in the temporarily occupied city of Volnovakha, the occupiers opened a kindergarten № 8 “Teremok”. A “holiday” program was held for children.

Such “demonstrations” are aimed at creating an image of a peaceful life, while the city of Volnovakha remains in a dangerous zone, near the line of hostilities. The city is constantly under fire.

However, the interim occupation authorities are deliberately endangering the lives of civilians, including preschool children.

Such actions of the occupiers are a violation of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 6 of the Convention stipulates that state parties recognize that every child has the right to life. Article 38 of the Convention stipulates that in armed conflicts, state parties are obliged to take all possible measures to ensure the protection and care of children affected by armed conflict.

12:55 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venedictova

The Helsinki Commission of the US Congress held a hearing on Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. Venediktova testified at the hearings about the horrific atrocities committed by the Russian army.

12:53 Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova

The troops of the aggressor country are destroying and stealing the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people. 242 cases of Russian aggressors’ war crimes against such objects have already been documented.

12:30 Ukrainska Pravda

For several days now, the Russian military has been blocking the Kherson region from entering and leaving to Mykolaiv and other cities controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.

12:21 CinC AF of Ukraine

Regular communication is maintained with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. MILLEY. Trust, professionality and shared values are the basis of our close ties, which only became stronger throughout large-scale Russian aggression against our nation. 

Traditionally I have briefed my American counterpart on the operational situation. In particular, the enemy’s main effort shifts towards Luhansk direction, where in the vicinities of Popasna, Kreminna, and Torske the heavy fighting is going on as well as about the shift to counter attacks on Kharkiv and Izium directions.

Emphasised the resumption of the cruise missiles used by the Russian aggressor. The main elements of these actions are the destruction of logistical routes to provide military and technical assistance to Ukraine. So, throughout May 3, 14 cruise missiles were used, which were fired from TU-160 strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea. As of last night, 8 cruise missile launches have been recorded in our territory. Therefore, the issue of providing Ukraine with multiple launch missile systems such as M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS is crucial.

I am deeply grateful to our partners for their assistance to Ukraine. We are successfully addressing all the challenges of acquiring new weapons and equipment through cooperation and support at all levels. Today, our military not only intensively learns to use and maintain NATO weapons but also shares their combat experience with partners.

12:01 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi

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Its first component is an online platform to raise funds in support of Ukraine. Other projects and programs will be added soon.

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11:52 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Even though the Armed Forces pushed the enemy away from the city in the northern direction, the Russians continue to terrorize the civilian population.

These strikes are not aimed – the occupier strikes residential areas, thereby harming civilians.

The enemy continues to fire from MLRS and artillery. During the day, Piatyhatky, the town of Zhukovskyi, Saltivka, and Pivnichna Saltivka were affected.

Already in the morning, there were shellings of the Pivnichna Saltivka. No one was injured.

The hottest spot of the Kharkiv region remains in the Izium direction. There, the enemy is constantly trying to attack the positions of the Armed Forces, in particular, near Barvinkove, but suffers significant losses.

In addition, yesterday the enemy tried to attack the positions of the Armed Forces in the Vovchansky direction. The enemy was also defeated.

We clearly understand what forces the enemy has and how he moves. Currently, the entire array of enemy equipment goes through the Vovchansk and Kupyansk directions to Izium to increase its presence in the Luhansk and Donetsk territories.

11:49 Ukrinform 

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, from March 4 to April 12, 36 administrative materials were sent to the so-called “courts” on “discrediting the use of the Russian armed forces to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, support international peace and security.”

This was reported in the Ombudsman’s Office in response to a request from Ukrinform.

As an example, the Ombudsman’s Office cited a situation when a ruling by one of these “courts” on an administrative offence against citizen Valentyna Schuman stated that she had publicly displayed a homemade 30-by-20-centimetre cardboard poster with Ukrainian flag colours and a “No to War” inscription. However, the interrogation of the witness, who allegedly saw the poster, was not conducted in the “court”, which indicates the bias of the trial.

11:05 Ukrainska Pravda citing the Head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim and the Mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevich

The Mykolaiv region was intensively fired on the night of May 5. There are several wounded civilians. In Mykolaiv gas pipelines and a contact network are damaged.

11:03 State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The enemy continues to destroy the housing stock of the Luhansk region. The number of destroyed houses, hospitals, and educational institutions is growing every hour. The extent of the destruction is catastrophic.

10:35 Security Service of Ukraine 

Pro-Russian blogger Anatolii Sharii, whom the SBU suspects of treason, has been detained in Spain on May 4, 2022. This became possible due to the close cooperation of the Security Service of Ukraine with the Office of the Prosecutor General, international partners, and as a result of a multi-level special operation of Ukrainian law enforcement officers.

The Ukrainian special services suspect Sharii of committing crimes under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

▪️ Art. 111 (Treason)

▪️ Art. 161 (Violation of equality of citizens depending on their race, nationality, religious beliefs, disability, and other grounds).

According to SSU investigators, he carried out illegal activities to the detriment of Ukraine’s national security in the information sphere. There is reason to believe that Anatolii Sharii acted on behalf of foreign structures.

The evidence of the investigation is confirmed by several expert studies, which established that in Sharii’s interviews and speeches there are facts of his subversive activities against Ukraine. He was declared a suspect last year.

All necessary investigative and operational measures are underway to make this person accountable for his actions before the law.

10:34 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 05.05 were approximately:

• personnel – about 24700 (+200) persons were liquidated, 
• tanks – 1092 (+15), 
• APV – 2651 (+41), 
• artillery systems – 499 (+8), 
• MLRS – 169 (+6), 
• anti-aircraft warfare systems – 83 (+2),
• aircraft – 196 (+2), 
• helicopters – 155, 
• vehicles and fuel tanks – 1907 (+40),
• boats / cutters – 10,
• UAV operational-tactical level – 312 (+9),
• special equipment – 38,
• cruise missiles – 89 (+2).

The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Popasna direction.

Data is being updated.

10:17 Office of the Prosecutor General

According to the investigation, on May 4, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched an airstrike on the city of Sviatohirsk, Kramatorsk region. The Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra, which is now a shelter for IDPs from Russian armed aggression, came under attack.

As a result of the shelling of the territory of the monastery, the dormitory building was damaged. According to preliminary data, 7 civilians were injured.

Police investigators and members of the State Emergency Service are currently working at the scene.

Complete information on injured people and damaged infrastructure is being established.

9:13 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

The Russians continue massive shelling along the entire front line and launch missile strikes on cities located in the rear.

At least one civilian was killed and 17 houses were damaged in the nighttime shelling of Chasiv Yar.

After the missile attack on Kramatorsk, 25 people were injured, and 9 houses, a school, and civilian infrastructure were damaged.

Avdiivka is under fire from BM-21 Grad. There is no information about the victims, but 3 houses were damaged, and the power line was cut off.

Periodical Shelling of Marinka continues. The enemy uses incendiary cartridges. Single shelling was recorded in the Svitlodarsk direction, with no casualties.

The Russians are still trying to sow panic in the Donetsk region, but they have no chance.

9:10 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

Filtration camps in the village of Bezimiane turned into a real ghetto for Mariupol residents – Video

Almost four weeks ago, the occupiers forcibly removed all men from the Huhlino, Myrnyi, and Volonterivka districts. About two thousand people were placed in the villages of Bezimiane and Kozatske in the Novoazovsk district. No personal belongings were allowed to be taken, and passports and other documents were confiscated for identification.

The men were placed in the school and club. The men have been forcibly detained without being allowed to leave the school without a convoy of Russian troops for four weeks now. Conditions of detention are terrible – people are forced to sleep on the floor in the corridors. Medical assistance is not provided. The first case of tuberculosis was recorded among people at the Bezimiane school, as a result of which the school gym was turned into an isolation ward where a large number of people were locked up without medical care. The first case of a man’s death due to the occupiers’ refusal to call an ambulance was recorded in Kozatske.

In the absence of any of the detainees, the occupiers promise to intensify torture and execute other detainees. People are fed three times a day with tasteless soup. In the place of detention as a point of hygiene – only one sink with cold water for thousands of people. Hygiene as such is lacking, which exacerbates the incidence among detainees.

The Russians do not return the documents to the people, instead, everyone receives a filtering paper, but it does not give them the right to leave the camp. There were some attempts, but the men were detained and beaten. The last unsuccessful attempt was to break into the UN and Red Cross evacuation buses, which the detainees saw from the windows.

All detainees, including the sick and people with disabilities, are being recruited to work in Bezimiane and Novoazovsk under the escort of the Russian military. As for the future, the occupiers emphasise that they have not yet decided whether to use people as labour to dismantle the debris of Mariupol or to mobilise the occupiers into the army. At the same time, on Monday, May 2, it was announced that the men would take part in the parade on May 9 in Mariupol as “prisoners”. Why they will be dressed in the uniform of Ukrainian soldiers.

The other side of this horror is the lives of women who remained in the Huhlino, Myrnyi, and Volonterivka districts. Due to the lack of men and the large number of occupiers who settled in the area, the homes are being looted by Russian, even if there are people in the building. Women do not go outside for fear of rape.

8:27 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

In Polohy, as a result of enemy shelling, a one-story apartment building caught fire. Firefighters extinguished the conflagration on an area of 70 square metres. During the shelling, a 50-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds incompatible with life.

8:26 Operational Command South

The city of Mykolaiv is fired at by MRLs using the forbidden cluster munitions. In an attempt to inflict maximum damage, the enemy strikes residential and industrial neighbourhoods. As a result, gas utilities, power substations, industrial facilities, and private houses are affected. Late in the evening, the Russians also hit the area of the zoo, causing significant damage to one of the schools. Information about the victims is being clarified.

There were no active offensive actions toward Mykolaiv, but during the past day, the Russians conducted several attacks from BM-30 Smerch.

In the north of the Kherson and Mykolaiv region, the enemy troops fire on the villages which have left at the retreat. Without sparing the locals, they are destroying private households. One woman was killed, and at least six civilians were injured. Losses are being clarified.

During the next attempt of the Orlan-10 UAV to reconnoitre the Ukrainian positions in the Mykolaiv area, the enemy spy was shot down by anti-aircraft missile units.

During the past 24hrs, missile and artillery and aviation units of the southern Ukrainian defence forces have defeated about 130 enemy targets. That ensured the loss of the enemy in the amount of 50 Russians and 11 units of equipment, including 2 self-propelled howitzers “Msta-S”, 5 units of armoured vehicles, 3 automobiles, and 1 UAV.

The composition of the Russian ship group in the Black Sea does not change significantly. Three missile ships and one submarine are ready to launch a missile strike, but our defense forces and air defences are monitoring the situation around the clock in the Black Sea, in the air, and all strategic areas.

8:23 Office of the Prosecutor General

More than 629 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 221 children were killed, and 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. 

On May 3 as a result of the attack by the Russian occupiers of the village of Velykyi Kut in the Mykolaiv region a 9-year-old girl was wounded.

During the recording of criminal offences committed by the Russian army in the Kyiv region, the body of a 10-year-old girl was found in the village of Shybyne, who died from shrapnel wounds due to an enemy projectile entering the house.

As a result of daily bombings and shelling by the Russian armed forces, 1,584 educational institutions were damaged, 118 of which were destroyed.

8:10 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 5, 2022:

• Fake: Russian media reported that “combat psychotropic drugs that make “universal soldiers” out of Ukrainian fighters were found in the trenches in Rubizhne”;
• Disinformation: Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that “Ukrainian intelligence for the last 10 years used the agency of influence to form a neutral attitude of Polish society to the “Volyn slaughter” – the mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in Volyn in 1943″;
• Manipulation: Russian media continue to demonise the Ukrainian military. In particular, the propagandists stated that “Ukrainian militants shot a column of refugees heading from Vovchansk to Kharkiv.”

8:05 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

Constant shelling and assault on Azovstal continue, even at night with the help of fire-correcting drones. In some places, hostilities are already behind the fence of the plant. The part of the Livoberezhnyi district from Veselka Park is again closed to residents, but this time they had to evacuate urgently on their own without warning.

“The last 11 square kilometres of freedom in Mariupol have been turned into hell,” said Andriushchenko.

7:54 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

On May 4, the Russians carried out seven heavy artillery shellings on Sievierodonetsk, seven more on the Popasna and Hirske communities, and four on Lysychansk.

The bodies of the five victims have been found and identified so far. Two of them are men from Novoivanivka who were hit by Russian shelling on the evening of May 3. A man from Toshkivka and a woman from Voievodivka died in the morning and a man from Popasna in the afternoon. This is not the final data, because, in the Popasna and Hirske communities, houses are burning one after another. Thus, at least eight houses were destroyed or damaged in Hirske alone, three in Komyshuvaha, four in Sievierodonetsk, four in Lysychansk, and at least four in Novodruzhesk.

6:46 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 5, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The seventy-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. 

• The Russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea.
• At the same time, the Russian enemy is provoking tensions in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova. Carries out a regrouping of troops in certain areas, and takes measures to replenish reserves. The Russian enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of his units.
• In the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions, the enemy did not take active action.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continues to shell the city of Kharkiv and reconnoitre the positions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine. In the area north of the city of Izyum continues artillery and mortar shelling.
• Russian enemy artillery shelling along the line of contact continues in the Donetsk and Tavriya directions. The Russian enemy uses operational-tactical and army aircraft to launch missile and bomb strikes to restrain the actions of Ukrainian troops.
• Russian enemy units are trying to conduct offensive operations in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, and Popasnyansk areas, but have been unsuccessful.
• In the Avdiiv and Kurakhiv directions, the Russian enemy continues to shell the positions of the defenders of Ukraine.
• In the Mariupol area, Russian occupiers are focusing their efforts on blocking and trying to destroy Ukrainian units in the Azovstal area. With the support of aircraft, the enemy resumed the offensive to take control of the plant.
• According to available information, some servicemen of the 38th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District, after being taken to the recovery area, due to significant personnel losses, refused to continue participating in hostilities in Ukraine. The mentioned servicemen are in the area near the Ukrainian-Russian border and are waiting to be transferred to the Russian federation.
• Units of militants of the 2nd Army Corps of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, located in the village of Svativskyi district of Luhansk region, staffed by locals from nearby settlements have a low moral and psychological condition, significant problems with weapons and equipment and not ready to perform tasks.
• The Russian enemy did not conduct active hostilities in the South Buh area. It fired missiles and bombs at the positions of Ukrainian troops and the infrastructure of the region.
• Due to the successful actions of Ukrainian defenders, the Russian enemy lost control over several settlements on the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
• On the previous day, the air defence units of the Air Force and the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had hit nine air targets: four UAVs (two of them anti-aircraft missile units of the Land Forces) and three enemy cruise missiles. Two planes were also hit. Previously – Su-30 fighters. The information is being clarified.
• Eleven enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past 24 hours, five tanks, seven units of armoured combat vehicles, and five units of enemy vehicles were destroyed.

6:39 Kramatorsk City Council

At night, the Russians carried out another rocket attack on residential areas and the central part of Kramatorsk. At least 3 five-story buildings, a school, and a kindergarten were seriously damaged. 6 civilians were wounded. Information on casualties and destruction is being clarified.

2:29 Suspilne with reference to the Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby  

Russia’s missile strikes on western Ukraine have targeted primarily key supply lines delivering billions of pounds worth of western arms to the country, including railway lines and warehousing, to undermine opportunities to provide support to Ukraine. The Pentagon insisted the flow of arms had not been significantly impeded.

0:57 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

At about 8 p.m. the Russians began shelling the communities of the Sumy region from their side of the border.

Hlukhiv community: about 20 mortar shellings near the village of Sopych.

Esman community: about 18 mortar attacks on the outskirts of Bachivsk and Tovstodubove.

There are no casualties or damage.

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23:04 Viktor Mykyta, head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration

The enemy is targeting Zakarpattia with missiles that have high-explosive fragments. It is designed to destroy not only objects, but first and foremost people.

These photos clearly show how, after the missile exploded, the formed rounded elements flew away and literally cut through the metal.

The same wreckage damaged houses up to 300 meters from the site of the missile.

This once again indicates that during an air alarm, you must immediately go to rooms that do not have windows. The walls are protected from damage by these high-explosive fragments.

22:23 Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration

A missile strike was fired during an air raid in the Brovary district.

According to preliminary information, the missile was shot down by air defense between the villages of Trebukhiv and Krasylivka.

As a result of falling debris, the bush caught fire. The SES is working on the spot. The information is clarified and verified.

22:16  Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration

Two missile strikes on Dnipro. One missile was shot down by our air defense.

The second aimed at the railway infrastructure. People were not affected. There is destruction. The movement of trains is stopped.

22:10 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread during the May 4, 2022:

Manipulation. The Warsaw City Hall said that “from May 4, 2022, the decoration of transport with Ukrainian flags will be stopped,” and Russian propagandists transformed this into an anti-Ukrainian thesis of “solidarity is over – Ukrainian flags have disappeared from Warsaw buses.”

Manipulation. Russian media continue to spread the thesis about the harmfulness of anti-Russian sanctions for EU countries. Propagandists said that “due to sanctions in France, utility tariffs have increased by 483%.”

Manipulation. Russian propagandists, taking the phrase of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera out of context, said that “Rome’s abandonment of Russian gas will leave more than 500,000 Italians unemployed, and this is just the beginning, as the crisis will spread to other industries.”

21:20 Oleksandr Sienkevych, mayor of Mykolaiv

In Mykolaiv explosions are heard.

20:37 Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia

Russian troops continue to target the railway infrastructure.

Another missile attack on the railway infrastructure in Dnipro.

20:17 Ihor Taburets, head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration

Two explosions were heard one after another in Cherkasy at about 20 p.m.

The head of the regional state administration said that the air defense was working.

20:16 Mayor of Dnipro city Borys Filatov

Russian troops launched a missile strike on the center of the Dnipro

19:50 Evropeiska Pravda

On May 4, a Russian helicopter violated Finnish airspace in the south.

According to Yle, this was stated by the Ministry of Defense of Finland.

The incident occurred at about 10:40 in the settlements of Parikka and Kesyalahti – on the land border with Russia near the Karelian Isthmus. The Mi-17 helicopter flew 4-4.5 km into the territory.

The Border Guard Service has launched an investigation into the incident.

This is the second such case in 2022. The previous one took place on April 8 in the Porvoo area, but then it was a state-owned passenger board.

19:24 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 4, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun) 

The seventieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. 

russian enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone.

The command of the russian troops is trying to increase the pace of the offensive in east of Ukraine in order to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk oblast, as well as to develop an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih areas.

In order to achieve certain goals, russian enemy is trying to inflict losses on units of the Defense Forces, regroup and strengthen its troops, increase the system of fire damage and logistics.

russian enemy has intensified the task of missile and bomb strikes in order to destroy Ukraine’s transport infrastructure.

• In the Slobozhansky direction there is russian enemy group consisting of separate units of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. Air strikes and shelling continue in the city of Kharkiv. russian occupiers in the Valuysky district of the Belgorod region deployed an auxiliary command post of the 36th  Combined Arms Army y of the Eastern Military District.
• As part of the strengthening of the grouping of troops in this direction, russian enemy is moving personnel from the territory of the Belgorod region.
• In the Izium direction, russian enemy is trying to seize the initiative and conduct offensive operations in the Izyum-Barvinkove direction. To this end, russian enemy is carrying out artillery shelling of the positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Hrushuvakha, Nova Dmytrivka and Kurulka.
• In addition, russian enemy concentrated up to 40 attack and transport helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-8 on the territory of the Belgorod region in the immediate vicinity of the state border of Ukraine.
• In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of russian enemy are focused on conducting an offensive on the settlements of Lyman, Orikhove, Popasna, Velyka Novosilka, Huliaipole, Komyshuvakha and Orikhiv.
• During the day, in the Lyman direction, russian enemy made unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in the village of Oleksandrivka.
• In the Severodonetsk direction, russian occupiers launched an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Voevodivka, but were unsuccessful.
• In the Popasna direction, russian enemy tried to expand control over the settlement of Orikhove, but without success.
• In order to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, russain enemy fires at the positions of Ukrainian troops almost along the entire line of contact. russian enemy inflicts air strikes in the areas of Avdiivka, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Kramatorsk and Huliaipole.
• Blockades and attempts to destroy our units in the Azovstal area in Mariupol continue. In some areas, with the support of aircraft, russian enemy resumed the offensive in order to take control of the plant. It is not successful.
• In the Novopavlovsk direction, russian occupiers attempted to storm the settlement of Novosilka. russian enemy suffered losses and retreated.
• In order to strengthen the grouping of troops, russian enemy transfers equipment and personnel by rail.
• In the South Buh and Tavriya directions, russian occupiers, forces of separate units of the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the Black Sea Fleet Coast Guard, and the Airborne Forces are fighting to hold temporarily occupied territories and create conditions for active actions in the directions Kherson-Mykolaiv and Kherson-Kryvyi Rih.
• In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to carry out tasks to strengthen the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. There is an increase in the air defense system in the Gomel region, training of electronic warfare units. In the future, demonstration and provocative actions in areas close to the state border of Ukraine are not excluded.
• In order to maintain tensions at the border and prevent the transfer of reserves of Ukrainian troops to threatening areas, russian enemy keeps units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District near the Ukrainian-russian border near the village of Kozino, Kursk region. Intensification of shelling from the specified area across the territory of the Sumy region is not excluded.
• In the Black and Azov Seas, russian Black Sea Fleet continues to carry out tasks to isolate the area of ​​hostilities, reconnaissance and fire support in the coastal direction. The possibility of involving the specified ship composition in the task of missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine is not excluded. 
• Three carriers of naval cruise missiles “3M-54 Kalibr” (SS-N-27 «Sizzler») are in the Black Sea in readiness for the use of missile weapons.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia #StandWithUkranie

18:36 Ekonomichna Pravda

The Russians tried to “export” stolen Ukrainian grain to Egypt.

The Russian ship loaded 27,000 tons of grain in the temporarily occupied Crimea and tried to sell it to Egypt, but after the refusal changed direction to Lebanon and Syria.

This was first reported by the web portal “Myrotvorets” with reference to the data of the tracking system of ships MarineTraffic, the information was confirmed by the government in a comment to the EP.

17:10 Jewish Telegraphic Association

Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, is shocked by Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statements that “Jews are the fiercest anti-Semites,” and urged him to publicly apologize for the words.

16:34 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military AdministrationThe Russians fired from MLRS “Grad” on two villages in the Velikomikhaylivka community in Dnipropetrovsk region

16:07 Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko

Mariupol city authorities have lost contact with the Ukrainian military defending Azovstal.

“Our brave guys are defending this fortress, but it is very difficult because it is attacked with heavy artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Ships have approached and are also bombing this fortress. But we also need to understand that today a local population, civilians, hundreds of them remain there,” said Vadym Boichenko.

16:04 Associated Press

An Associated Press investigation has found evidence that the Russian bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol on March 16 was far deadlier than estimated, killing closer to 600 people inside and outside the building. That’s almost double the death toll cited so far, and many survivors put the number even higher.

With communications severed, people coming and going constantly, and memories blurred by trauma, an exact toll is impossible to determine. The government estimated early on that about 300 people died and has since opened a war crimes investigation, according to a document obtained by the AP.

AP journalists arrived at a much higher number through the reconstruction of a 3D model of the building’s floor plan reviewed repeatedly by direct witnesses, most from within the theatre, who described in detail where people were sheltering.

16:00 Ukrainska Pravda

The United Kingdom is imposing sanctions on 63 individuals and legal entities from Russia, many of whom are linked to Russia’s main propaganda media organisations. They will have their assets frozen and barred from entering Britain.

15:39 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said there were “Israeli mercenaries” allegedly fighting on the side of Ukraine’s “nationalist battalions.”

14:47 Ukrinform citing Anonymous 

A public campaign is being held in Moscow to call for “denazification” of Sweden.

14:19 Ukrinform

As a result of hostilities, cultural facilities in 13 regions in 56 territorial communities of Ukraine were damaged. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Oleksii Dniprov.

14:14 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Covert mobilisation continues in Russia. “Kazaki” of the Rostov and Krasnodar regions and the unemployed are being agitated. The focus is also on citizens who have lost their jobs due to international sanctions and former servicemen living in other post-Soviet countries.

14:12 Security Service of Ukraine

The Russian occupier told the SSU how he shot the civilian population of Ukraine with his own hands. This is one of the first confessions of invaders, which was obtained during the prolonged work of the Ukrainian special services.

14:05 Police of the Kyiv region

A 10-year-old girl and three adults were killed by the occupiers. The police found the bodies of the dead in the Bucha district.

13:49 Ukrinform

In the Drevlianskyi Nature Reserve in the Zhytomyr region, which has been mined by Russian troops, ammunition is exploding killing the wild animals.

13:42 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

To date, the medical service of the National Guard of Ukraine has organised the provision of first-level medical care – NATO ROLE-1. These are emergency medical care, pre-medical care, and first aid.

The soldiers then receive secondary qualified care in the mobile military hospitals of the Ministry of Defence, in the health care facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the regions, as well as in certain facilities of the Ministry of Health and in the military hospital of the National Guard.

This was stated by the head of the medical department of the National Guard Denys Trehub during a press conference at the media centre Ukraine.

13:35 Suspilne

Hungary objects to the EU’s sanctions plan against Russian oil. This was reported by Bloomberg. The European Union’s plan to completely ban Russian crude oil is failing because it threatens Hungary’s energy security, said Zoltán Kovács, a spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.

13:12 Ukrainska Pravda

According to the Belarusian Hajun project, on the morning of May 4, Belarusian military equipment was moving toward the Lithuanian and Ukrainian borders. 

13:05 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The Russians are artificially inflating the situation in Transnistria to use it as a psychological attack on Ukraine and are looking for ways to disperse the Ukrainian army during a complex defence campaign to protect Ukraine’s Donbas and the south.

Potentially, Transnistria can be used as a springboard to establish supply lines and ensure the deployment of a Russian group in the Republic of Moldova, but this will only be possible if a land corridor with Russia is created through the southern regions of Ukraine.

12:31 Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Mobile communication in Kherson is restored. This morning, the restoration of the damaged optical network was completed and the networks of all three mobile operators were launched.

12:31 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

According to the city’s official city authorities, no head of a state institution or utility company sided with the occupiers in Berdiansk. None of the city officials work in the so-called “city hall”. The fake “new government” consists of former janitors, storekeepers, cleaners, locksmiths and other “general specialists”.

12:10 Ukrainska Pravda

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposed to start work on an ambitious package for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which will pave the way for Ukraine’s future in the European Union. This was announced by the President of the European Commission during a speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

“Europe has a very special responsibility towards Ukraine. With our support, Ukrainians can rebuild their country for the next generation. That is why today I am proposing to you that we start working on an ambitious recovery package for our Ukrainian friends,” said Ursula von der Leyen.

11:44 Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Pavliuk

Mass graves of civilians killed by the Russian occupiers continue to be found in the Kyiv region. As of May 4, 1,235 bodies of civilians killed by the Russian occupiers were examined in the region. 282 of them remain unidentified. In the last 24 hours alone, another 20 bodies of killed civilians have been sent to the morgue. Investigators are recording cases of torture.

11:40 Suspilne

11 people died in the basement of the school, seven – of mine explosion, or were shot by the occupiers. Such facts of crimes of the Russian military were recorded by prosecutors in the village of Yahidne, Chernihiv region. The prosecutor of the Kozelets district prosecutor’s office Roman Pererva informed about it.

11:24 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

The Russians are preparing a “parade” for May 9 in ruined Mariupol.

• The first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, responsible for Russia’s domestic policy, Sergei Kiriyenko, arrived in ruined Mariupol. It is known that he recently became the new Kremlin curator of issues concerning temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 
• The main task of the Putin official is to prepare for the “ceremonial events” on May 9. It is known that the Russians refuse to hold a “holiday” in occupied Donetsk, including imitations of a military parade. Currently, occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions do not carry out preparatory work on these issues.
• According to the occupiers’ plans, Mariupol should become the centre of “celebrations”. To this end, the urgent cleaning of the central streets from debris, the bodies of killed and unexploded ordnance is being conducted,” said the statement of intelligence.
• A large-scale propaganda campaign is underway, during which Russians will be shown stories about the “joy” of locals from meeting the occupiers. Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and head of the Donetsk occupation administration Denis Pushylin visited Mariupol to prepare relevant materials.

11:12 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians removed or destroyed the Luhansk region’s grain needs for almost three years, and sowing has not started.

According to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Russians exported about 100,000 tons of grain from the Luhansk region.

Another 30,000 tons were stored in the elevator destroyed in April in Rubizhne.

10:51 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

As a result of three missile strikes in the Lviv region, there are two injured civilians, which were not far from the places of explosions. They are provided with all necessary medical care.

The 58-year-old man had a blunt chest injury. A 24-year-old man has landmine and left arm injuries. The operation was performed and fragments were removed. At least one more operation is required to remove fragments in other areas.

Three electrical substations in Lviv were severely damaged.

The blows were critical. As of now, there is a delay in the movement of trains. The movement was partially restored.

More than 85,000 households and more than 12 settlements were completely  de-energized and 5 more settlements partially. About 250,000 people were left without electricity.

As of this morning, 630 households are without electricity.

It was a deliberate blow to supply chains.

130 emergency workers and 30 units of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire. Fires were extinguished at all damaged sites.

10:33 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

British scholar TJ Coles is spreading Russian narratives in an attempt to legitimise Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Recently, several foreign media outlets published an article by TD Coles in which he called the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity a “coup d’etat” and NATO an organisation that “deliberately spread to Russia’s borders.” In general, the author concludes that the United States has turned Ukraine into a weapon against Russia.

Also over the past four years, the British scholar has distributed various materials explaining “the reasons for the West’s hatred of Russia.” These works of Coles were actively replicated by the Russian propaganda machine.

10:12 Suspilne

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia. The EU is proposing to ban all Russian oil imports under the sixth package of sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.

Regarding the oil embargo, von der Leyen said it would be a total ban on imports of all Russian oil, marine and pipeline, crude and refined.

9:24 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

At about 3 a.m., the Russians fired on the school of the Esman community. There were two shots from a helicopter and two from the ground. In addition to the school, there were hits on infrastructure facilities.

Between 6 and 7 a.m., artillery shelling from BM-21 Grad took place along the border near Yunakivka. There were also several helicopter shots in the area near Mohrytsia.

9:05 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 04.05 were approximately:

• personnel – about 24500 (+300) persons were liquidated, 
• tanks – 1077 (+15), 
• APV – 2610 (+43), 
• artillery systems – 491 (+16), 
• MLRS – 163 (+1), 
• anti-aircraft warfare systems – 81 (+1),
• aircraft – 194, 
• helicopters – 155, 
• vehicles and fuel tanks – 1867 (+24),
• boats / cutters – 10,
• UAV operational-tactical level – 303 (+12),
• special equipment – 38,
• cruise missiles – 87 (+3).

Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Izium and Novopavlivsʹk directions on the previous day.

Data is being updated.

8:44 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

This morning, the Avdiivka and Marinka communities came under attack from the Russians.

The Avdiivka Coke Plant came under fire again, this time under mortar. One building was damaged. There is no information about the victims at the moment. Also, as a result of the night shelling in Avdiivka, a house and a school were damaged.

The Russians fired incendiary shells at night – there are fires in the residential neighbourhood. The shelling in the Novomykhailivka area continues almost around the clock. Nevertheless, specialists managed to restore the power line to Krasnohorivka.

Kyrylenko urges everyone who is not involved in critical infrastructure to leave the region. 

8:20 Office of the Prosecutor General

More than 627 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 220 children were killed, and 407 received injuries of varying severity. 

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 115, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 46, Mykolaiv – 43, 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. 

8:10 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 4, 2022:

• Manipulation: The Russian Defence Ministry said that “the Kyiv authorities do not adhere to humane principles,” as Russia records “numerous shellings of open humanitarian corridors by militants of nationalist battalions with small arms and mortars”;
• Fake: The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that “on the territory of schools in Mykolaiv MLRS installations, armoured vehicles, ammunition are placed, thus evacuation of inhabitants from nearby houses wasn’t carried out”;
• Fake: Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that in Kharkiv, militants of territorial defence battalions, together with the Security Service of Ukraine officers, are conducting raids to identify residents who express pro-Russian views or condemn the current Ukrainian government. Dozens of detainees did not return home.”

7:59 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian troops stormed Orikhov but again unsuccessfully. In Horlivka, more than 100 bodies of mobilised Russian servicemen who died in the Zaporizhia region were taken to the central morgue.

Ukrainian defenders in the Zaporizhzhia direction captured another group of Russians who got lost on Ukrainian soil.

In Huliaipole, residential and farm buildings burned as a result of enemy attacks.

7:47 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

In Lysychansk, the flames engulfed the building of the Luhansk Regional Medical Center for Dangerous Infectious Diseases and one of the city’s schools. In Syrotyn the only school in the settlement and in Sievierodonetsk a shopping centre caught fire.

7:45 Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Mykola Lukashuk

Last night, the enemy fired missiles at the transport infrastructure. Eight regions of Ukraine, including the Dnipropetrovsk region, came under fire. There are no casualties, but one person was injured – the man received a severe concussion.

6:54 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 4, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The seventieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. 

• The Russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea.
• To destroy Ukraine’s transport infrastructure, the Russian enemy fired missiles at facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, Odesa, and Donetsk regions.
• In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
• Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
• To check the readiness to perform the assigned tasks, one missile division of the 465th Missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus is moving from the point of permanent deployment to the destination area.
• In the Siversky direction, no signs of the formation of an offensive group by the Russian enemy were found. As part of strengthening the protection of the Russian-Ukrainian border, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation from the Central Military District have been deployed in the areas of the “Novi Yurkovichi”, “Pohar” and “Lomakovka” checkpoints in the Bryansk region.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy fired artillery and mortar shells at the city of Kharkiv and the village of Protopopivka. Conducted air reconnaissance in the area of ​​Kutuzivka and Oleksandrivka settlements of Barvinkovsky district of the Kharkiv region. The Russian enemy tried to conduct offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Dovhenke but was unsuccessful.
• In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, to restrain action, the occupiers are shelling units of Ukrainian troops.
• In the Lyman direction, the Russian enemy is advancing in the direction of the village of Shandrygolove, and fighting continues. The Russian enemy strengthened the group of troops and intensified air reconnaissance.
• Russian occupiers carried out assaults in the area of ​​Popasna, and fighting continued.
• In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers continue to launch airstrikes and fire at our positions in the Azovstal area.
• In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Orikhiv, without success.
• In Horlivka, more than 100 bodies of mobilised servicemen of the 1st Army Corps who died in the Zaporizhzhia region were taken to the central morgue.
• In the direction of the South Buh, to destroy the fortification equipment of our positions, the Russian enemy used artillery, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and armament of tanks along the entire line of contact. It intensified hostilities in the area of ​​the settlement of Tomyna Balka.
• The situation in the Bessarabian direction remains tense and under control.
• During the previous day, the air defence units of the Air Force and the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit seven UAVs and 8 enemy cruise missiles, the data are being clarified.
• Twelve enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past 24 hours, six tanks, five artillery systems (three of them – multiple rocket launchers), fifteen units of armoured combat vehicles, and nine units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed. The enemy has losses in other areas. The general figures will be announced in a separate summary later.

1:30 Ukrainska Pravda citing the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotskyi

The Russians exported a total of about 400,000 tons of grain from the four temporarily occupied Ukrainian regions – a third of all reserves in the regions.

“About 1.3 million tons of grain were left in the temporarily occupied territories, which are primarily needed to ensure daily food security, i.e. food for Ukrainians living there and the necessary fieldwork in terms of sowing spring crops. There were no strategic reserves.

We already have confirmation from each region – Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk – that about 100 thousand tons of grain were exported from each region,” reported Vysotskyi. 

If this continues and it is not stocks that are taken out, but what was left in the regions for food before the new harvest, there may be a threat of famine.

1:10 Operational Command South

Yesterday in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers began mass tailoring and disguising their servicemen in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Provocative actions by such “deployed” units to discredit the Ukrainian military in the occupied territories and attacks by sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the line of contact are not ruled out.

Meanwhile, the actions of Ukrainian mobile anti-tank groups ensured control of the territory of 4 settlements near the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.

0:19 Head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration Viktor Mykyta

Russia shelled the Zakarpattia region with cruise missiles. The consequences of a strike on one of the facilities in Volovets are being eliminated.

Rescue services are fighting the fire and dismantling the debris at the scene. No casualties were reported.

0:14 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi

According to preliminary information, our air defence forces shot down two of the six enemy missiles over the Lviv region.

Three of them hit electric substations in the Lviv region, and one hit an electric substation in Zakarpattia.

It is assumed that the missiles flew from the Caspian region.

Three electrical substations in Lviv were severely damaged. There is a delay in the movement of trains.

Two people went to medical facilities in the region with shrapnel wounds. According to them, they were not far from the places of the explosions. The condition of the victims is moderate.

0:00 Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Russia’s Tu-95 or Tu-160 strategic bombers launched a missile strikes from the Caspian region.

Approximately 18 missiles were fired at the infrastructure of the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, and Zakarpattia regions. Missile strikes were also inflicted on the Odesa and Donetsk regions from other means.

According to preliminary data, at least 8 cruise missiles were shot down by the air defence of the Air Force and the Land Forces on May 3, the data are being clarified. There are also reports of the downing of 7 drones and one missile.

The occupiers are guarding their planes and helicopters, so they are not part of the airspace controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Instead, the Air Force made dozens of flights during the day. Under cover of fighter jets, the strike group fired about ten missile and bomb strikes at enemy troops, ammunition depots, and manpower.

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23:27 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

The Russian military shelled the town of Zaliznychne in the Polohy district. Russian invaders destroyed a local school. In addition, 12 houses were damaged. Two people were killed by shrapnel.

23:16 Zakarpatgas Joint Stock Company

As a result of the missile strike, 57 houses in Volovets were left without gas supply. The distribution gas pipeline is damaged. Disaster recovery work will begin on the morning of May 4.

22:35 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko 

Two missiles in the Kamyanske district severely damaged the railway infrastructure. One person was injured. It is unclear how long it will take to restore the railway. The movement of trains is stopped.

20:00 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 May 3, 2022:

• Disinformation: despite a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry that the Russian military had begun destroying Azov’s and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ fire positions on Azovstal, Russian propagandists said that “there is no large-scale assault on the plant involving tactical groups”;
• Manipulation: pro-Kremlin media reported that “during a conversation with Emanuel Macron, Putin said that the threat to global food security is primarily due to Western sanctions”;
• Fake: The head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Viacheslav Volodin stated that “the process of disintegration of Ukraine began after the coup d’etat in 2014 and is already irreversible.” In his opinion, this is confirmed by the fact that “today many residents in western Ukraine have received the citizenship of Poland and Hungary.”

22:00 Operational Command South

The enemy launched another missile strikes on several regions of Ukraine. In the southern direction, two missiles fired from the Caspian direction hit the railway infrastructure of the Kirovograd region. There are dead and wounded. Three more missiles aimed at the Odesa region were shot down by air defence forces.

21:48 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian troops once again attempted to storm Azovstal. The video was published by the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko.

21:35 Head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration Viktor Mykyta

The missile hit an object in the mountainous area of Zakarpattia. Services are working on site. Information on injuries and possible victims is being clarified.

21:30 Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi

As a result of the shelling, 3 power substations were damaged. Two pumping stations were left without electricity. Water supply is being restored through alternative sources of electricity.

21:17 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

On May 3, the Russians killed 21 civilians and wounded 27 more in the Donetsk region. This is the largest number of casualties in one day since the Russians shelled the Kramatorsk railway station.

Among the dead today are 10 civilians in Avdiivka, 5 in Lyman, 4 in Vuhledar, 1 in Velyka Novosilka, and 1 in Shandryholove.

It was also possible to clarify the information about the 2 dead in Mariupol, but the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha cannot be determined yet.

21:16 Head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration Serhii Borzov

Two explosions were heard in Vinnytsia. It was the Ukrainian air defence. The wreckage of shot-down missiles is being sought.

20:34 Head of Dolynska city territorial community Yevhenii Zvizdovskyi 

The Russian occupiers fired missiles at objects in the Dolynska community of the Kirovohrad region.

20:33 Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi

Explosions are heard in Lviv. Power outages in part of the city.

20:22 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians destroyed the Lysychansk TB dispensary.

More than a century-old Belgian heritage building, which housed the dispensary, caught fire today due to enemy shelling. 

“The Russians are hunting for “strategic objects,” so they purposefully aimed at the medical institution. For more than two months of the war, no medical institution in the Luhansk region remained intact,” wrote Haidai.

19:29 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 3, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udGUcLsAPD8

The sixty-ninths day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. 

russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the temporarily occupied Crimea.

• In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy operates as a group of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, and the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. The city of Kharkiv continues to launch air strikes and shell artillery.
• In the Izyum direction, the enemy, by forces of separate units of the 1st Tank Army, the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District; The 29th, 35th, and 36th Combined Arms Armies and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and Airborne Troops are conducting offensive operations in the direction of Izyum-Barvinkove and they suffers losses.
• To support their actions, russian occupiers moved a battery of 240-mm Tulip heavy self-propelled mortars and a unit armed with Tornado multiple rocket launchers from the Belgorod region to the Izyum area.
• In the temporarily occupied territories of Kharkiv oblast, russian enemy continues to carry out filtration measures. To do this, it additionally involves units of the Rosguard.
• In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, groups of russian enemy troops, forces of separate units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps, the 8th and 58th Combined Arms Armies of the Southern Military District; 5th Combined Arms Army and Pacific Fleet of the Eastern Military District; the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies and the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District and Airborne Forces are conducting offensive operations on a certain section of the line of contact. The occupiers are carrying out air strikes and artillery shelling of our troops’ positions.
• russian enemy continues to focus on the offensive in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Popasnyansk, Avdiivka and Kurakhiv areas in order to take full control of the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna and develop the offensive in the directions of the Lyman, Siversk and Slovyansk.
• In order to improve the system of logistics, russian enemy continues to deploy in certain areas warehouses with ammunition, fuel and oil, as well as organized a point for repair and restoration of damaged equipment.
• At the same time, on some borders, russian  enemy carries out the equipment of the second line of defense.
• In the city of Mariupol, the enemy continues to block units of Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​the Azovstal plant. Carries out fire damage by artillery and tanks on the territory of the metallurgical plant.
• In the Tavriya direction, russian enemy continues to conduct demonstrations and manoeuvrers in order to restrain the actions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and prevent their transfer to other directions.
• In the South Bug area, russian enemy is fighting with the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the Black Sea Fleet Coast Guard and the Airborne Forces to improve the tactical situation, and continues to fire on units of our troops. russian enemy is regrouping troops, increasing the system of fire destruction, air defence and logistics.
• The situation in the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains difficult. Units of the operational group of russian troops continue to be in full combat readiness. Armed formations of the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova are serving in an enhanced mode. Preparations are underway for the evacuation of the families of officers of the task force of the russian troops.
• In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to carry out tasks to strengthen the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. In the area of ​​the settlement of Khmelivka, Sumy region, the activities of an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group were exposed.
• Ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Black and Azov Seas continue to launch missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, to isolate the area of ​​hostilities, reconnaissance and fire support in the coastal direction.

Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine  continue to inflict losses on russian enemy. Thus, according to available information, as a result of effective and coordinated actions of defenders of Ukraine, units of the 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of the russian federation lost about 60 percent of the dead and wounded.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia #StandWithUkranie

18:46 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Radio Prague International

A Czech volunteer who helped evacuate civilians from villages in the Makarov region in early March has disappeared in Ukraine.

The Czech media Voxpot first learned about the disappearance of a Czech named Tomas (surname not specified). Their correspondents came under fire in the Makarov district in early March and reported on it. After the publication, a Czech citizen approached them and said that her husband was supposed to be in the same place around that time.

After the retreat of Russian troops from the Kyiv region, the journalists returned to Makariv and found Tomas’ car with a shotgun, a door, a driver’s headrest and traces of blood among the shot cars.

Tomas was not among all the 133 identified dead reported by Makarov police. Reporters speculate that he may be in one of the undiscovered burials in the Motyzhyn-Makarov district.

At the request of ČTK, the Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed Tomas’ disappearance, but could not confirm his death. The spokeswoman said that the Foreign Ministry was in touch with the family of the missing person.

18:27 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

At least 10 dead and 15 wounded are the consequences of the shelling of the Avdiivka Coke Plant by the Russian occupiers.

These figures are preliminary. The information will be clarified and the number of victims may be higher.

The Russians knew exactly where they were going – the workers had just finished their shift and were waiting at the bus stop for a bus to take them home from the factory.

Another cynical crime of the Russians on our land. You will have to answer for everything!

16:46 Osnat Lubrani, UN in Ukraine Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator

156 civilians evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol on May 1 arrived in Zaporizhzhia

16:15 Sviatoslav “Kalyna” Palamar, deputy commander of Regiment Azov in Mariupol

As of this moment, a powerful assault on the territory of the Azovstal plant is underway. With the support of armored vehicles, tanks, with attempts to land troops with boats and a large number of infantry. We will do everything possible to repel this assault, but we call for immediate measures to evacuate civilians.

15:32 Andriy Melnyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit Ukraine at a time convenient to him. This invitation remains valid

14:39 Suspilne

The head of the patrol police department in Mariupol, Mykhailo Vershynin, confirmed the storming of Azovstal by the Russians. He stressed that the Ukrainian Military continues to defend itself.

“There was artillery and aviation training for almost a day. As the [evacuation] buses left, they paused and began to attack both night and day. Now they stormed the plant in several places. We keep the defence, we fight back,” Vershynin said.

14:29 Suspilne

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson addressed the Verkhovna Rada, promising to continue to support Ukraine in the war against Russia.

14:11 Ukrainska Pravda

Russian invaders have stormed the Azovstal plant, which is being defended by the Ukrainian Defence Forces in blockaded Mariupol.

“We were bombed all night, two civilian women were killed, and now Azovstal is being stormed,” said Azov Regiment Deputy Commander Sviatoslav Palamar (Kalyna) in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda.

According to Palamar, the occupiers are just now trying to break into the plant. Before the assault, Russian aircraft bombed the plant.

13:42 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration

Russian troops continue to shell the centre of Kharkiv.

13:02 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

At least 9 people were killed by Russians today in the Donetsk region.

Russian aircraft bombed Avdiivka in the morning. The residential area in the central part of the city was hit. Last night the occupiers used Grady in the same direction.

The consequences of the shelling and bombing have yet to be determined, but at least 3 civilians have been killed and 2 wounded, and As a result of the morning shelling of Vuhledar, three people were killed while going for drinking water. Three more civilians were killed in the shelling of Lyman.

The Ocheretyn community is also under enemy fire today. Information on casualties and destruction is being clarified.

12:41 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi

Russia has once again committed a military provocation on the border of the Sumy region. At about noon, the enemy opened fire with mortars on the territory of the Hlukhiv community.

12:42 Ukrainska Pravda

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused the Israeli government of supporting Ukraine’s “neo-Nazi regime.”

“We have drawn attention to the anti-historical statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the current Israeli government’s course in support of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv,” the Ministry wrote. 

11:51 European Pravda

A Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea forced Germany to lift two Eurofighters from Laage Air Force Base on Saturday.

This became known to the German news agency DPA.

11:28 Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration

Russian military personnel continue to destroy civilian houses in towns and cities of the Zaporizhzhia region.

On May 3, the occupiers fired on the village of Zaliznychne, Huliaipole district. Russian invaders destroyed a local school.

The missile damaged the building, roof, and windows. In addition, 12 houses were shelled. Two people were killed by shrapnel wounds.

10:52 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 03.05 were approximately:

personnel – about 24200 (+400) persons were liquidated, 

tanks – 1062 (+14), 

APV – 2567 (+48), 

artillery systems – 475 (+16), 

MLRS – 162 (+10), 

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 80,

aircraft – 194, 

helicopters – 155, 

vehicles and fuel tanks – 1843 (+19),

boats / cutters – 10 (+2),

UAV operational-tactical level – 291 (+20).

special equipment – 38.

cruise missiles – 84.

The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Izium direction on the past day.

Data is being updated.

10:44 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russia is considering the possibility of including the occupied territories of southern Ukraine in the temporarily occupied Crimea and their further integration into the Russian economic space. The development of a plan with a deadline of at least 2030 was announced on May 1 by the adviser to the so-called “head” of Crimea on information policy Oleh Kriuchkov.

• At the same time, the Russian occupation regime is trying to persuade the local population to finally establish control over the occupied territories. On May 1, in Henichesk, the newly appointed “head of the City Council” Andrii Klochko organised a solemn raising of the Russian flag. However, the townspeople ignored the Russian “holiday”.
• Several private enterprises in the Rostov region received orders to produce seals and stamps for the occupation administrations of Mariupol. The list of institutions that will receive new “attributes” includes educational institutions, hospitals, police, registry offices, and administrative institutions. Even though most of them are now destroyed by Russian troops.
• The ordered stamps and seals contain the inscription: “Russia, the Republic of Donbas, Mariupol, the military-civil administration.”
• The racists announced that similar stamps and seals would be made for occupied Kherson in June.
• Today in Mariupol, the occupiers are carrying out “big cleaning”. Russians search for and destroy the bodies of the dead. For this purpose, three mobile crematoria have been operating in the city since April 15.
• Among the military of the occupier’s army, there is information that the deadline of the so-called “special military operation” is set for September 2022.

10:30 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The Kremlin has stepped up amid the abolition of celebrations in the United States on the anniversary of the 1945 meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe. On April 25, several Russian-language and English-language Russian propaganda media circulated a comment by Frank Cohen, in which he stated that “someday Russia and the United States will become friends again.”

That is not the first manipulative use of Cohen’s comments. For more than a decade, on the eve of May 9, the Kremlin recorded an interview with an American veteran to glorify its victory in World War II.

After February 24, Cohen actively criticised Russia’s boycott of other countries through Kremlin media mouthpieces. However, the American expert refrains from expressing his position on the war unleashed by Russia.

10:28 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Satellite images from Planet Lab show that powerful Russian bombs were dropped on the territory of Golden AGRO LLC in Rubizhne. The elevator complex that opened in 2020 was destroyed.

The company has installed a laboratory with modern equipment, including an express analyzer that provides accurate and fast analysis of all crops, a grain dryer with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day, a separator, and automatic scales and sampler.

The elevator complex could store 30,000 tons of grain at a time.

“The Russians want to arrange the Holodomor. Cases of export of our grain to Russia have been recorded in the occupied cities. Earlier, they also destroyed all food warehouses in Sievierodonetsk,” Haidai said. 

10:21 Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration

During the day, scheduled monitoring studies of atmospheric air were conducted. Exceedance of the maximum allowable concentrations of formaldehyde – 0.039 mg / m3, 1.1 times higher than the MPC.

9:27 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

In the Kharkiv district, a fire broke out at one of the enterprises due to the morning shelling. The factory did not work during martial law, the premises were severely damaged. A 46-year-old worker who was on the territory at the time of the shelling was killed.

During the day, the occupiers fired on Zolochiv, Barvinkove, Derhachi, and Chuhuiv.

3 people were wounded in the region over the past day (2 people in Kharkiv and one in the Chuhuiv district). Doctors also assist residents of settlements liberated from the occupiers.

8:30 Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office

Torture and murder – Bashtanka law enforcement officers are documenting crimes committed by the Russian military during the occupation.

Under the procedural guidance of the Bashtanka District Prosecutor’s Office, criminal proceedings for violating the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) were initiated. 

During the investigation in the village of Novofontanka, Bashtansky district, the bodies of two locals with signs of gunshot wounds and torture were found in a common grave. One of the men had his legs tied. Traces of the Russian military were found near the men’s grave, including fragments of a typical package of the Russian field ration.

The exact cause of death will be determined by the results of forensic examination.

8:29 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians damaged five houses in Severodonetsk and at least 12 in the Hirske Community.

The Russians are storming the settlements of the community around the clock. 10 houses in Orikhove burned down, two more in Zolote. The information on victims is being clarified. Authorities are trying to evacuate locals every day. 

Sievierodonetsk withstood eight Russian artillery shellings in one day. Last night, three houses in the old districts of the city were damaged. Already in the afternoon, the warehouse caught fire and two more high-rise buildings were hit. The shell did not explode in one of the apartments. It has already been neutralised by pyrotechnics. Three people were rescued from shelling and debris.

In total, on May 2, the Russians opened fire 25 times on the residential areas of the Luhansk region, mostly on Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Popasna, and the Hirske community.

12 enemy attacks were successfully repulsed on the fronts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

8:19 Office of the Prosecutor General

More than 626 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 220 children were killed, and 406 received injuries of varying severity. 

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 115, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 45, Mykolaiv – 43, 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. 

8:04 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 3, 2022:

• Disinformation: The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation stated that “the amount of US funding for bioprograms in Ukraine since 2005 has exceeded $ 224 million.” This body has opened a case “on the development of biological weapons in Ukraine”;
• Manipulation: Russian propagandists said that “despite numerous cases of shelling of Russia’s border regions by Ukraine, Zelenskyy claims that the Ukrainian army does not conduct operations in Russia”;
• Fake: Propagandists of the Russian Federation continue to demonize Ukrainian armed groups, in particular, they reported that “a doctor of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian battalion” Aidar “personally killed militias during an operation in the occupied areas of the Luhansk region in 2014.”

7:16 European Pravda with the reference to Reuters

The European Union hopes to pass the sixth round of sanctions against Russia at the next meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, the bloc’s chief diplomat said on Monday.

Josep Borrell told a news conference in Panama City, where he is on an official visit, the bloc hopes to curb Russia’s energy exports as part of its efforts to sanction Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

The European Commission is expected to propose the package of EU sanctions this week, including a potential embargo on buying Russian oil – a measure that would deprive Moscow of a large revenue stream, but that has so far divided EU countries.

Borrell, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Council meetings, said he hopes the EU will be able to take “measures to significantly limit these imports” but conceded so far there is no agreement from all the members.

“But I am confident that, at least with regard to oil imports, this agreement will be possible between now and the next Council meeting,” he added.

The Council has meetings scheduled for May 10 and May 16 later this month.

6:43 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 3, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)

The sixty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues. 

• The Russian enemy is taking measures to replenish significant losses of equipment in units of the armed forces of the Russian federation conducting hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. According to available information, in the city of Boguchar, Voronezh region, between April 27 and May 2, 2022, seventeen tanks and sixty BMP-1 were taken out of storage. They were sent to the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russian troops.
• In the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions the Russian enemy did not take active actions, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continued shelling the city of Kharkiv and nearby settlements.
• In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy exerted active fire on units of Ukrainian troops.
• In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the Russian enemy continue to focus on establishing full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and advancing in the direction of the settlements of Lyman and Sloviansk.
• The Russian enemy did not conduct active hostilities in the South Buh area. It continued to fire on units of our troops along the line of contact.
• During the previous day, the Air Defence and Land Forces air defence units hit seven Orlan-10 UAVs and one Forpost UAV.
• Twelve Russian enemy attacks have been repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the past 24 hours, six tanks, five artillery systems, twenty-two units of armoured combat vehicles, and eight units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed.
• The Russian enemy also suffered losses in other areas. The resistance movement continues to develop actively in the cities and villages temporarily occupied by the Russian aggressor.

6:22 Suspile with the reference to the Russian Interfax

Russia has already deported 200,000 children from Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation stated that almost 1.1 million people have been evacuated from Russia to Ukraine since February 24. Among them are almost 200,000 children from the territory of Ukraine, in particular, from the Occupied Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This was reported by the Russian Interfax citing the head of the National Defence Management Centre of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev.

“During the past 24 hours, 11,550 people, including 1,847 children, were evacuated from dangerous areas of Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to the territory of the Russian Federation without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities. 1092137 people, including 196,356 are children,” Mizintsev said on Monday, May 2. 

6:21 Skadovsk Mayor Oleksandr Yakovliev Mobile communication has appeared in Skadovsk. There is no Internet yet.

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23:42 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration

Residents of Berdiansk are warned that the occupiers are calling everyone to clarify personal data.

On May 1, a shelling in the village of Komyshuvakha damaged a medium-pressure underground distribution pipeline. 300 consumers were left without gas supply.

22:13 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on May 2, 2022:

• Fake. Propagandists of Russia reported that the Kyiv regime is covered by civilians as a “living shield”, in particular in Barvinkovo ​​in the building of a psychiatric hospital nationalists equipped a base and in the basement forcibly detained civilians.
• Disinformation. Despite reports that Russians have cut off communications in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine, Russian propagandists continue to claim that Ukraine has shut down Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions from mobile communication and the Internet”.
• Fake. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in Rubizhne “Ukrainian troops, retreating, fired mortars at the residential sector.” At the same time, illegal armed groups of the LNR stated that they “find the bodies of executed civilians in the city.”

21:17 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration

the enemy is actively shelling the Ocheretyne community. In the last two days alone, Russian fire destroyed a first-aid post in Krasnohorivka, a coffee shop and three residential buildings in Ocheretyne, and 4 villages were de-energized as a result of the shelling.

The enemy uses artillery, aircraft, phosphorus ammunition, shelling not only cities but also small villages. Information on killed and wounded civilians is received daily.

21:12 Natalia Humeniuk, head of the press center of the Forces of defense and security of the South

A 15-year-old boy was killed in a Russian missile strike in Odesa, another child was injured and is in hospital. A missile hit a residential building, where five people were at the time of the impact. Psychologists are currently working with three of them.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said on the telethon that during the rocket attack on Odesa the church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was damaged and its roof was demolished.

20:30 UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations has banned Russian clubs from participating in tournaments in the 2022/23 season.

19:58 Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

In the temporarily occupied territories, the Russian occupiers are artificially creating and exacerbating humanitarian and economic crises. There is a shortage of medicines in the settlements, the range of grocery stores is limited, and banking institutions do not function.

19:29 Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration

The enemy fired a missile at one of Odesa’s infrastructure facilities. Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded.

19:20 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 2, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun) 

The sixty-eights day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. 

russian enemy continues to conduct a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and is conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.

• The greatest activity of russian invaders is observed in Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. In the Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Mykolayiv areas, russian enemy regrouped troops, strengthened artillery units and air defense units. It is trying to establish a system of logistical support for the grouping of troops in these areas.
• russian enemy continues to prepare reserves in order to further transfer them to operational areas in Ukraine.
• russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on targets in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
• The shelling of the city of Kharkiv continues in the Slobozhansky direction.
• In the Izyum direction, russian enemy continues to attack in the directions Izyum-Barvinkovo ​​and Izyum-Slovyansk.
• To strengthen the group, russian occupiers moved to certain areas of the units of artillery and jet artillery.
• In order to improve the transport infrastructure, russian enemy built a pontoon-bridge crossing over the Siversky Donets River. russian occupiers continue to shell the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian objects located a short distance from the state border of Ukraine from the territory of the russian federation.
• In the Belgorod region, the concentration of russian occupiers’ reserves for fighting in the Eastern Operational Zone continues.
• In the Donetsk direction, russian enemy’s main efforts were focused on establishing full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and advancing in the directions of the settlements of Lyman and Siversk.
• In the Tavriya direction, measures are underway to regroup units and engineering equipment positions. In particular, a barrel artillery unit was deployed at firing positions near the settlement of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia oblast. russian enemy carried out artillery shelling of the positions of our troops in the area of ​​the settlement of Orikhiv.
• In the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia oblast, russian enemy deployed a fuel and oil depot and a point for repairing and repairing damaged equipment.
• In the South Buh direction, russian enemy is fighting to improve its tactical position. It does not stop trying to reach the administrative border of the Kherson oblast, it continues to deploy jet and barrel artillery units to fire on the positions of Ukrainian troops.
• The transfer of material resources from the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the use of Ukraine’s railway infrastructure continues.
• In the Bessarabian direction, the situation in the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains tense. russian enemy, through controlled media, continues to spread provocative reports about the growing threat to the population of transnistria from Ukraine.
• In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, the possibility of the enemy’s demonstrative and provocative actions in the areas adjacent to the state border of Ukraine is not ruled out.
• The threat of missile strikes on objects on the territory of our state remains.
• Measures to strengthen the administrative-police and counter-intelligence regimes continue in the Bryansk region bordering on Ukraine.
• In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, enemy ships are involved in missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, perform the task of isolating the area of ​​hostilities and conduct reconnaissance.
• russian enemy continues to destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. Inflicts rocket and bomb attacks and carries out artillery shelling of residential areas of the city of Mykolayiv, as well as settlements of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts.
• In the temporarily occupied territories, the russian occupiers are artificially creating and exacerbating humanitarian and economic crises. There is a shortage of medicines in the settlements, the range of grocery stores is limited, and bank institutions do not function.
• Ukraine’s Defense Forces inflict losses on russian enemy in all directions and are ready for any changes in the operational situation.

We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

#stoprussia #StandWithUkranie

19:10 Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia is preparing to announce an open mobilization on May 9.

“Now Rosreserv has started to check what they actually have in stock and calculate that they can give out on mobilization orders. This is an absolutely necessary step before the start of real mobilization,” Budanov explained.

Asked whether the Kremlin’s plan is to win in Donbass by May 9, the head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence said: “This is their goal, but it will not happen, they do not have time. In no way do they have time.”

18:10 Josep Borrell, EU High Representative 

According to the Council of Europe, at least 10 Ukrainian and international journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war, and even more have been injured. The safety of media workers remains a priority for the EU.

17:15 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The Russian Federation is preparing for the cholera epidemic in the regions bordering Ukraine.

According to intelligence, Russia’s chief state sanitary doctor Anna Popova signed a resolution “On additional measures to prevent cholera.” It pays special attention to additional prevention measures in the regions bordering Ukraine: Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov regions, Krasnodar Krai, as well as the occupied Crimea.

The Chief Directorate of Intelligence suggests that probably in late May-early June, the Russian leadership may resort to provocations in areas bordering Ukraine, and will traditionally try to shift responsibility for this to Kyiv, accusing it of “using biological weapons.”

17:14 Maksym Ocheretianyi, deputy head of the Kyin regional police

In the Kyiv region, after liberation from the enemy, law enforcement officers found eight mass graves of civilians killed by Russian invaders.

“We have eight of them. And in fact, we found 148 people in these eight burials,” Maksym Ocheretyany said.

According to Ocheretyany, all the victims have injuries, a forensic examination is currently underway,” and it will provide us with more specific information.”

15:23 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The French are helping the Ukrainian side with their experts, and from Tuesday they are to begin DNA testing of bodies in Bucha.

“The French, they are not in the joint investigation team, but they are helping experts here, the Ukrainian side. They arrived a long time ago and had to leave a long time ago, but stayed. And starting tomorrow, they will start DNA tests in Bucha. That is, the French group will stay with us for another 10 days, then there will be a rotation, and again the French will be,” Venediktova said.

14:32 Ruslan Stefanchuk, head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

The People’s Deputies registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft resolution №7341 on the appeal of the Ukrainian Parliament to the House of Representatives and the Senate of the US Congress to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism.

14:22 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

200 volunteers a week from each federal district, except Moscow – the Kremlin conducts a campaign to recruit “volunteers”.

• The Russian Federation is stepping up a campaign to recruit “volunteers” for contract military service. It is assumed that they should restore the losses of personnel of units that took part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. It is also planned to form several new units. When signing contracts, preference is given to those who have previously served in the military. The military leadership of the Russian Federation has established clear “recruitment norms”: for the Far Eastern and Siberian federal districts, it is 200 “volunteers” every week. At the same time, recruitment is not carried out in Moscow at all.
• Campaigning events are held to motivate “volunteers” to serve. In particular, traditional Russian narratives about the “collective West” and “non-existent Ukraine” are repeated. Increased material support and benefits are also promised.
• It will be recalled that the Russian occupation command has already used at least 95% of the trained battalion tactical groups, and this was still insufficient to achieve “success” in the war with Ukraine.

13:00 Ukrinform

In the Kyiv region, law enforcement officers have already found, examined and handed over 1,202 bodies of Ukrainian citizens to forensic medical institutions since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion to determine the cause of death. This was announced by Ukrainian Police Chief Andrii Nebytov on Ukrainian TV channels.

12:35 Spokesman for the Odesa Military Administration Serhii Bratchuk

The enemy fired missiles at the bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Odesa region. The information is being clarified.

12:17 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

The Russians are continuously shelling Rubizhne: the evacuation has been thwarted again. It is dangerous to be in the building of the humanitarian headquarters.

12:14 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

The occupiers shut down all information flows to and from the city.

“One may be surprised, but Mariupol residents in the city are now convinced that Russian soldiers are marching along Khreshchatyk, Kharkiv is under Russian control, and every man from Mariupol is sent to the front when he leaves,” said Andriushchenko.

To maintain this blockade, the occupiers tightly control photos and videos. You can’t even start taking selfies without the separate permission of the soldiers, and even when you do it, the Russian soldier is always there and controls what you take. Only propagandists and “volunteers” from the FSB can shoot in the city. That is why you can see either exactly turned out shots of “grateful Mariupol citizens”, or something was quickly shot from the car. When filtering on the way out of the city, Russians remove all content that can show the truth of life. The occupiers spread disinformation such as “Zelenskyy called all Mariupol traitors and promised prison to everyone.”

11:45 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

Two more attacks on the Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region.

One missile hit a pig farm. Pigs are alive. It affected the warehouses. Between them is a funnel 15 metres wide and 10 metres deep. Another missile hit a road verge with trees.

11:31 Security Service of Ukraine 

To mask the frantic losses in the war in Ukraine, Russian corpses are transported in small batches and only at night.

11:23 Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark Jeppe Kofod 

Denmark has resumed its embassy in Kyiv.

“I just raised the flag at the Danish Embassy in Kyiv. An important step is that today we are reopening the embassy after the Russian attack. It is touching to meet both local workers and Danes who have survived here in the capital for the last two months.”

11:17 Ukrinform

The New Zealand government has announced that it is imposing additional sanctions on Russian politicians and defence agencies that support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine as part of the government’s ongoing response to the war.

11:04 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Emergency crews are daily counteracting the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the Russians in the Luhansk region. But the opportunities for repairmen are limited.

Two cities are supplied with electricity in some neighbourhoods. One is provided with water, but partially. A centralised water supply is absent almost throughout the region. The Russians de-energized the pumping stations and destroyed some altogether. High-voltage power lines in the area of ​​active hostilities are interrupted. Rescuers deliver dozens of tons of technical water to the region’s residents every day, and drinking water is delivered by humanitarian aid.

In total, 42 settlements were cut off from electricity – 29 completely and 13 partially. 99,295 households are without electricity.

A slightly better situation with gas supply. Gas is available in the homes of 45,315 households from six settlements, three – throughout the territory, in three – partly.

10:37 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 02.05 were approximately:

personnel – about 23800 (+300) persons were liquidated, 

tanks – 1048 (+22), 

APV – 2519 (+48), 

artillery systems – 459 (+8), 

MLRS – 152 (+1), 

anti-aircraft warfare systems – 80,

aircraft – 194 (+2), 

helicopters – 155, 

vehicles and fuel tanks – 1824 (+28),

boats / cutters – 8,

UAV operational-tactical level – 271 (+26),

special equipment – 38 (+6),

cruise missiles – 84.

The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses (of the past day) in the Izium direction.

Data is being updated.

10:30 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

Former New Zealand Foreign Minister Matt Robson thanked Russia for its opposition to NATO.

Centre for Countering Disinformation reports: “An expert from New Zealand in the English-language news segment spreads Russia’s propaganda thesis that” NATO has always wanted to surround Russia and China.”

On April 29, several New Zealand media outlets published a commentary by Robson in which he manipulatively expressed Russia’s gratitude for the war with NATO in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Robson has regularly made such statements, completely repeating the disinformation narratives of Russian leaders.

In February and March, the former New Zealand Foreign Minister said that “NATO provoked Putin.” In April, Robson repeatedly stated that “NATO has promised not to expand the geography of its presence.”

10:11 State Bureau of Investigation

Russia’s plans to destabilise the situation in Odesa on the anniversary of the May 2 tragedy have been thwarted. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) detained 12 saboteurs.

• Currently, special attention is paid to Odesa, as the enemy does not abandon plans to capture the region. On the eve of May 2, SBI officers together with the National Police conducted a large-scale special operation to identify the organisers and perpetrators of possible sabotage and provocations on the anniversary of the tragedy.
• Dozens of criminals and possible collaborators who could destabilise the situation in the region under the leadership of the Russian special services were checked.
• As a result, SBI officers identified and detained 12 people who are reasonably suspected of plotting sabotage, protests, and riots in the Odesa region. Also, according to operative information, detainees worked on incitement of inhabitants of Odesa to mass riots.
• The Bureau officers found an arsenal of weapons and explosives in the saboteurs. A large number of submachine guns, machine guns, grenades, pistols, and ammunition were kept in the private house of one of the detainees. In addition, the rebels were found with flags with communist symbols, medals, anti-Ukrainian books, and propaganda brochures.
• According to the enemy’s plans, they were to implement their criminal plan for the anniversary of the tragic events – May 2.

10:09 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

To hide information about the movement of Russian occupation troops through the territory of Belarus, the Belarusian authorities turn off the Internet.

For the first time, the full and partial restriction of access of mobile subscribers of the Republic of Belarus to the Internet was recorded on April 1. During the month, entire regions of Belarus were restricted from accessing the Internet.

According to the estimates of the military intelligence of Ukraine, the disconnection of users from the Internet is coordinated by special services. Thus, the KGB of Belarus and the FSB of Russia are trying to limit the communication of patriotic citizens and prevent the spread of information on social networks about the movement of Russian military equipment through the territory of the republic.

Anomalies in access to the network in some areas south and southeast of Minsk indicate a corridor of military equipment, which is confirmed by information from other sources.

9:46 Suspilne citing the head of the Izium City Council department Maksym Strelnyk

The Russian occupiers increased the means of electronic warfare in Izium, Kharkiv region. There is no connection with the city for about a week. In a comment to the Suspilne, Strelnyk said that there are about 10-15,000 civilians left in the city.

“Now they have stopped conducting organised deportations. Humanitarian corridors are not working. There is no food delivery and evacuation,” Strelnyk said.

8:47 Suspilne citing the UK Ministry of Defence 

At the start of the conflict, Russia committed over 120 battalion tactical groups, approximately 65 percent of its entire ground combat strength.

 It is likely that more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective.

Some of Russia’s most elite units, including the VDV Airborne Forces, have suffered the highest levels of attrition. It will probably take years for Russia to reconstitute these forces.

8:14 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

Three people were killed and three wounded by the Russian army in the Luhansk region, among the victims – a minor, in Lysychansk burned down a gymnasium – Belgian Heritage.

A 12-year-old boy was injured during heavy Russian shelling of the city of Zolotye at approximately 20:00 on May 1. One woman died in Zolote. 

Two more died during the past day in Lysychansk and Popasna. A resident of Lysychansk was wounded by shrapnel.

Heavy prolonged shelling prevented a full-fledged evacuation. Three were killed. At least 12 houses were destroyed in Horikhove and four in Hirske. In Lysychansk, an old building of a multidisciplinary gymnasium, which is part of the Belgian heritage of the city, burned down, and several houses were damaged. There are six high-rise buildings in Sievierodonetsk, five of which are located next to each other.

In total, on May 1, the towns and villages of the Luhansk region suffered 18 times from enemy shelling. Only the destruction of 28 houses has been officially recorded.

8:09 Office of the Prosecutor General

more than 624 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 219 children were killed, and 405 received injuries of varying severity. 

Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 115, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 45, Mykolaiv – 43, 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. 

8:03 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko

In the Synelnykove district, a missile hit an elevator. The warehouse with grain was destroyed. According to previous information, no one was injured.

8:02 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 2, 2022:

• Disinformation: the Russian Defence Ministry said that “80 civilians detained by Ukrainian nationalists had been released from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Among the evacuees are women and children”;
• Manipulation: Russia’s propaganda continues to spread the thesis of the return of peaceful life in the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian army. Thus, the propagandists reported that “there is a market in Volnovakha, trade is conducted in hryvnias and rubles, but locals are already forgetting what the hryvnia is”;
• Fake: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared that fighters of territorial defense detain inhabitants of Mykolaiv because of pro-Russian views, torture them, and threaten physical violence against relatives. During raids, nationalists confiscate property and products for the needs of territorial defence.”

6:51 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko

With the support of the United Nations and the Red Cross, two additional locations have been agreed on today to put people in an evacuation convoy leaving Mariupol. These are the village of Manhush and the Lunacharske ring near Berdiansk.

6:50 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 2, 2022.  

Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun). 

The sixty-eight 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 and offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone.
• Units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus have been identified in the Volyn and Polissya areas and continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
• The threat of missile strikes on military and civilian infrastructure from the territory of the Republic of Belarus by the Russian enemy remains.
• In the Siversky direction, the Russian enemy fired mortars at the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Senkivka area of ​​the Chernihiv region.
• Intensified administrative-police and counter-intelligence regimes have been established in the Russian Bryansk region bordering Ukraine. Checkpoints are located on the main roads and near the settlements.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy group continues to shell the city of Kharkiv and the settlements of Uda and Prudianka.
• Russia’s offensive operations in the Izium-Barvinkove and Izyum-Sloviansk directions continue in the Izyum direction. The enemy continued to fire on our troops.
• In the Donetsk direction, a group of Russian occupying forces is conducting offensive operations along almost the entire line of contact.
• In the Lyman direction, the Russian enemy fired on the units of Ukrainian troops on the Lyman-Siversk border to oust them from their positions and create conditions for the attack on Sloviansk.
• In the Sievierodonetsk direction, the Russian enemy focused its main efforts on taking control of Rubizhne and preparing for the attack on Severodonetsk.
• In the Popasna direction, the Russian enemy tried to improve the tactical position in the Popasna area. The Russian enemy strengthened its troops by moving one battalion tactical group from the Mariupol direction.
• To increase the air defence system, the Russian enemy deployed additional anti-aircraft missile systems in the temporarily occupied and temporarily beset territories of Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
• In the Tavriya and Pivdennyi Buh directions, the Russian enemy continues to try to improve its tactical position and shelling.
• In the Tavriya direction, measures are being taken to regroup Russian enemy units, increase the components of the fire destruction system, and engineer equipment for replenishment of ammunition and fuel, and oil.
• In the South Buh direction, the occupiers are trying to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region, looking for weaknesses in Ukrainian defence. In the area of ​​Mykolaiv, the Russian aggressor carried out air reconnaissance with the use of three UAVs. He fired artillery at the positions of our units.
• During the previous day, air defence units hit ten Orlan-10 UAVs.
• The Russian enemy suffers significant losses, especially in artillery and on land. In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions only, ten attacks by Russian occupiers were repulsed in the past 24 hours, two tanks, seventeen artillery systems, thirty-eight units of armoured combat vehicles, and 10 units of enemy vehicles were destroyed.

0:23 Operational Command “South”

• In the Kherson region, the occupiers continue to appoint their governors to district centres and put pressure on the public to force them to accept the occupying power as legitimate. By disabling mobile communications, Russian propagandists spread a fake that Ukraine had done. At the same time, work to disconnect the region from the Ukrainian banking system continues. People with an active pro-Ukrainian position, including those involved in the Anti-Terrorist Operation / Joint Forces Operation, are identified, abducted, and tortured.
• Ukrainian units hold the frontiers, not allowing the enemy to advance in the Mykolaiv direction. In reconnaissance of the positions of our troops, the enemy was left without another unmanned reconnaissance “Orlan-10”, in addition to 2 morning losses.
• The total loss of the enemy per day is 35 soldiers and 7 units of equipment, including armoured, automobile, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
• An extended curfew has been launched in Odesa to limit attempts to create provocations related to the commemorative date of May 2. The results of counter-sabotage measures carried out in the region testify to the tireless attempts of enemy forces to promote the idea of Russification of southern Ukraine. But the mood of the population, affected by the chronicle of the full-scale invasion, the atrocities and atrocities of the occupiers, is strongly pro-Ukrainian.

0:16 Suspilne citing Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office Oleksii Arestovych on Feygin Live

Russia is preparing to send about 10,000 volunteers to Ukraine.

“According to my estimates, I see that 10,000 volunteers can be recruited by mid-May. And so they will heroically go somewhere. The question is where? And it will be similar to the invasion of Chinese volunteers in the Korean War when they stopped the high-tech army. But only there are two big differences: that two zeros must be subtracted and tens of thousands will come out,” Arestovych said.

According to him, the Russian volunteer takes declassed people that can’t do anything and gives them “some old camouflage, boots of the 51st year, a machine gun of the 47th and a helmet of the 43rd”. Therefore, he is convinced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will destroy this reinforcement.

“We have crushed the elite Russian divisions, so these volunteers will be easy for us. We will only have time to change the barrels of machine guns. We will destroy them,” said an adviser to the President’s Office.

He compared the reinforcement of infantry units of the Russian army by inexperienced volunteers to the popular computer game Zerg Rush.

“There is such a nation of zerg – insects. And because earthlings and other nation are beating with high-tech, they just overwhelm the mass. What’s most amazing? There are enough volunteers. There are many. They have one great dignity, or rather two – that there are many of them and they are volunteers. And a lot of shortcomings, which are that they do not know anything, do not represent military force, but only represent manpower. But it is also short-lived,” Arestovych is convinced.

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23:35 Representative of the United Nations World Food Program Martin Frick according to Radio Liberty

Almost four and a half million tons of grain are blocked in Ukrainian ports. Products cannot be exported through closed sea routes against the background of the Russian military invasion. This was stated by the representative of the UN World Food Program Martin Frick, writes dpa.

Before the war, Ukraine was one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat and a producer of corn. Many countries depend on the supply of Ukrainian wheat, according to the UN.

“Hunger should not be a weapon,” Frick said. He called for the resumption of Ukrainian food supplies to other countries to alleviate the global food crisis.

21:31 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov

Residents of the Kharkiv region continue to suffer from shelling by the Russian occupiers.

Today, the invaders fired on residential areas of Kharkiv, including Saltivka. Bohodukhiv, Zolochiv, and Mala Danylivka came under fire in the region. As a result of these shellings, 3 civilians were killed and 8 were injured.

As in previous days, the hottest in the Kharkiv region is in the Izium direction. Here the enemy continues to try to conduct offensive operations. Thanks to the effective actions of our defenders, these attempts have failed. Today, the Russian occupiers have once again suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment.

In addition, the aggressor fired on the positions of the Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Uda and Prudianka and suffered heavy losses in the area of the village of Staryi Saltiv.

21:02 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

The main narratives promoted by the Russian media last week:

1. Sanctions of the West against Russia;

2. Western assistance to Ukraine;

3. Ukraine will lose the war.

How propagandists cover these topics:

1. Due to the sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, economists predict the greatest famine in history. The EU intends to impose a ban on oil from Russia by the end of the year;

2. France handed over 615 tons of humanitarian aid. The Czech Republic and Denmark have refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles. The Bundestag approved the supply of heavy weapons;

3. Despite sanctions and arms supplies from the EU and the US to Ukraine, Russia is seizing new territories and strengthening its positions every day. Ukraine would have already lost the war, but under the guise of civilians, violates the rules of war and delays the inevitable victory of Russia.

21:00 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai

On April 29, the enemy sabotage reconnaissance group fired grenade launchers at an evacuation vehicle in Popasna.

Several groups of Ukrainian servicemen visited the place where the evacuation vehicle was shot but found only one damaged bus. There were no people in it, only traces of blood.

The second bus, which was carrying humanitarian aid and was supposed to pick up people on the way back, was not found. There was no communication with the driver.

Today, after two days of searching, Mykhailo Pankov was found. The Russians recorded a propaganda interview with him and showed it on the central Russian TV channel.

The occupiers forced him to say that the Ukrainian authorities were not evacuating people and leaving them to their own devices.

Mykhailo Pankov is alive, but the Russians are now holding him captive.

It also means that the Russians have seized the school bus and can use it for their provocations.

18:33 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 

Russian troops are trying to advance in the Slobozhansky, Donetsk, and Tavriya directions, but have no success and suffer losses.

There is still a threat that the enemy will launch missile strikes on military and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine from Belarus, as well as provocations in areas near the state border of Ukraine, accusing them of Ukrainian defence forces.

17:30 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

“The evacuation of civilians from Azovstal began. The first group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled area. Tomorrow we will meet them in Zaporizhzhia. Thank you to our team! Currently, they, together with UN representatives, are working on the evacuation of other civilians from the plant,” wrote Zelenskyy.

17:03 Radio Liberty

U.N. humanitarian spokesman Saviano Abreu told The Associated Press that the operation to bring people out of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant was being done with the International Committee of the Red Cross and in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officials.

He called the situation “very difficult” and said he would not provide further details.

According to the UN, about 1,000 civilians live in shelters under the Azovstal plant.

13:44 European Pravda 

Ambassador of Ukraine Andrii Melnyk proposes that Germany adopt a law on land lease for Ukraine following the example of the United States.

“We would like to see rapid export of 88 Leopard tanks, 100 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers, etc. But what is very important is a rethinking in people’s minds. We are going through the biggest war in Europe in 80 years. You will no longer be able to win with 30 or 100 tanks. A German land lease law, as in the United States, and a long-term alliance against Russia would be important,” Melnyk told Bild am Sonntag.

10:01 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Russia continues to prepare unrecognised Transnistria for war with Ukraine. A large circulation of the Transnistrian newspaper, dated May 2, 2022, was printed on the territory of the Transnistrian region.

The newspaper contains a series of propaganda materials about “bloody terrorist attacks that fell on Transnistrians on the May holidays, dozens killed, including children, the elderly and women.” As the newspaper was published on the eve of the holidays, there is a danger that the Kremlin authorities plan to commit a series of acts of intimidation among the local population, for which “Ukraine and the Collective West” have traditionally been responsible.

9:05 European Pravda

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kyiv on a visit.

The video of Zelenskyy’s meeting with Pelosi was published on the head of state’s social networks.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Nancy Pelosi the Order of Princess Olga for her significant personal contribution to strengthening Ukrainian-American interstate cooperation and supporting sovereign, independent, and democratic Ukraine.

7:28 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 

The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 1, 2022.

The sixty-seventh 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 and offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone.

• To increase the pace of the offensive operation, the command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to strengthen the strike potential of its troops. Weapons and military equipment removed from storage in the Western, Central, and Eastern Military Districts and the Northern Fleet are transferred to the border areas with Ukraine by rail.
• In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action. There have been no significant changes in the situation in these areas.
• Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to cover the border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
• There is a threat that the enemy will launch missile strikes on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine from the territory of the Republic of Belarus, as well as provocations by the enemy on the specified section of the state border of Ukraine.
• In the Siversky direction, Russian enemy units fired on the positions of our troops from the territory of the Bryansk region.
• In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy group continues to carry out airstrikes and artillery fire on Kharkiv. The occupiers are conducting offensive operations in the directions of Izium – Barvinkove, and Izium – Sloviansk. The enemy’s strike group continues to strengthen. Up to 300 weapons and military equipment were transferred to certain areas, and about a thousand mobilised persons arrived from the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• To cover the advancing air forces in four designated areas, the enemy deployed two anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with Buk-M2 (SA-17 “Grizzly”) and Tor-M (SA-15 “Gauntlet”).
• In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, groups of Russian enemy troops are conducting active operations along the entire section of the line of contact. The enemy is trying to carry out airstrikes and artillery fire on the positions of our troops.
• In the Lyman direction, the Russian enemy is advancing in the direction of Krymka and Oleksandrivka.
• In the Popasna direction, Russian occupiers are carrying out assault operations in the direction of Novotoshkivske – Orikhove and they are fixed on the reached borders. To prevent the manoeuvre of Ukrainian forces and means, they are blocking them in certain areas.
• In the Kurakhiv direction, with the support of artillery, the Russian enemy is trying to break through the defences of our units in the direction of Olenivka – Novomykhailivka.
• In the South Buh direction, the enemy is fighting to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region and create favourable conditions for the attack on the cities of Mykolayiv and Kryvyi Rih.
• The previous day, the air defence units hit nine air targets: two Su-25 aircraft and seven UAVs.
• In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions only, nine enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, eight tanks, one artillery system, twenty-four units of armoured combat vehicles, one special vehicle and five vehicles (including two tankers) have been destroyed.