20:40 Rocket and artillery forces hit 31 command posts and 245 strongholds, areas of concentration of AFU manpower and military equipment during the day.
20:40 In the vicinity of ZMEINY Island, Ukrainian Su-24 bomber, Su-27 fighter jet, three Mi-8 helicopters with landing troops and two Bayraktar-TB2 drones were shot down in the air. The Ukrainian amphibious assault boat Stanislav was also destroyed.
20:40 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 26 Ukrainian military facilities during the day. Among them: two command posts, 21 personnel and military equipment staging areas, two ammunition depots and an artillery battery in firing positions. As a result of the strikes, up to 210 nationalists were destroyed, and 39 pieces of weapons and military equipment were put out of action.
20:40 Iskander operational-tactical missile systems in the areas of the railway stations of Krasnograd and Karlovka, Kharkiv region, destroy large accumulations of weapons and military equipment delivered from the USA and Western countries, as well as personnel of the units of the 58th AFU motorized infantry brigade.
20:39 High-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons at military airfields near the settlements of Arciz, Odessa and Voznesensk destroy Ukrainian air force aviation equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as air defeat devices.
19:38 The AFU is increasingly using kamikaze drones and Smerch. Russian air defence forces are working on launched munitions, with launches of air defence missiles going on all the time.
19:33 Grigory Leps visited the wounded involved in the special operation. He wished the wounded fighters a speedy recovery and gave each of them CDs with his songs and an autograph. Lep also put his signature on a guitar, where previously the artists who visited the medical facility put their signatures.
18:49 Today, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, heroes of Melitopol and Melitopol district have begun receiving a lump sum payment for Victory Day in accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
18:47 NATO supports Ukraine, but is not going to become a party to the conflict, it is necessary to avoid the spread of hostilities to other countries – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
18:46 There are no longer Kiev-controlled authorities in Kherson Region, the territory has been liberated from nationalists and is returning to peaceful life – Crimean head Serhiy Aksyonov.
17:59 NATO secretary-general says Russian Armed Forces’ general offensive in Donbas has not even started yet. The Russian Armed Forces are using a limited number of available forces.
17:19 Russian Investigative Committee completes investigation into several criminal cases against Ukrainian commanders accused of destroying Donbass civilians and civilian infrastructure.
16:57 Thick smoke has been spotted near Severodonetsk, which remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, with several large chemical production facilities in the city. The day before, the Russian Defence Ministry reported that Ukrainian fighters had deployed heavy weapons at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, are holding more than a thousand people as human shields, and had mined ammonia tanks that they planned to detonate in case they leave their positions.
16:48 The military-civil administration of Melitopol says a curfew will be imposed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on 9 May on Victory Day. The formation of the column of the “Immortal Regiment” will take place from 8.30 to 9.30. On this day movement by car in the city centre is prohibited. Citizens are prohibited from bringing firearms, edged weapons, stabbing and cutting objects to festive events. Also, the civil-military administration points out that drinking alcoholic beverages in public places, as well as the sale of alcoholic products will be prohibited on May 9.
15:35 In liberated Mykhailivka, Zaporizhzhia region, active preparations are underway to celebrate May 9. Billboards with pictures of heroes of the Great Patriotic War have appeared in the streets of the town
15:31 The force of the explosion at an aircraft repair plant in Odessa blew out windows and collapsed the ceiling in the City Centre shopping centre.
15:30 The Russian military has struck AFU facilities in Mykolayiv.
15:29 Four cruise missiles flew over Katerynopolskiy district in Cherkasy region. They say they flew towards Vinnitsa.
14:34 Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region, says any talks with Kiev are ruled out.
“There is no use talking to these [Ukrainian] authorities, because they represent not just a fascist regime, but a real terrorist organization.”
14:32 Air-raid alarms are sounding in almost all regions of Ukraine these minutes.
14:31 The Russian Armed Forces fired four air-launched cruise missiles at the town of Artsiz in the Odessa region. A few minutes ago, strikes were launched against Odessa. Anti-aircraft artillery and air defence assets are operating in the city.
14:30 Explosions in Odessa, air raid throughout the region.
12:25 Ukraine is waiting for a powerful Russian offensive, but NATO does not intend to become a party to the conflict – Secretary General Stoltenberg. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in an interview with the German Welt Am Sonntag, said that in the coming weeks, Ukraine should be prepared for “the offensive of the Russians and even more brutality, even more destruction of vital infrastructure,” but NATO does not intend to send troops to Ukraine. The Alliance does not exclude that the conflict between the countries will take years. To prevent this, according to Stoltenberg, the West is actively arming Ukraine:
“In the long term, Ukraine cannot defend itself with Soviet-era weapons, but must switch to modern Western weapons. Only in this way will Kyiv be able to successfully repel the Russian invasion.”
12:24 The Ukrainian military tried to organize a counterattack in the village of Voevodovka on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, but were surrounded, said LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik.
“Stubborn battles continue in the triangle of Severodonetsk-Lysichansk-Rubezhnoye, progress is being made, and the Russian Aerospace Forces is destroying the fortifications and positions of Ukrainian militants. Fighting is going on in the vicinity of the “triangle” in the area of the settlements of Voevodovka, Shipilovo, Belogorovka and on the Privolnyansky bridgehead. In Voevodovka, Ukrainian militants attempted a counteroffensive, which ended in failure. Leaving on the battlefield a lot of two hundredths (killed – ed.), the warriors rolled back to their positions. In fact, all the militants who were detained in Voevodovka were blocked. They have a choice – either try to break out with heavy losses, or surrender and stay alive”, Miroshnik wrote in his Telegram channel.
11:25 On the territory of the Kherson region, the police, tax services, as well as the agency for price regulation will be formed in the near future.
11:15 The Investigative Committee of Russia began to investigate the fact that Ukrainian nationalists used civilians in the Kharkov region as human shields.
11:14 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 152 aircraft, 112 helicopters, 762 unmanned aerial vehicles, 295 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2895 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 333 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1364 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2716 units of special military vehicles.
11:14 During the night, Russian air defense systems shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Berezovka of the Nikolaev region, Signalnoe, Lugansk, Krasnogorovka, Yasinovatoe and Zugres of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Olgino of the Kherson region, Cherneshchina, Kharkiv region. Also, three Ukrainian ballistic missiles “Tochka-U” and nine rockets of the “Smerch” multiple launch rocket system were intercepted over the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region.
11:13 During the night, missile forces and artillery hit 44 command posts and 196 strongholds of Ukrainian troops, areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:13 Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 18 military facilities of Ukraine during the night. Among them: two command posts in the Skovorodnikovo district of the Kharkiv region, five areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment, three ammunition and fuel depots in the area of the Dachnoye settlement in the Odessa region. In the area of the Bogodukhov railway station in the Kharkiv region, a large accumulation of weapons and military equipment received from the United States and European countries was destroyed. As a result of the strikes, up to 280 nationalists were killed, 48 units of weapons and military equipment were disabled.
10:32 Residents of the Kharkiv region abandoned by Ukraine were left without medicines. They received humanitarian aid delivered by the Russian military. The Russian army delivered 20 tons of humanitarian cargo to one of the villages in the Kharkiv region.
09:54 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on May 7, 2022:
-During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 381 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NGU and State Border Service are over 52 thousand people.
– Lost 12 tanks, 19 armored vehicles, 2 tactical missile control points, 17 field artillery and mortar guns, 3 MLRS, 3 long-range and medium-range air defense systems, 1 short-range air defense system, 21 vehicles and special equipment, 3 aircraft and 8 UAVs.
09:17 Ukrainian sources report explosions in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions.
08:21 In the liberated Energodar, the eternal flame burns again. The lighting ceremony was attended by representatives of the city administration and servicemen of the National Guard.
08:20 The primary task is to resolve financial payments to the population, payments to the population have already begun in the Genichesk district, now this issue is being resolved in the Kakhovka district and Kherson – Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region.
08:11 Consequences of an air strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Energomashspetsstal, Kramatorsk. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the premises of this enterprise housed an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army.
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