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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not rule out the possibility that Russia may carry out provocations against its own civilians during parades in cities on May 9. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted a statement on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "Provocations and lies are the eternal weapons of tyrants and aggressors. The whole point of the war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine is that we are not them. We are fighting on the battlefield. They bomb maternity hospitals and train stations where civilians gather," the General Staff emphasized. Russia's "victory lap" is…

On the night of May 8-9, Russian troops fired 25 Kalibr and Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles at Ukraine. The air defense units destroyed 23 missiles. "The enemy attacked the territory of Ukraine with sea-launched and air-launched cruise missiles. Around 22:00 on May 8, the enemy launched eight Kalibr cruise missiles from carriers in the Black Sea, targeting the eastern regions of the country. All eight were destroyed by the air defense forces and means of the Air Command ‘East’," Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny posted on Telegram. Around 04:00 on May 9, according to Zaluzhny, the invaders…

In the city of Skadovsk, Kherson region, the Russian invaders are curtailing the activities of their district and city administrations. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its evening update posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "In the city of Skadovsk, the activities of the district and city administrations have been suspended. Thus, on the night of May 6 into 7, the occupiers loaded documents, office equipment and other property of state institutions into motor vehicles, and on the morning of May 7, a significant part of the Russian occupation administration left the city together with…

The Russian invaders are conducting offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Maryinka directions - about 30 enemy attacks have been recorded here today. Fierce battles for Bakhmut and Maryinka are ongoing. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its evening update posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. Throughout this day, the enemy launched 11 missile strikes, 59 airstrikes and carried out 76 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems. Civilians were affected, private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged. The probability of further missile attacks and airstrikes across the entire territory…

On May 8, Ukrainian air defense forces in Kherson region destroyed three enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. The Air Command South posted this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. The air force command specified that two Lancet-type attack UAVs and one ZALA-type UAV were shot down. The air command praised the combat work by the soldiers of the mobile firing groups of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Radio Engineering Brigade for destroying UAVs. Read also: Ukrainian special operations forces destroy Russian machine gun crew in Bakhmut As Ukrinform reported, on the night of May 8, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 35 kamikaze drones.…

I don't know what Avdiivka was like before, before the war. It so happened that I visited the place for the first time when not a single house remained intact in town and the streets became almost deserted. We arrived accompanied by soldiers with the Prince Volodymyr Monomakh 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. They defend the approaches to Avdiyivka and repel the Russians, who literally bombard Donetsk region with missiles and aerial bombs, finishing off the area with artillery fire. At the entrance to Avdiivka, the Ukrainian flag proudly flies alongside an effigy of Putin. We pace into the town as…

Ukrainian special operations forces destroyed a Russian machine gun crew in Bakhmut, Donetsk region. The special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. "The enemy's machine gun crew, which was firing from a multi-story building in Bakhmut, was destroyed. Another coordinated work of special operations forces with M777 crew," the report says. Read also: Two enemy ammunition depots, four tanks, two IFVs destroyed in Luhansk region As reported by Ukrinform, since the full-scale war, the Defense Forces of Ukraine have eliminated about 194,970 Russian invaders, including 540 in the past day alone.

As a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, 177 medical institutions have been destroyed and more than 1,400 damaged. First Deputy Minister of Health Serhiy Dubrov said this on the air of the national telethon "United News", Ukrinform reports. "1433 medical facilities were damaged, and if we talk about completely destroyed hospitals, then today 177 medical facilities have been completely destroyed since the beginning of the invasion. We are rebuilding, and first of all, we are rebuilding those medical facilities that have been slightly damaged, replacing window units, replacing roofing and rebuilding those medical facilities that have been damaged in…

The Russian invasion army used heavy artillery to shell the city of Nikopol in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. A local man, 43, sustained injuries, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Mykola Lukashuk, reported on Telegram, as seen by Ukrinform. "A 43-year-old man was wounded as a result of today's shelling of Nikopol. In the afternoon, the occupiers hit the city with heavy artillery," he wrote. Read also: Destruction in Kherson region as Russia launches five guided aerial bombs on Sunday As a result of the strike, a gas station, a logistics company, a power line, and a number of cars…

This week, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny met with Inspector General of the Bundeswehr General Carsten Breuer in Ukraine. "I was glad to welcome Inspector General of the Bundeswehr General Carsten Breuer to Ukraine this week. We had a constructive conversation. I described the situation at the front and informed him of the preparation of the security and defense forces for future actions to liberate our territory," Zaluzhny posted on Telegram. In addition, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thanked for the military assistance already provided by Germany: IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile systems, Gepard self-propelled…