5 May 2023 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• The Russians attacked Kherson Oblast with 538 shells, wounding three people
• Airmen shot down two enemy UAVs over Dnipropetrovsk region
• British Conservatives lose hundreds of seats in early local elections
• There was an explosion and a fire at the Ilsky Refinery in Russia for the second day in a row
• Prigozhin declared that he would withdraw the Wagner PMC from Bakhmut on May 10
• The first 3 out of 16 radars were delivered from Lithuania to Ukraine, for which the Lithuanians collected 14 million euros
• Russian Lukoil sold a plant in Italy to a Cypriot company
• In the morning, the Russians shelled the power plant in Donetsk region
• Ukraine returned the bodies of 80 dead defenders
• The authorities in Berlin banned the Russian and Ukrainian flags on May 8 and 9
• The occupiers deported 50 children from Luhansk region to Dagestan
• Former US President Clinton: In 2011, I understood that Putin's attack on Ukraine was only a matter of time
• The Russians hit the Kherson region with guided aerial bombs
• Zelensky received the head of the Foreign Ministry of Bahrain in Kyiv
• Summer camps for children from Ukraine are organized in EU cities
• The Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has launched the process of final withdrawal from the Russian Federation
• The occupiers announced a partial evacuation from 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region
• HIMARS have become less effective due to electronic jamming by the Russians
• The Kremlin again canceled Putin's reception on May 9
• Hungarian Prime Minister Orban called the expected counteroffensive "the last great opportunity" for Ukraine
• WHO has announced the end of the emergency due to COVID-19
• Food and water are being stored in Crimea in case the peninsula is isolated
• Rheinmetall announced plans to produce up to 600-700 thousand projectiles for Ukraine per year
• Russian airlines began massively reducing domestic flights
• The EU finally approved the allocation of 1 billion euros for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine
• Russian S-300s hit two factories in Donetsk region
• The Poles blocked the movement of trucks from Ukraine at one of the largest checkpoints
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent a note to Poland in connection with the blocking of the checkpoint on the border
• During the day, the defenders repelled more than 30 enemy attacks
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto accused the US Embassy of "war propaganda"
• The Russians are forcing Ukrainians in the occupied Kherson region to take Russian passports
• Ukraine terminated two agreements with Belarus
• The Russian Federation hit the evacuation convoy traveling from Bakhmut
• The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia - Stoltenberg: Ukraine should receive a "road map" for joining NATO
• Zelenskyi and Yermak met with US congressmen
• Negotiations on the "grain agreement" did not bring progress
• Bakhmut is on fire: the enemy has used incendiary shells en masse
• President of Moldova: We are safe only thanks to Ukraine, Russia wants to revive the USSR
• EU experts called to hold Russia accountable for ecocide
• Poland receives eight Apache attack helicopters from the US
• The Berlin court allowed Ukrainian flags on May 8 and 9, while Russian flags were banned
• Shelling of Sumy region: the Russians launched rockets from a helicopter and dropped mines
• ISW: The Russians changed the priority of capturing Bakhmut to preparing for a counteroffensive
• Von der Leyen discussed the restoration of Ukraine with Shmyhal
• In the Kherson region, Russian soldiers seize the homes of deported Ukrainians
• Defense forces hit 24 targets and shot down 10 enemy UAVs
• In Starobilsk, Ukrainians without Russian passports are evicted and sent for "filtration"
• Dozens of Russian military equipment and more than half a thousand soldiers were destroyed in Ukraine