Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 8 May 2023

  • In Skadovsk, the occupiers curtail the work of "administrations" and take away documents
  • Danube ports brought an additional $1.5 billion to Ukraine after the release of Zmiinyi
  • More than 70% of Ukrainians believe that it is impossible to compromise with Russia
  • The invaders attack Bakhmut and 3 other directions, 2 ammunition warehouses of the invaders flew into the air
  • Poland transferred 10 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine
  • About 130 cases of possible circumvention of sanctions against the Russian Federation were discovered in Switzerland
  • Instructor courses for the Ukrainian military have ended in Lithuania
  • Sanctioned goods from Germany enter the Russian Federation through parallel imports from neighboring countries
  • 8 more UAV strike companies were formed in Ukraine
  • By agreement, Ukraine and the Russian Federation began to visit places of detention of civilians
  • The Russian Federation shelled the Kherson region: 9 victims, including a child and a village headman
  • Ukraine received almost EUR 190 million in soft loans from the World Bank
  • The Russians have tactical successes in the Avdiyiv, Bakhmut and Lyman directions
  • Eurostat counted almost 4 million Ukrainians who are granted temporary protection in the EU
  • The strike of the Russian Federation destroyed the warehouse of the Red Cross with humanitarian aid in Odesa
  • Europe is reducing the volume of gas purchases in anticipation of a further drop in prices
  • Unrecognized Transnistria asked Russia to send more "peacekeepers"
  • The night drone attack had no consequences for Ukraine's energy system
  • The Russian Federation shelled 10 regions during the day: 28 wounded, three killed
  • Russia is actively recruiting labor migrants from Central Asia for the war
  • Macron, Scholz, Sunak: 40 European leaders have confirmed their arrival at the summit in Chisinau
  • The occupiers are taking people out of Tokmak and have problems with fuel
  • On the night of May 8, Russia fired 8 Kh-22 missiles over Odesa
  • Ukrainian defenders destroyed 35 out of 35 Shaheds at night
  • Night attack of "Shakheds" on Kyiv: 5 people injured, there is destruction
  • ISW: The Russian Federation is not capable of conducting coordinated defensive operations on the entire front line
  • Drone attack on Kyiv: there are casualties and destruction
  • Fires broke out in Odesa as a result of being hit by enemy missiles
  • An air alert was announced in Ukraine: an explosion rang out in Odesa, air defense was operating in Kyiv and the region

  • 7 May 2023

  • Ukrainian fighters killed more than half a thousand Russian invaders and knocked out 7 tanks
  • Defense forces repelled 55 enemy attacks during the day
  • The Russians take boats from the residents of the occupied Kherson Region
  • Sumyshchyna: the Russians shelled the border 16 times during the day
  • The US does not doubt the veracity of Ukraine's statement about the interception of "Dagger"
  • Turkey refused to hand over the Russian S-400 to Ukraine, as proposed by the United States
  • Nikopol is under fire again: a man was wounded, an enterprise and a gas station were damaged
  • The occupiers are shelling the Kherson region: a woman was wounded, houses were destroyed
  • In Bakhmut, the Russians have increased the intensity of shelling, they are regrouping
  • The Russian occupiers are taking away looted property from the Zaporizhzhia region
  • The Russians bombard Bakhmut with incendiary and phosphorous ammunition
  • Zaluzhny met with the general of the Bundeswehr
  • The Frontex mission suspended flights over the Black Sea after the incident with the Russian Su-35
  • Polish Orlen continues to use Russian oil, which is not subject to sanctions
  • The President of the Czech Republic: The West must be prepared that there will be no complete victory in the war
  • A court in Berlin allowed Russian flags on May 9, the police appealed the decision
  • The President of the Czech Republic warned Ukraine against a hasty counteroffensive
  • The Russians invented that they shot down more than 20 UAVs over the Black Sea at night
  • The Estonian government has almost doubled the size of the wartime Defense Forces
  • PMK head Wagner said that he was promised "as much ammunition as will be needed"
  • British intelligence: the Russian Federation is experiencing the biggest labor shortage in decades
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