Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 5 May 2023

  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent a note to Poland in connection with the blocking of the checkpoint on the border
  • The Poles blocked the movement of trucks from Ukraine at one of the largest checkpoints
  • Russian S-300s hit two factories in Donetsk region
  • The EU finally approved the allocation of 1 billion euros for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine
  • Russian airlines began massively reducing domestic flights
  • Rheinmetall announced plans to produce up to 600-700 thousand projectiles for Ukraine per year
  • Food and water are being stored in Crimea in case the peninsula is isolated
  • WHO has announced the end of the emergency due to COVID-19
  • Hungarian Prime Minister Orban called the expected counteroffensive "the last great opportunity" for Ukraine
  • The Kremlin again canceled Putin's reception on May 9
  • HIMARS have become less effective due to electronic jamming by the Russians
  • The occupiers announced a partial evacuation from 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region
  • The Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has launched the process of final withdrawal from the Russian Federation
  • Summer camps for children from Ukraine are organized in EU cities
  • Zelensky received the head of the Foreign Ministry of Bahrain in Kyiv
  • The Russians hit the Kherson region with guided aerial bombs
  • Former US President Clinton: In 2011, I understood that Putin's attack on Ukraine was only a matter of time
  • The occupiers deported 50 children from Luhansk region to Dagestan
  • The authorities in Berlin banned the Russian and Ukrainian flags on May 8 and 9
  • Ukraine returned the bodies of 80 dead defenders
  • In the morning, the Russians shelled the power plant in Donetsk region
  • Russian Lukoil sold a plant in Italy to a Cypriot company
  • The first 3 out of 16 radars were delivered from Lithuania to Ukraine, for which the Lithuanians collected 14 million euros
  • Prigozhin declared that he would withdraw the Wagner PMC from Bakhmut on May 10
  • There was an explosion and a fire at the Ilsky Refinery in Russia for the second day in a row
  • British Conservatives lose hundreds of seats in early local elections
  • Airmen shot down two enemy UAVs over Dnipropetrovsk region
  • The Russians attacked Kherson Oblast with 538 shells, wounding three people

  • 4 May 2023

  • The Ukrainians destroyed 620 invaders and 16 artillery systems in a day
  • Defense forces of Ukraine repelled about 60 enemy attacks during the day
  • White House: The US is focused on transferring air defense equipment to Ukraine
  • Russia does not provide any data on children taken out of Ukraine
  • The Russian Federation attacked Sumy Oblast: about 90 explosions, a local resident was injured
  • The occupiers are afraid of the risk of a dam breach on the Dnieper and the flooding of the ZNPP
  • As part of the "Drone Army" project, 10,000 UAV operators were trained in Ukraine
  • Zelenskyi and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands supported the establishment of a special tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression in The Hague
  • US intelligence chief: Russia's use of nuclear weapons unlikely
  • New explosions thundered in Sevastopol: the occupiers reported a drone at the airfield
  • Kazakhstan stops transporting oil products to the port of the Russian Federation, where the oil depot was on fire
  • The US has no information to assess the drone attack on the Kremlin
  • The Russian army has heavy losses, but is trying to advance and improve its positions
  • Another aerial bomb buried in the ground was found in Belgorod region
  • US intelligence: Russia is unlikely to launch a "significant offensive" in Ukraine this year
  • Demand for natural gas fell by 13% in the EU
  • Russia reduced gas production by 10% in the first quarter
  • The Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine have agreed on joint actions regarding security and advancement towards NATO membership
  • Over 30 explosions rang out in Sumy Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast in three hours of the morning
  • Blinken: There is no evidence that Russia is ready for serious diplomacy to end the war
  • Zelensky: We understand that we will not join NATO during the war, but we want a clear signal
  • Ukraine added the Hungarian OTP Bank to the list of war sponsors
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