[Korrespondent] 22:09 Zelensky announced "another good news" from partners in an evening video message: "From what we can say publicly, there is a new defense package from the United States... We are also working with other partners on additional defense packages - we are adding new opportunities for our warriors."
Separately, the President thanked the French Parliament for the decision to recognize Wagner as a terrorist PMC: "This is something that must be accepted by the whole world - every manifestation of terrorism must be destroyed, and every terrorist must be condemned."
21:40 The French Parliament voted to recognize PMC Wagner as a terrorist organization. The lawmakers, in their resolution, call on the French government to use diplomatic channels to designate Prigozhin's mercenaries as a terrorist organization at the EU level.
21:33 Blinken said that Ukraine has all the necessary resources, including weapons, to retake its territories seized by Russia since February 24. At a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley, he stressed that it was not only about weapons, but also about the training of the military.
Cleverly said he expected the success of Ukraine's planned counter-offensive, but at the same time warned that he might fall short: "We must admit that there may not be a simple, quick and decisive breakthrough ... We must be realistic. This real world. This is not a Hollywood movie." The British minister added that Putin will continue to escalate against the background of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, and the world should be ready for this.
21:24 French journalist Arman Soldin died in eastern Ukraine, the AFP news agency reported.
20:42 The Russians launched a missile attack on Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, hit a civilian industry facility. At least five private residential buildings were also damaged, according to preliminary information, three people were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
20:13 Ukrainian defenders managed to recapture positions in the south of Bakhmut and the territory near the Bakhmut-Konstantinovka highway from the invaders. Read more in the material Successful counterattack .
19:55 The final plans for the counteroffensive have not yet been approved, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov: "When someone starts talking about something, even from respected institutions in the West, believe me: there are no people who know exactly all our plans today. Because the final plans have not yet been approved." According to him, several options for a counteroffensive are being worked out at once.
19:43 The European Parliament decided to urgently start developing a bill to increase the production of ammunition and missiles in the EU. It is expected that the bill will be voted on at the next plenary session on May 31 - June 1. This will be followed by negotiations with the EU Council to reach a political agreement, which MPs will then vote on in the plenary session in July.
The bill aims to immediately supply ammunition and missiles to Ukraine and help member states replenish their stockpiles. Introducing targeted measures, including funding of 500 million euros, the document provides for "increasing the production capacity of the EU and addressing the current shortage of ammunition, missiles and their components."
19:37 All NATO countries support Ukraine's entry into the alliance, the only question is the timing, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with The Washington Post: "First of all, all NATO allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance. All allies agree with that Ukraine has the right to choose its own path, that the decision is made not by Moscow but by Kiev, and thirdly, all allies agree that the doors of NATO remain open. I can't tell you."
18:56 The leaders of 37 countries participating in the coalition (Core Group) to create a Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine held a meeting, following which, in a joint statement, they confirmed support for the idea of ​​creating such a mechanism. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU supports the creation of a Special Tribunal: "As a first step towards this, we collect, store and analyze evidence. For this, an International Center for the Investigation of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is being created."
18:34 Shmyhal said that Ukraine should be ready to join the European Union in two years: "We set ambitious goals: to be ready to join the European Union in two years. The task is complex and complex. Now we are analyzing 29,000 EU legal documents that should become part of our legislation." According to the prime minister, Kyiv already this year expects to receive a political decision from the EU on the start of accession negotiations.
18:32 The head of the KGB of Belarus, Ivan Tertel, announced the alleged suppression of attempts to commit terrorist acts on the eve of May 9, he promised details tomorrow. He added that there are detainees in the case.
18:27 The German concern Rheinmetall plans to produce tanks, air defense systems and ammunition in Ukraine in the future, said the company's CEO Armin Papperger. According to him, the concern plans to conclude a number of agreements on cooperation and creation of joint ventures with Ukrainian companies in the coming weeks. At the same time, Papperger specified that investments in future plants would come from the Ukrainian state.
In particular, it is planned to produce Panther main battle tanks in Ukraine. According to Rheinmetall's plans, up to 400 such machines can be produced per year.
17:51 The Russians launched an airstrike on the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region - ten private houses were destroyed, another 20 were damaged. According to preliminary information, people were not injured, the State Emergency Service said.
17:42 Russian occupiers feel the approach of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine best of all. For several days now, they have been massively exporting their documentation and all the loot from the temporarily occupied cities of the Zaporozhye region. More details - in the material Panic of the occupiers .
17:36 Zelensky spoke at the summit on the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine: "We must prove that the aggressor was wrong in everything. Not only in his military calculations, not only in how he assessed our leadership, our state and economic system. But also in how he assessed our attitude to justice. Our values ​​are real for us, and we will defend them. And therefore, we will do everything possible to ensure that the main culprit of this aggression and all his accomplices are held accountable for everything they do, without exception."
17:18 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Putin is the only person responsible for starting a full-scale war against Ukraine: "There is only one person who is responsible for the illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and that is President Putin. The crimes committed are terrible. The suffering that the Ukrainian people are experiencing are terrible." He added that London will continue to support Ukraine in countering Russian aggression.
16:39 Inspections of ships as part of the Black Sea Grain Initiative have resumed, the Turkish TRT TV channel reported, citing sources in the country's Ministry of Defense. They specified that the checks were resumed "thanks to the initiatives of Turkey."
16:28 The Biden administration announced the provision of a new $1.2 billion military aid package to Ukraine. It will include, in particular, additional air defense systems and ammunition; equipment for the integration of Western air defense launchers, missiles and radars with Ukrainian air defense systems; ammunition to counter drones; 155 mm artillery shells.
15:59 Scholz believes that an institutional reform is overdue in the EU, providing for the need to make decisions not unanimously, but by a qualified majority: "We need to make more Council decisions by a qualified majority in matters of international and tax policy ... I want to tell skeptics that not unanimity or one hundred percent the approval of all decisions creates the greatest possible democratic legitimacy.On the contrary, it is the search for and struggle for majority alliances that characterize us as democrats."
15:20 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the goals of the night strike on Ukraine were achieved: the points of temporary deployment of reserves and ammunition depots were allegedly hit.
15:12 Ukraine considers the participation in the parade in Moscow of the Prime Minister of Armenia, the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as "an immoral and unfriendly step, a manifestation of disdain for the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their survival and freedom," the Foreign Ministry said.
"The peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus made an invaluable contribution to the victory over Nazism 78 years ago. They do not deserve the fate of being used by the Kremlin now to participate in a fake action that has nothing to do with the feat of the victors over Nazism," the statement says.
15:04 Zelensky connects the increase in the number of attacks on the territory of Ukraine by the Russian Federation with Moscow's desire to "sell" at least some victory to its society: "In my opinion, now the Russian Federation, its military-political leadership needs, as they say, to "sell" something "to their society. Because there are no victories, but there is an insatiable society. We see how they support radical actions, or the number of deaths. They always rejoice at this as a fact. Bakhmut did not succeed in "selling" because it was their last such important operation is to have time to do it before May 9. "
14:57 The Russians took out from Energodar equipment from the medical and sanitary unit, computer equipment, documentation, a passport office, which they placed in the premises of the TsNAP. The city does not have fixed Internet, grocery stores and pharmacies are closed, gas stations and ATMs are also empty, so there is a rush for certain categories of products and essentials, Mayor Dmitry Orlov told Radio Liberty.
14:28 The work of the grain corridor is actually blocked by 90% due to the actions of the Russian side, said Minister of Agrarian Policy Nikolai Solsky: "Now it is legally working, but in fact the Russian Federation is trying to block any issue and any passage of courts. There, work is paralyzed on 90% of what could have been and what happened there a few months or six months ago."
According to the minister, now Ukraine and international partners are working to ensure that the grain agreement was extended after May 18. At the same time, he added that if this does not happen, the ministry has a backup plan.
14:22 On the night of May 9, one of the enemy Kh-55 cruise missiles was shot down by a serviceman of the National Guard from the Igla MANPADS, the press service of the NSU reported.
13:43 In Moscow on May 9, a military parade of shame was held. The expected drone strikes or emergencies did not occur during the procession. But something unexpected happened - not a single tank passed through Red Square, with the exception of the museum T-34. For more details, see Without aircraft and tanks: how the parade in Moscow went .
13:24 On Europe Day, the European Commission raised the flag of Ukraine next to the EU flags. "Unwavering unity and solidarity in support of Ukraine. Europe stood by Ukraine when Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. We are there today. And we will be there for as long as necessary," the EC said in a statement.
13:09 Now there is no chance for peace between Russia and Ukraine, UN Secretary General António Guterres said in an interview with El PaÃs: "Unfortunately, I do not think that peace negotiations are possible at the moment. Both sides are convinced that they can win. It was Russian invasion that was contrary to international law and the UN Charter, but I don't see Russia being ready to withdraw from the territories it currently occupies, and I think Ukraine is looking forward to getting them back."
13:04 Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was again prevented from laying flowers at the memorial cemetery in Warsaw on the occasion of May 9. According to Russian media, he was forced to leave. The protesters blocked the passage to the ambassador and chanted "fascists - rashists."
12:47 In Novosibirsk, on the morning of May 8, on the territory of the aviation plant of the Sukhoi company, unknown partisans destroyed a SU-24 combat aircraft. The aircraft was at the site of aviation equipment intended for repair and modernization, the Legion of Freedom of Russia said. According to traffic information, the plane burned down completely.
12:25 Vessels plying under the grain agreement have not been checked for two days, the Office of the Coordinator of the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative said. Earlier, the Ukrainian side reported that Russia once again refused to register the ships and conduct their inspections, which actually suspended the work of the grain initiative.
11:58 Prigozhin said that the units of the Russian army abandoned part of their positions on the flanks and fled, exposing 2 km of the front. According to him, the situation is threatening, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are "tearing the flanks" near Bakhmut, "and a counteroffensive will begin in the near future."
He also said that yesterday he received a combat order from the General Staff, which says that the withdrawal of PMC Wagner from positions will be considered treason. But, according to Prigozhin, his mercenaries will still withdraw from their positions if they do not receive ammunition. He added that now "conferences" are being held in Moscow on this matter.
11:48 The President's Office clarified the consequences of today's missile strike. So, in Kyiv, fragments of a downed rocket fell on a personal plot in Goloseevsky and Shevchenkovsky districts. In the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region, in the village of Mirotskoe, a downed rocket (X-55SM) fell into the courtyard of a private house, the roof was damaged by debris. Another rocket was found in a field in the village of Tarasovka, Boyarskaya TO, Fastovsky District. According to the characteristics, it also looks similar in appearance to the Kh-55SM cruise missile.
In the Cherkasy region, in a forest near the village of Orshanets, the remains of a rocket were found, according to preliminary conclusions, X-101. The explosion caused a fire, which has already been extinguished. The blast wave damaged 47 windows of the building of the municipal institution Cherkasy Regional TB Dispensary. 47 patients were evacuated to the undamaged part of the building. In the Zvenigorod region, the site of the fall of the second rocket was found without consequences. In all cases, there were no casualties.
11:13 A high-level meeting in a quadripartite format on a grain deal will be held May 10-11 in Istanbul, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said.
11:09 Prigozhin said that his mercenaries would not leave Bakhmut for a few more days - "we will butt heads, and then we will figure it out."
11:07 The air part of the parade in Moscow was canceled, and modern tanks were also not presented - only the museum T-34. But they showed Yarsy - strategic missile systems with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
10:46 Russian missile attacks this evening and this morning did not damage power plants and transmission lines, Ukrenergo reported. At the same time, due to shelling, there are damages in the distribution networks of the border and front-line Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Electricity production fully covers consumption. The export of electricity to Moldova and Poland continues, there is no import to Ukraine.
10:31 SBU detained Russian agents in the Zaporozhye region who were preparing terrorist attacks against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and special forces of the Security Service. One of the members of the group was a former military man, the second was the personal driver of a local high-ranking official. The agents, in particular, collected information about the places of temporary deployment and routes of movement of Ukrainian defenders and passed it on to the FSB.
10:27 Putin, in his speech at the parade, once again stated that a war was allegedly unleashed against Russia, the West provokes conflicts and coups, "destroys traditional values ​​in order to continue to dictate its own rules, and in fact - a system of robbery and violence." Putin compared the "Western globalist elites" with the leaders of Nazi Germany and added that they want to "achieve the collapse and destruction" of Russia. Kyiv, he said, has become "a hostage of a coup d'état and a bargaining chip in the hands of the West." At the same time, he promised to "protect the inhabitants of Donbass and ensure their own security."
10:16 A "victory parade" has begun in Moscow. This year, the event was attended by the presidents of six countries - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Belarus, as well as the Prime Minister of Armenia.
The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Putin is trying to use the parade in Moscow to demonstrate his influence in Central Asia.
09:42 For the past day Russians fired at 19 frontline settlements of the Zaporozhye region. 38 residential buildings, premises of social institutions, utility networks were damaged, a 15-year-old resident of the Matveevskaya community was injured, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
09:14 In the morning, the Russians attacked the Cherkasy region - according to preliminary information, with two cruise missiles. People were not hurt. A minor fire broke out at the crash site, windows in a communal facility were damaged by the blast, Igor Taburets, head of the OVA, said.
08:47 President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on a visit. She noted that she was pleased to return to the capital of Ukraine, where values ​​dear to Europeans are upheld every day: "Therefore, this is a very suitable place to celebrate Europe Day. I welcome the decision of President Volodymyr Zelensky to make May 9 Europe Day also here in Ukraine."
08:29 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, 14 people were injured, including one child. In the Donetsk region, one wounded (in Bakhmut), according to the IVA.
08:20 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 9.
- personnel - about 195,620 (+650) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3734 (+4),
- armored combat vehicles - 7258 (+4),
- artillery systems - 3031 (+13),
- MLRS - 554 (+0),
- air defense systems - 307 (+1),
- aircraft - 308 (+0),
- helicopters - 294 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2618 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 955 (+8),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5969 (+11),
- special equipment - 388 (+4).
08:16 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. There are heavy battles for Bakhmut and Marinka. Over the past day, 42 enemy attacks were repelled in the indicated sectors of the front, the General Staff said in the morning report .
Meanwhile, in the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, Russians continue to rob local residents, businesses and government agencies. To take out the loot from the settlements located near the line of combat, the occupiers attract drivers and truck owners from among local collaborators. All this is being transported in the direction of the Crimea.
08:09 In the Dnipropetrovsk region at night, the military shot down all eight missiles that the enemy fired in the region. Debris fell on a four-story house in Dnipro, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. A missile warhead was found on the third floor - several dozen residents were evacuated, the wreckage was removed, they will be destroyed.
The enemy also fired heavy artillery at Nikopol and the Marganets community - private houses were damaged, people were not injured.
08:02 On the evening of May 8, the enemy launched a massive missile attack on the Kharkiv region. Six S-300 missiles hit the ground in the area with. New Korotich, there were no casualties and no damage, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Another S-300 missile hit near the village of Solonitsevka, Kharkiv region - the transport infrastructure was damaged, a fire started in a forest plantation. In with. Tsapovka, one S-300 missile damaged a private residential building.
In addition, during the day, the enemy fired artillery and mortars at the settlements of the Chuguevsky and Kupyansky districts - private houses were damaged, people were not injured.
07:29 On the night of May 9, Russia attacked the territory of Ukraine with sea and air-based cruise missiles, 23 out of 25 were destroyed , Zaluzhny said. In particular, at about 22:00 on May 8, the enemy launched eight Caliber cruise missiles from carriers in the Black Sea in the eastern regions, all of them were destroyed.
And closer to 4:00 on May 9, the Russians fired 17 Kh-101/Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles from strategic aircraft - four Tu-95ms (Caspian region). Of these, 15 missiles were destroyed.
06:44 The Russians attacked Kiev again - this time with missiles from four Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea region, said Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA. He recalled that the day before, the enemy deliberately deployed a record number of Shahed drones in order to identify and deplete air defenses as much as possible. According to preliminary information, about 15 enemy missiles, probably of the X-101 (X-555) type, were detected and destroyed in the airspace around Kyiv.
There were no hits, people were not injured. Serious damage as a result of falling debris was also not recorded. In the Goloseevsky district, as a result of falling debris into the courtyard of a private house, a fire broke out, and in the Shevchenkovsky district, debris was found on the roadway.
06:37 Support for Ukraine will be one of the main topics of the G7 summit, which will begin on May 19 in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Also, the G7 countries will discuss China, North Korea and nuclear disarmament. Kishida said he was keen to use the meeting as an opportunity to reaffirm the G7's unwavering solidarity with Ukraine in its opposition to the Russian invasion.
05:43 The UK is ready to transfer long-range missiles to Ukraine, which the US has so far refused to provide, writes The Washington Post. The report from the British Ministry of Defense mentions the possibility of providing ammunition capable of striking at a range of up to 300 km, but a final decision has not yet been made.
03:21 On Tuesday, May 9, the United States will allocate another $1.2 billion to Ukraine for long-term security assistance, Associated Press reports. In particular, the funds are intended to further strengthen air defenses in response to Russian attacks. The money will be provided as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
The initiative will fund the acquisition of HAWK air defense systems, munitions and air defense drones. It will also include artillery, missiles, assistance in obtaining satellite images and funding for ongoing maintenance and spare parts for various systems.
Together with this package, the US has given Ukraine nearly $37 billion in military aid overall since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.