Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:28 Swiss President Viola Amgerd invited Pope Francis to the Global Peace Summit, which will take place on June 15-16 in Bürgenstock. "We invited the Holy See. The Vatican evaluates the peace conference very positively," she said.
21:05 The German defense concern Rheinmetall will transfer experimental artillery shells with a range of 100 km to Ukraine by the end of the year, company head Armin Pepperger said. He also promised that within the same time frame the concern would supply Ukraine with “hundreds of thousands” of conventional 155-mm shells.
21:01 Xi Jinping, who arrived on a visit to France, said that China intends to look for ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine: “We hope that peace and stability will soon return to Europe, and we intend to work with France and the entire international community to find ways to resolve the crisis."
20:47 The number of victims as a result of today's Russian strike on Kharkov has increased to 15 people, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
19:32 As a result of today’s shelling of the village of Monachinovka, Kharkov region, one person was killed - the body was removed from the rubble after the fire in the house was extinguished, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
18:28 The Russians attacked an elevator in the Poltava region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.
17:55 The Russian military launched a strike with five missiles on the territory of the Slavyanskaya Thermal Power Plant in the Donetsk region, said Vladimir Proskunin, deputy head of the Nikolaev State Military Administration. According to him, as a result of the shelling, a number of objects on the territory of the station were damaged. No people were hurt.
17:36 The Russians hit the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov with KABs, ten people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. More than 15 apartment buildings, private houses, a non-working sports complex, and office buildings were damaged. In addition, as a result of Russian shelling of the village. One person was injured in Monachinovka, Kupyansky district, and another may be under the rubble. One person was also injured as a result of the shelling of Kovsharovka.
15:19 In occupied Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, the car of Yevgeny Ananyevsky, one of the organizers of torture facilities on the territory of Berdyansk correctional colony No. 77, where he held his occupation post, was blown up. As a result of the explosion, Ananyevsky was eliminated, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
14:27 Russia has concentrated about 25 thousand military personnel near Chasov Yar, said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Khortitsa group of troops. According to him, the Russian Federation attracts both professional military personnel and former prisoners to hostilities. “The enemy has not changed its goal - to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. According to our intelligence, Russia is trying to supply and reinforce units in different directions. For example, in the Chasovoyarovsky direction, the enemy concentrated 20-25 thousand military personnel,” Voloshin said.
13:44 Macron considers Russia’s nervous reaction to his statements about the possible dispatch of Western troops to Ukraine as evidence that this idea is working. In his opinion, the strategy of “strategic uncertainty” should be maintained in relation to Russia, that is, not revealing plans. Macron's statements that he would not rule out sending troops to Ukraine are part of this strategy. "Russia's unrest shows that we are right not to close any doors. Otherwise, this means that we agree to abandon the international order based on law, and therefore peace and security," the French president said.
The French leader also stressed that “the security of Europeans is at stake in Ukraine” and if Russia wins, “in the next second security will no longer be possible in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, or at home. The range of Russian ballistic missiles missiles are covering us all."
12:36 The Russians hit the village. Mikhailovka, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, three people were injured, the prosecutor’s office reported. According to preliminary information, the Russian military dropped an F-1 grenade from an FPV drone.
12:20 On the evening of May 4, Russian troops attacked one of the settlements in the Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region. Large-scale fires broke out in the residential sector and at a civilian facility, two people were injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
11:49 Russia is preparing sabotage in Europe - the governments of EU countries have already received such warnings, writes the Financial Times, citing data from intelligence services from three unnamed countries. According to their information, the Russian Federation is “heading for a permanent conflict with the West” and “has already begun to more actively prepare secret explosions, arson and damage to infrastructure on European territory.”
A senior European government official said information was being circulated through NATO security services about "clear and convincing Russian actions, coordinated and widespread." One intelligence official says the increased activity reflects Russia's desire to apply maximum pressure "on all fronts."
10:51 Macron said that at his meeting with Xi Jinping in Paris on May 6-7 he will discuss the Olympic Truce: “The Olympic Truce should serve as a message to the world. This is one of the topics that I will discuss with the President of the People's Republic of China on Monday and Tuesday.. "We will try to achieve it for all theaters of war."
09:13 At night, the Russians attacked the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov with drones - a fire broke out in a residential building and outbuildings. Six people were injured, including a child born in 2015, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
09:07 Zelensky congratulated Ukrainians on Easter:
08:58 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was wounded, two high-rise buildings, a private house, and an educational institution were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
08:39 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 5:
- personnel - about 474,260 (+860) people,
- tanks - 7375 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 14,179 (+18),
- artillery systems - 12,212 (+21),
- MLRS - 1057 (+1),
- air defense systems - 790 (+2),
- aircraft - 349 (+1),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 9636 (+25),
- cruise missiles - 2147 (+1),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,418 (+37),
- special equipment - 2002 (+4).
08:26 Over the past 24 hours, 95 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, 20 attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the Novoaleksandrivka, Sokol, Novopokrovsky, Umansky districts of the Donetsk region. In addition, the enemy tried 15 times to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Paraskoveevka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled 12 attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Peschany, Kislovka, Kharkov region, as well as Stelmakhovka, Berestovo, Lugansk region; on Limansky - nine attacks in the Serebryansky forestry areas of the Lugansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - 12 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Luhansk region and Spornoe, Razdolovka, Novy, Kleshcheevka, south of Ivanovskoye, Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - five attacks in areas south of Novodarovka, Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - ten attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:43 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, 12 drones were shot down during a night attack - one each in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol regions, ten in the Dnieper region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. As a result of debris falling into the Dnieper, infrastructure facilities were damaged and there were several fires. A high-rise building was also damaged. A store in the Slobozhany community was damaged. No people were hurt.
07:35 Air defense at night destroyed 23 of 24 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, which Russia attacked from the Kursk region and from the Crimean Cape Chauda. The drones were destroyed in the Kharkov, Kherson and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the Air Force reported.
03:51 Ukraine, after receiving American military assistance, plans to launch a new counter-offensive in 2025, said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. At the same time, he believes that Russia will “achieve progress in the coming period,” despite the new US funding package approved last month, since “it is impossible to instantly switch the switch.” However, he said, thanks to new help from Washington, Kyiv will be able to “hold the line” and “ensure resistance to Russian attack” during 2024.
Speaking about forecasts for next year, Sullivan noted that Ukraine intends to “move forward to retake the territory that the Russians took from them.”
01:12 Ukrainian military analysts from the DeepState project report that the Russian army occupied Arkhangelskoye in the Donetsk region and Kotlyarivka in the Kharkov region, reached the administrative borders of Ocheretino and advanced near Novopokrovsky, Umansky, Pervomaisky and Krasnohorivka in the Donetsk region.