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EVACUATION OF 3000 PEOPLE
Following Russia’s ground offensive, evacuations were launched in Vovchansk, where around 3,000 people live, and in neighboring towns in the Kharkiv region, due to “massive bombings”, said Tamaz Gambarashvili, head of the local military administration.
A “BUFFER ZONE”
Russia, which has just launched a ground offensive in the border region of Kharkiv, is seeking to create a “buffer zone” to prevent Ukraine from striking the Russian region of Belgorod, which is very regularly targeted, said a source within the command Ukrainian military.
RUSSIAN OPERATION UNDERWAY
Russia launched a ground offensive in the Kharkiv region (north-east) on Friday and tried to “break through the Ukrainian defense lines”, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced, affirming that fighting was continuing.
Moscow’s forces “have sunk a kilometer into Ukrainian territory” and are trying to advance further, declared, at the same time, a high-ranking source in the Ukrainian military command. A significant part of the Kharkiv region was occupied and then liberated in 2022. Ukraine had been worried for several weeks about a potential new Russian offensive in the area.
POINT POSITION
Find below the main information related to the conflict of the last 24 hours:
- Nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin: During his speech on Red Square for the May 9 military parade, the Russian leader recalled that Russian strategic nuclear forces were “always” ready for combat. “Russia will do everything to avoid a global confrontation. But, at the same time, we will not allow anyone to threaten us,” said Vladimir Putin.
- From commander-in-chief of the armies to ambassador: Valery Zalouzhny, very popular commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armies until his dismissal last February, was officially appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom, a key ally of kyiv in its war against Russia.
- Europe must “keep” its promises: traveling to kyiv, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, urged Europe to provide the promised aid to Ukraine and to “further intensify” its support in the face of the Russian invasion.
- Dismissal of Zelensky’s security chief: Ukraine’s president has fired his personal security chief, two days after Ukrainian authorities said they had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the leader and several senior military officials.
- Russian bombings in Nikopol: in southern Ukraine, two people were killed in Nikopol following Russian bombing. The country also suffered a nighttime drone attack, but no casualties were reported.
- Attacks in Russia: At least eight people were injured overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in a Ukrainian air attack on the Russian town of Belgorod and its surroundings, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced. Earlier today, two women were killed in separate Ukrainian strikes in the Russian border regions of Belgorod and Kursk.
GOOD MORNING
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Russian strategic nuclear forces are “always” ready for combat, Vladimir Putin underlined Thursday, May 9 during his speech to celebrate the Soviet victory against Hitler. The Russian president oversaw the May 9 military parade in Red Square, a centerpiece of the Kremlin’s narrative extolling the country’s power. More than 9,000 military personnel, according to Russian media, armored vehicles, missile launchers and combat aircraft took part.
Volodymyr Zelensky fired his personal security chief, according to a decree published Thursday, two days after Ukrainian authorities claimed to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the Ukrainian president and several senior military officials.
At the same time, the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armies Valery Zalouzhny, replaced in February and very popular, was officially appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom, a key ally of kyiv in its war against Russia, the presidency announced . President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the appointment of Mr. Zaluzhny to the post of ambassador, according to this document.
In Russia, separate Ukrainian strikes killed two women in the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk, their respective governors said. The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that a resident had been killed and another injured by a “bombing raid” Ukrainian in the village of Tiotkino, very close to the border. Vyacheslav Gladkov, head of the Belgorod region, told him that a Ukrainian strike had killed a resident of the village of Novaya Tavoljanka, also very close to Ukraine.
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kyiv’s forces, for their part, struck with a drone a Russian refinery in the republic of Bashkortostan, at a record distance of nearly 1,200 km from the border, a source in the Ukrainian sector told AFP. defense. “A long-range drone ‘paid a visit’ to the republic of Bashkortostan, where it struck the Neftekhim Salavat refinery (of Russian giant) Gazprom”, located in the town of Salavat, this source indicated. According to the latter, the drone beat a “record” by flying a distance of 1,500 kilometers to hit this refinery, one of the largest in Russia and located in Salavat.
Two people were killed by Russian bombing in Nikopol, southern Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday, and the country suffered a new drone attack the previous night, but no casualties were reported. time was recorded. “Enemy artillery killed two people: a 62-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman”said Sergiï Lysak, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk province, who published photographs of a house with a burning roof and other damaged buildings.