Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21.38 Cyber ATESH hackers attacked the main propaganda resource for selling tickets in the temporarily occupied Crimea – Kassa24.ru. This was reported by the ATESH partisan movement on its Telegram channel.
20.58 Russia and the United States are "getting closer" to a meeting between Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said, according to the Russian propaganda news agency RIA Novosti.
20.14 The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) has refuted another fake from Russian propagandists about a "woman in a well" who was allegedly "tortured by representatives of the TCC and SP." The CCD reported this on its Telegram channel.
19:12 Ukrainian soldiers recently liberated a forest area from Russian invaders, which the enemy called "Berlin". This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Telegram channel.
18:56 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the founder and commander of the 414th separate brigade of strike unmanned aerial systems as part of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ptitsy Madyara) Major Robert Brovdy the title Hero of Ukraine and the Order of the Gold Star.
18.31 The European Union will allocate 1 billion euros to Ukraine to support the defense industry. This was stated by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas at a briefing in Warsaw.
16.58 Ukrainian society is exhausted but remains resilient in the fourth year of the full-scale Russian invasion, according to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Razumkov Center and the Kyiv Security Forum.
Thus, about 30% of respondents are in a depressed mood, but consider democracy to be the most desirable type of government (61.2%), 88.1% trust the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 60.6% consider a military victory of Ukraine in the war with Russia possible, and the majority are not ready to make concessions to the aggressor.
Ukrainians strive for peace, but not by any means and not at any price. Complete liberation from Russian troops as a condition for peace is a demand put forward by the majority of citizens. The absolute majority of Ukrainians are not ready to cede either Ukrainian territories or the pro-Western vector of Ukraine's development. Also, the majority of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine should not refuse NATO membership.
Moreover, the overwhelming majority (more than three quarters, 77.4% of respondents) of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will be able to win if its partners provide enough weapons or the West helps with human resources.
15.58 The Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shared footage of special operations conducted behind enemy lines. Soldiers from one of the units forced six Russian soldiers to surrender. The Special Operations Forces reported this on their Facebook page.
The MTR captured a group of Russians pic.twitter.com/OUsKFGY5jc
— Maxim (@lipcansmaks1) May 8, 2025
| Tweet is a three-minute video — first person shooter style, with the Pink Panther theme as background music. |
The corresponding declaration of intent was signed by the Minister of Defence of the Netherlands, Ruben Brekelmans, and his Romanian counterpart, Angel Tilver.
15.29 On May 8, President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Malyuk the title of Hero of Ukraine and the Order of the Gold Star. The corresponding decree was published on the website of the head of state.
"For personal courage and heroism demonstrated in the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, selfless service to the Ukrainian people, I decree: To award the title Hero of Ukraine with the presentation of the Order of the Gold Star to Vasily Vasilyevich Maluk, Lieutenant General," the document says.
15:06 A resident of Kherson, who worked for the Russians during the occupation and tried to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces after deoccupation, received 12 years in prison for collaboration. This was reported by the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation.
14:30 Russian propaganda is expanding the fake about the Ukrainian Armed Forces military preparing a provocation in the area of Seversk and Chasovy Yar in the Donetsk region. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council. If a "terrorist attack with civilian casualties" is planned. The Center noted that such reports may indicate that Russia is preparing provocations or shelling civilian facilities.
14:10 During a combat mission on May 6, a serviceman, former employee of the Lux TV and Radio Company Vasily Dovbush, died. This was reported by Lux FM presenter Diana Lutsishin.
13.59 The "parade truce" initiated by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, as expected, turned out to be a farce, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga reported . Russian troops continue to attack along the entire front line and have carried out hundreds of attacks.
13:52 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky reported that he had a video conference with the Head of the Military Committee of the European Union General Robert Briger. They discussed proposals for optimizing and expanding cooperation in the direction of training fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13.36 The Ministry of Defense has codified and approved for use in the Defense Forces three modifications of smoothbore pump-action shotguns of Ukrainian production. This was reported by the Main Directorate for Support of the Life Cycle of Weapons and Military Equipment.
13.34 The military has already recorded more than 50 combat clashes on the front, despite the "ceasefire" declared by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are responding in kind to the actions of the occupiers. This was reported by Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the OSGV Khortytsia.
According to him, the Russians carried out assault operations in almost all directions of the front. But most of the clashes were recorded in the key directions - Pokrovsk and Novopavlovsk.
13.22 On May 8, the Lithuanian Seimas unanimously voted for a resolution in which it stated that it does not recognize the territories of Ukraine seized by Russia as Russian "neither de jure nor de facto." This is reported by LRT.
12.48 A 59-year-old man, who was injured on April 23 when a drone hit a bus carrying workers of the mining and processing plant in Marganets, died in hospital. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak. Thus, the death toll as a result of the Russian strike has increased to 10.
12.40 At night, in the coastal zone of the Kherson region, Russian military dropped explosives from a drone on a patrol police department service vehicle. As a result of the strike, two police officers, aged 32 and 40, were injured, they suffered concussions and shrapnel wounds to their limbs. The vehicle was damaged.
12.23 The executions of 268 Ukrainian prisoners of war are currently under investigation: 208 were executed on the battlefield and 59 in the Elenovka prison colony, the Prosecutor General's Office reported .
11.10 Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the Khortytsia Operational-Strategic Group of Forces, said that fighting continues on the front in Ukraine, despite Russia's statements about the start of the so-called "ceasefire." Therefore, it is impossible to talk about a ceasefire on the contact line. He said this on the air of the telethon.
10.57 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz does not expect that German soldiers will be sent to Ukraine. This is reported by ntv.
10.36 Fighters from the 13th NGU Charter Brigade liberated a forest area north of Liptsy in the Kharkov region with an area of over 200 hectares; fighting for this section of the front continued for almost half a year.
The Russians were pushed back and control over an important natural and tactically significant area was restored. During this time, the Russian troops lost about 1,500 soldiers killed and wounded, more than 200 weapons and 175 pieces of equipment.
10.23 On the morning of May 8, the Russian troops struck a civilian car with an FPV drone that was moving along the road near the village of Bolshiye Prokhody in the Kharkiv district; there are casualties. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General. It is noted that three women aged 18, 30 and 58 were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
10.09 Russia has intensified shelling of the Sumy region even though the head of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin declared a three-day "ceasefire". There is a victim. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the State Emergency Service in the Sumy region.
9.35 President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Ukrainians on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II. The head of state recorded a video message in the center of Kiev.
"Today is the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. The day we celebrate together with the whole world, with everyone who fought for life 80 years ago, so that evil would lose, so that 'never again'. Unfortunately, three years ago it happened again, and just like once, the air raid siren roared over Kiev again, evil came to our Ukrainian land again," the president said.
Zelensky noted that the difference between us and the Russians of the Russian Federation is shown every May 9.
"The difference between life on Independence Square and the parade of fear on Red Square. Columns of tanks, marching boxes of murderers, dressed-up extras, half-dead faces who will look down on this procession... Tomorrow, the organizer of the mass graves in Bucha will talk about the atrocities of the Nazis. And those who staged the blockade of Mariupol will talk about the siege of Leningrad," the head of state said.
The President also called the Russian celebration a "parade of cynicism and bile." Ukraine has not forgotten that 80 years ago dozens of nations fought Nazism and more than 8 million Ukrainians died in this fight.
9.10 As of 8:00 on May 8, no missile strikes or use of attack drones were recorded in Ukrainian airspace. However, during the night, the Russians intensified tactical air strikes using guided aerial bombs in Sumy region.
On the afternoon of May 7, air defense forces shot down 20 Russian drones in the skies over Ukraine, and six more UAV imitators were lost. Cherkasy region suffered as a result of the Russian attack.
8.55 Over the past 24 hours, 196 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. Aviation, missile troops, and artillery of the Defense Forces hit ten areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, two unmanned aerial vehicle control points, six artillery systems, one fuel and lubricants warehouse, and a radar station of the Russian invaders. This was reported on May 8 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8.36 Late in the evening of May 7, Russian troops dropped an aerial bomb on a multi-story building in Konstantinovka. 12 people were wounded, one woman is probably under the rubble. This was reported by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.
7.50 Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 1,200 Russian occupiers. The total combat losses of the enemy from 02/24/22 to 05/08/25 were approximately 961,970 people. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
7.23 In the Moscow region, a representative of the Ukrainian underground carried out a successful act of sabotage, as a result of which communications were disrupted at several military facilities of the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported by the ATESH partisan movement. It is noted that the operation was carried out in the settlement of Mogiltsy. There, an agent of the movement destroyed the equipment of a transformer substation. It provided the region's electrical and telecommunications infrastructure. According to the underground fighters, due to the destruction of this substation, "communication interruptions occurred at a number of important military facilities at once."
Among them are the 629th anti-aircraft missile regiment (military unit 51857), the 21st separate operational brigade (military unit 3641), and the military town where 3/2 of 51084 are stationed. Problems also arose in the 483rd military investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and in the distribution warehouse of the SberLogistics company, which fulfills contracts for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
04.44 The Russian army attacked Cherkasy region with attack UAVs throughout the day on May 7, there is damage to infrastructure, a man was injured.
04.26 During the war in Ukraine, Russia has damaged and destroyed more than 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities. Of these, 2,020 were partially damaged, and another 305 were completely destroyed.
03.55 German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, who became a member of the government following the vote in the Bundestag on May 6, confirmed Germany and Europe's support for Ukraine.
"Everyone in Moscow should know that we will have to be taken into account. Europe will defend and support Ukraine by all means," Wadephul said on the sidelines of the EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Warsaw.
03.11 The European Union, as part of the 17th package of sanctions against Russia, is discussing the introduction of restrictions against individuals involved in the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. In particular, the proposal of the European Commission includes a list of 15 legal entities and individuals associated with hybrid threats from Russia, as well as persons suspected of using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
01.22 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. This happened during a hearing in Congress, where Bessent reported on the situation in the international financial system. When he was directly asked whether he considered the ruler of the Russian Federation a war criminal, the American minister answered: "Yes".
00.25 The attack of Russian occupation forces on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused enormous damage. We are talking about the drone strike on the sarcophagus of the 4th power unit, which occurred in February 2025. According to The Guardian, according to preliminary estimates by engineering experts, we are talking about losses of more than 25 million euros. And they were inflicted by a Russian drone worth up to 75,000 pounds sterling (about 80 thousand euros).
