Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, Might 5:
Preventing
- Russian forces repelled 4 drones flying in the direction of Moscow, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, stated in a put up on Telegram. There have been no preliminary studies of harm or casualties, Sobyanin stated, including that emergency providers have been working on the scene.
- Ukrainian forces attacked a manufacturing facility in Russia’s Bryansk area, destroying a lot of the plant, Governor Alexander Bogomaz stated on Telegram. There have been no casualties, Bogomaz stated.
- Russian forces destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones in a single day over Russia’s Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk areas, Moscow’s Ministry of Defence stated on Sunday.
- A Russian drone assault injured at the least 11 folks, together with two youngsters, in Kyiv’s Obolonskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts, Timur Tkachenko, the top of the Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration, stated on social media.
- Russian drones attacked Cherkasy in central Ukraine, the place emergency providers reported that one individual was injured and residential buildings and civil infrastructure suffered harm.
- Ukrainian forces downed 69 of 165 drones launched in a single day by Russia, the nation’s Air Power stated on Sunday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he doesn’t consider Russia will observe a three-day truce it declared to coincide with Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on Might 9. “This isn’t the primary problem, nor are these the primary guarantees made by Russia to stop fireplace,” Zelenskyy stated at a information convention with Czech President Petr Pavel.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in a documentary launched on Sunday that there had thus far been no want to make use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and expressed “hope” that they’d not be needed.
- United States President Donald Trump stated he and his advisers have had “superb discussions” about Russia and Ukraine in latest days, with out elaborating.
- Moscow stated that Chinese language President Xi Jinping will go to Russia from Might 7 to Might 10, becoming a member of Putin at commemorations of the Allied victory in opposition to Nazi Germany.
- Romania’s far-right presidential candidate, George Simion, who opposes army assist to Ukraine, decisively gained the primary spherical of the nation’s rerun vote, organising a contest with the centrist mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, on Might 18.
