#UKRAINERUSSIAWAR. Weapons arrive for Kiev from the US. Moscow breaks through the Ukrainian front at Umans’ke

The United States is working on new military aid packages for Ukraine but is not ready to discuss the timing of their allocation, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. According to the Pentagon, Russia’s victory in the Ukrainian conflict will cost America dearly.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that Russia’s victory in the Ukrainian conflict will cost Washington dearly, arguing that Moscow may not stop at Ukraine despite the Kremlin’s continued denials.

From social media sources we learn that a shipment of ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is operating from Ramstein to Rzeszow.

NATO has made clear what France has not done: “It does not intend to send troops to Ukraine because it does not intend to be directly involved in the war,” said outgoing minister Jens Stoltenberg. The Secretary General of the Alliance also noted that Kiev itself did not ask for this. Now Ukraine demands the transfer of offensive artillery.

Contrary to Stoltenberg’s words, Lithuania, according to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis, said: “Lithuanian troops could conduct training in Ukraine as part of the Western coalition with the support of air defense systems,” Guardian source.

Earlier, the Financial Times, citing Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, wrote that Lithuania is willing to send soldiers to Ukraine as part of a training mission.

According to British intelligence: In April, the scale of Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine increased by 17% compared to March. More than 75% of them took place in the areas of Avdiivka, Časiv Jar and Maryinka. The number of attacks under Časiv Jar increased by 200%. The British Home Office has announced the expulsion of the Russian military diplomat from the country and once again Britain is withdrawing the diplomatic status of real estate owned by the Russian Federation, source Home Office.

The EU’s permanent representatives have previously reached an agreement on the use of revenues from Russian resources for military aid to Ukraine – source of the Belgian presidency.

In violation of the rights of refugees, Poland transferred to Ukraine an eligible Ukrainian citizen on military service who swam across the Western Bug and was returned to the State Service Department of the Border Guard. An administrative protocol was drawn up and a representative of the TCC handed over a summons to the person responsible for the military service. A similar situation reached a 26-year-old, originally from the Donetsk region, who lived in Poland.

The SBU reports that 30,000 Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Europe and Russia are wanted because of their “pro-Russian attitude.” The Verkhovna Rada passed a bill that strengthens responsibility for military crimes. In particular, this decision increases the fines for law evaders several times: from 17 thousand to 25 thousand hryvnia.

As announced weeks ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyj dismissed former Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Zaluzhny from military service on health grounds and appointed him Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom.

Ukrenergo, the Ukrainian energy company, reported that the shortage in the Ukrainian energy system is significant: “almost every day, citizens are without power due to large-scale damage to Ukrainian power plants.” “From 6 p.m. to midnight, industrial consumption will be limited. Emergency stops are possible if consumption increases.”

According to Ukrainian data, the number of geranium ammunition used against Ukraine has almost quadrupled compared to last year. Note that from January 1 to May 9, 2023, 425 UAVs were used, for the same period of 2024, according to the Ukrainians, they have already reached 1664.

In Russia, May 9 is the day of the Victory Parade, which was broadcast live on television from 8:59 a.m. Italian time. They also saw it on cable in the Odessa region. The novelty of 2024 was the broadcast on street billboard with a connection to Rutube in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Tyumen, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd.

The Russian Federation warns the United States and the West that their escalation entails the need for Moscow to take measures to strengthen nuclear deterrents, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Ryabkov. President Vladimir Putin on exercises to test the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons: “nothing unusual, it’s a planned job.”

And now a look at the front line, updated at 3pm on May 9.

In the direction of Kherson, both sides, without significant changes, launch mutual artillery attacks, the Ukrainian armed forces use numerous drones. Ukrainian forces fired mortars at Dnipryany in Novokachovs’ka district.

On the Zaporozhzhie front northwest of Verbovove, small attack groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to approach the Russian positions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped. Pro-Russian social sources speak of the success of the Russian forces in Robotyne: there is an advance north of the settlement.

In the direction of Vremivka, heavy bloody fighting continues near Staromaiors’ke. The Russian forces are suffering losses during the week-long offensive, but are also building on their success during the offensive. From the field, soldiers report multi-directional actions of Russian infantry and artillery and note heavy damage caused by Ukrainian artillery fire from cluster munitions. At the same time, Russian forces gained a foothold in the southern outskirts of Urozhaine, and Ukrainian counterattacks were unsuccessful.

South of Donetsk, Russian forces are increasingly using ‘turtles’, which are armored vehicles that are not visible to drones and if they are, they are protected by a cage. Fighting takes place at the fire plant in the center of Krasnohorivka.

In the Pokrovs’k direction west of Avdiivka, lateral attacks by the Russian forces follow south of Pervomais’kyi, cutting off the protrusion of the front. There is an offensive in Netailove. The control zone near the villages on the Ocheretyne ridge is expanding.

The controlled area near the eastern outskirts of Khasiv Yar is expanding in favor of Russian forces, who are increasing pressure from the northern and southern flanks.

On May 8, a breakthrough of the Ukrainian defenses in the village of Berestove was reported from the Kharkov region in the direction of Kupjans’k, the fighting has been going on since April 28, 2024. Previously, the Russian army occupied Kyslivka and Kotlyarivka. .

In the morning Belgorod was shelled by the MLRS, eight people were injured: seven adults and one child. Yesterday, the village of Murom in the Shebekinsky district of the city was hit by artillery fire from the Ukrainian armed forces. The villages of Rovenyok and Malinovka, Belgorod district, were attacked by the Ukrainian forces using kamikaze drones.

In the Kursk region, near the Troitsky Korenevsky district, an explosive device was dropped by an armed forces drone on a tractor working in a field. A driver who was carrying out agricultural work was injured. Another Ukrainian drone attacked a butter factory in Sudzha.

In the Bryansk region, two aircraft-type UAVs were destroyed at night by troops in the Klintsovsky district. Lemeshovka, in Sevsky district, was shelled during the day.

In Odessa: the spare batteries of the railway traffic lights were set on fire. The officer on duty at the Odessa-Vostochnaya station informed the police about the incident. Train traffic on the route did not stop. Unknown persons opened the door of the battery cabinet and set fire to the contents. The data has been entered into the Unified Register of Preliminary Investigations. Preliminary qualification – sabotage committed under martial law (part 2 of article 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

At the end of the collection, we learn that the Soviet flag is raised over the center of Umans’ke (towards Avdiika), indicating that Russian troops control at least half of the strategically important village. Fighting in this area had previously been minimal, suggesting that if Russian forces went on the offensive, they did so very recently, at night or in the morning, and immediately advanced 2,000 meters. The Russian Armed Forces’ control over the Novokalinove settlement in the DPR and over Kyslivka in the Kharkov region was also confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Graziella Giangiulio

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