Cover image: A view of the Ilsky oil refinery fire in Russia’s Krasnodar region seen from a coast in Crimea, May 3, 2023. STRINGER / REUTERS
- Explosions were heard in the early hours of Thursday in Kyiv, Zaporizhia, and Odessa announced the authorities and the local media, as well as the Reuters agency. The air defenses had been triggered. The toll is unknown at this time.
- Twenty-one people were killed and forty-eight injured in the Kherson region, following a massive attack on Wednesday. The regional administration announced the establishment of a curfew from Friday evening for forty-eight hours. In the Donetsk region, two people were killed and nine injuredWednesday, following bombardments.
- Russia accuses Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kremlin. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, “two drones that targeted the Kremlin” have been “decommissioned through the use of radar systems”assumes the Russian presidency. “We see these actions as an attempted terrorist act and an attempt on the life of the president”, Vladimir Putin, added the Kremlin, which opened an investigation. The claim is unverifiable as it stands. Very quickly, the Ukrainian presidency declared that it had no “nothing to do” with this attackeven accusing Russia of “staging”.
- The great Russian military parade on May 9, which celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, is kept in Moscow, the Russian presidency announced on Wednesday.
- A fuel depot caught fire overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in the Russian village of Volna, near Crimea, without causing casualties, according to local authorities. According to a source from the emergency services, quoted by the official Russian news agency TASS, the fire was caused by the “downfall of a drone”. Russian security services announced on Wednesday that they had dismantled a Ukrainian “terrorist” network in annexed Crimea, against a backdrop of increasing attacks and acts of “sabotage”.
- The United States announced a new shipment of military aid in the amount of 300 million dollars to Ukraine, mainly ammunition for artillery. In particular, the Ukrainian army will receive rockets for the Himars, as well as anti-tank weapons, ammunition and trucks for transporting heavy equipment.
- The European Commission presents a plan endowed with 500 million euros to support the production of ammunition. This plan aims to strengthen the European Union’s arms production capacity, as part of its support for Ukraine.
- Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday evening, where he must in particular go to the International Criminal Court. The day before, from Finland, he had declared that the year 2023 would be “decisive for Ukraine and Europe”.
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