On the night of May 6, when the “regime of silence” announced by Vladimir Zelensky came into effect, Russia attacked Ukraine with three missiles and 108 attack drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian forces fired two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and one Kh-31 guided missile. During the night, an air strike alert was declared in several regions of Ukraine.
89 drones were shot down or suppressed. The Ukrainian Armed Forces added that three missiles and nine drones were hit in eight places.
There were injuries as a result of the bombing in the Kharkov region. by Data Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleg Senegubov, in the city’s Novopavarsky district, two people asked for help. Mayor of Kharkov Igor Terekhov I mentioned About the fires as a result of their exposure to the martyrs.
An advisor to the Ukrainian Defense Minister Sergei Sternenko said that Russia violated the “regime of silence” by attacking an industrial infrastructure facility in the Zaporozhye region, and hitting Kherson with a controlled air bomb. He added that these actions “neutralize the truce that Putin announced on May 9.”
At the same time, on the morning of May 6, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Air Defense Forces shot down 53 Ukrainian drones over the regions and the Black Sea during the night. No injuries or damage were reported.
On May 4, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that a truce would be declared on May 8 and 9, by decision of Vladimir Putin, “in honor of the celebration of Victory Day.” “We hope that the Ukrainian side will follow suit,” the message said. At the same time, the ministry threatened that if Ukraine tried to disrupt the celebration, Russian forces “will launch a large-scale retaliatory missile attack on central Kiev.” Zelensky responded by announcing a “regime of silence” that would begin on May 6. “We consider human life to be of incomparably greater value than the ‘celebration’ of any anniversary,” he wrote.
On the night of May 5, Russia launched a series of attacks on Ukraine, killing at least four people in the Poltava region, including rescuers who arrived at the scene of the attack and were subjected to a second attack. Zelensky said it was “absolute cynicism” to “ask for silence in propaganda celebrations and carry out such missile and drone strikes throughout the previous days.” Later, in the evening of the same day, Russian forces struck the Dnieper River. Four people were killed and 19 others were injured, four of them in serious condition.