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Ukraine and Russia exchanged accusations of violating the truce on the second day of the truce
May 10 marked the second day of the three-day truce announced by US President Donald Trump. However, the night before, Kharkov region authorities reported the attack. The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Senegubov, said that Russian forces carried out a drone strike on the city’s industrial zone, wounding five people. Doctors diagnosed at least three of them with an acute stress reaction. Later it is too I mentioned About a Russian drone strike in the Kievsky district of Kharkov, as a result of which the roof of a private residential building caught fire.
Attacks were also recorded in the Dnepropetrovsk region. by words And the head of the military administration, Alexander Ganzi, Russia attacked two regions with drones; In Sinelnikovsky, a three-year-old girl was injured and taken to hospital in moderate condition.
In the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the morning of May 10 maleStarting at midnight, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 27 drones of various types, including Shahed attack drones. The Ukrainian Armed Forces claim that all 27 drones were shot down and no casualties were recorded (apparently the evening attacks on Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk region were not taken into account in this number). In the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at 16:00 on May 10 She saysSince the beginning of the day, Russian forces have attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 60 times.
Vladimir Zelensky did not comment on the violations committed by Russia that day. On May 10, he published two posts, in one of which he congratulated Ukrainians on Mother’s Day, and in the other he talked about his conversation with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb.
In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that all groups of Russian forces “continue to strictly adhere to the ceasefire and remain in the lines and positions they previously occupied.” The military administration claims that the Ukrainian army, despite the truce, carried out attacks using drones and artillery on Russian positions, as well as on civilian targets in the regions of Belgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Rostov, Krasnodar Territory and the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian Armed Forces, as stated in a statement by the Ministry of Defense, “responded in an opposite manner to the violations of the truce.”
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In the West, the brief victory parade was seen as a sign of Putin’s weakness, but Moscow has not yet backed down from its positions in Donbas
Many Western publications have described the 81st anniversary of Victory Day, which was celebrated in Russia on May 9 without military equipment in the main parade and without evening fireworks in Moscow, as a sign of “strategic fatigue.” “The modest celebration of Victory Day in Red Square was a sign of the growing pressure on the country’s resources, isolation and uncertainty about the future.” She says In an article for the British newspaper The Telegraph. The newspaper notes that the absence of at least one modern tank in Red Square could “ultimately become one of the symbols of this war,” and that “for Ukraine and its allies, this gives reason for optimism,” because the displays “can show the true state of affairs beyond the limits of propaganda.”
New York Times He does The conclusion is that the much smaller than usual 45-minute show “demonstrates Putin’s increasing weakness.” The short parade, the newspaper wrote, “reinforced the feeling that Moscow and other major cities could no longer be protected from the consequences of war.” The offer “exposed the weaknesses of the Russian president” He writes The Guardian, and the French newspaper Le Monde in its main headline Calls Giving “non-expressive” advice.
However, judging by the speech of Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov, Russia still does not intend to back down from its demands on Ukraine. The day after the show, state agencies distributed excerpts of his interview with Vesti reporter Pavel Zarubin, in which Ushakov stated that the “conflict resolution” would not go ahead without the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from the Donetsk region. “Farewell [Украина] If you don’t take this step, you can do several more rounds, dozens of rounds [переговоров]But we will be in the same place, do you understand?” he said (quoted by TASS). Ushakov added that in Ukraine they “know that this must be done”, and “they will do it sooner or later anyway.”
War in pictures. Exhibition of military equipment in Transcarpathia
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carefully. There is one expletive in this letter.
Alia (Moscow). Medusa, my dear, where are you going and with whom do you share the pain of this damned war? This morning I burst into tears in the gym because of despair, fatigue, fear of the future and pain for innocent people in Ukraine. I can’t cope without alcohol in the evening because it’s the only way I can turn off the thoughts in my head. I look at my son, he’s seven years old, and I pray to all the gods I don’t believe in, that he will never find justification for this war.
I’m afraid to go to a psychologist: what if he reports me? I’ve been burying my thoughts inside myself for five years, and I don’t know how much longer I can hold out.
Thank you to everyone who finds the strength to write warm letters to Medusa. They’re like a therapy session for me.