This picture offered by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, exhibits the positioning of an aerial guided bomb strike after Russia’s air assault in Kramatorsk, Donetsk area, Ukraine, Tuesday, Could 5, 2026.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drone and missile strikes carried out in a single day and in a while Tuesday killed not less than 22 folks and wounded greater than 80 others, Ukrainian authorities mentioned, hours earlier than Kyiv was on account of enact a ceasefire and three days earlier than Moscow promised its personal pause in hostilities.
On Tuesday afternoon, highly effective Russian glide bombs smashed into the jap metropolis of Kramatorsk, the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia and the northern metropolis of Chernihiv, killing not less than 17 civilians and wounding 45 others, officers mentioned.
Assaults the earlier night time killed 5 folks and wounded 39, based on authorities.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rebuked Moscow for what he mentioned was its “utter cynicism” in launching the assaults after Russia introduced a unilateral ceasefire over two days later this week whereas it marks the 81st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World Struggle II.
“Russia may stop hearth at any second, and this may cease the struggle and our responses,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a put up on X. “Peace is required, and actual steps are wanted to realize it. Ukraine will act in sort.”
The Russian Protection Ministry declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday and Saturday, however mentioned that it might strike again on the nation, if it tries to disrupt the festivities on Victory Day, which Russia marks yearly on Could 9.
Zelenskyy replied that Ukraine would observe a ceasefire starting on the finish of Tuesday and would reply in sort to Russia’s actions from that second on. He did not put an finish date on the transfer.
On this picture, offered by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency companies personnel work to extinguish a fireplace a car following a Russian drone assault in Kyiv area, Ukraine, Tuesday, Could 5, 2026.
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U.N. Secretary-Normal António Guterres welcomed the unilateral ceasefires and “seems to be ahead to their profitable implementation,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric mentioned. The U.N. chief reiterated his name for “a full, fast, unconditional and lasting ceasefire, resulting in a simply, complete, and sustainable peace, in step with the U.N. Constitution, worldwide legislation and related U.N. resolutions.”
Moscow’s proposal to cease combating follows a well-recognized sample of Russia declaring brief unilateral ceasefires in the course of the struggle timed to varied holidays, most just lately Orthodox Easter. These suspensions of fight do not produce any tangible outcomes amid deep distrust between Moscow and Kyiv greater than 4 years after Russia launched an all-out invasion of its neighbor. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to cease the struggle have come to nothing.
Ukrainian chief expands Gulf cooperation
Zelenskyy was in Bahrain on Tuesday the place he met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, proposing a bilateral drone protection partnership amid the Iran struggle.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned that he supplied to share Ukraine’s air protection experience with Bahrain, drawing a parallel between Iranian assaults on Gulf states and Russia’s every day aerial strikes on Ukrainian territory, which frequently use Shahed drones initially developed by Iran.
Zelenskyy mentioned final month that Ukrainian officers are serving to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan with drone experience and air protection.
Ukraine’s energy grid focused once more
Russian forces fired 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 164 strike drones at Ukraine in a single day from Monday to Tuesday, together with a jet-powered Shahed drone variant, the Ukrainian Air Pressure mentioned.
Air protection models stopped 149 drones and one missile, however others obtained by means of, it mentioned. Two ballistic missiles failed to achieve their targets, the air pressure mentioned with out elaborating.
Russia has repeatedly hammered Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure in the course of the struggle, which started on Feb. 24, 2022. It hit pure gasoline manufacturing amenities in Ukraine’s central Poltava and northeastern Kharkiv areas, state vitality firm Naftogaz Group mentioned.
For the reason that begin of the yr, Naftogaz amenities have come underneath assault 107 instances, the corporate mentioned.
Zelenskyy mentioned that the Poltava assault was “particularly vile,” as a result of Russia launched a second missile on the identical goal when emergency rescuers have been working on the scene.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko mentioned that Russia’s predominant targets have been vitality amenities, oil and gasoline infrastructure, railways and industrial websites, though the assaults additionally broken houses, companies and the transportation community.
Russia’s ceasefire proposals “stay solely statements,” Svyrydenko mentioned.
Russian territory hit by Ukrainian cruise missiles
Ukraine additionally stored up the tempo of its long-range assaults on Russian rear areas, apparently aiming at extra oil amenities in an effort to additional disrupt Moscow’s struggle financial system.
Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned that its forces destroyed 289 Ukrainian drones in a single day in 18 Russian areas. Drones have been additionally intercepted over the occupied Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and over the Azov Sea, it mentioned.
Throughout the night time, Ukraine launched its F-5 Flamingo cruise missiles at targets, together with military-industrial complicated amenities in Cheboksary, situated greater than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) away, Zelenskyy mentioned.
The plant provided navigation elements for the Russian navy, the missile trade, aviation and armored automobiles, he mentioned.
The regional well being ministry mentioned {that a} Ukrainian drone assault wounded three folks within the metropolis of Cheboksary.
Ukrainian drones additionally attacked the Kirishi oil refinery within the Leningrad area near St. Petersburg, sparking a blaze within the city’s industrial zone, regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko mentioned.
Drozdenko mentioned on social media that 29 Ukrainian drones had been shot down in the course of the assault. No casualties have been reported.
Floor robotic operations
Ukraine doubled its midrange strikes on Russia in April in contrast with March and quadrupled them in contrast with February, based on a month-to-month battlefield report from Ukrainian Protection Minister Mykhailo Fedorov revealed Tuesday.
The midrange assaults have been centered on enemy warehouses, command posts, air protection programs and provide strains as much as about 100 miles (160 kilometers) behind the entrance line.
Additionally, Ukrainian floor robots accomplished 10,281 resupply and evacuation missions in April, a mean of virtually 343 per day, based on Fedorov.
It wasn’t potential to independently verify the claims.
