The Kremlin has announced that the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow will be scaled back due to a ’terrorist threat’ from Ukraine, with military vehicles and military school cadets excluded — the first time armored columns have been absent since the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy accuses Israel of allowing grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territories to enter its ports, triggering a major diplomatic dispute between the two nations.
Ukraine’s military confirms a third drone strike on the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, with over 160 firefighters deployed. The Kremlin accuses Ukraine of exacerbating global energy market shortages.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi tells BBC in a rare interview that his unit accounts for a third of all targets destroyed on the battlefield.
Russia launched a major drone attack on Ukraine on the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, wounding 14 in Odesa and killing 2 in the Russian-held Kherson region.
Russia fires over 600 drones at Ukraine overnight, killing seven including five in Dnipro where an apartment building was hit; Ukraine retaliates with ultra-long-range drone strikes reaching Yekaterinburg, 1,600km away.
BBC reports a major Russian military strike on Ukraine has killed at least seven people, raising concerns of further escalation.