PoliticsWar Russia and Ukraine exchanged airstrikes towards one another forward of the anniversary of victory day in World Struggle II. Thursday, Could 8, 2025

On Could 7, Russia launched 4 ballistic missiles and 142 drones focusing on Kyiv and different regional facilities in a single day, President Zelenskyy stated on Wednesday. On account of the assault, two folks have been killed within the capital, and 7 have been injured, together with kids, he said. The strikes additionally focused different areas of Ukraine, together with Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, the place extra people have been injured, based on native authorities.

On the similar time, Russian air defenses shot down 16 drones flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported. The governor of the Bryansk area, which borders Ukraine, said that greater than 100 drones and one missile focused the world. The change of drone and missile assaults occurred a day earlier than a Putin-declared three-day ceasefire to have a good time the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

Zelenskyy has stated Ukraine can not assure the security of visiting overseas officers in the course of the anniversary parade in Moscow. He has known as on Russia to simply accept a 30-day truce however has not dedicated to reciprocating Putin’s 72-hour ceasefire.