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Nationwide Guardsmen from the "Storm" unit obtained a cell workshop for FPV drones from the "Dobrodiy" Charity Trade
"Storm" obtained the "Nebokrai" cell workshop for repairing and manufacturing FPV drones within the discipline. The price of the workshop was 527.5 thousand UAH.
Lithuania is contemplating launching home manufacturing of naval drones in cooperation with Ukraine, Lithuanian Deputy Protection Minister Dovile Sakaliene instructed Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi on Might 6.
Beneath a “1+1” mannequin, Lithuania would fund the manufacturing of two drones, maintaining one for its personal protection and sending the opposite to Ukraine. The nation is especially serious about Ukraine's Magura-class sea drones, which have been used with success towards Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
"Magura, for my part, is a superb navy product," Sakaliene mentioned.
The proposed initiative would contain shared weapons manufacturing on Lithuanian soil, with Vilnius masking the prices.
"That’s, we pay for the manufacturing of two items of apparatus, one in every of which is transferred to Ukraine, and the opposite stays in Lithuania, however we cowl the fee for each," she defined.
Earlier this 12 months, Lithuania allotted 20 million euros ($21 million) in buying weapons for Kyiv from Ukrainian producers. Sakaliene emphasised that Lithuania sees nice potential in nearer cooperation on applied sciences like missile and naval drones.
"We imagine that cooperation in sure areas associated to missile drones, sea drones, and different applied sciences is actually very promising," she mentioned.
The Magura drones are small, unmanned floor vessels developed by Ukraine, and have turn out to be a key asset within the nation's naval warfare. Although small in dimension, they've confirmed efficient towards bigger warships, serving to maintain Russia’s Black Sea Fleet pinned in port.
On Might 2, Ukraine's navy intelligence company (HUR) used Magura-7 sea drones geared up with air-to-air missiles to shoot down two Russian Su-30 fighter jets close to the port metropolis of Novorossiysk, HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov instructed The Warfare Zone on Might 3.
The operation was the primary time in historical past that fighter jets have been downed by unmanned naval drones.
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy
Russia retains a provider of "Calibers" within the Mediterranean Sea – Navy
As of Could 8, 2025, no enemy ships have been recorded within the Black and Azov Seas. There are 3 enemy ships within the Mediterranean Sea, certainly one of which is a provider of "Caliber" missiles.
Kharkiv, situated a stone’s throw away from Russia’s border, continues to pulsate with a resilient spirit regardless of the invasion. Every cultural occasion that takes place on this jap Ukrainian metropolis is extra than simply creative expression — it’s a poignant reminder of what Ukraine stands to lose within the conflict.
Documentary photographer Amadeusz Swierk traveled to Kharkiv to seize town's cultural scene for his picture collection “Artwork within the time of conflict.”
Whereas the conflict has compelled a reimagining of how cultural occasions happen in Kharkiv, it has not prevented them from taking place totally. Kharkiv locals and guests to town alike nonetheless flock to theater performances and musical live shows, though they’re generally staged in clandestine venues for security. Artists who remained within the metropolis proceed to create of their studios, and a LGBTQ+ pleasant membership, the place drag performances illuminate the night time, continues to host performances.
It’s a metropolis the place cultural expression and freedom of speech endure, making the continued existence of Kharkiv’s cultural scene a defiant stand towards Russian aggression. Every cultural occasion, every output of creative expression, serves as a daring reaffirmation of Kharkiv residents' unyielding need to dwell in a free Kharkiv that’s an integral a part of a democratic Ukraine.
Amid this cultural resilience, nonetheless, Kharkiv additionally faces the cruel actuality of frequent Russian bombardment. Town, which Russian forces tried to seize in the beginning of the full-scale conflict, continues to struggle to keep away from the destiny of occupation suffered by different components of Ukraine. Assaults happen on a weekly, generally day by day foundation, plunging Kharkiv into darkness, destroying houses that took a lifetime to construct, and taking away valuable lives.
This pressure between Russian aggression and cultural life in Kharkiv dates again to even earlier than the beginning of the continued full-scale conflict. Within the early twentieth century, Kharkiv was quickly the capital of Soviet Ukraine, and all younger artists trying to make one thing of themselves felt like they needed to be there.
Nevertheless, in the course of the Stalinist purges of the Thirties, quite a few artists residing in Kharkiv have been arrested, interrogated, tortured, and even executed for perceived anti-Soviet agitation. Lots of them envisioned Ukrainian tradition within the larger sphere of European tradition, which was thought-about a criminal offense within the eyes of Soviet authorities. Ukraine’s persecuted cultural figures from this era later got here to be identified collectively because the Executed Renaissance.
Kharkiv’s modern cultural scene carries a deep understanding of town's delicate equilibrium, remaining conscious of its turbulent previous, its resilient current, and the long run all Ukrainians are combating to guard.
The Kyiv IndependentLiudmyla Shkurak
For the reason that starting of the full-scale conflict, Russia has destroyed and broken greater than 2,300 medical services – Ministry of Well being
For the reason that starting of the invasion, Russia has broken greater than 2,300 medical infrastructure services, 305 of which have been destroyed. Along with hospitals, outpatient clinics and maternity hospitals, enemy troops are systematically attacking ambulances.
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As I’m positive you noticed, the U.S. and Ukraine lastly signed the minerals settlement after months and months of backwards and forwards and tense negotiations. Most individuals are in settlement that this model of the deal is way fairer than earlier variations observers known as “colonial” and “exploitative,” however that doens’t imply persons are able to rejoice.
Truly, the deal’s signing appears to have impressed extra questions than solutions, notably, what this implies for Ukraine’s long-term safety (unclear), and what this implies for funding (additionally unclear).
To not point out the truth that President Volodymyr Zelensky and his workforce are being accused publicly in Ukraine over having lied about solely signing the primary of a collection of agreements — the intergovernmental or “political” settlement on the joint investments — in D.C. final week. We’ll get into {that a} bit later.
On safety: Kyiv was not in a position to safe any agency safety ensures as a part of the deal, one thing Zelensky had stored pushing for all through the negotiations. What the 2 sides did seem to agree on was that any future U.S. help, together with army help, may very well be counted towards the deal (as a substitute of as reimbursement for previous help.)
So below this present deal, the U.S. will contribute to a joint fund both via direct funds or army help. Ukraine’s contribution will likely be 50% of future income with royalties from new licenses for important minerals, gasoline, and oil exploration. Extra detailed info on the settlement right here.
In different phrases, Ukraine affords up entry to and revenues from its pure assets in trade for potential future U.S. army help that we aren’t even positive the U.S. (learn: Donald Trump’s administration) is able to present.
As an editor from Ukrainian publication ZN.ua aptly identified at present, the wording from the signed settlement tells us all we have to know: “If, after the Efficient Date, the Authorities of the USA of America delivers new army help to the Authorities of Ukraine in any kind (together with the donation of weapons programs, ammunition, know-how or coaching)…” Emphasis on the “if.”
One other argument on safety that has been floating round (and that hardly holds up) is that the mere presence of American firms in Ukraine is a safety assure. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, it didn’t appear to thoughts in anyway that there have been and have been for many years, many massive American and multinational firms working in Ukraine.
On funding: There’s one factor I feel that must be made clear proper up entrance. And not using a safe Ukraine, buyers will proceed to remain away. As Ed Chow, a non-resident senior affiliate on the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research who is aware of Ukraine properly, identified to our reporter, the signed deal the general public has seen doesn’t embrace any provisions about offering danger insurance coverage at an inexpensive value that would entice buyers.
The brand new deal is "heat phrases slightly than actual funding, Timothy Ash, an affiliate fellow at Chatham Home's Russia and Eurasia Program, instructed our reporter. “I can not see any huge and significant funding in Ukraine till safety is assured. And this deal does nothing there.”
And trade consultants instructed Reuters that the deal is unlikely to ship vital monetary returns for at the least a decade. After which there’s additionally the problem of mapping out Ukraine’s important minerals — one thing that, we’ve found in our reporting, stays utterly elusive.
“Clearly there was work achieved in negotiations, however I nonetheless don’t see a very complete settlement that, from an trade investor perspective, says, ‘Okay, this modifications the whole lot,’” Chow stated.
Now onto the drama unfolding across the deal in Ukraine. As Financial system Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko was on her approach to D.C. to signal the deal, reviews started to emerge that the U.S. was anticipating Ukraine to signal three agreements: an intergovernmental settlement on assets, the “fund settlement,” after which a 3rd “technical settlement,” with the latter two being the agreements that can govern the phrases of the investments.
Given previous leaked variations of the fund settlement had shocked the general public for giving the U.S. unprecedented entry to Ukraine’s assets, this triggered fairly a stir.
However when Svyrydenko introduced the signing, it was achieved so in a means as to make it appear that solely the primary of the three was signed. Now, reporters and public commentators in Ukraine are popping out saying — citing their sources — that in truth all three have been signed. Svyrydenko herself at present denied the reviews, in response to opposition MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak.
And never solely that — however Ukraine’s lawmakers, who need to ratify the settlement, have apparently solely been proven the primary, “formally” signed settlement, however have been instructed verbally the contents of the others, in response to ZN.ua.
As well, Zelensky publicly known as on the U.S. to cancel visas to Ukrainian lawmakers that don’t vote on ratification.
Drama apart — right here’s the place it’s all headed within the close to future: Ukraine’s parliamentary committee on overseas coverage at present permitted the deal for ratification. On Could 6-8, Svyrydenko and different excessive stage officers will meet with parliamentary factions to debate the deal, and on Could 8, it’ll get put up for a vote. In keeping with Zhelezniak, they’ve the votes and “nobody will disrupt it.” We will see.
Reforming a damaged legislation enforcement companyFor those who’ve been studying this article for some time, you may keep in mind my frequent ramblings about Ukraine’s Bureau of Financial Safety — notorious for its bust-down-the-door raids on companies. Many in Ukraine noticed the bureau’s conduct as intimidation ways, and even makes an attempt to extort Ukrainian firms for numerous causes.
After a number of high-profile incidents involving the company — together with controversial raids and the arrest of businessmen — requires reform ballooned and a variety course of for a brand new head of the bureau was launched. That course of is now nearing the end line, with 16 candidates making it to the ultimate spherical.
RFE/RL’s Schemes Investigative mission reached out to the candidates with questions and revealed a few of their responses, highlighting a number of purple flags among the many finalists.
Amongst them: the reported frontrunner, Ruslan Pakhomov, beforehand labored for a media firm owned by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov — and as soon as had his checking account closed after the financial institution flagged it for suspected cash laundering.
Keep tuned for extra.
Opinion: Backroom offers and battlefield realities: Ukraine on the IMF Spring ConferencesAt this 12 months’s Spring Conferences of the Worldwide Financial Fund and World Financial institution, the fund emphasised the acquainted chorus: the necessity for stronger income era and disciplined fiscal coverage, Heart for Financial Technique Deputy Director Maria Repko writes in a latest op-ed for the Kyiv Unbiased. Whereas important, these prescriptions have turn out to be an nearly ritualistic a part of Ukraine’s dialogue with worldwide lenders.
In the meantime, considerations over Ukraine's debt sustainability proceed to loom massive, threatening to slender the house for extra help. True to kind, each the IMF and the World Financial institution stay skeptical about confiscating frozen Russian property. With new grants more and more scarce and debt sustainability considerations limiting entry to further loans, advancing the trouble to grab Russian property stays a important activity Ukraine can not afford to let slip.
Learn the total opinion piece right here.
What else is within the informationHeadway Inc. (till not too long ago, simply known as Headway), an schooling tech cellphone software with over 150 million customers worldwide, positioned fourth on the worldwide listing, climbing greater than 90 positions above fashionable apps Coursera, Duolingo, BetterUp within the rating. The rating takes under consideration monetary energy and trade impression. Headway Inc. has a number of apps, together with a e-book abstract app that condenses and summarizes primarily self-improvement books that take wherever from a couple of minutes to fifteen minutes to learn or hearken to.
Oleksandr Bohuslayev, son of Motor Sich's former president Vyacheslav Bohuslayev, was detained in Monaco on fraud fees linked to a $650 million asset scheme, Ukraine's Safety Service (SBU) introduced on Could 2. Vyacheslav Bohuslayev, the previous president of Motor Sich, Ukraine's main plane engine producer, has been in custody since 2022 on fees of collaboration with Russia. Investigators declare Oleksandr Bohuslayev helped his father illegally acquire shares within the strategic protection producer earlier than promoting them to 3rd events. He faces as much as 12 years in jail.
Ukraine's largest state-owned protection firm Ukroboronprom reported a consolidated web revenue of Hr 1.31 billion ($31.5 million) for the earlier 12 months, the corporate stated on Could 2. The corporate's enterprises tripled manufacturing volumes in 2024 in comparison with 2023, with a 36% enhance in contracts. Virtually all manufacturing (96%) consisted of recent or upgraded army gear in 2024. Ukroboronprom is a number one strategic producer of weapons and army {hardware} in Ukraine.
Luxurious watches, a group of Twentieth-century army uniforms, and a really costly piano — these are just some of the intriguing issues revealed within the obligatory annual declaration of monetary property submitted by Ukrainian MPs final month. The Kyiv Unbiased took a have a look at the declarations of a few of Ukraine's most well-known politicians, together with President Volodymyr Zelensky himself, to see what they revealed. Learn extra right here.
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Unmanned programs forces destroyed a uncommon enemy radar "Zaslon" value $46 million and two TOS-2 "Tosochka"
SBS "Raid" operators struck the "Zaslon" radar within the Kursk area, able to detecting targets at a distance of 300 km. Additionally, two new TOS-2 flamethrower programs have been destroyed in Donetsk area.
Not less than 14 individuals had been killed and 54 injured in Russian assaults throughout Ukraine over the previous day, regional officers reported on Might 7.
Russia launched 187 drones in a single day, together with Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones and 5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, in line with Ukraine's Air Power.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 81 drones and two ballistic missiles. One other 70 drones vanished from radars, probably used as decoys to overwhelm defenses.
The assault was reportedly countered with digital warfare items, aviation, anti-aircraft missile techniques, and cellular hearth teams.
Within the metropolis of Kyiv, a lady and her son had been killed, and eight individuals had been wounded, together with 4 youngsters, the State Emergency Service stated.
Russian strikes in Sumy Oblast killed 4 individuals, together with one baby, and wounded 14 civilians, 5 of them youngsters, the native army administration reported.
4 individuals had been killed and 10 injured in Donetsk Oblast over the previous day, Governor Vadym Filashkin stated.
Russian assaults in Kherson Oblast killed two individuals and wounded six, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated. Strikes hit residential areas, damaging a high-rise constructing and 9 homes.
Two individuals had been killed and a minimum of 4 injured, together with a 16-year-old baby, in Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated. Russian forces focused civilian and social infrastructure within the area.
Eight individuals had been injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, two of whom are in severe situation, Governor Serhii Lysak stated.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 4 individuals had been injured throughout a minimum of 13 assaults, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.
The escalation comes as Moscow continues to reject a whole ceasefire and intensifies strikes on civilian areas.
"Solely considerably intensified stress on Russia and stronger sanctions can pave the best way to diplomacy," President Volodymyr Zelensky stated after the assaults.
"Any measures depriving the aggressor of assets to wage conflict should be applied to convey lasting peace. I thank everybody who helps Ukraine with air protection. Russia should be held accountable for its actions."
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy
Putin's "ceasefire" has begun: Russia struck on the front-line areas of Ukraine – navy observer Myroshnikov
Opposite to the introduced "ceasefire", Russian troops launched assaults from MLRS on the front-line areas of Ukraine, specifically, within the Pokrovsky, Toretsky and different instructions. Preventing on the bottom continues.
Serhii Mandryk was on a name with acquaintances in Canada within the early hours of Could 7. An air raid alert had sounded in Kyiv just a few hours earlier however he had determined to remain at residence and go forward with it regardless somewhat than head for a shelter.
He assured everybody that "the whole lot is okay," however 5 minutes later he heard the acquainted buzz of a Russian assault drone overhead.
"Then an explosion," the retired photographer advised the Kyiv Unbiased later that day, standing exterior the broken five-storey condominium constructing during which he lives.
"Shards from the window fell. I noticed that the balcony above my condominium was on fireplace. I used to be not injured, however my condominium was broken, home windows had been shattered, and tiles fell off the partitions," he added.
The constructing, within the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv now has a big, black gap on the higher ground the place the drone struck. Passersby look on in shock. Some take images.
The odor of spring chestnut blossoms mixes with that of burnt furnishings — glass shards, a blackened potato, and elements of the drone lie within the grass close by.
"Shards from the window fell. I noticed that the balcony above my condominium was on fireplace."
Serhii Mandryk who lives within the residential constructing broken because of a Russian drone assault on Kyiv on Could 7, 2025 (Danylo Antoniuk/The Kyiv Unbiased)
Whereas Mandryk was fortunate to flee unhurt, others had been much less lucky. Russia had launched a mixed missile and drone assault on Kyiv in a single day, killing two folks and injuring eight others, together with 4 youngsters.
Three of the kids had been hospitalized with extreme burns.
The 2 individuals who died lived in the identical constructing as Mandryk — a 64-year-old girl recognized as Tetiana by residents within the constructing, and her son in his late 20s.
In keeping with the Kyiv Animal Rescue Group, each had been volunteers for the group and taken care of 10 cats of their condominium. Just one is thought to have survived the drone assault.
"Tetiana and I grew up collectively," Liudmyla, a resident on the fourth ground of the constructing who requested to solely be recognized by her first title, advised the Kyiv Unbiased.
"My God, she was nonetheless energetic, though she was a pensioner. She fed all of the birds, canines, and cats," she added.
Outdoors the broken constructing, a staff of volunteers are already at work, handing out espresso, water, pies, and mashed potatoes with meat cutlets.
Close to the tent they've arrange as their short-term base, a lady sits cradling her 11-year-old black cat, Krasulia. A tag depicting the Ukrainian flag hangs round its neck.
"She's a poor factor," she advised the Kyiv Independet, requesting to not be named.
"She crawled beneath the mattress. I needed to pull her out — everybody was panicking. We woke as much as the sound of air defenses after which we heard a drone flying very low,” she stated.
After which the drone struck — she and her youngsters ran out of the constructing as a neighbor went spherical banging on doorways to verify everybody was getting out.
The assault on the Ukrainian capital was one more in a sequence of devastating assaults on civilians over latest weeks, a damning indictment of the continued, U.S.-led efforts to result in an finish to Russia's full-scale invasion.
It additionally got here forward of a supposed ceasefire, unilaterally declared by the Kremlin to mark Russia's Victory Day celebrations on Could 9.
"Many occasions, Russians promised one thing, however they don't maintain their phrase. We don’t belief (them)," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on the web site of the assault as he suggested these affected on easy methods to declare compensation for the injury brought on.
"Think about how these folks within the broken flats really feel."
Oleh Borysovych who lives close to the location of the assault on Kyiv on Could 7 (Danylo Antoniuk/The Kyiv Unbiased)
The assault additionally broken a grocery store, a pharmacy, a Ukrposhta publish workplace, and several other vehicles.
Oleh Borysovych, a resident from a close-by neighborhood, visits the world hit by the drone most days. He usually stops right here to purchase onions and peas from ladies promoting items in an off-the-cuff avenue market close to the metro station.
He feels lucky it was not his constructing that was struck. "We’re those standing on the sidelines and watching. Think about how these folks (within the broken flats) really feel," he advised the Kyiv Unbiased.
On the broken publish workplace, workers clear particles and damaged glass. Yan Bedrytskyi, the pinnacle of Ukrposhta’s actual property administration heart for Kyiv Oblast, advised the Kyiv Unbiased that postal staff had been making certain the department can be up and working by tomorrow.
"We will’t cease our work — we have now to maintain serving folks, distributing pensions," he stated.
However his optimism concerning the work of his firm is just not mirrored in his views of Russia and the prospect of peace.
"I don’t see something on this ceasefire. It received’t clear up something. We’ve already had a ceasefire earlier than — and it resulted in struggle," he stated.
The Kyiv IndependentAsami Terajima