Russia just flagged 150 commercial properties in occupied Luhansk for "nationalization." A three-month owner absence or unpaid utility bills are enough to qualify, Ukraine's regional authorities in exile reported. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/t...

Portugal's defense sector reached 450 companies in total, it's the highest number since the country joined the EU in 1986 Defense Minister Nuno Melo doesn't hide the cause: Russia's war in Ukraine and the growing security threat Moscow poses to the EU euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/p...

The EU's 21st sanctions package will target Russia's shadow fleet, banks, and stolen-grain traders, Politico reports. With Hungary's Orbán out, previously vetoed sanctions, including measures on Patriarch Kirill, are back on the table. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/e...

Talks continue on Trump-brokered prisoner swap with Russia after Russian leader Putin claimed that Kyiv was not ready for it, said President Zelenskyy One thousand Ukrainian prisoners were supposed to come home. They are still in Russian captivity euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/t...

A Ukrainian naval drone struck a Russian Project 21980 "Grachonok" patrol boat on the night of 30 April Nine crew members were neutralized in the strike. Now Russia is bolting protective nets onto its fleet euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/r...

NASA satellites confirm Russian combat dropped but didn't stop on day 2 of the 9-11 May ceasefire, ISW says. Ukraine's General Staff logged 8,037 Russian kamikaze drones and 180 frontline clashes on 10 May alone. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/i...

In 2020, the Trump State Department announced it could not consider Aliaksandr Lukashenka "the legitimately elected leader of Belarus." This past Sunday, Trump publicly called him "friend." 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/t...

Germany's defense minister, Boris Pistorius, arrived in Kyiv by train Monday morning. The trip was kept secret. The visit focuses on joint weapons production. Berlin is also weighing whether to join Brave1, Ukraine's defense-innovation cluster.

60-70% of Russian infiltrators die before reaching Ukrainian lines, a Ukrainian senior lieutenant reports from the front. Russia cannot gather enough men even for local offensives, according to him. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/11/u...

Only one Mother’s Day wish after almost 9 years of torture – Free my son, Victor Dzytsiuk! khpg.org/en/1608815736

Estonia to Ukraine: keep your drones on your side of the border Defense Minister Pevkur says the easiest fix is for Kyiv to control its drones better. FM Tsahkna fears Russia could hijack a Ukrainian drone and send it at Estonian civilians. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/10/t...

NYT: Russia is advancing in Ukraine at its slowest pace since 2023 At current rates, taking the full Donbas would take 30+ years. Drones have ended armored breakthroughs; Russian units lost Starlink and saw their own Telegram throttled, the putlet says euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/10/n...

Berlin wants to buy 400 Tomahawks and 3 Typhon launchers from the US after the Pentagon cancelled the planned US missile deployment in Germany. Pistorius is heading to Washington — if he can get a meeting with Hegseth, the FT reports. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/10/p...

Slovak Prime Minister: Zelenskyy should call Putin if he wants a meeting Fico says Zelenskyy told him in Armenia he is ready to meet Putin "in any format" — and should phone the Kremlin himself. Moscow denies any message was passed euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/10/s...

Russia announced a ceasefire for 9-11 May. Zelenskyy agreed By morning of day two: 780 strikes on Zaporizhzhia Oblast, one killed. A 3-year-old in hospital in Synelnykivskyi district. Rescuers hit by a drone in Nikopol district. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/10/r...

Rostec announced new deliveries of T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-72B3M tanks to the Russian army The T-90M is presented as Russia's most advanced serial-production tank — a deep modernization of the T-90, which is based on Soviet T-72B platform from the 1970s

Russia spent 2025 building a naval drone fleet modeled on Ukraine's. By last summer, it had working prototypes 2026 was supposed to be the year of large-scale deployment. Then SpaceX cut the signal

Ukraine began combat deployment of an AI-powered turret capable of autonomously detecting, tracking, and intercepting drones, including FPVs The operator's only job is to press one button to confirm the strike. Everything else is handled by the AI

Ukrainian soldiers are participating in the large-scale Aurora 2026 drills in Sweden alongside representatives of 18 countries and NATO Partners are interested in Ukraine's battlefield experience in FPV drone operations and modern close-combat tactics 📹 Tsaplienko

Ukraine doesn't wait for daylight. When Russian forces try to use darkness as cover, it fires Artillery soldiers support the infantry, break up assault attempts, and reduce enemy positions to ash. Every day, they convert fury into strikes 📷 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade

France arrested a member of the so-called DNR implicated in torture at "Izolyatsiya", the notorious illegal prison in occupied Donetsk Journalist Aseyev, who survived imprisonment there, called it "Donetsk Dachau" and “a threshold beyond which a person feels like God while behaving like the devil"

Russia's ceasefire: on 9 May, day when Ukraine agreed not to strike Russia, Moscow launched drone at a nine-story residential building in Kharkiv Three people were injured, including 8-year-old boy. All three victims were diagnosed with acute stress reaction 📷 Kharkiv OVA

On 9 May, as Russia paraded on Red Square, Kyiv's iconic Motherland Monument blazed in the blue and gold of the EU flag Europe Day, celebrated across Ukraine and EU states, marks unity around shared democratic values, human rights, the rule of law, and peace 📹 Kyiv24 News

ECHR orders Russia to pay compensation to Crimean Tatars detained and prosecuted for peaceful protest khpg.org/en/1608815735

For decades Russia called Ukrainians Nazis. Today it uses the lie to bomb them Hitler tried to exterminate Ukraine. 65% marked for starvation. 60% of Jews murdered. 2.4 mn enslaved The Galicia Division existed. So did the Lokot Autonomy—largest Nazi-collaborator regime on Soviet soil, in Russia

By 1942, Lyudmyla Pavlichenko had 309 confirmed kills at Odesa and Sevastopol. WW2's deadliest female sniper was Ukrainian, born in Bila Tserkva. She was one of 7 million Ukrainians in the Red Army. Soviet history filed them all under "Russian" 👇 euromaidanpress.com/2015/06/11/u...

For Western Europe, WWII ended with democracy. For Ukraine, it meant another 46 years of occupation. Russia came back in 2014. Twelve years on, Ukraine is still holding the line—for itself, and for the rest of Europe. euromaidanpress.com/2021/05/08/v...

Russia's most sacred ritual happening today in Red Square. The cornerstone of Putin's regime& justification for war on Ukraine It isn't ancient. The first large-scale parade was Putin's, in 2005—a spectacle built to legitimize his rule The cult demands new wars to sustain itself. Today it has one.

Russia's parade in Red Square right now isn't memory. It's the moral machine that runs the "denazification" war on Ukraine. It runs on lies. Here are the five biggest. 🧵

Lukashenka tried his best to cheer Putin up in light of the modest number of guests at the parade: “The day will come when others will be asking for an invitation just to stand here in this square. Today showed who’s who”. 📽️ Rossiya-24

The “Victory Day” parade in Moscow just ended. No tanks. No heavy military equipment. But North Korean soldiers marched across Red Square — helping the supposedly “second largest army in the world.” 📽️ Izvestia

Mystery ‘treason’ charges against abducted 63-year-old Oleksandr Osadchy for supporting Ukraine in occupied Crimea khpg.org/en/1608815734

Russia's T-72AM is a very old tank with a fresh coat of paint. The first refurbished 50-yo T-72As have reached front-line units near Kostyantynivka. Expect them to stay parked like other tanks—drones have made the gray zone a kill zone for everything on tracks. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a 9–11 May ceasefire and a 1,000-for-1,000 POW exchange following US-mediated talks. “Red Square is less important to us than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners who can be returned home,” Zelenskyy said. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/u...

Ukraine’s new trailer-mounted laser system can target Shahed drones from up to 5 km away using AI-assisted tracking and radar integration. The “Tryzub” laser is now in final testing. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

Ukraine’s parliament passed an 803-page Civil Code in first reading after 17 minutes of debate. The draft uses “good morals” 45 times. Rights lawyers warn the phrase could become a legal weapon — from discrimination cases to media freedom and open data.

101 air defenses ring Russia's 9 May parade. A Ukrainian drone already got through. An FP-1 hit a Moscow apartment block 6 km from the Kremlin. RFE's Mark Krutov called it "quite routine." Russia rejected Zelenskyy's ceasefire and kept hitting Ukrainian cities all week. The decision now is Kyiv's

Ukraine is set to expand its 2026 defence budget to 1.56 trillion UAH, backed by EU financing expected to reach €45B next year. Funds will go to weapons, military salaries, and domestic defence production as Kyiv scales up wartime spending priorities. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/e...

Ukraine is offering to send expert teams to Latvia to help strengthen airspace security following recent drone incidents. Two unidentified drones entered Latvian airspace and crashed on 7 May, with origins believed to be linked to Russia, raising concerns about spillover from the war.

On 9 May 2026, Russia celebrates "Victory Day." Moscow's parade ignores the 7.5 million Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army that broke Hitler. Millions died. "Ukrainians are defeated victors," historian Roman Kabachiy told RBC-Ukraine.

Russia announced a ceasefire ahead of its 9 May Victory Day celebrations, but Ukraine says there was “not even a mock attempt” to reduce fighting. More than 140 shelling incidents and 850+ drone strikes were recorded in the first hours of 8 May. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/r...

Fire is burning in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, with more than 1,100 hectares affected as dry weather and strong winds push flames through contaminated forest areas. Mine contamination and unexploded ordnance are limiting access, slowing containment efforts across multiple sectors. 📷DSNS

"Nothing is ready. Nothing is on paper. Nothing is on the table." That's how a Lithuanian MEP describes Ukraine's EU accession bid. Petras Auštrevičius—who negotiated his own country's accession—says 2027 is unrealistic. But membership is still coming. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/u...

Drones hit Grozny at dawn — Khankala military base (HQ of Russia's 42nd Motor Rifle Division) and a site near the railway station, 120 meters from the Chechen FSB office and within 2 km of Kadyrov's residence, per Russian Telegram channel Astra euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/d...

Bulgaria has a new prime minister: Rumen Radev — ex-president who once called occupied Crimea Russian Parliament approved his cabinet 124-70 on 8 May. His Progressive Bulgaria party won April's election with 44.59%, securing a single-party majority euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/b...

Russia is urgently deploying 4 regiments, 24 battalions and 162 batteries to counter Ukrainian strike drones, Syrskyi says, citing intelligence euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/r...

13 Russian airports went dark after Ukrainian drones struck the air traffic control building in Rostov-on-Don At least 14,000 passengers are stranded. Rostov has declared a local state of emergency. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/r...

Slovak PM Robert Fico will be the only EU leader at Russia's 9 May commemorations in Moscow. Per the Slovak Foreign Ministry, he's carrying a message from Zelenskyy to Putin — and hopes to hear Putin's "assessment of efforts to end the conflict" in return. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/f...

Ukraine marks 8 May as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in WWII The date, set by law in 2023, replaces the Soviet 9 May Victory Day. Around 8 million Ukrainians and other inhabitants of Ukrainian territory died in the war. euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/u...

Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Slavneft-YANOS Novo-Yaroslavl Oil Refinery in Yaroslavl Oblast following Russia's rejection of Ukraine's ceasefire proposal Russia must choose peace, and only strong pressure can ensure it, stressed President Zelenskyy euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/08/u...