Russia fired cruise missiles at Kyiv on Tuesday and held a shortened May 9 parade in Moscow’s Red Square amid troop and weapons shortages after a failed winter campaign in Ukraine. In a fiery ten-minute speech outside the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin lashed out at “Western global elites” and said civilization was at a “tipping point.”

Main information about the war in Ukraine, day 441, TEXT:

07:33 The latest events at the front according to the Institute for the Study of War:

• Muscovite troops conducted limited ground attacks northeast of Kupyansk and along the Svatove-Kreminna line.
• Russian forces continued to make minor gains in Bakhmut and continued limited offensive operations on the Avdiyivka-Donetsk front.
• Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions west of Gulyaipol and in the Kherson region.

07:05 Great Britain prepares to introduce sanctions against the Wagner group – press

01:05Zelensky: The current aggressor will lose, as the aggressor lost 78 years ago, it is only a matter of time

A brief summary of recent events

• The Ukrainians confirmed Prigozhin’s statement that the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces escaped from Bakhmut.
• Britain appears ready to send Kiev long-range missiles, which the Biden administration has so far refused to send, which can hit targets 300 kilometers away.
• The United States announced a “new security assistance package” to support Ukraine’s air defense and artillery munitions needs.
• The final plans for the counteroffensive have not yet been approved by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the country, President Zelenskyi, the Secretary of the NSDC, Oleksiy Danilov, said.
• AFP’s video coordinator in Ukraine, Arman Soldin, was killed Tuesday afternoon during Grad rocket fire in eastern Ukraine.
• Ilan Shor’s Party, Socialist Party and former President Volodymyr Voronin’s Communist Party took part in the Victory March in Chisinau on Tuesday, as well as in the “Immortal Regiment” type march, where some participants, including former President Ihor Dodon, wore St. George’s ribbons, although this was prohibited in the Republic of Moldova.
• Belarusian leader Oleksandr Lukashenko was absent from the dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Victory Day.
• Ukrainian authorities say that Russian occupiers of Energodar, the town that serves the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, have begun looting the town.
• What’s left of the “second army of the world”: How much military equipment Russia brought out at the Victory Day parade. The Russian army took one tank to a military parade for Victory Day.

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• Tuesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro