Usual caveats: All open-source info, so only as good as the source – inclusion here =/= confirmation of content. Some more cynical than I suggest caution linking to Russian servers, pro-rebel servers or amplifier sites – I leave the judgment call to you now that you’ve been warned.
- “Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on Monday accused the Russian ambassador to Canada of spreading misinformation and propaganda to the Canadian public but said she has no plans to expel him from the country …” (cbc.ca)
- “Canada to allocate CAD 35M for humanitarian projects in Ukraine” (UKR state media)
- “Moscow and Kyiv evoke memories of Nazi Germany for very different ends – While Ukraine’s leader offered a message of hope, Russia’s Putin offered a rationale …” (CBC News)
- “The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 10.05” (UKR MoD)
- UKR MoD 10 May 0600 local brief: “… russian enemy ship groups continue to carry out tasks to isolate combat areas, conduct reconnaissance, launch missile strikes on important objects of civil and military infrastructure of our state, support units in the coastal direction and block civilian shipping …”
- UK MoD 10 May 0124E brief: “Russia’s underestimation of Ukrainian resistance and its ‘best case scenario’ planning have led to demonstrable operational failings, preventing President Putin from announcing significant military success in Ukraine at the 09 May Victory Day parade. Russia’s invasion plan is highly likely to have been based on the mistaken assumption that it would encounter limited resistance and would be able to encircle and bypass population centres rapidly …” (via Twitter) – UK MoD 9 May 1012E map (via Twitter)
- “Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 76” (Al Jazeera)
- “The state leadership is making efforts to find ways to evacuate civilians from Azovstal and to apply extraction procedures to wounded fighters, medics, and military personnel, including with the help of the international community …” (UKR media)
- UKR National Guard on troops still @ Azovstal: “… We are announcing the steps taken to evacuate at least some people and evacuate them to other cities. Evacuation itself is an extremely complex process, from the establishment of a regime of silence to the need to dismantle the blockages …” (Text, Google English from Ukrainian)
- Original National Guard FB post (in Ukrainian)
- “More than 100 civilians still in Azovstal territory, – region governor” (UKR media)
- “The petition calling for the rescue of Azovstal’s defenders received 1 million signatures” (UKR media)
- “Instagram deletes ‘Bukvy’ post about Azov regiment” (UKR media)
- “Occupied Donbas: lack of water and men, return of hryvnia, and hatred towards “refugees” ” (UKR media)
- “Russian Attacks Intensify As Ukrainian Resistance Deprives Putin Of Win To Announce” (USA govt funded media)
- “Russia’s long shot in the Donbas Even with a potential full mobilization, the Kremlin’s war could sputter to defeat in eastern Ukraine” (Meduza.io, RUS independent media)
- “Missile attack on Odesa kills one person, five people wounded” (UKR media)
- “Zelenskyy calls for international help to end Odesa blockade” (Al Jazeera)
- “Ukraine military: One dead, five wounded after Russian missile strike on Odesa” (Associated Press via Independent.ie)
- “Occupiers Increasingly Use Strategic Aviation For Attacks On Odesa – Regional Military Administration” (UKR media)
- “Ukraine: Russia could target chemical sites, military says” (Associated Press via CTV News)
- “The heads of pre-school educational institutions in occupied Donetsk were ordered to select personnel to be sent to captured Mariupol and nearby settlements – Mangush, Nikolske, Yalta. The Russian occupation administration explains this by the need to “organize work on the ground.” The staff of banking institutions is selected in a similar way. It is expected that the management of the local financial sector will be completely under the control of the occupiers. This relocation is due to the occupation administrations’ distrust of the local population …” (UKR mil int, Google English from Ukrainian)
- “Russian forces destroy 793 drones, 2,979 armored vehicles in Ukraine operation – top brass” (RUS state media)
- “LPR liberates Popsnaya and Nizhneye” (Luhansk rebel media)
- “DPR militiamen kill 39 Kiev gunmen, destroy two fire positions over 24 hours” (Donetsk rebel media)
- “Two DPR civilians killed, nine wounded in Ukrainian army strikes over 24 hours” (Donetsk rebel media)
- “Kiev forces shell LPR twice over 24 hours” (Luhansk rebel media)
- “Russian air defense systems shot down Ukrainian MiG-29” (RUS state media)
- “Russia delivers food to Lugansk – LPR Emergencies Ministry” (Luhansk rebel media)
- “Russia prepared in advance for forced deportation of Ukrainians – Denisova” (pro-UKR media)
- “Russia draws troops to Belgorod region to prevent the Ukrainian army from approaching the border” (UKR media)
- “Putin’s Victory Day Speech: The Significance Of What Was Not Said … He did not declare a general mobilization for all-out war against Ukraine. He did not declare victory in a war that is now in its 75th day. He made no threat about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, something he and other officials have done repeatedly in recent weeks …” (USA govt funded media)
- “15th Separate Alexandriyskaya Motor Rifle Brigade awarded the name “Guards” ” (Kremlin info-machine)
- “Having numerous advantages in manpower and equipment, the army of the occupying country suffers catastrophic losses and defeats from the defenders of Ukraine. To change the Russians’ perception of military “invincibility” and prepare society for possible defeat, the Russian media was ordered to report on the Russian-Ukrainian war as Russia’s armed confrontation with all European Union and NATO countries. According to Kremlin political technologists, this will reduce the shame of losing to a more powerful enemy …” (UKR mil-int, Google English from Ukrainian)
- “Russian ambassador says West didn’t want to listen to Moscow’s justified security demands” (RUS state media)
- “If NATO blood would in fact be spilt should Russia invade Poland or the Baltic states, why have we utterly rejected the prospect of spilling it to help protect Ukraine from Putin’s mass killings, torture, rape and destruction? ….” (Gatestone Institute, conservative think tank)
- “Lithuania recognises war in Ukraine as genocide, Russia as terrorist state – On Tuesday, the Lithuanian parliament voted unanimously to recognise Russia’s war against Ukraine as genocide. The resolution passed with 128 votes in favour, none against and no abstentions …” (Lithuanian media)
- “Moscow’s Garden in Riga to be renamed Latgales Park” (Baltic News Network)
- “Ukraine plans to export wheat through Baltic and Polish ports” (Fortune.com)
- “Cyberattack Knocks Out Russian Video Platform Rutube” (AFP via RUS independent media)
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