Russia-Ukraine battle: Listing of key occasions, day 1,169

Right here is the place issues stand on Thursday, Could 8:

Combating

A 3-day ceasefire declared by Russia to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany got here into impact at midnight, Moscow time (21:00 GMT, Wednesday). Ukraine has not dedicated to abide by the ceasefire, proposing a 30-day cessation in preventing as a substitute.
Russian plane launched guided bombs on the Sumy area of northern Ukraine within the early hours of Thursday morning regardless of the ceasefire, Ukraine’s air power stated in a publish on Telegram. There have been no fast reviews of casualties or harm.
Other than the Ukrainian air power’s assertion about Russia launching guided bombs, there have been no different reviews of assaults on Ukrainian cities early on Thursday.
Russian forces shot down 12 Ukrainian drones approaching Moscow, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, stated on Wednesday. Russia’s aviation watchdog stated two airports – the Zhukovsky airport within the Moscow area and the primary airport in Kaluga – had been briefly closed.

Russia’s Ministry of International Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Moscow had by no means opposed a ceasefire in Ukraine, Russian state-run information companies reported on Wednesday, after United States envoy Keith Kellogg stated Russian President Vladimir Putin could also be obstructing a complete peace deal.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in his nightly tackle on Wednesday that he stood by a proposal to watch a 30-day ceasefire. “We aren’t withdrawing this proposal, which might give diplomacy an opportunity,” Zelenskyy stated.
US Vice President JD Vance stated throughout an look on the Munich Safety Convention that Russia was “asking for an excessive amount of” in its preliminary provide of a peace deal.

In an interview with the Reuters information company, Ukraine’s Central Financial institution governor, Andriy Pyshnyy, stated Kyiv is contemplating a shift away from the US greenback. Potential accession to the European Union and “the likelihood of global-trade fragmentation”, amongst different causes, are forcing the central financial institution to overview whether or not the euro ought to be the reference foreign money for Ukraine’s hryvnia, Pyshnyy was quoted as saying.