In Moscow and St. Petersburg, preparations for May 9 are underway: mobile internet is being shut down, bomb shelters are being checked for readiness, air defense systems are being deployed, and anti-drone nets are being installed.

The Russians shelled Dnipro today, and one of the missiles hit a body of water during the attack.

Next to the body of a fallen Ukrainian soldier, a child's drawing was found with the inscription: "Dad, come home with victory."

The temporarily occupied Luhansk region is under a massive drone attack. A "drone alert" is also in effect in the Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Lipetsk, Tambov, Ryazan, Orel, Moscow, Volgograd, Smolensk, and Kaluga regions, as well as across all temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

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Overnight, Ukrainian UAVs circled Moscow, with one drone hitting a building located 6 km from the Kremlin and 3 km from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed the drone strike on a building in the Mosfilmovskaya Street area. The parade is in 5 days.

According to available information, the UAV that went down in Moscow last night turned out to be a full-scale FP-1 type attack drone. This marks the first confirmed presence of Ukrainian strike drones in close proximity to the Kremlin in a very long time.

Today’s attack on Moscow serves as a rehearsal for a strike on the Kremlin. Historically, the FP-1 successfully bypassed all layers of the Russian capital's defense, hitting the very heart of Moscow and stopping only 6.5 kilometers from the Kremlin. The DroneBomber map displays all verified air defense positions in the Moscow region.

This was a genuine penetration of:
🔸Three layers of defense;
🔸101 confirmed air defense positions;
🔸The areas of responsibility of at least 10 regiments of S-400 strategic systems (including those deployed in Losiny Ostrov Park and the Timiryazev Academy fields);
🔸Over 80 Pantsir and Tor units;
🔸Specialized positions on city-center rooftops and towers along roads, specifically built to intercept low-flying targets.

Zelenskyy and Fico met at the Yerevan summit, where they held a bilateral meeting. According to the President of Ukraine, they discussed future visits and meetings: teams are already preparing a schedule for reciprocal visits to Kyiv and Bratislava, and a joint session of the governments of both countries is scheduled in the near future.

"What’s up there?" – A Russian occupier filmed the moment an FPV drone struck another soldier in the Donetsk region.

Zelenskyy announced on his X page that Canada will allocate an additional $200 million for the procurement of weapons for Ukraine.

Berlin will completely ban Soviet, Russian, and Belarusian flags on May 8 and 9. The ban also covers the flags of the USSR, Russia, Belarus, and Chechnya, as well as St. George ribbons, "Z" and "V" symbols, and other related emblems.

Monitoring channels report that over 200 Ukrainian drones are once again heading toward Moscow.

Slovak Prime Minister Fico had planned to attend the parade in Moscow on May 9, but following a conversation with Zelenskyy, he announced that he will not go to the parade. He only plans to have a "brief meeting with Putin".