⚡️For the first time, the European Commission is going to include in the list of sanctions 7 companies from China that supply russia with equipment that can be used for military purposes, – Bloomberg writes.
According to the publication, it is about such Chinese companies as 3HC Semiconductors and King-Pai Technology, as well as Sinno Electronics and Sigma Technology, based in Hong Kong.
⚡️The russians shelled Stanislav in the Kherson Region. It is preliminary known about four victims. Emergency services are currently working there, Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, the head of the Regional Military Administration press office, said.
Also, the russian military once again dropped aerial bombs on Kizomys, destroying two houses.
⚡️As a result of the shelling of Stanislav in the Kherson region, six people, including a child, were injured, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Regional Military Administration said.
⚡ Residents reported explosions in Odesa, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kramatorsk of the Donetsk region, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia region.
⚡ The speaker of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, the head of the Kyiv State City Military, and the Kyiv mayor confirmed the information about the explosions.
⚡ General Staff: The main efforts of the russian troops are focused on offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Lyman, Avdiivka, and Marinka directions. Over the past day, the Ukrainian soldiers have repelled more than 55 russian attacks in these areas.
The fiercest battles are being fought for Bakhmut and Marinka.
⚡️ General Staff: the russians are carrying out the so-called evacuation of residents from temporarily occupied Tokmak of the Zaporizhzhia region in the direction of Berdiansk.
⚡️Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 (GMT+3) on May 7:
"During this day, the enemy launched 8 rocket attacks, in particular, 2 S-300 rockets hit a civilian enterprise in Balaklia, the Kharkiv region, as a result of which 5 civilians were wounded.
In addition, the occupiers fired 5 russian Kh-22 missiles at civilian objects in the Mykolaiv region and one Kh-22 missile at Kherson region, without casualties."
⚡️Expectations from the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be overestimated in the world.
Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov stated this in an interview with The Washington Post.
"But I can't tell you what the scale of that success will be. Ten kilometers, 30 kilometers, 100 kilometers, 200 kilometers?" - said Reznikov.
During the expected counteroffensive, he would consider the deoccupation of any Ukrainian territory a success.
The head of the Ministry of Defense revealed that according to the plan, the offensive will allow not only to liberate villages and cities, but also to cut the logistical and technical chains of the russian army and reduce their offensive capability.
⚡️The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
The russians continue to focus their main efforts on the Lyman Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Mariinka directions. Heavy battles are being fought for the cities of Bakhmut and Mariinka.
In general, during the past day, russian troops carried out about 50 attacks.
⚡️The russians are evacuating local residents from the temporarily captured Enerhodar of the Zaporizhzhia region in the direction of the settlements of Berdyansk and Primorsk, to local recreation centers, - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.