The European Commission has signed an agreement with the governments of several EU member states to allocate EUR 1 billion from windfall profits generated by frozen Russian assets to bolster Ukraine's defense industry.
The European Union has agreed to transfer EUR 1 billion in funding from the profits generated by frozen Russian assets, through the European Peace Facility (EPF), to support Ukraine’s defense industry.
On the night of May 8-9, Russian forces launched an airstrike using guided aerial bombs targeting civilian infrastructure in the village of Richky, Richky community, Sumy region. As a result, a 63-year-old local woman was killed and a man was injured.
In Kharkiv region, as a result of a Russian strike on Velykyi Burluk, Kupiansk district, on May 7, buses of the Prolisok humanitarian mission, which operate social routes in frontline settlements, were damaged.
An emergency power outage was recorded in the Poltava district, tentatively due to infrastructure damage caused by the debris of a downed Russian drone.
Border guards of the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Revenge brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine used drones to destroy three guns and a warehouse of Russian invaders in the Kharkiv region.
During the day, the Russian army attacked Nikopol district in Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and fired with heavy artillery, injuring three women aged 43, 65 and 70.
Units from Ukraine’s 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade, “Edelweiss,” successfully repelled a Russian assault in the Siverskyi sector, in which the invaders used civilian vehicles.