Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important in the Ukrainian war on May 6, 2024. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for the third year.
12:04 p.m. Ukraine has carried out all the necessary reforms and is now “one step away from an invitation” to join NATO, announced Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhals.
In an interview with the Canadian broadcaster CBC, Shmyhals said that Ukraine expects NATO countries to make a decision on the application for membership at the next alliance summit in Washington in July.
Ukraine officially applied for NATO membership in September 2022 – seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
11:02 a.m. Russia continues to build its northern group, which could again attack northeastern Ukraine, including Kharkiv, but Russia does not yet have the strength to capture the city, according to researchers at the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
ISW analysts report that a battalion from the Pskov 76th Airborne Division was recently transferred to the Kursk region from the front line in the Zaporizhia region.
According to Ukrainian military analyst Konstantin Mashovts, Russia has already assembled about 50,000 troops in the Northern Group: more than 31,000 in the Belgorod region, more than 10,000 in the Kursk region, and more than 8,000 in the Bryansk region.
10:06 a.m. French President Emmanuel Macron will try to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to use China’s leverage over Russia to bring the end of the war against Ukraine closer, European Pravda media reports.
An official involved in the preparations for the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Macron would raise the issue of Chinese companies supplying Russia with products that help it fight Ukraine.
Xi Jinping arrived in France on the afternoon of May 5.
8:56 a.m. Ukraine’s defense forces continue to inflict losses on Russia. In the last day alone, the occupiers have lost 1,040 soldiers, 34 armored vehicles and 16 artillery systems. The total number of Russian soldiers lost since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine already reaches 475,300.
00:10. For various reasons, Ukrainian border guards deny 120-150 people permission to leave Ukraine every day, writes pravda.com.ua.
