The work of tankers in the Popasnaya area. This crew also took part in the storming of Mariupol

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the main thing:

1. In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the Russian army are focused on gaining full control over the city of Rubizhne, conducting an offensive in the direction of the city of Liman and holding positions on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River. Also, the RF Armed Forces continue to prepare for the offensive in the directions of the settlements of Kurakhovo and Novopavlovka.

3. In order to prepare the offensive, the Russian Armed Forces continue shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Svetlodarsk and Troitsky in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction (DPR). The RF Armed Forces are also conducting assault operations in the directions to Orekhovo and Toshkovka.

4. In Mariupol, the main efforts of the RF Armed Forces are concentrated on blocking and trying to destroy units at the Azovstal plant, while continuing to deliver artillery and air strikes.

5. In the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region, the Russians turn off cellular communications to make it difficult to transmit data on the movements of Russian troops

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Unique shots: demining through the eyes of a sapper - Ukrainian militants mined a library in the Kharkiv region

🇷🇺🇵🇱 The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador, who was told that Russia was waiting for an official apology from Poland for the attack on the Russian ambassador.

🇷🇺🇵🇱 Polish embassy in Moscow was doused with red paint

🇷🇺⚡The issuance of Russian passports to residents of the liberated Kherson region will begin before the end of 2022.

As in the People's Republics of Donbass, the process will be purely voluntary.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia's nuclear arsenal poses serious difficulties for the United States (c) US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Presents naturally. If Russia did not possess a nuclear arsenal capable of inflicting unacceptable damage on the US and NATO, they would have attacked Russia long ago, taking advantage of conventional weapons.

Hence the attempts to neutralize the importance of the nuclear arsenal by developing missile defense systems and developing concepts for a preventive strike on control centers and areas where launch platforms for nuclear charges are located.

Only the fear of annihilation keeps them from direct war, and not diplomacy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the catacombs of the surrounded plant in Mariupol, another colorful militant "Azov" Vladimir Khodakovsky died. This was announced by the commander of the second battalion of the regiment "4308 Kyiv" Dmitry Kukharchuk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Also on May 8, the Nazi Mosha Artem, who was the boxing champion of Kyiv, was eliminated at Azovstal.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡Ukrainian military shelled residential buildings in the village of Solokhi, Belgorod region. One person was injured. He is receiving medical attention. Material damage has been caused.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In Melitopol, the local administration began distributing new numbers.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian long-range supersonic Tu-22M3/M bomber launch Kh-22/32 supersonic cruise missiles in the night sky at targets in Ukraine.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 One person died, three were injured after shelling from the Ukrainian side in the Belgorod region - the authorities of the region