Ukraine Update 9 May 2025

Friday, May 09, 2025

1) Russian forces continued attacking Ukraine, despite Vladimir Putin's Victory Day ceasefire proclamation, including dropping nearly one hundred guided aerial bombs on Sumy Oblast. 2) A Hungarian military spy ring was exposed by Ukrainian counterintelligence agents. The agents were searching for vulnerabilities in ground and air defenses, as well as the local attitudes should Hungarian troops enter the region. 3) Ukrainian prosecutors identified four Russians who tortured POWs with clubs and electric shocks: pravda.com.ua 4) The Estonian city of Narva placed a large banner on the border with Russia equating Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler: pravda.com.ua An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, despite Dotard Trumpf's bullying of the ICC on behalf of them.

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed support for Russia, described Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin as an ally in building a new world order and confirmed their joint position on the war against Ukraine during his visit to Moscow on 8 May. Chinese military personnel will take part in the parade on Red Square in Moscow on Victory Day.

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Per the Ukrainian MoD: Russian losses as of 8 May 2025: 963,270 personnel, plus 1,300 troops in the last 24 hours; 372 aircraft; 335 helicopters; 10,790 tanks.

At this rate of loss, Russia could reach the horrendous one million casualty mark in late 2025 or early 2026. Dotard Trumpf remarked at a 11 Feb 2025 press conference: "[Russia] lost millions of people. They've lost, in terms of soldiers, probably 1.5 million soldiers in a short period of time."

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-09 06:35 AM

Ukraine war briefing: Trump calls for ideally a 30-day ceasefire' backed with sanctions
www.theguardian.com

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Donald Trump after a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for "ideally, a 30-day unconditional ceasefire". "If the ceasefire is not respected, the US and its partners will impose further sanctions," Trump posted. Zelenskyy said after the call on Thursday that he told Trump that Ukraine was ready for talks on the war with Russia "in any format" but first "Russia must show that it is serious about ending the war, starting with a full and unconditional ceasefire".

The call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday went "very well", said a senior Ukrainian official. The conversation lasted about 20 minutes and focused on diplomacy and the genuine ceasefire that the US and Ukraine are trying to establish, while the presidents also discussed the Ukraine-US minerals deal, ratified on Thursday by the Ukrainian parliament.
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