While concerns persist around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the mercenaries of the Wagner group announced on Sunday that they would finally remain stationed in the city of Bakhmout. During the night, Russians and Ukrainians multiplied drone strikes, targeting kyiv and Sevastopol.
The Wagner Group will remain in Bakhmout
Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin seem to have come to an agreement. On Friday, the boss of the Wagner group had threatened the tenant of the Kremlin to withdraw from the city of Bakhmout if he did not receive additional ammunition. The mercenary explained, in an incendiary video, that he wanted to transfer control of the city to the Chechen army of Ramzan Kadyrov.
“Last night, we received a combat order (…). They promise to give us all the ammunition and armaments we need to continue operations”, finally announced Evgueni Prigojine, Sunday May 7, in an audio message. .
Russia will be defeated “in the same way” as Nazism, says Zelensky
On the sidelines of the commemorations of the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, President Zelensky announced that “all the old evil that modern Russia is bringing back will be defeated in the same way Nazism was defeated”, in a speech broadcast on his social networks. “We will never forget the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory over Nazism,” continued the Ukrainian president.
These statements come on the occasion of the worldwide celebrations around the end of the Second World War. A large military parade is scheduled for Tuesday in Moscow. Vladimir Putin should attend.
New Nightly Drone Attacks
During the night from Sunday to Monday, kyiv was the target of new drone attacks, according to the military administration of the city. The strikes reportedly injured five people. The Ukrainian authorities have nevertheless announced that they have shot down 35 Russian drones. Moscow, for its part, claims to have repelled a night attack by a dozen aircraft targeting the city of Sevastopol, home port of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
Nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin speaks
Two days after the explosion that blew up his car and killed his driver and assistant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin spoke overnight. He announces that he does not want to be intimidated: “Thank you to everyone who prayed, because it would have been impossible to survive such an explosion. I tell the demons, you will not intimidate anyone. God exists. We will overcome “, affirmed on Telegram this fierce support of the Russian power.
According to the Russian authorities, the attack would have been orchestrated by the Ukrainian forces and their “Western sponsors”, in the forefront of which the United States.
