Russian bomb strike on Zaporizhzhia region leaves three people injured
Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the village of Shchaslyve in the Zaporizhzhia region. Three people were injured, while a residential house was destroyed.
Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the village of Shchaslyve in the Zaporizhzhia region. Three people were injured, while a residential house was destroyed.
Last year, 41 people were killed and more than 970 were injured in Kharkiv as a result of Russian shelling, while the number of destroyed or damaged sites reached 13,000.
Russian forces carried out a strike on railway infrastructure in the Mykolaiv region, hitting a locomotive and two buffer wagons. No casualties were reported.
During the night of May 7, 2026, units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out strikes against several important Russian military targets, including a Project 22800 Karakurt-class small missile ship at the Russian naval base in Kaspiysk, Dagestan.
Ukrainian long-range sanctions are increasingly reaching remote Russian sites linked to Russia’s military industry.
Belarus is developing infrastructure facilities deeper inside its territory, far from the border with Ukraine. At the same time, Russia could later use these sites by deploying additional forces and equipment there.
Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces, confirmed a new strike on an oil facility in Perm, Russia, located 1,550 km from the front line.
Dmitry Makhonin, governor of the Perm region, stated on Thursday, May 7, that drones had attacked “one of the region’s industrial facilities.”
A fire broke out in Dnipro following a Russian attack; the blast wave shattered windows at a food processing plant.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a Russian FPV drone struck a car carrying electricians who were on their way to perform restoration work.
Since early May, at least 70 civilians have been killed and over 500 wounded in Ukraine as a result of a wave of Russian attacks.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 41 strikes on the border of the Chernihiv region using FPV drones, resulting in confirmed destruction and damage.
The Russian troops launched a drone strike on the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv, causing a fire to break out.
The death toll from the May 4 strike on Merefa in the Kharkiv region has increased to eight after a seriously wounded man died in the hospital.
Air Defense Forces shot down 92 of the 102 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since the evening of May 6.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 6, 157 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines.
Over the past 24 hours, on May 6, the Russian army killed three residents of the Donetsk region and wounded six others.
Over the past day, Kharkiv and 15 other settlements in the Kharkiv Oblast came under Russian attack, leaving eight people injured.
In the Sumy region, four people were killed and eleven injured as a result of Russian strikes over the past 24 hours. In addition, a man was killed after stepping on a Russian mine.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, through May 7, 2026, are estimated at about 1,338,060 personnel, including 890 in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces attacked five districts of the region almost 30 times with artillery and drones.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupying forces carried out 797 attacks on 50 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. Two people were killed and another 12 were injured as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia city, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Polohy districts.
Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy position in one sector of the front.
A man and a pregnant woman were wounded in the hostile drone strike on the city, a fire broke out in a five-story apartment building, and several cars were damaged.
The Latvian Air Force recorded the intrusion of foreign unmanned aerial vehicles into Latvia's airspace from the direction of Russia.
In the first six days of May, fighters of the 413th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment Raid of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck three Russian air defense systems at a considerable distance from the battle line – two Pantsir-S1 systems and one Tunguska missile-gun system.
A day of mourning has been declared today in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, for those who died as a result of the Russian bombing on May 5.
06 May 2026
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues systematic efforts to improve officer training and digitize the educational process, including with the involvement of foreign instructors and the implementation of NATO standards.
There were 120 combat engagements along the front line, with Ukrainian Defense Forces repelling 25 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk sector.