What's corroborated

Moscow denies the claims of child abductions.

Prince Harry praised Halo Trust's work and noted parallels to Princess Diana's landmine walk in Angola.

Zelenskyy said a US-brokered peace deal is 90% ready, but territory remains unresolved.

A deepfake video of Zelenskyy telling Ukrainians to surrender was taken down by Meta and YouTube.

Zelenskyy registered the ZELENSKYY trademark with WIPO in October 2022, which is standard for protecting intellectual property.

Russian state media falsely claimed Zelenskyy trademarked his name to monopolize the funeral industry in Ukraine.

False narratives include claims that Ukraine supports terrorism by recruiting ISIS members and training with Hamas.

Storm-1516's main goal is to discredit the Ukrainian government and undermine European public support for military and economic aid to Ukraine.

A report by Viginum released on May 6, 2025 describes Storm-1516's objectives, methodology, and actors.

Storm-1516 spread false claims that Kamala Harris left a teenager disabled in a hit-and-run accident and that Tim Walz was accused of sexual abuse.

Storm-1516 produces social media videos featuring paid actors and AI-generated fake people.

Storm-1516 is an offshoot of the former Internet Research Agency.

As rubble is being cleared, the number of reported casualties is growing.

The follow-up strike partly demolished another building in Kyiv, where the maternity hospital Isida and Adonis medical centre are located, killing at least seven people.

In Kryvyi Rih, 11 people were reportedly killed and 40 others were injured in what Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul called a 'massive missile attack.'

The Kyiv city administration reported falling debris, presumably from intercepted missiles, in a handful of Kyiv areas which started fires.

Russian attempts to put the blame on Ukrainian air defence display a callous audacity, which seeks to deflect from Russia’s responsibility for killing civilians and destroying medical facilities.

The evidence now widely available and some of it verified by Amnesty International experts, including videos of the strike that destroyed the Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, consistently suggests that the hospital was hit by an inbound Russian cruise missile.

A three-day NATO summit begins on Tuesday in Washington, DC to look at ways to reassure Ukraine of the alliance’s support.

The attacks come as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban paid an unexpected visit to Beijing on Monday and met Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss a potential Ukraine peace deal.

The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andrii Yermal, said the attack occurred at a time when many people were in the city’s streets.

The country’s power grid has already sustained damage from targeted Russian air strikes that began in March.

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power producer, said three substations and electricity networks had been damaged in the capital.

One person was killed in Dnipro city of Dnipropetrovsk, officials said.

Three people were killed in the eastern town of Pokrovsk, where missiles hit an industrial facility, Donetsk’s regional governor said.

Four people were killed after another medical facility in Kyiv was hit.

There was no immediate word on casualties at Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine’s biggest.

Parents holding babies walked in the street outside, dazed and sobbing after the rare daylight aerial attack.

Hundreds of people rushed to clear debris at the children’s hospital, where windows had been smashed and panels ripped off.

More than 60 people have been injured in the latest attacks that targeted at least two medical facilities, electrical substations and residential buildings.

Today is now day 973 since Putin launched his full scale, illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Extra to the additional artillery, air defences, ammunition, and missiles we have announced in the first four months of this new Government.

In addition to the £3.5bn Defence Industrial Support Treaty which I signed with Defence Minister Umerov in July, money that will be used by Ukraine to procure military equipment from British companies, boosting our British jobs and our British industry.

If big nations redraw international boundaries by force, the sovereignty and security of all nations is undermined.

If President Putin prevails in Ukraine, he will not stop at Ukraine.

The G7 joint declaration strongly condemned Putin’s illegal invasion and reinforced our unwavering support for Ukraine.

Russian officials previously claimed to have captured Pokrovsk, known in Russian as Krasnoarmeysk, which includes a major road and railway junction that used to connect the upper parts of the Donetsk region with key cities to the west, such as Dnipro.

Ukrainian forces would have had to withdraw from parts of Donetsk they still hold and this would become a demilitarised area under de facto Russian control.

Russia claims to have taken 6,000 sq km.

The Romanian Ministry of National Defense reported that Romanian forces scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to investigate air targets moving toward the Danube Delta area and that two German Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft took off from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base to carry out Enhanced Air Policing missions during the overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy announced that it enacted emergency power shutdowns throughout most Ukrainian oblasts and that Ukrainian officials are working to restore power.

Ukraine launched verification of all Starlink terminals and a whitelist system, causing Russian complaints about communications issues.

A Russian frigate, Admiral Grigorovich, was reportedly struck during the Novorossiysk attack, with damage assessment ongoing.

The same night as the Syvash strike, Ukraine attacked the Sheskharis oil terminal at Novorossiysk, causing a large fire and damage.

Saab describes the RBS-15 as having anti-ship and land-attack capability, a range over 300 km, and a large warhead.

The Syvash platform was used by Russia for surveillance, communications relay, electronic warfare, and short-range air defense.

Ukraine struck the Syvash drilling platform in the Black Sea on April 6, describing it as a coordinated operation involving the Navy and Unmanned Systems Forces.

Russia captured Pokrovsk after a two-year campaign, but it had ceased to be operationally significant by Winter 2025 due to earlier strikes.

ISW attributed Ukrainian successes to Starlink disconnecting illegal Russian terminals and Kremlin partly disabling Telegram, which Russian troops used for military communications.

Ukraine is facing a major conscription crisis.