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Ukraine

Ukraine War Situation Update: 3 - 9 May 2025

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Authors: Olha Polishchuk, Cristian Vlas

Key trends

  • In the Donetsk region, Russian forces advanced south and southwest of Kostiantynivka, southwest of Pokrovsk, and north and northeast of Lyman, in addition to occupying a village west of Velyka Novosilka.
  • Russian forces made gains in the area of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region and claimed to have advanced near the international border northeast of Sumy city.
  • ACLED records at least 30 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in Kyiv city and the Kyiv region, as well as the central regions of Cherkasy, Poltava, and Kirovohrad.
  • Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 32 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions and in Kyiv city. Ukrainian shelling reportedly killed one civilian in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region.