Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

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Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

Russia used more than 50 missiles and 20 drones in overnight attacks, Zelenskyy says

Russia used dozens of missiles and drones to ******* Ukraine’s infrastructure overnight, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday morning.

“More than 50 rockets and more than 20 “shaheds” [drones] on infrastructure in the Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram.

Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk also posted on the social media platform that, overnight, Russian forces “launched a combined strike with missiles of various types and ******* UAVs. In total, the ****** used 76 means of air ******* – 55 missiles and 21 ******* drones.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seen on April 18 at the presidential palace during a meeting with ******* Economy Minister Robert Habeck.

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“The whole world should clearly understand who is who,” Zelenskyy said.

“The whole world has no right to give Nazism another chance,” he said, noting that the latest ******* took place on the international

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commemorating those who ***** in World War II.

Ukraine and Russia routinely characterize each other as “*****” or “fascist” regimes, with Moscow using the accusation against Kyiv in large part to justify its unprovoked invasion in February 2022. Ukraine’s president is *******.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine’s energy infrastructure targeted in ‘massive *******,’ officials say

Russian forces launched a “massive *******” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.

“The ****** does not abandon plans to deprive Ukrainians of light. Again a massive ******* on our energy!” Ukraine’s Energy Minister ******* Galushchenko

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Power plants and transmission facilities were attacked in a number of regions, he said, including the southern Zaporizhzhia region and Vinnytsia and Lviv in central and western Ukraine.

“The ****** wants to deprive us of the opportunity to produce and transmit electricity,” he said, calling on civilians to use power sparingly in order to prevent pressure on the energy system.

DTEK, the largest energy company in Ukraine,

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that Russia had attacked three DTEK thermal power plants, causing “another extremely difficult night for the Ukrainian energy industry” — a sector that has found itself frequently the target of Russian drone and missile attacks.

Firefighters extinguish a ***** at an electrical substation after a missile ******* in Kharkiv, on March 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. 

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“The ****** fired at three of our TPPs. The equipment is seriously damaged,” the company said, noting that the latest ******* was the fifth “massive shelling” of the company’s energy facilities in the last one and a half months.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, DTEK thermal power plants have been fired upon about 180 times. During this *******, 51 workers were wounded and three power workers were ******* in shelling at the stations, DTEK said. CNBC was unable to verify the claims.

— Holly Ellyatt

Kyiv targeted in Russian air ******* overnight, officials say

Ukraine’s military said Wednesday that the capital Kyiv was targeted by Russian missiles overnight.

“The Russians hit Kyiv with Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles, all targets were destroyed by air defense forces, there were no casualties,” the military said on Telegram.

Ruslan Kravchenko, the head of Kyiv regional military administration,

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that Russian forces attacked the capital with one-way ******* drones and cruise missiles. Air raid warnings lasted four hours, he said.

People are going down the escalator at the Central Railway Station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 7, 2024.

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“No hits to residential or critical infrastructure objects were recorded,” he said, although falling debris (as a result of intercepted drones and missiles) injured several people and some residential buildings, he noted.

“Damage to power lines was recorded. One of the villages [in the Kyiv region] is partially without electricity. Energy workers are already working quickly to restore the light,” he said.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia used more than 50 missiles and 20 drones in overnight attacks, Zelenskyy says

Russia used dozens of missiles and drones to ******* Ukraine’s infrastructure overnight, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday morning.

“More than 50 rockets and more than 20 “shaheds” [drones] on infrastructure in the Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram.

Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk also posted on the social media platform that, overnight, Russian forces “launched a combined strike with missiles of various types and ******* UAVs. In total, the ****** used 76 means of air ******* – 55 missiles and 21 ******* drones.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seen on April 18 at the presidential palace during a meeting with ******* Economy Minister Robert Habeck.

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“The whole world should clearly understand who is who,” Zelenskyy said.

“The whole world has no right to give Nazism another chance,” he said, noting that the latest ******* took place on the international

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commemorating those who ***** in World War II.

Ukraine and Russia routinely characterize each other as “*****” or “fascist” regimes, with Moscow using the accusation against Kyiv in large part to justify its unprovoked invasion in February 2022. Ukraine’s president is *******.

— Holly Ellyatt

Belarus carries out surprise inspection of nuclear weapons, state media says

Belarus is carrying out a “surprise inspection” of its non-strategic nuclear weapons, local state media agency Belta reported on Tuesday.

“The entire range of activities from planning, preparation and use of strikes with tactical nuclear weapons will be checked,” the Belarusian defense minister Viktor Khrenin said, according to a

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translation of Belta’s reporting. Khrenin said the order for the inspection was issued on Tuesday and was a “surprise.”

Last month, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported that Belarus had taken steps to station “non-strategic nuclear weapons” across the country.

Non-strategic nuclear weapons, also known as tactical nuclear weapons, are designed to be used on battlefields in a military context.

— Sophie Kiderlin

Ukraine says Russian agents were planning to ************ Zelenskyy

Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, said Tuesday that it had exposed a network of Russian security service (FSB) agents who were preparing the ************** of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Counterintelligence were detained and SBU investigators foiled the plans of the FSB to eliminate the President of Ukraine and other representatives of the top military and political leadership of the state,” the SBU said on Telegram.

The network included two colonels of Ukraine’s department of state protection, the UDO — which is responsible for Vladimir Zelenskyy’s security — who “leaked” secret information to the Russian Federation, the SBU said.

“One of the tasks of the FSB intelligence network was to search for executors among the military close to the protection of the President, who could take the Head of State ******** and later ***** him,” the SBU claimed.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, speaks at a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 29, 2024.

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It said the agents also planned to eliminate the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) Kirill Budanov and other high-ranking officials.

“The ******’s plan was as follows: first, the recruited agent had to observe the movement of the person under guard and pass information to the ******. According to the coordinates of the house where the official was supposed to be, a rocket ******* was planned. Then they were going to ******* the people who remained at the affected area with a drone. After that, the Russians planned to target with another missile, including to ******** traces of the use of the drone,” the SBU claimed, without presenting evidence.

CNBC was unable to immediately verify the claims made in the SBU’s report and the FSB has not yet commented.

— Holly Ellyatt

******’s inauguration: In pictures

Here’s a few pictures from Russian President Vladimir ******’s inauguration ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir ****** walks before an inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 7, 2024. 

Sergei Ilnitsky | Via Reuters

Honour guards of the Presidential regiment carry a special copy of the Russian Constitution and the President’s Badge before a ceremony inaugurating Vladimir ****** as President of Russia at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 7, 2024. 

Alexander Zemlianichenko | Via Reuters

Russian President Vladimir ****** enters the Alexandrovsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 7, 2024, in Moscow, Russia. 

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In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir ****** (R) and Russia’s Orthodox Patriarch Kirill attend a service in the Annunciation Cathedral following ******’s inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2024. 

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Vladimir ****** attends the swearing in as the President of the Russian Federation during the inauguration ceremony at Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on May 07, 2024. 

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****** says Russia won’t shut door on dialogue with the West

Russian President Vladimir ****** walks past a guard during a ceremony honouring the country’s Olympians and Paralympians at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 26, 2022. 

Maxim Shemetov | Reuters

Newly re-inaugurated Russian President Vladimir ****** has told officials that Russia would not shut off dialogue with the West but said Western allies had to “make their choice.”

Speaking in his inaugural address after being sworn in for his fifth term in office, which will keep him in power until 2030, ****** said Russia wants relations with other countries and said talks on “strategic stability” were possible, but on “equal terms,” he said, in comments reported and translated by Reuters.

****** said Russia’s state system should also be resilient to threats and challenges.

— Holly Ellyatt

What comes next after ******’s inauguration?

Vladimir ****** is about to be inaugurated for a fifth term in office that will run until 2030. The inauguration will be followed by the resignation of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s government.

The Cabinet’s resignation is not unusual as it’s mandated by the Russian Constitution, but it’ll be interesting to see which officials remain in post, and who’s promoted or demoted.

“This largely formal step will be used to reshuffle the cabinet, with PM Mishustin widely expected to continue in his role,” Andrius Tursa, Central and Eastern Europe advisor at risk consultancy Teneo, said in a note Tuesday.

Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin attends a session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia April 7, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Alexander Astafyev| Sputnik | Reuters

“The new cabinet is expected to be approved by both chambers of parliament and president within around two weeks,” he said.

“One immediate priority for the Mishustin 2.0 cabinet will likely be tax changes corresponding to ******’s calls for ‘a more equitable distribution of the tax burden towards those with higher personal and corporate incomes.’ ****** is expected to head to China on his first foreign trip later this month,” Tursa noted.

— Holly Ellyatt

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