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11:33 p.m.: The summary of the day can be found this Friday in our daily article dedicated to the development of the situation in Ukraine.
11:28 p.m.: According to Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar, Russia hopes to capture Bakhmut by Tuesday, the day it celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany with great fanfare in a grand celebration of patriotic enthusiasm. Moscow’s tactic, she said, was to “remove men from Wagner” to replace them “with paratrooper assault units” from the army.
11:27 p.m .: The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner has threatened to withdraw his troops from the town of Bachmout and accused the Russian general staff of having deprived him of ammunition. In this regard, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov sent a telegram asking the same staff to “go” to Bakhmout and “set things right”.
4:09 p.m .: Russia announces evacuations in 18 occupied locations in the Zaporizhia region, including Ernerhodar, the city where the nuclear power plant is located. In the past few days, Ukraine has “intensified the bombing” in this area,” Evguéni Balitski, the regional manager employed by Moscow, explained to Telegram. There is no talk of a troop withdrawal: this evacuation will primarily affect children and their parents, the elderly and disabled, and hospital patients.
3:50 p.m .: Should the Wagner group effectively withdraw its troops from the front lines, Russia would lose the support of “tens of thousands of men currently present on the ground,” explained Lukas Aubin, a specialist in Russia’s geopolitics within the Institute for International and Strategic Relations, on franceinfo . Statements by Yevgeny Prigozhin, as well as the possible drone attack on the Kremlin, “show that there are difficulties at the top of the state in Russia, that there are difficulties in controlling this ‘special military operation'”.
3:49 p.m .: The Russian general staff bears “responsibility for tens of thousands of killed and wounded” Russians in Ukraine, accuses the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner, Evguéni Prigojine, in his most direct attacks against the Russian minister to date. He had already announced this morning that his troops would be withdrawing from Bakhmout, where they are at the front, on May 10 due to insufficient ammunition being supplied by Moscow.
3:27 p.m.: The Senate site is accessible again after being the target of a cyberattack for several hours, claimed by a pro-Russian group.
12:59 p.m .: A group of pro-Russian hackers complained of a cyber attack on the French Senate website, which has been inaccessible since this morning. In a message on Telegram, the group NoName057(16) justified its attack by saying that “France is working with Ukraine on a new ‘aid package’ that could include weapons”. “No hypothesis has been confirmed at this time,” warns the Senate Communications Service.
11:54 a.m.: A new fire broke out this Friday in south-west Russia near Ukraine at an oil refinery that was hit by a drone strike the day before, local emergency services said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
11:14 a.m.: This week’s alleged Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin could not have happened without the United States knowing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, while Washington and Kyiv denied any involvement.
10.30am: The head of Russia’s paramilitary group Wagner has threatened to withdraw his fighters from the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine over a lack of ammunition, which he accuses the army of rivalry. “We wanted to capture the city of Bakhmout before May 9th. Seeing this, the military bureaucrats stopped the (ammunition) supplies,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin.
10:28 am: Due to a lack of ammunition, the Wagner group threatened to withdraw from Bakhmout on May 10
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