• For the annual military parade on May 9, Russia no foreign heads of state to invite. That’s what the Kremlin says.
• Putin had wanted to celebrate the victory over Ukraine on 9 May. With that scenario becoming increasingly unlikely, experts are predicting that he will switch shoulders and engage in a general mobilization.
† Russian army is “several days” behind schedule in achieving the military objectives of the offensive in the Donbas. That is what a top official of the United States Department of Defense said to American media on Friday. The Russians are temporarily stopped ground attacks in the east of the country. According to the Ukrainians, the enemy is limited to reconnaissance and artillery shelling.
• In the area around the Ukrainian capital Kiev is the death toll since the departure of the Russians from the region meanwhile increased to almost 1,200† That reports Andrij Njebytow, the police chief of Kiev.
• A journalist from the American broadcaster Radio Free Europa/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has been killed in the latest rocket attacks on Kiev. Wira Hyrych was found under the rubble of her apartment building.
