According to journalists, such a decision will impose financial sanctions that will affect the ability of the “Wagnerites” to raise money through the banks of the United Kingdom. Also, any participation in PMC “Wagner” will become illegal.

The British government is ready to officially recognize the Wagner PMC as a terrorist organization in order to increase pressure on Russia. The Times writes about it.

A government source told reporters that after two months of legal proceedings, a ban on the activities of the “Wagnerites” had become inevitable. Most likely, the final decision will be made within a few weeks.

It is reported that the inclusion of PMC “Wagner” in the list of terrorist organizations would make participation in it illegal from a legislative point of view. Then the “Wagnerites” will stand on a par with the militants of Al-Qaeda.

In addition, as stated in the material, such a decision by the British government will impose financial sanctions that will affect the ability of the “Wagnerites” to raise money through the banks of the United Kingdom. In addition, they will be prohibited from using the UK courts to their advantage.

The publication writes that the 61-year-old head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin was able to use the British courts to bring a libel case against journalist Eliot Higgins after revelations on his Bellingcat website about shady mercenary operations. The case was closed in March last year following the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the imposition of personal sanctions against Prigozhin, but government sources said it was an example of how a ban could help prevent Wagner PMC influence and activity in the UK.

Journalists noted that in addition to the war in Ukraine, the “Wagnerites” took part in numerous conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, fighting for control of gold mines in the Central African Republic and helping to support the regime of President Assad in Syria. More recently, there have been concerns that the Wagnerites may try to expand their presence in Sudan as the country slides into civil war.

Recall that the French Parliament recognized PMC “Wagner” as terrorists. The decision was made by parliamentarians in the presence of the head of the French Armed Forces, Catherine Colona, ​​and the Ukrainian ambassador to France, Vadym Omelchenko. 331 deputies voted in favor, not a single vote was against.

It was also reported that on May 9, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the 72nd brigade of the RF Armed Forces left the front section south of Bakhmut in the 3rd square. kilometer, which had to be covered by his fighters “somehow”. A little later, Prigozhin talked to the personnel and again said that the units of the RF Armed Forces had “draped” on the flanks and left an area of ​​at least 3 square kilometers.

On the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula, there are 220 active, temporary and mothballed military facilities of the Russian Federation. This became known from the investigation “Crimea. Realities”.

Among the objects discovered by journalists are Russian military airfields, points and places for basing ships, vessels and boats, warehouses with weapons and fuel, military camps, military units, barracks, headquarters and command posts, military equipment parks, air defense equipment, training grounds and even objects VPK.

The authors of the publication noted that an interactive map with the placement of all the mentioned locations will be made public on the websites of Krym.Realii and Radio Liberty on Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00.

Journalists made a map of Russian military facilities in Crimea

The author of the project, Igor Tokar, noted that the population should be aware of the level of militarization of the peninsula. The map will be available in Russian and Ukrainian.

“We want to warn Crimeans about the danger associated with these places. After all, many people live near the military facilities of the Russian Federation. And given the large-scale military operations that Russia is conducting against Ukraine, these places are especially dangerous for others,” Tokar said.

According to the journalist of the Schemes project Kirill Ovsyany, the map was formed on the basis of Planet Labs satellite images for 2023. In the photo you can see in detail the Russian military installations in the Crimea.

Recall that on May 8, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, said that after Ukraine liberates the Crimean peninsula from Russian occupation, it will most likely lose the status of an autonomous republic.

We also reported that on May 8, Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, spoke about the preparation of Russian invaders in Crimea for the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, panic among Russians is growing.

We also wrote that on May 7, the occupying authorities of Crimea reported nighttime explosions on the peninsula. According to the “governor” of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly sent more than 10 drones towards Crimea.

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed several ammunition depots, mortars and several infantry fighting vehicles, and also eliminated fifty invaders from the 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade of the RF Armed Forces and the Wagner PMC.

Soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade managed to destroy ammunition depots, mortars and several infantry fighting vehicles of Russian units. This was stated on May 9 in the Telegram channel “Zhorin z Azov”, messages in which are published by Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Maxim Zhorin.

He told the details of the operation of the 3rd assault brigade in the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. It turned out that the actions of the Ukrainian defenders were so successful that the head of the so-called Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, decided to complain about the deplorable situation of the occupiers in this location.

soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with captured Russians near Bakhmut

As a result of appropriate measures on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, fifty invaders representing the 72nd brigade of the Russian army, as well as PMC “Wagner” were eliminated. Several ammunition depots, mortars and several infantry fighting vehicles were also destroyed. Important positions have been returned under the control of Ukrainian forces.

“As you can see, there is also a replenishment of the exchange fund,” Zhorin said in a message.

Prigozhin’s statement on the situation near Bakhmut

The head of the so-called Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said he had lost 500 Russians. According to him, this happened in connection with the flight of the 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade of the RF Armed Forces from the vicinity of Bakhmut. According to him, it was allegedly the actions of regular Russian troops that provoked the loss of more than three kilometers of occupied Ukrainian land. According to him, now the sector of the front, where the Russian troops left their positions, was “immediately” blocked by the “Wagnerites”. He predicted that at the time, if “the front falls”, Ukrainian troops will enter Rostov-on-Don.

Recall that on April 14, the 3rd Assault Brigade showed street fighting in Bakhmut on video. In the frame you can see how the Ukrainian defenders are moving through the city blocks. You can see that there is almost no surviving house left in the city. They also use armored vehicles to advance.

According to journalists, the former Russian occupier and his comrades broke into the house of a local resident. They started beating his son and wife and threatened to rape her.

In the village of Tolmachevo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, a local resident named Vyacheslav Mokin shot two people with a hunting rifle and wounded two others. One of those killed was an occupier who had returned to the wars in Ukraine. He celebrated with friends the return from the front. About this writes the ASTRA Telegram channel.

Journalists write that occupant Yevgeny Khotkov was previously convicted under articles on theft and on the acquisition and possession of drugs. According to the witness, one of Khotkov’s friends hit Mokin while still in the store after a verbal altercation. Previously, they came to buy beer, but began to insult customers.

Then Khotkov and his comrades reportedly drove home in a car, took sticks and went to Mokin’s house. Four men broke into the yard and started beating Mokin himself, as well as his wife and son.

According to the witness, Mokin told her that one of the attackers threatened to rape his wife. Then the man took out a gun, warned that he would shoot, but the attackers did not listen to him.

According to another local resident, she heard five shots.

It is reported that Mokin confessed during the investigation. As a result of the incident, Khotkov and a resident of the village of Kochenevo Petr Vlasov were killed. Two other attackers were also injured.

Local residents, as stated in the material, want to appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they are afraid that the investigation will expose Mokin as guilty of the situation. They are sure that he opened fire only to protect his family.

Earlier, Russian media said that a former top police officer was found dead in Russia. The investigation does not rule out that 65-year-old Anatoly Turov committed suicide by firing his own pistol. The former top officer suffered from oncology and had a disability group.

We also recall that in the Russian Federation they want to hold a referendum on the return of the death penalty. The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia believes that the authorities should respond to the actions of the “fifth column” in the country.

A Russian tank was blown up by a mine, after which the soldiers of the 21st battalion of the 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine finished it off with an anti-tank missile system.

Servicemen of the 21st Battalion of the 56th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a tank of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation using an anti-tank missile system (ATGM). The corresponding video was published on May 8 by Yury Mysyagin, deputy and representative of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence in the Verkhovna Rada, in his Telegram channel.

According to Mysyagin, the Russian tank was blown up by a mine, after which the Ukrainian military opened fire on it.

“The moment a Russian tank was blown up on a mine and then finished off with an anti-tank system by soldiers of the 21st battalion of the 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the people’s deputy wrote.

In the video, you can see that the occupier’s equipment was disabled by Ukrainian forces, but the tank crew managed to evacuate.

Russian Armed Forces tank hit a mine

Recall that on May 5, Yuri Mysyagin said that Ukraine received American Oshkosh M-ATV armored vehicles, and Ukrainian military units are already using at least two units. He noted that information on the supply of this equipment had not been publicly announced earlier.

We also wrote that on May 1, Yuri Mysyagin published a video in which Ukrainian defenders use the HIMARS MLRS to counter the Russian occupiers. The People’s Deputy said that this is a certain retaliation for the shelling of residential buildings and civilian infrastructure by the invaders.

Earlier, on April 27, Yuriy Mysyagin said that the American-made M109 self-propelled artillery mount is already in use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also specified that the equipment was purchased in Belgium.

The activities of the occupying district and city administrations in Skadovsk have been stopped, as the invaders in a hurry take out documentation, office equipment and other property of state institutions. This was announced on May 9 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report.

The report says that the occupiers loaded things onto transport on the night of May 6-7. By the morning of May 7, a significant part of the Russian occupation administration left the city with their families.

A similar situation is observed on the territory of other settlements of the Kherson region. The occupiers also leave such towns and villages as Petrovka, Mikhailovka, Shirokoye, Shevchenko, Ulyanovka and Krasnoe.

Skadovsk/Deep State map

Photo: deepstatemap.live

The General Staff also noted that there were traffic jams at the entrance to the Crimea and in the area of ​​the Kerch bridge, stretching for kilometers. There is an active export of documentation and looted property from state institutions of the temporarily occupied Kherson region. The invading units are planning to escape by sea, with the help of a dry cargo ship, through the port of the city of Berdyansk, which is now controlled by Russian troops.

In the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions, the enemy continues to try to implement defensive measures. Also, the enemy uses different means of destruction to shell settlements. In particular, an attack was made during the day on more than 20 settlements, which is next to the line of military clashes.

Recall, on May 8, Andrei Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that the Russian invaders, fearing a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have been equipping defensive structures in the south for several months, and civilian Russians are trying to leave for the continental part of Russia. After a series of explosions in the occupied Crimea, they even decided to close the Kerch bridge.

According to the Ukrainian underground, a working group from Tehran arrived some time ago at the Gomel Radio Plant. This would allow the Russian occupiers to solve the logistical problems they now face.

The Russian Federation is trying to find an opportunity to produce Iranian Shahed drones on the territory of Belarus. This was reported by the press service of the Center for National Resistance on May 8.

According to available information, not so long ago a working group consisting of Iranian engineers arrived at the territory of the Gomel Radio Plant in Belarus. The organizers of this trip were employees of the Russian FSB and the Belarusian KGB,

They discussed the possibility of starting the production of Shahed kamikaze drones in Belarus, which Iran is now actively supplying to the Russian occupiers.

“Earlier, our underground reported that drones were being completed on the basis of the Gomel plant. The corresponding development of events indicates that Russia continues to extend its control to the defense sector of Belarus,” the report says.

If the Russians manage to establish a full-fledged production of Iranian attack drones near the border with Ukraine, then Russia will solve the logistical problems with transporting drones from Iran. All this can negatively affect the course of the war for Ukraine.

The attack of “Shaheds” on Kyiv on May 8: what is known

On the night from Sunday to Monday, Russian invaders again began shelling Ukrainian cities with the help of Iranian drones. As a result, the air defense forces managed to destroy all 35 kamikaze drones that were flying in the direction of the capital.

They were launched from an airfield in the village of Sescha, Bryansk region.

Recall, on May 8, Focus collected the details of the night attack on Ukraine. It was reported that the RF Armed Forces launched X-22 missiles in the Odessa region. As a result of falling into a large warehouse, a large-scale fire broke out.

Now, according to the head of the Zaporizhia OVA, Yuriy Malashko, the occupiers are canceling events by May 9 and are taking out the valuable property of local residents in stolen cars.

In the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military District, the Russian military, using intimidation, are massively deporting civilians, as well as local collaborators with their families, to Russia. This was announced on May 8 on the air of Radio Liberty by the head of the Zaporozhye Regional Military Administration Yuriy Malashko.

According to Malashko, the collaborators, together with their relatives, are actively leaving the occupied territories and are calling on everyone who has received Russian passports to do the same.

At the same time, he noted that the occupiers are trying to intimidate local civilians with quick active military operations, and under this pretext they carry out a “voluntary-compulsory” evacuation of the population, taking Ukrainians through the occupied Crimea or the Donetsk region to Russia.

The head of the Zaporozhye region noted that the Russian military increased the number of shelling from artillery and MLRS on Ukrainian positions. In the occupied cities, Russian soldiers began to cancel a number of events by May 9, banned mass gatherings of people and increased the duration of the curfew.

Malashko also said that according to the Ukrainian military, the occupiers are taking away cars from local residents, which are actively taking valuable property and equipment out of the occupied territories of the region.

Recall that yesterday, May 7, the mayor of Energodar, Dmitry Orlov, denied the recent announcements of the occupiers about the mass evacuation of the local population and confirmed the partial evacuation and panic among the citizens who issued Russian passports.

We also recall that on May 5, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Anatoly Shtefan said that the mass “evacuation” of civilians from the temporarily occupied settlements of the Zaporozhye region may indicate the preparation of provocations by the RF Armed Forces.

Entrepreneur Andrei Kovalev, who expected to capture Kiev in 2-3 weeks, admitted that the Ukrainian army has become one of the most combat-ready in Europe and warned that after the defeat of Russia, something much worse than the “Volyn massacre” would begin.

Russian businessman Andrei Kovalev was afraid of the victory of Ukraine and predicted a sad future for the Russian Federation. A video with a Russian entrepreneur was published by a number of Telegram channels.

At the beginning of the video, Kovalev stated that the full-scale invasion of the Russian Armed Forces into Ukraine had long ceased to be a “special operation” and turned into a “terrible war” in which the whole world stood up against the Kremlin.

The businessman also expressed indignation at the fact that the military-political leadership of Russia from the very beginning did not consider the scenario in which the allied countries helped Ukraine.

“The whole world came to the aid of Ukraine. Did anyone predict, analyze, assume?” Kovalev asked a rhetorical question.

The Russian businessman acknowledged that in 2022 the RF Armed Forces were no longer dealing with a weakened state, which in 2014 could not resist the annexation of Crimea.

“It turned out that we are not dealing with the weak state that it was in 2014, when we took Crimea without firing a shot. God forbid, Russia will lose! They will cut everyone out,” Kovalev said.

Andrei Kovalev is the chairman of the All-Russian Movement of Entrepreneurs, co-chairman of the Moscow Council of Entrepreneurs, member of the Izborsk Club, businessman, owner of the Grebnevo estate and the Ecooffice group of companies. Also known in the Russian Federation as the leader of the rock group “Pilgrim”.

Recall that on May 7, the President of the Czech Republic warned Ukraine about mistakes during the counteroffensive. Petr Pavel believes that Ukraine has only one chance to defeat the RF Armed Forces on the battlefield, so it should take advantage of it.

In addition, The Washington Post, after talking with President Vladimir Zelensky and Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, wrote that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may not justify hopes. According to Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, the world’s expectations of future events on the battlefield are slightly overestimated, and President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to insist on the supply of weapons that are taboo for Western partners.

The Rostec State Corporation plans to improve the armament of the Su-25 attack aircraft based on the experience of the war in Ukraine.

The Russian state corporation “Rostec” plans to modify the Su-25 attack aircraft for new methods of destruction. It is reported by TASS.

The experience of the war against Ukraine prompted the Russian Federation to modernize the Su-25. The attack aircraft will receive new weapons, said Vladimir Artyakov, deputy general director of the state corporation. According to him, attack aircraft constantly show their effectiveness on the battlefield. The work will be based on the Su-25SM3, because it can fire precision weapons.

“We will continue to improve this machine, taking into account the experience of using it in the NVO zone, including its refinement for new weapons,” Artyakov said.

The Su-25M3 is a Soviet/Russian attack aircraft that is used to support infantry on the battlefield. As propagandists write, the main upgrades in the RF PKS are the Su-25SM, Su-25SM3 and Su-25UB. The latter is designed for learning.

Basically, Russian aviation used the Su-25 to carry out pitch-up strikes. To do this, the nose of the aircraft is turned up to increase the range of the missile, but accuracy suffers from this. Recently, attack aircraft have received winged bombs, which are a new threat on the battlefield.

Recall that on May 1, the Ukrainian Air Force showed the American unguided Zuni missiles, which, despite their year, are better than their Soviet counterparts.

On April 19, the State Border Guard Service told about the Bakhmut hunter for aircraft of the Russian Federation. The fighter shot down two planes: Su-24 and Su-25.