A building burns after Russian strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine, May 5, 2025

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UPDATE 0632 GMT:

Ukraine’s air defenses downed 89 of 108 Russian drones fired overnight.

The Russians also fired two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and one Kh-31 guided air missile.

The missiles and nine drones hit eight locations.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced “Russian scumbags” who murdered at least 27 civilians on Tuesday.

Russia attacked across Ukraine with missiles, hundreds of drones, and glide bombs. The deadliest assault was on the Zaporizhzhia region in the south, where 12 people were killed and 39 wounded amid strikes on a car repair shop and residential buildings.

Zelensky posted, “This is an utterly cynical, devoid of any military sense terrorist strike.”

An hour later, six civilians were murdered and 12 wounded in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. In the evening, four people were slain in Dnipro in the southeast.

At the outset of Tuesday, Russian strikes on State-run gas facilities in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions killed three employees and two rescue workers.

Zelensky emphasized, “It is important for Russia to be forced to stop this war of theirs. Silence without such and other strikes is needed every day, not just a few hours somewhere for ‘celebrations. Lives must be protected.”

The President had proposed a ceasefire beginning at the start of Wednesday. Russia’s Victory Day, marking triumph over Germany in World War II, is on Friday.