Ukraine strikes Russian military facility more than 1,000 kilometres into Moscow's territory

Published on 05/05/2026 - 16:29 GMT+2

Ukraine struck a critically important military-industrial analyzable successful Russia connected Tuesday, conscionable days earlier the Kremlin’s Victory Day parade connected 9 May.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a video of launches of domestically-made Flamingo cruise missiles, which helium said covered a region of much than 1,500km to onslaught a installation successful Cheboksary successful the Russian Federation's Chuvash Republic.

The installation successful question is simply a Russian authorities institute that produces components for high-precision weapons utilized by Moscow to onslaught Ukraine.

"The struck subject accumulation installation manufactured relay extortion systems, automation equipment, and low-voltage apparatus," Zelenskyy wrote.

"Russia indispensable extremity its warfare and determination to existent diplomacy. We person made our proposal."

Zelenskyy announced connected Monday that Ukraine is declaring a ceasefire opening astatine midnight connected Wednesday. The connection came successful effect to Russia’s unilateral declaration of a ceasefire for its Victory Day parade.

“We judge that quality beingness is acold much invaluable than immoderate day ‘celebration’,” Zelenskyy said, referring to Russia’s upcoming 9 May commemorations.

He warned that the timeframe of the projected truce astatine midnight connected the nighttime of 5–6 May would beryllium capable to trial whether a genuine intermission successful warring could beryllium respected.

“We volition enactment reciprocally starting from that moment,” Zelenskyy said.

"It is clip for Russian leaders to instrumentality existent steps to extremity their war, particularly since Russia’s defence ministry believes it cannot clasp a parade successful Moscow without Ukraine’s goodwill."

Victory Day blackout

Russia has reportedly started cutting disconnected mobile net services to galore users starting from Tuesday.

Russian banks, including the country’s largest, Sberbank, besides cautioned that determination could beryllium issues with mobile net and currency withdrawals.

This twelvemonth the parade successful Moscow volition besides beryllium importantly scaled back, according to the Kremlin.

It would not diagnostic subject vehicles oregon cadets owed to what the Kremlin described arsenic "current operational situation”.

“All measures are being taken to minimise the danger," Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier arsenic helium referred to what Moscow called a “terrorist threat” from Ukraine.

The information that the parade is scaled down is seen arsenic an important indicator of the concern successful Russia’s subject and of unit and instrumentality shortages.

The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) deliberation vessel assessed that successful April, Russian forces mislaid territory they occupied successful Ukraine for the archetypal clip successful implicit a twelvemonth and a half.

The ISW said it has grounds that Moscow mislaid power of 116 quadrate kilometres implicit the people of past month.

The deliberation vessel explained that the Russian complaint of beforehand crossed the battlefield has been steadily declining since November 2025," arsenic continued Ukrainian crushed counterattacks and mid-range strikes, the February artifact connected Russia’s usage of Starlink terminals successful Ukraine, and the Kremlin’s throttling of Telegram person exacerbated existing problems wrong the Russian military.