The national flag of Ukraine flies next to a stele at the entrance to Kherson, Ukraine, November 16, 2024. Photo: Maria Senovilla/EPA Kherson is enmeshed in a fiber-optic web left behind by attacking Russian drones. And every day there is more and more of it The war in Kherson became the everyday background of existence.

Rescuers at the scene of a drone strike on a kindergarten in Sumy, Ukraine, May 6, 2026. Photo: Reuters / Scanpix / LETA “New Europe” has collected a chronology of the latest shellings Ukraine declared a truce in anticipation of May 9, which began on May 6. Russia also declared a truce starting May 8. The countries did not agree on these decisions among themselves, and also repeatedly broke promises in recent days. New-Europe tells everything you need to know about the current situation.

A Russian serviceman during training in the Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, May 4, 2026. Photo: Alexander Polegenko / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA A Russian soldier survived an infantry assault for two months, starved in a basement and shot a colleague. Dmitry Durnev met with this soldier Danil, a short 24-year-old man with funny protruding ears, very thin and pale after several weeks of forced hunger strike, sits in front of me on a chair in poorly fitting sweatpants and a warm drink.

Photo: Aaron Schwartz/EPA Moscow and Kyiv supported the proposal US President Donald Trump announced a three-day truce between Russia and Ukraine, timed to coincide with Victory Day. It will last from May 9 to 11. Truce conditions. The ceasefire will include a suspension of all hostilities, Trump said. Moscow and Kyiv will also exchange 1,000 prisoners. According to Trump, it was he who initiated the truce, and Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky supported it.

Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” What is known about the case Muscovite Alexandra Zhitenko worked as a dishwasher in the cadet corps of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) named after Alexander Nevsky. On May 6, the court sentenced her to 19 years in prison on charges of recruiting cadets into the Russian Freedom Legion. Her story, which we know from statements by the Investigative Committee and testimony in court, is woven from contradictory episodes.

Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA The Putin administration has begun developing a set of propaganda talking points designed to sell a potential peace deal with Ukraine to the Russian public, according to an investigation by the Dossier Center. The initiative reportedly began in late winter.

Photo: MSK1.RU Since May 4, about 1,000 departure flights and over 1,200 landing flights have been delayed at Moscow airports Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, New-Europe calculated. Another 300 departure and landing flights were cancelled. Record for cancellations. Most flights were canceled yesterday to Vnukovo. So, 111 planes were unable to take off from there, and another 70 were unable to arrive. At the same time, there were practically no cancellations at other capital airports.

Forest fire in the Chernobyl zone. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine A forest fire continues for the second day in the Chernobyl zone, the extinguishing of which is complicated by strong winds and the presence of mines in some areas, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported . According to rescuers, the fire area exceeded 1,100 hectares or 11 square kilometers, while the area of ​​the entire exclusion zone is 2,600 square kilometers.

The “Legend” detachment has been searching for and reburying military personnel who died on the territory of Latvia in World War II for more than a quarter of a century. Most often, search engines find Soviet soldiers - tens of thousands of them remain on Latvian soil. Search and identification is complicated by the fact that the USSR leadership did not issue tokens to the Red Army soldiers, and paper documents in the ground quickly deteriorated.

Photo: Exilenova+ How residents of the capital of Chuvashia are experiencing the consequences of the largest air attack on the city during the war On the night of May 5, the capital of Chuvashia, the city of Cheboksary, was subjected to the most powerful attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the war.

Military parade on Red Square in Moscow. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA The Kremlin has revoked the accreditation of foreign media for the May 9 military parade in Moscow. This was reported by Der Spiegel, whose journalists were deprived of invitations to the event. “The format of the parade coverage was changed due to the situation. Therefore, foreign media that have already been promised accreditation are no longer allowed,” a Kremlin employee told the magazine.

Photo: Podyom The regional prosecutor’s office for Russia’s Novosibirsk region has launched an inquiry into a Victory Day holiday banner displayed in the city featuring a photograph of an orangutan, according to state news agency TASS. Initial reports indicated that the federal media regulator Roskomnadzor was also looking into the banner, though that detail was subsequently removed from state media coverage without explanation.

An ambulance carrying a patient from the cruise ship MV Hondius, believed to be infected with hantavirus. Leiden, Netherlands, May 6. Photo: Josh Walet / EPA Where did the disease come from, why is it dangerous and who is at risk? An outbreak of a dangerous strain of hantavirus on board the cruise ship MV Hondius killed three people. In total, at least eight people are infected.