News and views from Ukraine. We are independent & community-funded. Support us: 💙 http://buymeacoffee.com/EuromaidanPress 💛 http://patreon.com/EuromaidanPress https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3ml25wn7tsv2f"No army in Europe or the US can wage modern war the way Ukraine does" — Finland's President Stubb in Prague, urging Europe to stop asking what Ukraine needs from it and start asking what it can offer. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/europe-has-2-mn-troops-russia-1-3-mn-ukraine-800000-and-kyiv-is-the-one-teaching-stubb-says/04 May 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml25wn7tsv2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3ml24axnkzp24Germany is sending Ukraine an 84 MW gas-fired power plant — the same one that warmed Russian gas as it flowed into Nord Stream 1. Operator Sefe: humanitarian aid, self-pickup. AfD: "absurd" — Die Welt https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/germany-hands-ukraine-the-gas-plant-that-warmed-russias-nord-stream/04 May 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml24axnkzp24https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3ml22lh2qjz2hRussia launched 75 drones at Ukrainian ports in the first four months of 2025. In the same window of 2026 — over 800 Ports have still processed nearly 30 mn tonnes of cargo this year, says Vice PM Kuleba. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/russia-fired-75-drones-at-ukrainian-ports-in-early-2025-this-year-the-figure-is-over-800/04 May 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml22lh2qjz2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzyvovka32mUkraine's Defense Forces struck at least 14 oil infrastructure facilities across Russia in April alone The strikes reached targets in the Urals, the Volga region, Baltic and Black Sea ports, and even offshore Caspian Sea platforms 1,000 km away https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/from-caspian-sea-to-baltic-coast-ukraines-april-strike-campaign-reached-every-corner-of-russias-oil-empire/04 May 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzyvovka32mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkztuqbx5i26Russia hit a record oil revenue month in March: $19 billion, nearly double February's. Its own Finance Ministry recorded a 234 billion ruble shortfall against the same month's baseline. Iran-war prices saved the headline. They didn't save the budget.04 May 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkztuqbx5i26https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzqjiexbz23NATO no longer deters Russia. Europe's leaders know it. So Canada, the Nordics, UK, France, Germany, and Ukraine started meeting—Davos in January, Oslo and Helsinki in March—and built the alternative without naming it. NATO is dead. Meet CALM. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/nato-is-dead-meet-calm/04 May 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzqjiexbz23https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzghlbaom26A Russian missile struck Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast on the morning of 4 May, killing 5 civilians and injuring 19 The hit damaged an auto service station, 4 shops, and private and apartment buildings. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/russian-missile-turns-monday-morning-in-kharkiv-oblast-into-a-mass-casualty-scene-4-dead-18-wounded-in-kharkiv-oblast/04 May 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzghlbaom26https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzerwgzad26Zelenskyy at the EPC summit in Yerevan: Russia's 9 May parade in Moscow will be held without military equipment "for the first time in many, many years" — and Ukrainian drones "may also fly over this parade." https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/eve-of-the-epc-summit-zelenskyy-meets-starmer-babis-orpo-and-store-in-yerevan/04 May 2026 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzerwgzad26https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzd4cntp22eA Kenyan was promised a day-laborer job in Russia. By August he was in a Ukrainian trench, asking for prayers. He has never been heard from since. NYT on Russia's African recruitment pipeline: fake travel agencies on WhatsApp, contracts in Russian. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/nyt-growing-number-of-african-men-sign-up-for-civilian-jobs-in-russia-and-end-up-on-the-ukrainian-front-line/04 May 2026 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzd4cntp22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkzbgnexol2mRussian "air Wagner" is alive — and flying through Algeria A Defense News investigation tracked 167 Russian shadow airline flights to Algeria in 14 months — many staging at Su-57, Su-35, etc. assembly plants, then leaping onward to Niger, Guinea, Latin America. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/167-flights-one-country-how-russia-turned-algeria-into-its-african-air-bridge-investigation/04 May 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzbgnexol2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkz7qyzgwn2mA drone struck a high-rise on Moscow's Mosfilmovskaya Street overnight — 6 km from the Kremlin Mayor Sobyanin: "no casualties." Russia's MoD claims 117 UAVs downed across 14 oblasts and Moscow Oblast. Samara reported an attack too. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/04/drone-slams-into-moscow-high-rise-6-km-from-kremlin-sobyanin-says-no-casualties-airports-halt-operations/04 May 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkz7qyzgwn2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkyncvsq252cValeriy Vakulenko sentenced to 18 years for destroying a Russian invaders' tank in March 2022 khpg.org/en/1608815720 https://khpg.org/en/160881572004 May 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyncvsq252chttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxx5db3em2eLasar's Group unit's drone crews have hunted down a rare Russian R-330Zh Zhitel EW station and a command-and-staff vehicle in Kharkiv Oblast. The Zhitel jams Ukrainian drones, satellite signals, and cellular networks. Only a handful have been confirmed destroyed since 2022. 📹 Lasar's Group03 May 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxx5db3em2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxug24gvk2cOccupied Luhansk now: a series of explosions Yesterday, outages were reported in several more occupied cities in the region — Kadiivka, Sokolohirsk, Holubivka, Irmino. 📹 Exilenova+03 May 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxug24gvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxtf6rql722Ukraine drone forces destroyed a Russian Pantsir, a Tor, two radars across occupied areas April's tally for SBS: 38 air defense and radars gone. 🔗https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/pantsir-tor-two-p-18-radars-what-ukraines-unmanned-systems-forces-destroyed-in-the-first-48-hours-of-may/03 May 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxtf6rql722https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxsiou3qb2hIn Yerevan, Ukraine's Zelenskyy met with PMs Støre of Norway, Orpo of Finland, Starmer of the UK, and Babiš of Czechia. Zelenskyy's presence is a direct slap to Putin — Armenia still hosts a Russian military base and is formally inside Russia's CSTO, a discount NATO clone. 📷 president.gov.ua03 May 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxsiou3qb2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxqsxo3jk24A Russian signal-relay balloon crossed into Ukraine from Belarus on the evening of 2 May, Ukraine's State Border Guard Service confirmed. This was the "specific activity" on the Belarus border that President Zelenskyy warned about the day before. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/russia-is-using-belarus-as-a-launch-pad-for-signal-relay-balloons-that-help-its-drones-reach-ukrainian-cities/03 May 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxqsxo3jk24https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxp5cw7b624It's not Photoshop. A homeless dog in Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, has turned bright green after chewing through food coloring and rolling in it. The volunteers who evacuated her named her Hala Green. She's in good health. Now she's just very, very green. 📷 X/BylByleva03 May 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxp5cw7b624https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxnhoyd652mRussia just hit Zaporizhzhia city with guided aerial bombs and drones in two waves on the evening of 3 May, local authorities reported. At least nine wounded, including a 2-year-old child and a 12-year-old girl. Ages of the injured: 2 to 67. 📷 TG/Ivan Fedorov03 May 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxnhoyd652mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxgs45vjb2hPresident Zelenskyy arrived in Yerevan, Armenia. He is expected to meet with the prime ministers of the UK, Norway, Finland, and the Czechia. 📹 X/ZelenskyyUa03 May 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxgs45vjb2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxfafdmod2hRussia has struck a dormitory in a residential block in Dnipro on 3 May, killing one person and injuring 11, the Dnipropetrovsk ODA reported. Six are hospitalized. A dormitory was damaged. People were sheltering in the basement during the attack. Among those treated on the spot: a 9-year-old girl.03 May 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxfafdmod2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxf3hh4ya2hUkrainian drones just hit a Russian Karakurt-class missile corvette at Primorsk port in the Baltic. The ship was reportedly sent to defend Russia's largest Baltic oil terminal from Ukrainian drones. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/eight-kalibrs-that-wont-reach-ukraine-ukrainian-special-operations-forces-struck-russian-missile-corvette-at-primorsk/03 May 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxf3hh4ya2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkxa2kanrv26Ukraine's General Staff added a new line to its Russian-losses tally on 3 May: ground robotic complexes. 1,306 destroyed in total, 12 in the past day. Both Ukraine and Russia have moved their last-mile logistics off manned vehicles and onto small robots. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/ukraine-just-added-a-new-line-to-its-russian-losses-ledger-ground-robots-the-count-starts-at-1306/03 May 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxa2kanrv26https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkx4padl6b2qA Russian drone struck a bus that had been carrying 40 children at a petrol station near Dnipro on the morning of 3 May. Six wounded, including a 10yo boy and a pregnant 21yo woman. Across Ukraine, Russians killed eight civilians and injured around 90. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/40-children-narrowly-escape-russian-drone-strike-on-bus-near-dnipro-six-wounded-include-a-child-and-a-pregnant-woman/03 May 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx4padl6b2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwxocawgr2qRussia struck Odesa Oblast overnight, hitting civilian and port infrastructure. Two people were killed and five were wounded. Three residential houses took direct drone hits, and two more were damaged. Port buildings and equipment were also damaged, per Oblast Administration.03 May 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwxocawgr2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwvyorscn26Russia lost ground in Ukraine in April 2026 for the first time since August 2024, ISW says. Russian forces lost control of 116 km² in April 2026. Daily Russian gains have dropped from 9.76 km² in early 2025 to 2.9 km² in early 2026, per the think tank. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/isw-russia-lost-ground-in-ukraine-in-april-2026-first-net-loss-since-the-kursk-incursion-of-august-2024/03 May 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwvyorscn26https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwvqr32d72hRussia struck near a petrol station in Krynychky community, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on 3 May. A bus carrying about 40 children was damaged. The children had left the bus by the time of the strike. Six people are wounded, incl a 10-year-old boy and a pregnant woman. 📷 TG/Dnipropetrovsk OVA03 May 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwvqr32d72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwsnehjzw24Two Russian shadow fleet tankers hit at the entrance to Novorossiysk port — Russia's biggest Black Sea oil hub. Zelenskyy posted thermal naval drone footage of one of the strikes on 3 May. The Ukrainian Navy and SBU counterintelligence ran the operation. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/kinetic-sanctions-in-action-two-more-russian-shadow-fleet-tankers-hit-at-novorossiysk-the-second-naval-drone-strike-in-five-days/03 May 2026 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwsnehjzw24https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwlk5srf72oUkrainian drones hit Russia's largest Baltic oil export terminal at Primorsk overnight on 2-3 May. The Leningrad governor admitted the port was "the key target." NASA satellites confirmed fresh fires. The strike ends nearly a month of relative quiet there. 🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/03/primorsk-takes-the-torch-from-tuapse-nasa-satellites-confirm-fresh-fires-at-russias-largest-baltic-oil-export-terminal/03 May 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwlk5srf72ohttps://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3mkwa7bcfjx2mMelitopol hostage sentenced to 26 years for supposed attempts on the life of a Russian-installed traitor khpg.org/en/1608815719 https://khpg.org/en/160881571903 May 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:dsssax6ne5ghruk6velxnbp4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwa7bcfjx2m