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Russo-Ukraine War - 08 May 2025 - Day 1170

A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While GlobalSecurity.org takes utmost care to accurately report this news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.

On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

The UK Ministry of Defence reported that on 4 May 2025, Russian President Putin was reported as stating that since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 'There has been no need to use those (nuclear) weapons ... and I hope they will not be required.' He also reportedly claimed that 'Russia alone, in fact, is confronting the entire collective West'.

Putin's allusion to the potential Russian use of nuclear weapons continues the trend of ambiguously threatening nuclear rhetoric expressed by Russia's senior leadership since at least 2007, which has heightened since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The Russian senior leadership regularly refers to the conflict against Ukraine as a war against the 'entire collective West, as opposed to the initially posited, so-called 'special military operation, implicitly limited in time and scale. The rhetoric evidenced in this trend highly likely seeks to excuse both the length of the conflict, and the continually increasing scale of Russian losses (likely over 950,000 casualties, including 200,000 - 250,000 Russian soldiers killed). It is also highly likely aimed at situating the domestic population for a longer-term conflict and the associated decline in domestic living standards.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Ukrainian defenders continue to decisively thwart the Russian enemy's attempts to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, giving him an effective fire effect and exhaustion across the frontline.

Since the beginning of this day, there have been 154 combat clashes.

Russian zagarbniki inflicted one rocket and 15 aviation strikes, using one rocket and 25 cab. In addition, the Russians involved 830 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,685 shelling of positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements.

In the Kharkiv direction throughout the day, Ukrainian troops repelled four Russian attacks in the area of Vovchanska.
In the Kupiansky direction Ukrainian defenders repelled four assaults in the areas of Synkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, New Kruglyakivka and in the direction of Novoosinovoye. One battle is still going on.
In the Lyman direction during the day Russian zagarbniks 21 times attacked the positions of Ukrainians near the settlements of Nadia, Novoyegorivka, Ridkodub, Grekivka, Novomikhailivka, Kolodyazi, Green Valley and Torske. One fight is still going on.
Five Russian assault actions in the areas of Bilogorivka and Fedorivka were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Siversk direction.
In the Kramators ненkomu direction, six combat clashes have been recorded in the areas of Chasovoye Yar and Kurdyumivka, of which three are ongoing.
In the Toretsky direction Russians seven times attacked the positions of Defense Forces. The main efforts of the attack were concentrated near Crimea and Toretsk.
Since the beginning of this day in the Pokrovsky direction, Zagarbnic ріїkí units 55 times tried to break through Ukrainian defense near the settlements of Oleksandropil, Elizabethtivka, Hrodivka, Mirolyubivka, Dachenka, Zvirove, Kotline, Udaachne, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyarivka, Preobrazhenka and Andriyivka. Five clashes are ongoing so far.
Today in this direction, according to preliminary calculations, Ukrainian soldiers damaged 407 Russian occupants, 225 of them - irrevocably; destroyed four cars, 19 motorcycles, a satellite terminal and antenna of BPLA; also damaged a tank and five motorcycles of the enemy.
In the Novopavlívs Наkomu direction, Russian forces attacked 25 times near Rozlivu, Novosilka, Novopol, Privilny and Burlatsky. Twenty-four attacks have already been repelled, one confrontation is ongoing.
In the oríhívs ерkomu direction, Ukrainian defenders fought off three Russian attacks in the area of stepovoye and šcherbakív.
In the Pridniprovsk direction, Russian forces made five failed attempts to move forward.
In the Kurs єkomu direction, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine within a day repelled 16 attacks of Russian zagarbnikív, two more confrontations are unfinished. In addition, Russian forces launched 8 air strikes using 11 guided bombs and carried out 245 artillery shells to positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements, including three from reactive arson systems.
In other directions, the situation has not changed significantly.