The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that a criminal case had been instituted against an employee of the Azovstal plant for handing over a scheme of tunnels, shelters and communications to the Russian army.

The case was instituted on the facts of treason and collaboration.

According to the investigation, after the transfer of the schemes, the Russian troops began to purposefully fire on the premises where civilians of Mariupol and wounded defenders of the city were hiding.

The investigation is being conducted by investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

According to Ukrainian defenders, on May 9, the Russians made 34 flights, of which 8 flights were made by strategic bombers.

Representatives of the Azov Regiment report that enemy naval and barrel artillery, tanks and anti-aircraft systems continue to operate.

"The enemy does not stop trying to capture the Ukrainian fortress and continues to storm with the support of infantry," - said in a telegram channel of the Azov Regiment in Mariupol.

Earlier, Ukrainian authorities said that in several stages they were able to evacuate from "Azovstal" all women, children and the elderly.

However, according to other sources, about 100 civilians remain in the basement of the plant.

The leadership of the Azov Regiment called on the authorities to urgently remove the wounded soldiers and the bodies of the dead.

Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

  On February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

• All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

  Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

• On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

  Belarusians also entered there.

  During the two months of the war, four Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU were killed at the front: 31-year-old Alyaksei Skoblya, call sign "Tour", 27-year-old Ilya Litvin from the Belarusian Territorial Defense Company of the Azov Battalion, Dmitry Apanasovich (call sign "Terror"). and Dmitry Rubashevsky "Hans".

• On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

  It included people who worked in the conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

  The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

• The number of refugees from Ukraine has exceeded 5 million people.

  Poland received the most refugees from Ukraine - almost 3 million, Romania - about 800 thousand.

  Russia is listed on the third line with more than half a million people, but in Ukraine, based on conversations with the population of the occupied cities, they claim that people are taken there by force, actually kidnapping and often separating families, taking children.

• On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

  Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

  Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

• On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in natural mass graves.

  The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

  A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

• In April, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, conquering about 80% of their territory, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai.

  Fighting is also going on in the Kherson region.

• Fighting continues in Mariupol, near the Azovstal plant, which holds the Ukrainian army.

  Russia seeks to establish full control over the city.

• In early April, Ukraine and Western countries estimated Russia's losses in the war at 15-20 thousand killed.

  The Kremlin says the figure is ten times lower, although Putin's spokesman acknowledged that the losses were "significant".

  In March, Ukraine claimed 1,300 of its dead defenders.

  President Zelensky said that the ratio of losses of Ukraine and Russia in this war is "one to ten."

• The surviving Russian units withdrew from Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy oblasts in early April after failing to capture any major cities there.

• In April, the number of missile attacks on Ukraine and air strikes from Belarus decreased, and Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

• Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 26 media representatives have been killed - 19 journalists and 7 other workers.

• On May 3, Russia launched a new assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

  People were killed in the bombings.

  Only on May 7, Iryna Verashchuk, Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, reported that all women, children and the elderly had been evacuated from the enterprise.

  Most of the soldiers of the Azov Regiment remained, defending the city to the end.

• Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.