Closer to midnight, the Russians struck Odessa again. 7 rockets were fired from the planes, which hit the shopping center and warehouse of ready-made consumer goods. These objects were not related to military infrastructure, and were not warehouses of weapons or ammunition.

*** On May 9, US President Joe Biden signed the law on lend-lease military weapons for Ukraine. The last time a similar procedure was used during the Second World War.

*** Leonid Kravchuk (1934 - 2022), the first president of Ukraine, died. He was 88 years old.