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A destroyed house in the village of Malaya Rogan, Kharkiv region, one of the settlements just liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this region of Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers inspect the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter in the Kharkiv region.

The body of a killed Russian soldier near Kharkov.

A resident of Mariupol in her apartment destroyed by artillery shelling. Most of Mariupol is under the control of Russian troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Burnt trams in Mariupol. The unblocking of this city by military means is not yet possible due to the lack of heavy weapons. Vladimir Zelensky announced this at a press conference in Kyiv on May 8.

Lights shine through the windows of evacuation buses for residents of Mariupol who arrived at a refugee center in the city of Zaporozhye on May 8.

A resident of Mariupol in an evacuation bus in the city of Zaporozhye. Among those brought here in recent days were also civilians from the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Ivan Andreev kisses his cat Leonardo. On May 8, more than 170 people arrived in Zaporozhye from Mariupol on ten buses. Two days earlier, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that about 500 civilians had been evacuated from the Azovstal plant.

“The President’s order has been fulfilled: all women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from Azovstal,” Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said at the end of last week.

Rescue work after a Russian strike on a school in the village of Belogorovka, Luhansk region, in the building of which local residents were hiding from shelling. According to the Ukrainian authorities, on May 7, 60 people died here.

At the end of last week, Chairman of the German Bundestag Berbel Bass visited Ukraine. The head of the German parliament laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kyiv, met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, and also visited Bucha, where this photo was taken.

Among the foreign politicians who visited Ukraine in recent days was also Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The head of the Canadian government, in particular, was invited to the awards ceremony for employees of the State Emergency Service (GSES) …

Among those awarded on this day was the dog sapper Patron, who received the medal “For Selfless Service” from the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The cartridge helps to search for mines in the liberated territories, has already become a star of social networks and is a kind of talisman of the State Emergency Service.

On May 8, Ukraine was visited by the first lady of the United States – the wife of President Joe Biden. Jill Biden arrived in Uzhgorod near the border with Slovakia, where she met with the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena Zelenskaya. The photo was taken at a school where refugees from the regions of Ukraine where hostilities were taking place were settled.

The National Military History Museum of Ukraine has been replenished with new exhibits. Destroyed Russian military equipment and some individual fragments are exhibited near the building, in particular, the tail section of the downed aircraft.

“Putler. The cauldron is warmed up! Inferno awaits you…” – an image and an inscription in Ukrainian on a tombstone in the middle of a highway near Kyiv.

In the Kiev metro at the station “Khreshchatyk” on May 8, one could hear the performance of the lead vocalist of the rock band U2 Bono, who was also accompanied by another member of this group – Edge. During the concert, they were also joined by the frontman of the Ukrainian band “Antitelya” Taras Topolya, now a member of the territorial defense.

Berlin was at the center of events around May 8 and 9 in Germany. You can read about it in the DW report “The day the war in Europe ended. As it was celebrated in Berlin.” However, this and the final frame of the photo chronicle were taken in Cologne, where actions were held with both Russian and Ukrainian flags.

As a caption to this frame from Cologne, we will cite the words of Volodymyr Zelensky from an address dated May 9: “We are fighting for freedom for our children and therefore we will win. We will never forget what our ancestors did in World War II, in which more than eight million died Ukrainians. And very soon there will be two days of victory in Ukraine. And someone will not have a single one.”

Author: Nikolay Permyakov