You missed the newest occasions on the war in Ukraine ? 20 Minutes takes inventory for you each night. Right here is the gist of this Wednesday, Could 6, 2026, on the 1,533rd day of the battle.
Information of the day
A thunderous rejection. It was by way of drone and missile strikes, which notably left two useless in Sumy (north), that the Russia responded to the proposal of Volodymyr Zelensky of a ceasefire coming into power at midnight on the evening of Tuesday to Wednesday. It stays to be seen whether or not Ukraine will respect the opposite truce, the one decreed for Could 8 and 9 by Vladimir Poutine to permit peaceable celebrations of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
“It’s apparent to any cheap individual {that a} large-scale battle and the each day killing of individuals represent a really unhealthy time for public ‘celebrations’,” Volodymyr Zelensky commented on Wednesday, suggesting that he would reciprocate in Moscow.
Sentence of the day
« We’re right here to remind you that the one Russian tradition, the one Russian artwork right this moment, is blood. »
Smoke bombs, naked breasts and Ukrainian flags… The pre-opening of the Venice Biennale, the biggest up to date artwork exhibition on the earth, was disrupted this Wednesday by demonstrations by the Ukrainian feminist collective Femen and the Russian group Pussy Riot. The rationale? The opening, for the primary time since 2022, of a Russian pavilion inside the occasion.
The variety of the day
35 million euros. The quantity returned in money by the Hungary to Ukraine, with 9 kg of gold. The notes and bars have been confiscated in March through the interception of a money convoy and the arrest of seven Ukrainian financial institution staff, at a time when relations have been frosty between kyiv and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Now that the latter is not in energy, the local weather is clearly warming up between the 2 international locations.
At the moment’s pattern
Is the Ukrainian subject coming again to the desk? Donald Trump ? US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov referred to as one another on Tuesday night and mentioned the battle in Iran and Ukraine, in line with the State Division.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
“They talked in regards to the Russia-US relationship, the Russia-Ukraine battle, and Iran,” State Division spokesman Tommy Pigott stated in a press release.
