at the same time as that russian parade ukraine has been celebrating your day. here s a correspondent will stop as victory day celebrations were held in russia president zelensky hosted the head of the eu commission. here president zelensky hosted the head of the eu commission. of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear sign of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear sign of of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear sign of of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear sign of kyiv - of the eu commission. here in key mac a clear sign of kyiv break. mac a clear sign of kyiv break from russia. he set we need to be. this happened as presidents lenski is moving to shift ukraine marks victory day which is the victory day of nazi germany in 19115. from may the 9th when russia celebrates it to may the 8th the day that western
countries mark this date. president zelensky says that men may the 9th will be a day that ukraine will be celebrating europe. this came hours after kyiv was attacked again, the fifth time in nine days that the capital came under attack. the crean union military said it destroyed 23 of the 25 missiles that russia had launched ukrainian. we heard the air raid alert here at four o clock in the morning and there were no casualties after this latest wave of attacks. we have seen that russia has intensified these attacks with missiles and drones targeting cities and towns away from the front lines. i think the strategy here is to try to test and exhaust the country s air defence systems. as he claims is, it is finishing its preparation for a much dissipated
and a variety of ammunition. ukraine has accused russia of using incendiary ammunitions in bakhmut. it seems russian efforts to try to take the remaining part of that city that it doesn t yet occupy are intensifying. on the flip side, ukraine is doing everything it can to prevent russia from bringing home a victory ahead of may the 9th, which is of course tomorrow, tuesday. i cannot overstate the performance of this day in russia. it s a huge part of their national identity. tens of millions of people killed. we know that it has in multiple regions, particularly those closer to ukraine, been scaling back some of the celebrations. some regions citing security concerns, others saying there s a lack of available weapons to show off. i think that is a notable context, given that we re now almost 15 months into this war. even so, i think we can expect to see a lot of this as a rehearsal from st. petersburg, a lot of the kind of ceremony we ve seen in recent years. clare, we know ukraine c
celebrate victory day. this is a huge holiday in russia. russia lost an order of magnitude more people, both soldiers and civilians, tens of millions in the second world war. it s a huge part of their national identity. we re hearing quite a few regions saying they re scaling back celebrations, most of them near the russian border with ukraine. some citing security concerns. one saying they don t have military equipment or military units, various things to prompt them to scale back. this used to be a day that russia marked in conjunction with the west. this was a shared victory. in the past we ve seen western dignitaries attend the celebrations. in 2010, we saw western troops march alongside russian troops in red square. so this is a big turnaround. now we see no western dignitaries there. as you noted, president zelenskyy even distancing ukraine from celebrating victory day on may the 9th, saying going
our viewers joining us around the united states and the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster, ahead on cnn newsroom. i saw people running, i saw my manager looking to us, because they were terrified and scared. this is not the texas miracle as greg abbott likes to call it. we re living in a texas nightmare. these people think it s safer for them to be here, already in u.s. territory hard the barbed wire. border is not open, it was not open and it will not be open subsequent to may 11th. ukraine is doing everything it can to prevent russia from bringing home a victory may the 9th. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom.