Ukraine – the most important events on May 5, 2025. Statement of Vladimir Putin, sharp words of Viktor Orban

1165 days ago, Russia's armed invasion of Ukraine began. Vladimir Putin said that his country “has enough strength and resources to lead a war with Ukraine to a logical ending with the necessary result.” Viktor Orban in sharp words responded to Wołodymyr Zelnski about the accession of Ukraine to the European Union. Here are the most important events of the last day around the war in Ukraine.

> In the program dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the selection of Putin as president of Russia, which passed on March 26, Putin was asked by a journalist about the issue of use against Ukraine nuclear weapons. He announced in response that “there was no need” of its use and that “he hopes that it would not be needed.” He then added: “We have enough strength and resources to bring what we started in 2022 to logically end with the necessary Russia with the result.”

> Cited by the Ukrainian Service, Wołodymyr Zielnski estimated that by blocking the accession of Ukraine to the EU, Orban wants to use the Ukrainian issue before the parliamentary elections planned for 2026 Hungary. “The president or bureaucrats in Brussels do not decide what the Hungarians think.

> The President of Ukraine Wołodymyr Zelanski flew to Prague on Sunday. He plans to meet the Czech president Petre Pavel. The visit is to last two days and she was kept in secret to the arrival. The Minister of Foreign Affairs welcomed at the Wołodymyr Zelodyski airport Czech Jan Lipavsky, who called the Ukrainian president the leader of the free world. Zelanski during the visit is accompanied by his wife Ołen.

> President USA Donald Trump said in an interview at NBC on Sunday that one of the parties is closer to the agreement on the end of the war in Ukraine than the second. Trump said in an interview that he still hopes that he would be able to lead to a peace agreement. “I think that we are closer to one of the sides and maybe not so close to the other. I would not like to say which we are closer to, but we did a business for Americans. It was good. We were able to get the metals of rare lands,” said Trump, pointing to the signed raw material agreement with Ukraine.

> From the beginning of the armed invasion of Russia to Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian army lost 950,000 soldiers (killed and wounded) on the front – said the British military intelligence. These data coincide with the estimates of the General Staff of the Ukrainian forces, which stated that the army of the enemy, from the beginning of aggression, lost 955 soldiers in Ukraine.