The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reports the retreat of the Russian 72nd motorized rifle brigade near Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozhin fears encirclement of the Wagnerites due to their exposed flanks.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked targets in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, local authorities claim.

Yevgeny Prigozhin said that the fighters of the Wagner PMC never received the ammunition promised by the Ministry of Defense.
The military court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky sentenced a serviceman who refused to participate in the war in Ukraine to 2.5 years in a penal colony.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the Russian army is using phosphorus bombs in Bakhmut.
At night, an air raid alert was declared throughout Ukraine. In Odessa, a warehouse containing humanitarian aid was destroyed as a result of a missile attack.

Kyiv was attacked by kamikaze drones "Shahed", the Odessa region - by X-22 missiles. There is destruction, no casualties reported. Six people were wounded during the shelling of Balakleya and Nikopol.
The Russian FSB announced that it had prevented a drone attack with explosives on a military airfield in the Ivanovo region.

In the Kherson region, six mine clearance specialists were killed as a result of Russian shelling.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners: 3 military pilots for 45 Azovstal defenders.

On the night of May 6, Russian troops attacked eastern Ukraine with Iranian kamikaze drones. Ukrainian air defense shot down 7 enemy drones.

The owner of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, released a video in which he showed the corpses of PMC soldiers and blamed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov for their deaths. According to him, soldiers are dying due to lack of ammunition.

At night, Russia attacked Odessa and Kyiv with Shahed kamikaze drones.
The Kremlin press service reported an attack by Ukrainian drones on the residence of Vladimir Putin.

At night, 26 Iranian drones attacked Kyiv, Dnieper and Zaporozhye. Most were shot down, no casualties.
As a result of the shelling of the Kherson region, 21 people were killed. 48 civilians were injured.

The American White House said that Russia lost 20 thousand soldiers killed in the battles for Bakhmut.
In the Bryansk region, a freight train derailed due to the undermining of tracks.