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It's May 9, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief. I'm Chris Cotnor.

Our top stories from international outlets this morning.

Political reports that Ukraine says it shocked down about 15 Russian cruise missiles aimed at Kiev overnight Tuesday.

Hours before European Commission President Ursula Von der Lyon arrived in the capital.

No hits were made with no casualties and no serious damage caused by falling debris.

Russia's missile attack took place shortly after Von der Lyon arrived by train in Kiev,

which the Commission Chief is visiting Tuesday for the fifth time since the beginning of the war.

Von der Lyon will meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky and Prime Minister Dennis Schimmel for discussions on ammunition production, financial support,

the EU's new sanction plans and Ukraine's grain exports through solidarity lanes officials told Politico's Brussels playbook.

According to the Washington Post, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that a real war was being waged against Russia amid muted victory day celebrations on Tuesday.

With many mass events canceled over security concerns after last week's alleged drone attack on the Kremlin and a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.

A real war has once again been waged against our homeland. Today, civilization is at a critical juncture Putin said at the ceremony marking the end of World War II.

We want to see a future of peace, freedom and stability added to the leader who more than a year ago ordered what he calls the special military operation in Ukraine that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Putin then reiterated his claim that Ukraine had become hostage to a coup d'etat and the criminal regime formed by its western masters into bargaining chip in the implementation of their cruel selfish plans.

This is the first public event Putin has attended since Moscow's stunning accusation last week that Ukraine sent two drones flying toward the Kremlin fortress in what Russian officials labeled as an assassination attempt on their leader, a claim broadly rejected by political military experts.

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