🟡04.05.2022
23:04 Viktor Mykyta, head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration
The enemy is targeting Zakarpattia with missiles that have high-explosive fragments. It is designed to destroy not only objects, but first and foremost people.
These photos clearly show how, after the missile exploded, the formed rounded elements flew away and literally cut through the metal.
The same wreckage damaged houses up to 300 meters from the site of the missile.
This once again indicates that during an air alarm, you must immediately go to rooms that do not have windows. The walls are protected from damage by these high-explosive fragments.
22:23 Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration
A missile strike was fired during an air raid in the Brovary district.
According to preliminary information, the missile was shot down by air defense between the villages of Trebukhiv and Krasylivka.
As a result of falling debris, the bush caught fire. The SES is working on the spot. The information is clarified and verified.
22:16 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration
Two missile strikes on Dnipro. One missile was shot down by our air defense.
The second aimed at the railway infrastructure. People were not affected. There is destruction. The movement of trains is stopped.
22:10 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread during the May 4, 2022:
Manipulation. The Warsaw City Hall said that “from May 4, 2022, the decoration of transport with Ukrainian flags will be stopped,” and Russian propagandists transformed this into an anti-Ukrainian thesis of “solidarity is over – Ukrainian flags have disappeared from Warsaw buses.”
Manipulation. Russian media continue to spread the thesis about the harmfulness of anti-Russian sanctions for EU countries. Propagandists said that “due to sanctions in France, utility tariffs have increased by 483%.”
Manipulation. Russian propagandists, taking the phrase of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera out of context, said that “Rome’s abandonment of Russian gas will leave more than 500,000 Italians unemployed, and this is just the beginning, as the crisis will spread to other industries.”
21:20 Oleksandr Sienkevych, mayor of Mykolaiv
In Mykolaiv explosions are heard.
20:37 Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia
Russian troops continue to target the railway infrastructure.
Another missile attack on the railway infrastructure in Dnipro.
20:17 Ihor Taburets, head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration
Two explosions were heard one after another in Cherkasy at about 20 p.m.
The head of the regional state administration said that the air defense was working.
20:16 Mayor of Dnipro city Borys Filatov
Russian troops launched a missile strike on the center of the Dnipro
19:50 Evropeiska Pravda
On May 4, a Russian helicopter violated Finnish airspace in the south.
According to Yle, this was stated by the Ministry of Defense of Finland.
The incident occurred at about 10:40 in the settlements of Parikka and Kesyalahti – on the land border with Russia near the Karelian Isthmus. The Mi-17 helicopter flew 4-4.5 km into the territory.
The Border Guard Service has launched an investigation into the incident.
This is the second such case in 2022. The previous one took place on April 8 in the Porvoo area, but then it was a state-owned passenger board.
19:24 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 4, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)
The seventieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
russian enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone.
The command of the russian troops is trying to increase the pace of the offensive in east of Ukraine in order to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk oblast, as well as to develop an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih areas.
In order to achieve certain goals, russian enemy is trying to inflict losses on units of the Defense Forces, regroup and strengthen its troops, increase the system of fire damage and logistics.
russian enemy has intensified the task of missile and bomb strikes in order to destroy Ukraine’s transport infrastructure.
- In the Slobozhansky direction there is russian enemy group consisting of separate units of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. Air strikes and shelling continue in the city of Kharkiv. russian occupiers in the Valuysky district of the Belgorod region deployed an auxiliary command post of the 36th Combined Arms Army y of the Eastern Military District.
- As part of the strengthening of the grouping of troops in this direction, russian enemy is moving personnel from the territory of the Belgorod region.
- In the Izium direction, russian enemy is trying to seize the initiative and conduct offensive operations in the Izyum-Barvinkove direction. To this end, russian enemy is carrying out artillery shelling of the positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Hrushuvakha, Nova Dmytrivka and Kurulka.
- In addition, russian enemy concentrated up to 40 attack and transport helicopters Mi-24 and Mi-8 on the territory of the Belgorod region in the immediate vicinity of the state border of Ukraine.
- In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of russian enemy are focused on conducting an offensive on the settlements of Lyman, Orikhove, Popasna, Velyka Novosilka, Huliaipole, Komyshuvakha and Orikhiv.
- During the day, in the Lyman direction, russian enemy made unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in the village of Oleksandrivka.
- In the Severodonetsk direction, russian occupiers launched an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Voevodivka, but were unsuccessful.
- In the Popasna direction, russian enemy tried to expand control over the settlement of Orikhove, but without success.
- In order to restrain the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, russain enemy fires at the positions of Ukrainian troops almost along the entire line of contact. russian enemy inflicts air strikes in the areas of Avdiivka, Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Kramatorsk and Huliaipole.
- Blockades and attempts to destroy our units in the Azovstal area in Mariupol continue. In some areas, with the support of aircraft, russian enemy resumed the offensive in order to take control of the plant. It is not successful.
- In the Novopavlovsk direction, russian occupiers attempted to storm the settlement of Novosilka. russian enemy suffered losses and retreated.
- In order to strengthen the grouping of troops, russian enemy transfers equipment and personnel by rail.
- In the South Buh and Tavriya directions, russian occupiers, forces of separate units of the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the Black Sea Fleet Coast Guard, and the Airborne Forces are fighting to hold temporarily occupied territories and create conditions for active actions in the directions Kherson-Mykolaiv and Kherson-Kryvyi Rih.
- In the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions, certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to carry out tasks to strengthen the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. There is an increase in the air defense system in the Gomel region, training of electronic warfare units. In the future, demonstration and provocative actions in areas close to the state border of Ukraine are not excluded.
- In order to maintain tensions at the border and prevent the transfer of reserves of Ukrainian troops to threatening areas, russian enemy keeps units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District near the Ukrainian-russian border near the village of Kozino, Kursk region. Intensification of shelling from the specified area across the territory of the Sumy region is not excluded.
- In the Black and Azov Seas, russian Black Sea Fleet continues to carry out tasks to isolate the area of hostilities, reconnaissance and fire support in the coastal direction. The possibility of involving the specified ship composition in the task of missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine is not excluded.
- Three carriers of naval cruise missiles “3M-54 Kalibr” (SS-N-27 «Sizzler») are in the Black Sea in readiness for the use of missile weapons.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!
#stoprussia #StandWithUkranie
18:36 Ekonomichna Pravda
The Russians tried to “export” stolen Ukrainian grain to Egypt.
The Russian ship loaded 27,000 tons of grain in the temporarily occupied Crimea and tried to sell it to Egypt, but after the refusal changed direction to Lebanon and Syria.
This was first reported by the web portal “Myrotvorets” with reference to the data of the tracking system of ships MarineTraffic, the information was confirmed by the government in a comment to the EP.
17:10 Jewish Telegraphic Association
Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, is shocked by Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statements that “Jews are the fiercest anti-Semites,” and urged him to publicly apologize for the words.
16:34 Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military AdministrationThe Russians fired from MLRS “Grad” on two villages in the Velikomikhaylivka community in Dnipropetrovsk region
16:07 Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko
Mariupol city authorities have lost contact with the Ukrainian military defending Azovstal.
“Our brave guys are defending this fortress, but it is very difficult because it is attacked with heavy artillery, tanks, and aircraft. Ships have approached and are also bombing this fortress. But we also need to understand that today a local population, civilians, hundreds of them remain there,” said Vadym Boichenko.
16:04 Associated Press
An Associated Press investigation has found evidence that the Russian bombing of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol on March 16 was far deadlier than estimated, killing closer to 600 people inside and outside the building. That’s almost double the death toll cited so far, and many survivors put the number even higher.
With communications severed, people coming and going constantly, and memories blurred by trauma, an exact toll is impossible to determine. The government estimated early on that about 300 people died and has since opened a war crimes investigation, according to a document obtained by the AP.
AP journalists arrived at a much higher number through the reconstruction of a 3D model of the building’s floor plan reviewed repeatedly by direct witnesses, most from within the theatre, who described in detail where people were sheltering.
16:00 Ukrainska Pravda
The United Kingdom is imposing sanctions on 63 individuals and legal entities from Russia, many of whom are linked to Russia’s main propaganda media organisations. They will have their assets frozen and barred from entering Britain.
15:39 Ukrainska Pravda
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said there were “Israeli mercenaries” allegedly fighting on the side of Ukraine’s “nationalist battalions.”
14:47 Ukrinform citing Anonymous
A public campaign is being held in Moscow to call for “denazification” of Sweden.
14:19 Ukrinform
As a result of hostilities, cultural facilities in 13 regions in 56 territorial communities of Ukraine were damaged. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Oleksii Dniprov.
14:14 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
Covert mobilisation continues in Russia. “Kazaki” of the Rostov and Krasnodar regions and the unemployed are being agitated. The focus is also on citizens who have lost their jobs due to international sanctions and former servicemen living in other post-Soviet countries.
14:12 Security Service of Ukraine
The Russian occupier told the SSU how he shot the civilian population of Ukraine with his own hands. This is one of the first confessions of invaders, which was obtained during the prolonged work of the Ukrainian special services.
14:05 Police of the Kyiv region
A 10-year-old girl and three adults were killed by the occupiers. The police found the bodies of the dead in the Bucha district.
13:49 Ukrinform
In the Drevlianskyi Nature Reserve in the Zhytomyr region, which has been mined by Russian troops, ammunition is exploding killing the wild animals.
13:42 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
To date, the medical service of the National Guard of Ukraine has organised the provision of first-level medical care – NATO ROLE-1. These are emergency medical care, pre-medical care, and first aid.
The soldiers then receive secondary qualified care in the mobile military hospitals of the Ministry of Defence, in the health care facilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the regions, as well as in certain facilities of the Ministry of Health and in the military hospital of the National Guard.
This was stated by the head of the medical department of the National Guard Denys Trehub during a press conference at the media centre Ukraine.
13:35 Suspilne
Hungary objects to the EU’s sanctions plan against Russian oil. This was reported by Bloomberg. The European Union’s plan to completely ban Russian crude oil is failing because it threatens Hungary’s energy security, said Zoltán Kovács, a spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government.
13:12 Ukrainska Pravda
According to the Belarusian Hajun project, on the morning of May 4, Belarusian military equipment was moving toward the Lithuanian and Ukrainian borders.
13:05 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
The Russians are artificially inflating the situation in Transnistria to use it as a psychological attack on Ukraine and are looking for ways to disperse the Ukrainian army during a complex defence campaign to protect Ukraine’s Donbas and the south.
Potentially, Transnistria can be used as a springboard to establish supply lines and ensure the deployment of a Russian group in the Republic of Moldova, but this will only be possible if a land corridor with Russia is created through the southern regions of Ukraine.
12:31 Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Mobile communication in Kherson is restored. This morning, the restoration of the damaged optical network was completed and the networks of all three mobile operators were launched.
12:31 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
According to the city’s official city authorities, no head of a state institution or utility company sided with the occupiers in Berdiansk. None of the city officials work in the so-called “city hall”. The fake “new government” consists of former janitors, storekeepers, cleaners, locksmiths and other “general specialists”.
12:10 Ukrainska Pravda
The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposed to start work on an ambitious package for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which will pave the way for Ukraine’s future in the European Union. This was announced by the President of the European Commission during a speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
“Europe has a very special responsibility towards Ukraine. With our support, Ukrainians can rebuild their country for the next generation. That is why today I am proposing to you that we start working on an ambitious recovery package for our Ukrainian friends,” said Ursula von der Leyen.
11:44 Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Pavliuk
Mass graves of civilians killed by the Russian occupiers continue to be found in the Kyiv region. As of May 4, 1,235 bodies of civilians killed by the Russian occupiers were examined in the region. 282 of them remain unidentified. In the last 24 hours alone, another 20 bodies of killed civilians have been sent to the morgue. Investigators are recording cases of torture.
11:40 Suspilne
11 people died in the basement of the school, seven – of mine explosion, or were shot by the occupiers. Such facts of crimes of the Russian military were recorded by prosecutors in the village of Yahidne, Chernihiv region. The prosecutor of the Kozelets district prosecutor’s office Roman Pererva informed about it.
11:24 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
The Russians are preparing a “parade” for May 9 in ruined Mariupol.
- The first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, responsible for Russia’s domestic policy, Sergei Kiriyenko, arrived in ruined Mariupol. It is known that he recently became the new Kremlin curator of issues concerning temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
- The main task of the Putin official is to prepare for the “ceremonial events” on May 9. It is known that the Russians refuse to hold a “holiday” in occupied Donetsk, including imitations of a military parade. Currently, occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions do not carry out preparatory work on these issues.
- According to the occupiers’ plans, Mariupol should become the centre of “celebrations”. To this end, the urgent cleaning of the central streets from debris, the bodies of killed and unexploded ordnance is being conducted,” said the statement of intelligence.
- A large-scale propaganda campaign is underway, during which Russians will be shown stories about the “joy” of locals from meeting the occupiers. Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov and head of the Donetsk occupation administration Denis Pushylin visited Mariupol to prepare relevant materials.
11:12 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
The Russians removed or destroyed the Luhansk region’s grain needs for almost three years, and sowing has not started.
According to the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Russians exported about 100,000 tons of grain from the Luhansk region.
Another 30,000 tons were stored in the elevator destroyed in April in Rubizhne.
10:51 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi
As a result of three missile strikes in the Lviv region, there are two injured civilians, which were not far from the places of explosions. They are provided with all necessary medical care.
The 58-year-old man had a blunt chest injury. A 24-year-old man has landmine and left arm injuries. The operation was performed and fragments were removed. At least one more operation is required to remove fragments in other areas.
Three electrical substations in Lviv were severely damaged.
The blows were critical. As of now, there is a delay in the movement of trains. The movement was partially restored.
More than 85,000 households and more than 12 settlements were completely de-energized and 5 more settlements partially. About 250,000 people were left without electricity.
As of this morning, 630 households are without electricity.
It was a deliberate blow to supply chains.
130 emergency workers and 30 units of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire. Fires were extinguished at all damaged sites.
10:33 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
British scholar TJ Coles is spreading Russian narratives in an attempt to legitimise Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Recently, several foreign media outlets published an article by TD Coles in which he called the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity a “coup d’etat” and NATO an organisation that “deliberately spread to Russia’s borders.” In general, the author concludes that the United States has turned Ukraine into a weapon against Russia.
Also over the past four years, the British scholar has distributed various materials explaining “the reasons for the West’s hatred of Russia.” These works of Coles were actively replicated by the Russian propaganda machine.
10:12 Suspilne
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia. The EU is proposing to ban all Russian oil imports under the sixth package of sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
Regarding the oil embargo, von der Leyen said it would be a total ban on imports of all Russian oil, marine and pipeline, crude and refined.
9:24 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi
At about 3 a.m., the Russians fired on the school of the Esman community. There were two shots from a helicopter and two from the ground. In addition to the school, there were hits on infrastructure facilities.
Between 6 and 7 a.m., artillery shelling from BM-21 Grad took place along the border near Yunakivka. There were also several helicopter shots in the area near Mohrytsia.
9:05 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 04.05 were approximately:
- personnel – about 24500 (+300) persons were liquidated,
- tanks – 1077 (+15),
- APV – 2610 (+43),
- artillery systems – 491 (+16),
- MLRS – 163 (+1),
- anti-aircraft warfare systems – 81 (+1),
- aircraft – 194,
- helicopters – 155,
- vehicles and fuel tanks – 1867 (+24),
- boats / cutters – 10,
- UAV operational-tactical level – 303 (+12),
- special equipment – 38,
- cruise missiles – 87 (+3).
Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Izium and Novopavlivsʹk directions on the previous day.
Data is being updated.
8:44 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko
This morning, the Avdiivka and Marinka communities came under attack from the Russians.
The Avdiivka Coke Plant came under fire again, this time under mortar. One building was damaged. There is no information about the victims at the moment. Also, as a result of the night shelling in Avdiivka, a house and a school were damaged.
The Russians fired incendiary shells at night – there are fires in the residential neighbourhood. The shelling in the Novomykhailivka area continues almost around the clock. Nevertheless, specialists managed to restore the power line to Krasnohorivka.
Kyrylenko urges everyone who is not involved in critical infrastructure to leave the region.
8:20 Office of the Prosecutor General
More than 627 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 220 children were killed, and 407 received injuries of varying severity.
Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 115, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 46, Mykolaiv – 43, Luhansk – 37, Zaporizhzhia – 27, Sumy – 17, the capital – 16, and Zhytomyr – 15.
These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.
8:10 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes, manipulation, and disinformation that the enemy spread on the morning of May 4, 2022:
- Manipulation: The Russian Defence Ministry said that “the Kyiv authorities do not adhere to humane principles,” as Russia records “numerous shellings of open humanitarian corridors by militants of nationalist battalions with small arms and mortars”;
- Fake: The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that “on the territory of schools in Mykolaiv MLRS installations, armoured vehicles, ammunition are placed, thus evacuation of inhabitants from nearby houses wasn’t carried out”;
- Fake: Propagandists of the Russian Federation reported that in Kharkiv, militants of territorial defence battalions, together with the Security Service of Ukraine officers, are conducting raids to identify residents who express pro-Russian views or condemn the current Ukrainian government. Dozens of detainees did not return home.”
7:59 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian troops stormed Orikhov but again unsuccessfully. In Horlivka, more than 100 bodies of mobilised Russian servicemen who died in the Zaporizhia region were taken to the central morgue.
Ukrainian defenders in the Zaporizhzhia direction captured another group of Russians who got lost on Ukrainian soil.
In Huliaipole, residential and farm buildings burned as a result of enemy attacks.
7:47 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
In Lysychansk, the flames engulfed the building of the Luhansk Regional Medical Center for Dangerous Infectious Diseases and one of the city’s schools. In Syrotyn the only school in the settlement and in Sievierodonetsk a shopping centre caught fire.
7:45 Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Mykola Lukashuk
Last night, the enemy fired missiles at the transport infrastructure. Eight regions of Ukraine, including the Dnipropetrovsk region, came under fire. There are no casualties, but one person was injured – the man received a severe concussion.
6:54 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 4, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)
The seventieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.
- The Russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea.
- To destroy Ukraine’s transport infrastructure, the Russian enemy fired missiles at facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, Odesa, and Donetsk regions.
- In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the Russian enemy did not take active action, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
- Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to carry out tasks to cover the section of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions.
- To check the readiness to perform the assigned tasks, one missile division of the 465th Missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus is moving from the point of permanent deployment to the destination area.
- In the Siversky direction, no signs of the formation of an offensive group by the Russian enemy were found. As part of strengthening the protection of the Russian-Ukrainian border, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian federation from the Central Military District have been deployed in the areas of the “Novi Yurkovichi”, “Pohar” and “Lomakovka” checkpoints in the Bryansk region.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy fired artillery and mortar shells at the city of Kharkiv and the village of Protopopivka. Conducted air reconnaissance in the area of Kutuzivka and Oleksandrivka settlements of Barvinkovsky district of the Kharkiv region. The Russian enemy tried to conduct offensive operations in the direction of the settlement of Dovhenke but was unsuccessful.
- In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, to restrain action, the occupiers are shelling units of Ukrainian troops.
- In the Lyman direction, the Russian enemy is advancing in the direction of the village of Shandrygolove, and fighting continues. The Russian enemy strengthened the group of troops and intensified air reconnaissance.
- Russian occupiers carried out assaults in the area of Popasna, and fighting continued.
- In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers continue to launch airstrikes and fire at our positions in the Azovstal area.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in the direction of the settlement of Orikhiv, without success.
- In Horlivka, more than 100 bodies of mobilised servicemen of the 1st Army Corps who died in the Zaporizhzhia region were taken to the central morgue.
- In the direction of the South Buh, to destroy the fortification equipment of our positions, the Russian enemy used artillery, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and armament of tanks along the entire line of contact. It intensified hostilities in the area of the settlement of Tomyna Balka.
- The situation in the Bessarabian direction remains tense and under control.
- During the previous day, the air defence units of the Air Force and the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit seven UAVs and 8 enemy cruise missiles, the data are being clarified.
- Twelve enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past 24 hours, six tanks, five artillery systems (three of them – multiple rocket launchers), fifteen units of armoured combat vehicles, and nine units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed. The enemy has losses in other areas. The general figures will be announced in a separate summary later.
1:30 Ukrainska Pravda citing the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotskyi
The Russians exported a total of about 400,000 tons of grain from the four temporarily occupied Ukrainian regions – a third of all reserves in the regions.
“About 1.3 million tons of grain were left in the temporarily occupied territories, which are primarily needed to ensure daily food security, i.e. food for Ukrainians living there and the necessary fieldwork in terms of sowing spring crops. There were no strategic reserves.
We already have confirmation from each region – Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk – that about 100 thousand tons of grain were exported from each region,” reported Vysotskyi.
If this continues and it is not stocks that are taken out, but what was left in the regions for food before the new harvest, there may be a threat of famine.
1:10 Operational Command South
Yesterday in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers began mass tailoring and disguising their servicemen in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Provocative actions by such “deployed” units to discredit the Ukrainian military in the occupied territories and attacks by sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the line of contact are not ruled out.
Meanwhile, the actions of Ukrainian mobile anti-tank groups ensured control of the territory of 4 settlements near the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
0:19 Head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration Viktor Mykyta
Russia shelled the Zakarpattia region with cruise missiles. The consequences of a strike on one of the facilities in Volovets are being eliminated.
Rescue services are fighting the fire and dismantling the debris at the scene. No casualties were reported.
0:14 Head of the Lviv Region Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi
According to preliminary information, our air defence forces shot down two of the six enemy missiles over the Lviv region.
Three of them hit electric substations in the Lviv region, and one hit an electric substation in Zakarpattia.
It is assumed that the missiles flew from the Caspian region.
Three electrical substations in Lviv were severely damaged. There is a delay in the movement of trains.
Two people went to medical facilities in the region with shrapnel wounds. According to them, they were not far from the places of the explosions. The condition of the victims is moderate.
0:00 Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Russia’s Tu-95 or Tu-160 strategic bombers launched a missile strikes from the Caspian region.
Approximately 18 missiles were fired at the infrastructure of the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, and Zakarpattia regions. Missile strikes were also inflicted on the Odesa and Donetsk regions from other means.
According to preliminary data, at least 8 cruise missiles were shot down by the air defence of the Air Force and the Land Forces on May 3, the data are being clarified. There are also reports of the downing of 7 drones and one missile.
The occupiers are guarding their planes and helicopters, so they are not part of the airspace controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Instead, the Air Force made dozens of flights during the day. Under cover of fighter jets, the strike group fired about ten missile and bomb strikes at enemy troops, ammunition depots, and manpower.
