🔵03.05.2022
23:27 Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration
The Russian military shelled the town of Zaliznychne in the Polohy district. Russian invaders destroyed a local school. In addition, 12 houses were damaged. Two people were killed by shrapnel.
23:16 Zakarpatgas Joint Stock Company
As a result of the missile strike, 57 houses in Volovets were left without gas supply. The distribution gas pipeline is damaged. Disaster recovery work will begin on the morning of May 4.
22:35 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentyn Reznichenko
Two missiles in the Kamyanske district severely damaged the railway infrastructure. One person was injured. It is unclear how long it will take to restore the railway. The movement of trains is stopped.
20:00 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 May 3, 2022:
- Disinformation: despite a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry that the Russian military had begun destroying Azov’s and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ fire positions on Azovstal, Russian propagandists said that “there is no large-scale assault on the plant involving tactical groups”;
- Manipulation: pro-Kremlin media reported that “during a conversation with Emanuel Macron, Putin said that the threat to global food security is primarily due to Western sanctions”;
- Fake: The head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Viacheslav Volodin stated that “the process of disintegration of Ukraine began after the coup d’etat in 2014 and is already irreversible.” In his opinion, this is confirmed by the fact that “today many residents in western Ukraine have received the citizenship of Poland and Hungary.”
22:00 Operational Command South
The enemy launched another missile strikes on several regions of Ukraine. In the southern direction, two missiles fired from the Caspian direction hit the railway infrastructure of the Kirovograd region. There are dead and wounded. Three more missiles aimed at the Odesa region were shot down by air defence forces.
21:48 Ukrainska Pravda
Russian troops once again attempted to storm Azovstal. The video was published by the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko.
21:35 Head of the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration Viktor Mykyta
The missile hit an object in the mountainous area of Zakarpattia. Services are working on site. Information on injuries and possible victims is being clarified.
21:30 Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi
As a result of the shelling, 3 power substations were damaged. Two pumping stations were left without electricity. Water supply is being restored through alternative sources of electricity.
21:17 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko
On May 3, the Russians killed 21 civilians and wounded 27 more in the Donetsk region. This is the largest number of casualties in one day since the Russians shelled the Kramatorsk railway station.
Among the dead today are 10 civilians in Avdiivka, 5 in Lyman, 4 in Vuhledar, 1 in Velyka Novosilka, and 1 in Shandryholove.
It was also possible to clarify the information about the 2 dead in Mariupol, but the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha cannot be determined yet.
21:16 Head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration Serhii Borzov
Two explosions were heard in Vinnytsia. It was the Ukrainian air defence. The wreckage of shot-down missiles is being sought.
20:34 Head of Dolynska city territorial community Yevhenii Zvizdovskyi
The Russian occupiers fired missiles at objects in the Dolynska community of the Kirovohrad region.
20:33 Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi
Explosions are heard in Lviv. Power outages in part of the city.
20:22 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
The Russians destroyed the Lysychansk TB dispensary.
More than a century-old Belgian heritage building, which housed the dispensary, caught fire today due to enemy shelling.
“The Russians are hunting for “strategic objects,” so they purposefully aimed at the medical institution. For more than two months of the war, no medical institution in the Luhansk region remained intact,” wrote Haidai.
19:29 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the #russian_invasion on 18.00 on May 3, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udGUcLsAPD8
The sixty-ninths day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land corridor between these territories and the temporarily occupied Crimea.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy operates as a group of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, and the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. The city of Kharkiv continues to launch air strikes and shell artillery.
- In the Izyum direction, the enemy, by forces of separate units of the 1st Tank Army, the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District; The 29th, 35th, and 36th Combined Arms Armies and the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and Airborne Troops are conducting offensive operations in the direction of Izyum-Barvinkove and they suffers losses.
- To support their actions, russian occupiers moved a battery of 240-mm Tulip heavy self-propelled mortars and a unit armed with Tornado multiple rocket launchers from the Belgorod region to the Izyum area.
- In the temporarily occupied territories of Kharkiv oblast, russian enemy continues to carry out filtration measures. To do this, it additionally involves units of the Rosguard.
- In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, groups of russian enemy troops, forces of separate units of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps, the 8th and 58th Combined Arms Armies of the Southern Military District; 5th Combined Arms Army and Pacific Fleet of the Eastern Military District; the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies and the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District and Airborne Forces are conducting offensive operations on a certain section of the line of contact. The occupiers are carrying out air strikes and artillery shelling of our troops’ positions.
- russian enemy continues to focus on the offensive in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, Popasnyansk, Avdiivka and Kurakhiv areas in order to take full control of the settlements of Rubizhne, Popasna and develop the offensive in the directions of the Lyman, Siversk and Slovyansk.
- In order to improve the system of logistics, russian enemy continues to deploy in certain areas warehouses with ammunition, fuel and oil, as well as organized a point for repair and restoration of damaged equipment.
- At the same time, on some borders, russian enemy carries out the equipment of the second line of defense.
- In the city of Mariupol, the enemy continues to block units of Ukrainian troops in the area of the Azovstal plant. Carries out fire damage by artillery and tanks on the territory of the metallurgical plant.
- In the Tavriya direction, russian enemy continues to conduct demonstrations and manoeuvrers in order to restrain the actions of units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and prevent their transfer to other directions.
- In the South Bug area, russian enemy is fighting with the 8th and 49th Combined Arms Armies, the 22nd Army Corps, the Black Sea Fleet Coast Guard and the Airborne Forces to improve the tactical situation, and continues to fire on units of our troops. russian enemy is regrouping troops, increasing the system of fire destruction, air defence and logistics.
- The situation in the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains difficult. Units of the operational group of russian troops continue to be in full combat readiness. Armed formations of the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova are serving in an enhanced mode. Preparations are underway for the evacuation of the families of officers of the task force of the russian troops.
- 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 Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. In the area of the settlement of Khmelivka, Sumy region, the activities of an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group were exposed.
- Ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Black and Azov Seas continue to launch missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, to isolate the area of hostilities, reconnaissance and fire support in the coastal direction.
Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine continue to inflict losses on russian enemy. Thus, according to available information, as a result of effective and coordinated actions of defenders of Ukraine, units of the 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of the russian federation lost about 60 percent of the dead and wounded.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!
#stoprussia #StandWithUkranie
18:46 Ukrainska Pravda referring to Radio Prague International
A Czech volunteer who helped evacuate civilians from villages in the Makarov region in early March has disappeared in Ukraine.
The Czech media Voxpot first learned about the disappearance of a Czech named Tomas (surname not specified). Their correspondents came under fire in the Makarov district in early March and reported on it. After the publication, a Czech citizen approached them and said that her husband was supposed to be in the same place around that time.
After the retreat of Russian troops from the Kyiv region, the journalists returned to Makariv and found Tomas’ car with a shotgun, a door, a driver’s headrest and traces of blood among the shot cars.
Tomas was not among all the 133 identified dead reported by Makarov police. Reporters speculate that he may be in one of the undiscovered burials in the Motyzhyn-Makarov district.
At the request of ČTK, the Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed Tomas’ disappearance, but could not confirm his death. The spokeswoman said that the Foreign Ministry was in touch with the family of the missing person.
18:27 Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration
At least 10 dead and 15 wounded are the consequences of the shelling of the Avdiivka Coke Plant by the Russian occupiers.
These figures are preliminary. The information will be clarified and the number of victims may be higher.
The Russians knew exactly where they were going – the workers had just finished their shift and were waiting at the bus stop for a bus to take them home from the factory.
Another cynical crime of the Russians on our land. You will have to answer for everything!
16:46 Osnat Lubrani, UN in Ukraine Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator
156 civilians evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol on May 1 arrived in Zaporizhzhia
16:15 Sviatoslav “Kalyna” Palamar, deputy commander of Regiment Azov in Mariupol
As of this moment, a powerful assault on the territory of the Azovstal plant is underway. With the support of armored vehicles, tanks, with attempts to land troops with boats and a large number of infantry. We will do everything possible to repel this assault, but we call for immediate measures to evacuate civilians.
15:32 Andriy Melnyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit Ukraine at a time convenient to him. This invitation remains valid
14:39 Suspilne
The head of the patrol police department in Mariupol, Mykhailo Vershynin, confirmed the storming of Azovstal by the Russians. He stressed that the Ukrainian Military continues to defend itself.
“There was artillery and aviation training for almost a day. As the [evacuation] buses left, they paused and began to attack both night and day. Now they stormed the plant in several places. We keep the defence, we fight back,” Vershynin said.
14:29 Suspilne
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson addressed the Verkhovna Rada, promising to continue to support Ukraine in the war against Russia.
14:11 Ukrainska Pravda
Russian invaders have stormed the Azovstal plant, which is being defended by the Ukrainian Defence Forces in blockaded Mariupol.
“We were bombed all night, two civilian women were killed, and now Azovstal is being stormed,” said Azov Regiment Deputy Commander Sviatoslav Palamar (Kalyna) in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda.
According to Palamar, the occupiers are just now trying to break into the plant. Before the assault, Russian aircraft bombed the plant.
13:42 Kharkiv Regional Military Administration
Russian troops continue to shell the centre of Kharkiv.
13:02 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko
At least 9 people were killed by Russians today in the Donetsk region.
Russian aircraft bombed Avdiivka in the morning. The residential area in the central part of the city was hit. Last night the occupiers used Grady in the same direction.
The consequences of the shelling and bombing have yet to be determined, but at least 3 civilians have been killed and 2 wounded, and As a result of the morning shelling of Vuhledar, three people were killed while going for drinking water. Three more civilians were killed in the shelling of Lyman.
The Ocheretyn community is also under enemy fire today. Information on casualties and destruction is being clarified.
12:41 Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi
Russia has once again committed a military provocation on the border of the Sumy region. At about noon, the enemy opened fire with mortars on the territory of the Hlukhiv community.
12:42 Ukrainska Pravda
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused the Israeli government of supporting Ukraine’s “neo-Nazi regime.”
“We have drawn attention to the anti-historical statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the current Israeli government’s course in support of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv,” the Ministry wrote.
11:51 European Pravda
A Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea forced Germany to lift two Eurofighters from Laage Air Force Base on Saturday.
This became known to the German news agency DPA.
11:28 Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration
Russian military personnel continue to destroy civilian houses in towns and cities of the Zaporizhzhia region.
On May 3, the occupiers fired on the village of Zaliznychne, Huliaipole district. Russian invaders destroyed a local school.
The missile damaged the building, roof, and windows. In addition, 12 houses were shelled. Two people were killed by shrapnel wounds.
10:52 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 03.05 were approximately:
personnel – about 24200 (+400) persons were liquidated,
tanks – 1062 (+14),
APV – 2567 (+48),
artillery systems – 475 (+16),
MLRS – 162 (+10),
anti-aircraft warfare systems – 80,
aircraft – 194,
helicopters – 155,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 1843 (+19),
boats / cutters – 10 (+2),
UAV operational-tactical level – 291 (+20).
special equipment – 38.
cruise missiles – 84.
The Russian enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Izium direction on the past day.
Data is being updated.
10:44 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
Russia is considering the possibility of including the occupied territories of southern Ukraine in the temporarily occupied Crimea and their further integration into the Russian economic space. The development of a plan with a deadline of at least 2030 was announced on May 1 by the adviser to the so-called “head” of Crimea on information policy Oleh Kriuchkov.
- At the same time, the Russian occupation regime is trying to persuade the local population to finally establish control over the occupied territories. On May 1, in Henichesk, the newly appointed “head of the City Council” Andrii Klochko organised a solemn raising of the Russian flag. However, the townspeople ignored the Russian “holiday”.
- Several private enterprises in the Rostov region received orders to produce seals and stamps for the occupation administrations of Mariupol. The list of institutions that will receive new “attributes” includes educational institutions, hospitals, police, registry offices, and administrative institutions. Even though most of them are now destroyed by Russian troops.
- The ordered stamps and seals contain the inscription: “Russia, the Republic of Donbas, Mariupol, the military-civil administration.”
- The racists announced that similar stamps and seals would be made for occupied Kherson in June.
- Today in Mariupol, the occupiers are carrying out “big cleaning”. Russians search for and destroy the bodies of the dead. For this purpose, three mobile crematoria have been operating in the city since April 15.
- Among the military of the occupier’s army, there is information that the deadline of the so-called “special military operation” is set for September 2022.
10:30 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
The Kremlin has stepped up amid the abolition of celebrations in the United States on the anniversary of the 1945 meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe. On April 25, several Russian-language and English-language Russian propaganda media circulated a comment by Frank Cohen, in which he stated that “someday Russia and the United States will become friends again.”
That is not the first manipulative use of Cohen’s comments. For more than a decade, on the eve of May 9, the Kremlin recorded an interview with an American veteran to glorify its victory in World War II.
After February 24, Cohen actively criticised Russia’s boycott of other countries through Kremlin media mouthpieces. However, the American expert refrains from expressing his position on the war unleashed by Russia.
10:28 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
Satellite images from Planet Lab show that powerful Russian bombs were dropped on the territory of Golden AGRO LLC in Rubizhne. The elevator complex that opened in 2020 was destroyed.
The company has installed a laboratory with modern equipment, including an express analyzer that provides accurate and fast analysis of all crops, a grain dryer with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day, a separator, and automatic scales and sampler.
The elevator complex could store 30,000 tons of grain at a time.
“The Russians want to arrange the Holodomor. Cases of export of our grain to Russia have been recorded in the occupied cities. Earlier, they also destroyed all food warehouses in Sievierodonetsk,” Haidai said.
10:21 Zaporizhzhia Region Military Administration
During the day, scheduled monitoring studies of atmospheric air were conducted. Exceedance of the maximum allowable concentrations of formaldehyde – 0.039 mg / m3, 1.1 times higher than the MPC.
9:27 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov
In the Kharkiv district, a fire broke out at one of the enterprises due to the morning shelling. The factory did not work during martial law, the premises were severely damaged. A 46-year-old worker who was on the territory at the time of the shelling was killed.
During the day, the occupiers fired on Zolochiv, Barvinkove, Derhachi, and Chuhuiv.
3 people were wounded in the region over the past day (2 people in Kharkiv and one in the Chuhuiv district). Doctors also assist residents of settlements liberated from the occupiers.
8:30 Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office
Torture and murder – Bashtanka law enforcement officers are documenting crimes committed by the Russian military during the occupation.
Under the procedural guidance of the Bashtanka District Prosecutor’s Office, criminal proceedings for violating the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) were initiated.
During the investigation in the village of Novofontanka, Bashtansky district, the bodies of two locals with signs of gunshot wounds and torture were found in a common grave. One of the men had his legs tied. Traces of the Russian military were found near the men’s grave, including fragments of a typical package of the Russian field ration.
The exact cause of death will be determined by the results of forensic examination.
8:29 Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai
The Russians damaged five houses in Severodonetsk and at least 12 in the Hirske Community.
The Russians are storming the settlements of the community around the clock. 10 houses in Orikhove burned down, two more in Zolote. The information on victims is being clarified. Authorities are trying to evacuate locals every day.
Sievierodonetsk withstood eight Russian artillery shellings in one day. Last night, three houses in the old districts of the city were damaged. Already in the afternoon, the warehouse caught fire and two more high-rise buildings were hit. The shell did not explode in one of the apartments. It has already been neutralised by pyrotechnics. Three people were rescued from shelling and debris.
In total, on May 2, the Russians opened fire 25 times on the residential areas of the Luhansk region, mostly on Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Popasna, and the Hirske community.
12 enemy attacks were successfully repulsed on the fronts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
8:19 Office of the Prosecutor General
More than 626 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 220 children were killed, and 406 received injuries of varying severity.
Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 139, Kyiv – 115, Kharkiv – 95, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 45, 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.
8:04 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 3, 2022:
- Disinformation: The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation stated that “the amount of US funding for bioprograms in Ukraine since 2005 has exceeded $ 224 million.” This body has opened a case “on the development of biological weapons in Ukraine”;
- Manipulation: Russian propagandists said that “despite numerous cases of shelling of Russia’s border regions by Ukraine, Zelenskyy claims that the Ukrainian army does not conduct operations in Russia”;
- Fake: Propagandists of the Russian Federation continue to demonize Ukrainian armed groups, in particular, they reported that “a doctor of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian battalion” Aidar “personally killed militias during an operation in the occupied areas of the Luhansk region in 2014.”
7:16 European Pravda with the reference to Reuters
The European Union hopes to pass the sixth round of sanctions against Russia at the next meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, the bloc’s chief diplomat said on Monday.
Josep Borrell told a news conference in Panama City, where he is on an official visit, the bloc hopes to curb Russia’s energy exports as part of its efforts to sanction Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
The European Commission is expected to propose the package of EU sanctions this week, including a potential embargo on buying Russian oil – a measure that would deprive Moscow of a large revenue stream, but that has so far divided EU countries.
Borrell, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Council meetings, said he hopes the EU will be able to take “measures to significantly limit these imports” but conceded so far there is no agreement from all the members.
“But I am confident that, at least with regard to oil imports, this agreement will be possible between now and the next Council meeting,” he added.
The Council has meetings scheduled for May 10 and May 16 later this month.
6:43 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on May 3, 2022.
Video (Spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Shtupun)
The sixty-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a Russian military invasion continues.
- The Russian enemy is taking measures to replenish significant losses of equipment in units of the armed forces of the Russian federation conducting hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. According to available information, in the city of Boguchar, Voronezh region, between April 27 and May 2, 2022, seventeen tanks and sixty BMP-1 were taken out of storage. They were sent to the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russian troops.
- In the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky directions the Russian enemy did not take active actions, and no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian enemy continued shelling the city of Kharkiv and nearby settlements.
- In the Izium direction, the Russian enemy exerted active fire on units of Ukrainian troops.
- In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the Russian enemy continue to focus on establishing full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and advancing in the direction of the settlements of Lyman and Sloviansk.
- The Russian enemy did not conduct active hostilities in the South Buh area. It continued to fire on units of our troops along the line of contact.
- During the previous day, the Air Defence and Land Forces air defence units hit seven Orlan-10 UAVs and one Forpost UAV.
- Twelve Russian enemy attacks have been repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the past 24 hours, six tanks, five artillery systems, twenty-two units of armoured combat vehicles, and eight units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed.
- The Russian enemy also suffered losses in other areas. The resistance movement continues to develop actively in the cities and villages temporarily occupied by the Russian aggressor.
6:22 Suspile with the reference to the Russian Interfax
Russia has already deported 200,000 children from Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation stated that almost 1.1 million people have been evacuated from Russia to Ukraine since February 24. Among them are almost 200,000 children from the territory of Ukraine, in particular, from the Occupied Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This was reported by the Russian Interfax citing the head of the National Defence Management Centre of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev.
“During the past 24 hours, 11,550 people, including 1,847 children, were evacuated from dangerous areas of Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to the territory of the Russian Federation without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities. 1092137 people, including 196,356 are children,” Mizintsev said on Monday, May 2.
6:21 Skadovsk Mayor Oleksandr Yakovliev Mobile communication has appeared in Skadovsk. There is no Internet yet.
