Russia - Ukraine war updates as of May 3, 2023
Russia – Ukraine war operational update of the General Staff of Ukraine for the last 24 hours of Russia – Ukraine war as of 6:00 a.m., May 3, 2023.
434 day of the russian large-scale invasion has begun.
Tonight, russian terrorists once again attacked us with “Shahed-136/131” kamikaze drones. Information regarding the consequences of this attack is currently being clarified.
Last day, the enemy launched 3 missile strikes, 39 air strikes and launched 63 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. Civilians suffered, private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
The probability of the enemy launching missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdyivka and Maryinka directions – it has carried out more than 30 attacks. Bakhmut and Maryinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities, our defenders are holding the defense.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not undergone significant changes. No signs of formation of enemy offensive groups were detected.
On the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy shelled the settlements of Hasychivka, Yeline, Bleshnya, Karpovychi, Tymonovichi, Leonivka, and Muravyi of the Chernihiv Oblast with artillery; Znob-Novgorodsk, Uralov, Seredyna-Buda, Kucherivka, Rivne, Vorozhba, Volfine, Mykolaivka, Myropillia in the Sumy Oblast, as well as Veterinarne, Vilkhivka, Gatyshche, Vovchansk and Potikhonov in the Kharkiv Oblast.
On the Kupyansk direction, the enemy did not carry out offensive actions, actively engaged anti-aircraft fire to adjust the artillery fire. Krasne Pershe, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Liman Pershey, Kupyansk, Kislivka, Krokhmalne and Berestov of the Kharkiv Oblast were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling.
On the Lyman direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area south of Dibrova. Makiivka in the Luhansk Oblast and Belogorivka, Verkhnokamianske and Spirn in the Donetsk Oblast were hit by artillery fire.
On the Bakhmut direction, the enemy continues to conduct offensive actions. Fighting continues in the city of Bakhmut. In addition, the occupiers unsuccessfully attacked in the direction of Ivanivskyi and Predtechyny. Vasyukivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Novomarkove, Hryhorivka, Khromove, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Predtechine, Diliivka and Pivdenne of the Donetsk Oblast were affected by enemy shelling.
On the Avdiyivka direction, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the Pervomaisky district of the Donetsk region, without success. He also shelled Novokalynov, Avdiivka, Severne, Tonenka, Karlivka and Netaylov.
On the Marinka direction, enemy attacks were repulsed in the Marinka area. Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Pobyeda and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk Oblast came under enemy fire.
The enemy did not carry out offensive operations in the Shakhtarsk direction last day. Shelled Novoukrayinka and Prechistivka in Donetsk Oblast.
The enemy continues to conduct defensive operations on the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions. russian forces fired more than 30 settlements. Among them are Vremivka and Novosilka of the Donetsk region; Gulyaipole, Biloghirya, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Novoandriivka and Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region; Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Region; Zolota Balka, Dudchany, Kachkarivka, Vesele, Lviv, Ivanivka, Mykilske, Antonivka, Dniprovske, Kizomys of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.
The russian occupiers continue the forced passporting of the population of the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region. In order to speed up this process, the invaders are conducting demonstrative raids aimed at intimidating the local population with possible deportation and alienation of property. The content of the events is that a convoy of empty buses arrives at the settlement accompanied by representatives of the FSB, who, referring to the decree recently signed by the president of the russian Federation on the deportation of persons without russian citizenship from the occupied territories, set people a radical condition: either they give up their Ukrainian passports in favor of Russian, or immediate eviction with confiscation of property.
Over the past 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defense Forces has carried out 8 strikes on enemy personnel concentration areas, and missile and artillery units have hit 1 command post, 12 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 4 ammunition depots, 1 anti-aircraft defense device and another important enemy target.
Photo credit: The General Staff of Ukraine
Tags: NSC russia ukraine war Ukraine ukraine front linesSo, what do we have today? Svyrydenko has signed a framework memorandum with the U.S.…
Monitoring Group of the BlackSeaNews Editorial Team and the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies…
Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of April…
Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of April…
After the liberation of Kherson, the Russians launched a brutal campaign of terror against civilians…
U.S. President Donald Trump does not want to help Ukraine, even in exchange for $50…
View Comments
This war is sad to see. Russia is much more powerful than Ukraine, and if the war continues the damage to Ukraine will be incalculable. Russia and Ukraine were both willing to negotiate, and somehow the U.S. blocked it, as I understand it. And that led to this terrible destruction of Ukraine. We need an honest broker (obviously not the U.S.), perhaps Turkey, who offered to broker negotiations before the war began, to convince the Zelensky government and the Russians that negotiations are in the best interests of all.