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Russia – Ukraine war updates as of May 6, 2025

Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of May 6, 2025.

1,168 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 4,081 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.

Operational information as of 8:00 a.m. May 6, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion.

The 1168th day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.

In total, 200 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.

Yesterday, the enemy launched one missile and 80 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, using two missiles and dropping 175 CABs. In addition, it carried out over 6100 attacks, 113 of them from multiple launch rocket systems, and involved 3344 kamikaze drones for strikes.

The aggressor carried out air strikes, in particular, on the areas of the settlements of Vorozhba, Iskryskivshchyna, Myropillya, Bilopillya in the Sumy region; Zolochiv, Kozacha Lopan, Pidlyman in the Kharkiv region; Shevchenko Pershe, Nova Poltavka, Sukhyi Yar, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Oleksandrograd, Novopil, Zelene Pole in the Donetsk region; Malynovka, Temyrivka, Zaliznychne, Mala Tokmachka, Stepove, Kamianske of the Zaporizhia region.

Yesterday, aviation and missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck 24 areas of concentration of enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment, two command posts, five missile troops and artillery assets, two air defense assets and four other important enemy objects.

Last day, four clashes took place in the Kharkiv direction near the settlement of Vovchansk.

Five attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansky direction during the day. Defense forces repelled enemy assault actions in the area of Zagryzovye and towards Novoosynovye and Hlushkivka.

In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 31 times. It tried to advance near the settlements of Hrekivka, Novomykhailovka, Novye, Kolodyazi, Myrne, Torske and towards Zelena Dolyna.

In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled four enemy attacks in the area of Chasiv Yar, Kurdyumivka and in the direction of Bila Hora.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out six attacks in the areas of Toretsk and Ozaryanivka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 78 attacks of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Sukha Balka, Stara Mykolaivka, Vodyane Druge, Novotoretsk, Shevchenko, Udachne, Uspenivka, Troitske, Kotlyarivka, Bogdanivka and Andriivka.

In the Novopavlivka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 24 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Novopil, Novosilka, Pryvilne, Komar and towards Odradne.

The enemy also attacked the positions of our defenders in the area of Vysokoye in the Hulyaipil direction seven times.

In the Orikhiv direction, near Stepovoye, Maly Shcherbaky, Kamyanske and towards Novoandreyevka and Novodanylivka, the invaders carried out 14 attacks on the positions of our defenders.

In the Siversky and Prydniprovsky directions, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations.

In the Kursk direction, our soldiers repelled 18 enemy attacks over the past day. The enemy launched 330 artillery attacks, eight of them from multiple launch rocket systems; carried out 12 air strikes, dropping 27 KABs.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the aggressor were detected.

Our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment and are actively undermining the enemy’s offensive potential in the rear.

In total, over the past day, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,430 soldiers. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized three tanks, five armored combat vehicles, 61 artillery systems, one MLRS, 145 operational-tactical-level UAVs, 103 vehicles and three units of special equipment of the occupiers.

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