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04 May 2025
On the frontlines over the past day, May 3, a total of 253 combat clashes between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded. In particular, Ukrainian defenders repelled 113 enemy attacks in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces launched attacks using drones and Grad multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) at Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Dnipro districts of Dnipropetrovsk region. Two police officers were injured.
Russian forces attacked the front-line town of Orikhiv with guided aerial bombs (KABs).
The total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to May 4, 2025 amount to approximately 956,810 personnel, including 1,340 in the past 24 hours alone.
Several fires broke out in Cherkasy as a result of a Russian drone attack, including one in a dormitory.
The number of people injured in Kyiv due to an overnight attack by Russian drones has risen to 11, including two children. Damage and fires were reported in three districts of the capital.
The delegation of the European political party The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe discussed with the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets the issue of increasing pressure on Russia to return deported Ukrainian children.
Police officers from the special unit White Angel evacuated a 74-year-old woman from Yunakivka community in Sumy region, which is under constant shelling by Russian forces.
03 May 2025
Volodymyr Zelensky noted the units that are building up Ukraine's long-range capabilities in the sky and at sea, and also spoke about an accurate operation against military targets in Crimea.
As a result of Russian shelling of Donetsk region on May 3, at least two people were killed and another was injured.
Operators of the Korsar strike UAV battalion of the 38th Separate Marine Brigade destroyed a multipurpose light armored towing vehicle (MT-LB), a truck, and an armored vehicle belonging to Russian forces on the Pokrovsk front.
One person was killed and two others injured in a Russian drone attack in the center of Kherson.
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked three districts in Dnipropetrovsk region using drones, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), and guided aerial bombs (KABs).
Since the day started, there have already been 123 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the most intense fighting occurring in the Novopavlivka and Pokrovsk sectors of the front.
Russian invaders shelled Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, leaving a civilian man injured and inflicting damage on municipal infrastructure and residential buildings.
Aerial reconnaissance operators with the 4th Border Guard Detachment used Baba Yaga heavy multirotor bomber drones to destroy three Russian vehicles and three positions set up by the invaders in Kharkiv region.
Soldiers of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 combat aircraft with a strike from a Magura maritime drone.
If a decision is made to cease fire for a month, the issue of monitoring must be resolved quickly.
Russia claimed to have repelled an attack of 170 drones over five regions and the temporarily occupied Crimea overnight on Saturday. Reports indicate fires, destruction, and casualties as a result of the attack.
Russian forces carried out a large-scale strike at the central part of the village of Velykyi Burluk in Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region, injuring two women.
During the shelling of Kharkiv, Russian forces deployed strike drones equipped with thermobaric warheads.
In Kharkiv region, four settlements and the city of Kharkiv were affected by Russian strikes over the past 24 hours. A 47-year-old man was killed in Kupiansk, while 48 people were injured.
As of 6:00 on Saturday, May 3, Russia has three warships in the Black Sea equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles, with a combined potential volley of up to 18 missiles.
Russian forces shelled settlements in Sumy region nearly 130 times over the past 24 hours, resulting in two civilians being injured.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine have shot down 77 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine.
Over the past day, May 2, a total of 216 combat engagements between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line.
UAV operators from the 413th Raid Battalion of the Unmanned Systems Forces in April disabled five Russian Buk-M3 air defense systems, as well as two Buk-M2s, and one each of Buk-M1, Strela-10, Osa, and Tunguska.
Russia has already suffered an estimated 955,470 combat casualties in Ukraine since the large-scale invasion, including 1,170 killed or wounded in action over the past day.
During a Russian air raid targeting Mykolaiv, several explosions were reported from the ground.
Border guards from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit with the Revenge brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine employed drones to engage a Russian assault group that used 10 motorcycles and two quadricycles in a failed attempt to approach Ukraine’s positions in the Kupiansk direction.