Air defenses activated as enemy shells district in Kharkiv
The Russian army attacked the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv. Ukraine’s air defenses were activated.
03 June 2024
The Russian army attacked the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv. Ukraine’s air defenses were activated.
Since the beginning of the day, the total number of attacks by the Russian army on Ukrainian positions along the entire frontline has already reached 102. Fighting is raging in the Kharkiv, Kupiansk, Siversk and Pokrovsk sectors.
On June 3, Russian troops bombarded the Nikopol district with artillery and kamikaze drones, also attacking the Kryvyi Rih district.
In Russia’s Belgorod region, a field ammunition depot caught fire following an explosion.
Since the beginning of the day, 73 combat engagements were reported along the front lines, of which the most intense were seen in the Pokrovsk and Kupiansk axes.
Ukraine's partners have made a very important and long-awaited step by allowing the use of their weapons on Russian soil, but Ukraine will continue to work on expanding the area of their use.
Russia's S-300/400 air defense system has been hit in the Belgorod region.
The number of combat engagements on the front lines in Ukraine on June 3 has increased to 59, with Russian forces being more active in a number of sectors, including Kharkiv.
The Russian army has shelled the village of Mykhailivka in the Donetsk region, killing two people, including a 12-year-old boy, and injuring one.
Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko showed how soldiers from the National Guard ruined Russian plans to storm Ukrainian positions in Vovchansk.
The Russian army attacked a recreation center in the Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region, with S-300 missiles, killing an internally displaced person from the Donetsk region.
A private house was destroyed and a local resident was injured as a result of Russian shelling of Tomyna Balka village in the Kherson region. Two more civilians sustained explosive injuries as invaders attacked Bilozerka village.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, partisans have reconnoitered a military base in the village of Rozdolne, where a Russian unit of the third radio technical air defense regiment of military unit No.85683 is deployed. The transfer of equipment and personnel was recorded.
Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren has said there are no restrictions on Ukraine's use of F-16s that the Netherlands intends to donate to Ukraine
Over the past day, Russian troops shelled the Donetsk region 1,982 times, with hits recorded in 12 settlements, where 22 civilian objects were damaged.
On the morning of June 3, Russian troops fired on a school in the village of Tomyna Balka, Kherson region.
In total, over 860 combat clashes took place at the front in the past week. Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled most of the enemy attacks in the Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk axes.
The Ukrainian battlefield has seen 78 combat engagements over the past day, including 66 in the operational area of the Khortytsia Grouping of Troops.
Russian troops shelled the border territories of Chernihiv and Sumy regions 30 times in the past day with various types of weapons.
Four people were injured across Kharkiv region on Sunday as a result of Russian shelling.
As of 07:00 on June 3, Russia has two warships on combat duty in the Black Sea, one of which is a Kalibr cruise missile carrier.
The supply of Western air defense systems and the lifting of restrictions on Ukraine's ability to hit military targets on Russian soil with Western-provided weapons are critical to repelling Russian onslaught toward the city of Kharkiv.
Russian invaders injured five residents of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Sunday, June 2.
Russian troops shelled 15 settlements in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Sunday, June 2.
Russia's overall combat losses in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and June 3, 2024 amounted to about 511,130, including 1,270 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces have launched missile strikes on the Zmiiv community, Chuhuiv district, killing one person and injuring two others.
The enemy has carried out airstrikes on the villages of Novoandriivka, Malynivka and Levadne in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region.
Bomb disposal experts have defused two powerful guided aerial bombs that fell on a field near Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, and did not explode.
Romanian officials are discussing the idea of providing Ukraine with a Patriot air defense system.
Soldiers of the Omega Special Forces of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed an ammunition depot of Russian invaders in the Kharkiv sector using an FPV drone.