Russia launches 1,180 attack drones at Ukraine in past week alone - Zelensky
Russia has employed over 1,180 attack drones, 1,360 glide bombs, and 10 missiles of various types in air strikes against Ukraine over the past week.
04 May 2025
Russia has employed over 1,180 attack drones, 1,360 glide bombs, and 10 missiles of various types in air strikes against Ukraine over the past week.
Russian troops attacked Bashtanka district of Mykolaiv region with drones in the evening. The debris damaged a power line.
There are still 16 injured in medical institutions as a result of Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia.
Three people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of Marhanets, Dnipro region.
At night, the Russian army attacked Sloviansk with six drones, damaging a construction base.
Two men were injured in Kherson as a result of a Russian drone attack.
The number of people wounded in the Russian drone attack on Kyiv has increased to 11, including two children.
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.
Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready to move to a ceasefire as soon as possible if Russia takes mirror steps to establish a complete silence regime for at least 30 days.
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.
Schoolchildren from Melitopol, temporarily occupied by the Russian invasion army, were forcibly brought to Krasnodar for an “all-Russian patriotic forum.”
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.
Russian forces shelled settlements in Sumy region nearly 130 times over the past 24 hours, resulting in two civilians being injured.