UK intel on fighting in eastern Ukraine: Russian forces made minor gains
The Avdiivka-Pokrovsk sector has remained the probable main effort of Russian forces over the last 72 hours, with a high level of operational activity.
04 June 2024
The Avdiivka-Pokrovsk sector has remained the probable main effort of Russian forces over the last 72 hours, with a high level of operational activity.
The Russian invasion forces have shelled the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas 614 times while 28 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of Tuesday.
Over the past 24 hours, 11 combat engagements took place in the Kharkiv axis where the Russian invasion forces lost over 170 soldiers killed and wounded in action.
The Russian forces fired 2,200 times at Ukrainian positions, towns and villages in the past 24 hours.
Tuesday morning, Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted two Russian missiles that targeted the city of Dnipro. Six people were injured, including a 1-month-old boy.
The total combat losses the Russian invasion army has suffered in Ukraine since the invasion have amounted to an estimated 512,420, including 1,290 over the past day alone.
Ukrainian border guards destroyed Russian engineering equipment near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region using an FPV drone.
03 June 2024
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 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.
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.
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.
02 June 2024
At the front lines in Ukraine, the number of combat engagements has increased to 55 since the beginning of the day. The situation remains tensest in the Pokrovsk axis.
The arrest of the former commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, Major General Ivan Popov, on corruption charges is yet another indication that the Russian army uses such charges to remove disloyal officers from office.
A total of 29 combat engagements took place along the frontlines in Ukraine since the beginning of the day.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to 2 June 2024 amounted to about 509,860 people, including another 1,130 people in the last day
The Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) special forces destroyed 10 Russian tanks, five air defense systems and eliminated 239 invaders over the past week.
01 June 2024
Special operations units with the GUR defense intelligence of Ukranie showed their kamikaze drones in action against Russian military hardware in the night hours.
The latest attempts by Russian forces to conduct assaults in the Orikhiv sector and on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region have not been successful.
A decade into the start of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2014, the total losses of the national museum fund amounted to 2 million items.
Twenty combat engagements have taken place at the front so far since day-start. Battles are currently ongoing in the Siversk, Pokrovsk, and Kurakhove axes.
The total combat losses sustained by Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to June 1, 2024 amount to an estimated 508,780, including 1,130 over the past 24 hours.
The number of Ukrainians living in poverty has grown by 1.8 million since 2020, bringing the total to about 29% of the population as Russia's 2022 invasion continues to ravage the country's economy, the World Bank said in a report.
President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson have signed the Agreement on Security Cooperation in Stockholm
31 May 2024
President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of Iceland, Bjarni Benediktsson have signed an agreement on security cooperation and long-term support
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, have signed Agreement on Security Cooperation and Long-Term Support in Stockholm.
Air defense units of Ukraine’s Ground Forces in May took down 218 Russian reconnaissance and one-way attack drones.
In May, the average daily personnel casualties suffered by Russia were the highest since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's overall combat losses in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and May 31, 2024 amounted to about 507,650, including 1,390 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
30 May 2024
Ukrainian defenders repelled 12 enemy assaults on the southern front on Thursday, including seven of them near Staromaiorske.
A total of 116 combat clashes have taken place along the front line over the past day.