The occupiers do not give up trying to gain full control over Mariupol.
According to the operative information of the General Staff of the APU, as of the beginning of the day on April 3, Russia has transferred its main efforts to the Donetsk direction. In particular, the occupying forces have focused on capturing Rubezhny, Popasnaya, and are preparing to attack Severodonetsk. Also, the enemy does not give up trying to gain full control over Mariupol, according to the department's night report on Facebook.
The situation in Slobozhanshchina remains uneasy. Russian troops continue to block Kharkiv, and shelling of civilian areas from artillery systems of various types continues in the city. In this direction, the invaders are regrouping. The Ministry of Defense assumes that their goal is to continue active actions in the Izyum direction. The enemy is trying to conduct reconnaissance, including with the use of drones.
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Russia continues to carry out systematic missile and air strikes on military and civilian targets, but their intensity has decreased. However, additional enemy units are being prepared, and the enemy plans to create “volunteer” battalions of ORDLO residents.
Relatively calmer in the Volyn and Polesie directions. In the first, no special changes were recorded in comparison with the previous days, in the second – the withdrawal of personnel of enemy units to the territory of Belarus continues. However, it should be noted that the minefields are left behind:
“When withdrawing troops, the enemy mines the advance routes and individual settlements.”
In the northern direction, the enemy completed the withdrawal of units to Belarus. The main routes pass in the direction of Gomel and Mogilev regions of Belarus. As part of the columns recorded multiple rocket launchers, launchers OTRK “Iskander”. The enemy's military equipment focuses on railway stations and facilities that have a supply of railways, which allows it to be loaded and sent to the territory of the Russian Federation.
Through the Sumy region there is a withdrawal in the Russian Federation of units operating in the direction of Brovary.
