In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the occupiers are taking active action along the entire line of contact.
Russia continues to build capacity to strengthen its position and continue offensive. Thus, weapons and military equipment withdrawn from storage in the Western, Central, Eastern Military Districts and the Northern Fleet are being transferred to the border areas with Ukraine by rail, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Sunday, May 1.
< p>In the Slobozhansky direction, enemy groups continue to launch air and artillery strikes on Kharkiv. The occupiers continue their offensive in the directions of Izyum – Barvinkove and Izyum – Slovyansk. Up to 300 weapons and military equipment were moved to these areas, and about a thousand mobilized persons arrived from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. To cover the advancing air forces in these areas, the enemy deployed two anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with Buk-M2 and Tor-M anti-aircraft missiles.
collision. The enemy is trying to carry out air strikes and artillery fire on the positions of our troops.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy is advancing in the direction of Krymka and Oleksandrivka.
In the Popasnyansky direction, the occupiers are carrying out assault operations in the direction of Novotoshkivske – Orikhove. On the Kurakhiv direction, with the support of artillery, the enemy is trying to break through the defenses of our units in the direction of Olenivka – Novomykhailivka.
region and create favorable conditions for the attack on the cities of Mykolayiv and Kryvyi Rih.
In the Seversky direction, enemy units fired on the positions of our troops from the territory of the Bryansk region.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. At the same time, certain units of the Belarusian Armed Forces continue to cover the border in Brest and Gomel oblasts, and the threat of missile strikes from this country remains. 25 and seven UAVs.
In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts alone, nine enemy attacks were repulsed in the past 24 hours, eight tanks, one artillery system, twenty-four units of armored combat vehicles, one special vehicle and one cars (two fuel tanks inclusive).
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