The russian army is suffering losses in the war with Ukraine, and the resistance movement is developing actively in the cities and villages temporarily occupied by the aggressor, - stated in the operational report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 6.00 on May 3.
The russians loss of equipment goes on. Thus, in the city of Boguchar, Voronezh Oblast, from April 27 to May 2, 17 tanks and 60 IFV-1s were taken out of storage. They were sent to Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by russian troops.
The situation in the directions is as follows:
in Volyn, Polissya and Siversk directions - the enemy did not take active action, no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found.
in Slobozhansky - russia continued shelling of Kharkiv and neighboring settlements.
in Izyum - the russians carried out active fire on units of Ukrainian troops.
in Donetsk - the main efforts of the russian occupiers continue to focus on establishing full control over Rubizhne and Popasna and advancing in the direction of the Lyman and Slavyansk.
on Pivdennobuzhsky - the enemy did not conduct active hostilities. They continued to fire on units of our troops along the line of contact.
During the past 24hrs, 12 russian attacks have been repulsed in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, 6 tanks, 5 artillery systems, 22 units of armored combat vehicles and 8 units of enemy vehicles have been destroyed.
The air defense forces hit 7 Orlan-10 UAVs and one Outpost UAV.
The russian occupiers on May 2 fired at the Korabelny district of Mykolaiv.
The United States has "highly reliable" intelligence information that russia will try to annex Donetsk and Luhansk regions "sometime in mid-May." Moscow has a similar plan for Kherson.