Operational information on 18.00 on May 2, 2022 regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people against a Russian military invasion continues for sixty-eight days.

The Russian enemy continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. They are conducting offensive operations within the Eastern Operational Zone to take full control of the territory of Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts as well as maintain the land corridor with temporarily occupied Crimea.

Slobozhansky, Donetsk and Donetsk are the areas with the most activity from Russian invaders. The Russian enemy reinforced artillery units, strengthened troops and established air defense units in the Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih areas. It is currently trying to set up a system for logistical support to the grouping troops in these areas.

The Russian enemy continues to build reserves to transfer them to operational areas of Ukraine.
The Russian enemy continues to launch bomb and missile strikes against targets in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

In the Slobozhansky direction, the shelling of Kharkiv’s city continues.

The Russian enemy continues to attack the Izyum direction in the Izyum-Barvinkovo/Izyum-Slovyansk directions.
Russian occupiers moved into certain areas of the jet artillery and artillery units to strengthen the group.
The pontoon bridge was built by the Russian enemy to improve transport infrastructure. Russian occupiers continue shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops, and civilian objects that are located a short distance away from the border of Ukraine’s state territory from the territory the Russian federation.

The concentration of Russian occupiers’ resources for fighting in the Eastern Operational Zone is continuing in the Belgorod Region.

The main efforts of the Russian enemy in Donetsk were to establish full control over Rubizhne, Popasna, and advance towards the settlements Lyman and Siversk.

Measures are being taken to regroup units and position engineering equipment in the Tavriya direction. A barrel artillery unit was deployed near Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The Russian enemy attacked our troops near the settlement of Orikhiv with artillery shelling.

The Russian enemy set up a fuel depot and repair point in the Zaporizhzhia oblast’s temporarily occupied territories.

The Russian enemy in South Buh is trying to improve its tactical position. It continues to try to reach the administrative frontier of the Kherson Oblast. To fire on the positions, it deploys jet- and barrel artillery units.

Transfer of material resources from temporarily occupied territory of Autonomous Republic of Crimea continues with the help of Ukraine’s railway infrastructure.

The situation in the Republic of Moldova’s transnistrian region remains volatile, according to the Bessarabian direction. The Russian enemy continues to spread provocative media reports about the increasing threat from Ukraine to the population living in Transnistria.

The possibility of provocative and demonstrative actions by the enemy in areas near the Ukrainian state border is possible from the Volyn and Siversky directions.

Measures to strengthen the administrative-police and counter-intelligence regimes continue in the Bryansk region bordering on Ukraine.

Enemy ships operating in the waters of the Black Sea and Azov seas are engaged in missile strikes against the territory of Ukraine. They also perform reconnaissance and the task of isolating hostilities.
The Russian enemy continues its destruction of Ukraine’s civil infrastructure. Rocket and bomb attacks are carried out and artillery shelling is used to bombard residential areas in Mykolayiv as well as the settlements of Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk oblasts.

The Russian occupiers have been creating and exacerbating economic and humanitarian crises in temporarily occupied territories. The settlements are suffering from a shortage in medicines, a limited supply of grocery stores, and no functioning banks.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces are ready to take on any Russian enemy and inflict heavy losses in any direction.
We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!

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