General Staff: Russian missiles hit 8 Ukrainian Regions on Tuesday

Anastasia Kalatur – Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 07:20

Over the course of Tuesday, 3 May, Russian troops launched missiles on the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, Odesa, and Donetsk Regions.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Details: No active military action on Volyn and Polissia fronts. No evidence of Russian troops forming offensive groups.

Certain units of Belarusian troops continue to cover parts of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel Regions. A Missile Division of the 465th Missile Brigade of the Belarusian Armed Forces has been deployed in the border regions to check its readiness to carry out the assigned tasks and is now on its way there from its permanent station.

On the Siverskyi front, there was no evidence that Russian troops were forming an offensive group. To strengthen the protection of the Russian-Ukrainian border, units of the Russian Armed Forces from the Central Military District have been deployed near Novye Yurkovichi, Pogar, and Lomakovka checkpoints in the Bryansk Region.

On the Slobozhanskyi front, Russian troops fired artillery and mortars at Kharkiv and the town of Protopopivka. They conducted air reconnaissance near ​​Kutuzivka and Oleksandrivka, Kharkiv Region. They also tried to advance on the town on Dovhenky, but were unsuccessful.

Russian occupation forces are firing on Ukrainian troops on the Donetsk and Tavriia fronts to restrain their actions.

Russian troops on the Lyman front are advancing on the town of Shanryholove, where fighting continues. Russia is intensifying its military presence in the region as well as its air reconnaissance activities.

Russian occupation forces stormed Popasna, fighting continues.

Russian troops continue to carry out air strikes on and otherwise bombard the positions of Ukrainian troops at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

Russian troops attempted to advance on Orikhove on the Zaporizhzhia front, but were unsuccessful.

On the Pivdennyi Buh front, Russian troops fired on Ukrainian troops from artillery, multiple-launch rocket systems and tanks along the entire line of contact in order to destroy the fortification equipment of Ukrainian positions. Russian troops intensified hostilities near the town of Tomyna Balka.

The situation on the Besarabia front remains tense, but under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On Tuesday, 3 May, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 7 Russian UAVs and 8 cruise missiles.

12 Russian attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions; 6 Russian tanks, 5 artillery systems (3 of them multiple rocket launchers), 15 armoured combat vehicles and 9 units of automobile equipment were destroyed. Russian troops suffered more losses in other areas and on other fronts.

It is reported that more than 100 bodies of mobilised soldiers of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Federation who were killed in the Zaporizhzhia Region were taken to the central morgue in Horlivka.