Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Fixed shelling from the VFU.
22:42 Video- report on the launches of the Geran-2 UAV.
22:41 Inflicted blows in Slavyansk, Kurakhovo and Konstantinovka - in the rear and places of concentration of the Bakhmut group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:31 Blows also applied to targets in the Chernihiv region.
22:28 Russian aviation is bombing on targets in the Sumy region.
22:15 Fixed shelling from the VFU.
22:01 First vide of fighting in the Pohovsky district of the Zaporozhye region today.
21:27 Video- Destroyed 113G4DK near Artemovsk.
21:00 Video- The work of the T-90M in the area of Belogorovka LPR.
20:55 APU trying attack in the Orekhovsky direction, there is a battle, - a member of the regional administration of Zaporozhye Vladimir Rogov.
20:32 Video- The Lancet's strike on the Ukrainian tank. Whether the drone got into dynamic protection or not is not clear.
20:04 On the street. Lokhtina in the Petrovsky district of Donetskwerepetal mines were found.
19:44 Video- On the Svatovsky sector of the front, soldiers of the 21st Motorized Rifle Brigade destroyed an American M113 armored personnel carrier with a well-aimed shot.
19:29 Video- In the rear area of the special military operation, military personnel are undergoing intensive combat training.
Training takes place under the guidance of experienced instructors. In the course of practical exercises, military personnel practice the actions of assault groups on watercraft.
19:19 Consequences artillery attack near the railway station in Kherson.
According to the Kherson city administration, as a result of today's shelling, 17 people were killed and 45 were injured.
18:52 Two drones were shot down in Crimea. Video from Feodosia.
18:38 Video- TOS-1A "Solntsepek" works in the same industrial zone of Belogorovka in the LPR.
18:23 Video- The guys from the Zaporizhia direction showed how they terrorize crests with artillery fire. Especially for you, we filmed the separation of the opponents of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from different angles.
18:17 Video- Another American off-road armored car "MaxxPro" did not even reach the front, as it could not overcome impassability.
18:01 Consequences of morning artillery attack of the "Epicenter" in Kherson, as a result of which three people were killed and four people were injured.
17:46 Battle for Marinka situation according to condition as of May 3, 2023.
- Tankers of the Southern Military District report that after the breakthrough of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Druzhby Avenue, fighting continues in the low-rise buildings of the city.
- The paratroopers of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Airborne Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack using small-sized FPV drones, as well as fire support from artillerymen.
- A howitzer division of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as a tank battalion, previously involved in the Ugledar sector, was transferred to the Konstantinovka area south of Maryinka.
- In addition, due to heavy losses in the 79th Brigade, detachments of French mercenaries were transferred to the Marinka area to strengthen the defense of the city.
- Despite all the efforts of the Ukrainian formations, the Russian fighters managed to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the territory of "Gorgaz" on the southern outskirts and gain a foothold in this area.
17:23 Video- The work of Donetsk 2nd Army Corps artillery on the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind Disputed.
16:54 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group.
- In the South-Donetsk direction, the crews of the 152mm Acacia self-propelled guns destroyed the enemy stronghold in the Ugledar area, liquidated four militants.
In the Zaporizhia direction, preemptive fire from the artillery of the Vostok group thwarted an attempt by the enemy to conduct reconnaissance in force of our forward positions. An armored car "Kozak", a pickup truck and seven militants were destroyed.
- In the course of conducting aerial reconnaissance in the area of the settlement of Novodanilovka, an enemy observation post was opened. Calculation 152mm gun "Hyacinth-B" liquidated four militants.
16:36 Video- Foreign mercenaries are evacuating a wounded accomplice from the outskirts of Artemovsk.
16:27 Ukrainians released three rockets from the MLRS at Mospino - the representative office of the DPR in the JCCC.
A suburb of Donetsk Mospino under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis. According to the JCCC, three rockets were fired at the village. There is no information about the victims.
n.p. Kurakhovo - n.p. Mospino: three rockets were fired from the MLRS
Tonensk - Donetsk (Kiev region): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Tonensk - Donetsk (Kiev region): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
There are no casualties and destruction as a result of the artillery attack of Mospino - mayor
“Somewhere there, beyond Biryuki (a village east of Mospino - approx. DAN), it fell in a field. There are no residential (houses in that area - approx. DAN). Thank God, there are no casualties, no injuries,” Oleg Strelchenko, head of the city administration, told DAN.
16:12 Video- "Come over to the side of Russia and realize that all power is in the truth."
The commander of the sound broadcasting station ZS-88 with the call sign "Bell" told how combat work was organized on his combat vehicle.
The sound broadcasting station operates on the basis of the BTR-80 and is armed with two machine guns, however, Kolokol assures that the main weapon of this machine is sound broadcasting bells.
15:55 Video- The offensive of Ukraine has already begun.
The head of Wagner PMC, Prigozhin, said that, according to the "orchestra", the Ukrainian offensive had already begun. According to him, right now there is “the highest activity” of Ukrainian aviation.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have become more active, including outside their historical territories. In the near future, the offensive may move into an active phase. According to the Head of the “orchestra”, the bill can go on for days.
15:33 Video- Night hunting.
Identification of the enemy with the help of a night quadcopter and its destruction.
15:11 Video- These are the new "sights" in Oleshki.
Around the shops there is a temple, an evacuated orphanage, a long-suffering market, where civilians repeatedly flew in and died. City center, no military facilities or equipment within a radius of kilometers.
Question: who are the APU shooting at? ...
It seems to me that this is terror against the civilian population. Only the European media will not show it.
14:45 Video- Air strikes on points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Berislav.
Bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces continue to strike at alleged places of accumulation of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction. The day before yesterday, footage appeared of the destruction of two buildings in Berislav with the help of the FAB with planning and correction kits (UMPC).
14:38 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03.05.2023)
- In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Luhansk People's Republic and Kamenka, Kharkov Region.
Enemy losses amounted to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and a D-30 howitzer.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Center" group of forces defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, three pickup trucks, and two 152mm Msta-B howitzers were destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments fought in the western part of the city of Artemovsk. Subdivisions of the airborne troops fetter the actions of the enemy on the flanks. The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Southern" group of troops hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka and Bogdanovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
- Over the past day, nine sorties were made in this area by aviation. Artillery of the group completed 63 fire missions.
During the day, the enemy’s losses in this direction amounted to more than 385 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, one tank, four armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, air strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Temirovka and Gulyaipole of the Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses per day in these areas amounted to more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, as well as the 152mm Hyacinth-B howitzer.
- In the Kherson direction, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, a 152mm Giacint-B howitzer and an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed during a day of fire damage.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation over the past day hit 86 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 102 districts.
In the area of the settlement of Stepnogorsk, Zaporizhia region, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar was destroyed. An ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Progress in the Sumy region. During the day, air defense systems intercepted four HIMARS rockets and one US-made JDAM guided aerial bomb.
- In addition, sixteen Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Podstepnoye in the Kherson region, Olshany, Svatovo in the Luhansk People's Republic, Sergeevka, Volnovakha, Vasilievka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Tavolzhanka in the Kharkiv region and Romashkovo in the Sumy region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 416 aircraft, 230 helicopters, 3935 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,948 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,095 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,717 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 9,928 units of special military vehicles.
14:04 Video– Destruction of the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of thermobaric grenades.
13:44 Video- Headshot from the 101st Regiment of the DPR.
13:27 From May 9 to May 15, one grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plans advance in the direction of Tiraspol to start an armed provocation to divert Russian troops, and the second will try to seize ammunition depots in the village of Kolbasna (PMR) - RT.
13:17 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the "Center" grouping.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, units of the "Center" grouping inflicted fire damage on more than 120 enemy targets, of which about a hundred in areas of concentration of fire assets and manpower, as well as on seven strongholds and over 20 artillery positions.
Aviation of the Russian group continues to strike at the objects of Ukrainian nationalists.
On the Torsky site and in the area of Serebryansky forestry, the forces and means of intelligence of the "Center" group revealed the movement of personnel of the 81st Airmobile Brigade and 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of fire destruction of artillery, the enemy suffered losses in personnel.
13:01 Video- Processing of the positions of the ukrofascists by artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the vicinity of Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
12:44 Video- Accuracy and efficiency: combat work of the artillery units of the Airborne Forces in the area of the special operation.
Artillery units of the Airborne Forces, equipped with 120mm Nona-S self-propelled guns and 240mm Tyulpan self-propelled mortars, daily carry out combat work to destroy command and observation posts, manpower and fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, dug in in the forest.
After the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are detected by the crews of unmanned aerial vehicles, the paratroopers receive a command to use artillery units. Crews of "Nona" self-propelled guns march to firing positions, carry out aiming and inflict fire damage on manpower, destroying command and observation posts.
12:21 Video- Soldiers of the OBTF "Kaskad" destroyed the enemy's radar.
UAV operators of the DPR OBTF "Kaskad" together with PMC "Patriot" are ironing the Ukrainian radar station ST-68 (36D6). Operators of the UAV OBTF DPR “Kaskad” with two “Lancets” destroyed the airspace surveillance radar of the 36D6 radar of Ukrainian militants near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).
11:57 Video– Destruction of a Ukrainian S-300 launcher by Lancets in February.
11:34 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the "South" grouping.
- Aviation of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed the concentration of reserves of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area. As a result of a counter-battery fight by the artillery of the Yug group in the Maryinsky direction in the area of the settlement of Makimilyanovka, an enemy artillery crew and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
- On the Lisichansk and Maryinsky tactical directions, special forces units of the Southern Group of Forces identified and destroyed seven groups of enemy infantry, carrying out rotation of personnel at the positions of the front line. Also, the rotation of the personnel of enemy units was disrupted in the area of the settlement of Mayorovka in the Alexander-Kalinovsky direction.
The calculation of the anti-aircraft missile system "Osa-AKM" in the area of the settlement of Vodyanoye destroyed an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle of the "Fury" type.
- In the Soledaro-Bakhmut tactical direction, a battery of the BUK-M3 anti-aircraft missile system shot down two rounds of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During an unsuccessful attempt by Ukrainian units to conduct a counterattack on one of the sectors of the front of the Alexander-Kalinovsky direction, the artillery of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed two tanks from the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Novokalinovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:26 Video- Born in St. Petersburg, moved to the Crimea and now defends the Motherland in a special operation. A fighter with the callsign "Barcelona" in his "past life" was a football player and a fan, and even took the ball with him to the NWO zone.
11:13 Video- Ukrainian Nazis purposefully launched a rocket attack on the cafe "Laguna" in the Zaporozhye region.
The cafe is located in Tokmak, Zaporozhye region. As a result of the shelling, five people were killed and 15 were injured.
Cafe "Laguna" worked as usual, there were about 20-25 civilians in it. At about 19:00, the cafe's working mobile phone received a call from an unknown subscriber number, the subscriber of which told the cafe employee that he supposedly had friends relaxing in this cafe and he wanted to congratulate them on the holiday.
Then, an employee of the cafe turned on the speaker phone and an unknown man said: “Happy May Day, glory to Ukraine…”.
After that, from the side of the VFU, this cafe was shelled using MLRS "HIMARS" with ammunition stuffed with tungsten balls.
10:52 Video- Russian meteorologists report that a strong 122mm BM-21 “Grad” is at the positions of the Nazis today.
The BM-21 “Grad” battery of the “Center” grouping supports infantry assault operations in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya.
10:41 Video- Russian tankers destroy the Nazis near Ugledar.
The tank battalion of the Vostok grouping supports the infantry during the offensive. He has hundreds of destroyed targets.
10:23 Video- Our families and the memory of our ancestors are behind us!
The Russian soldier spoke about the reasons for participating in a special military operation that affect everyone. Think!
10:02 Video– Destruction of the next APU defensive midfielder in an unknown direction by the “O” group.
09:45 Video- The crew of the Su-35 of the Russian Aerospace Forces discovered and destroyed the aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of the special operation.
In the course of performing combat missions, the crews of multirole fighters practiced patrolling in a given area and covering the actions of bomber and ground attack aircraft.
During one of the sorties, an aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detected and destroyed in a timely manner.
09:30 Each projectile is right on target: the combat work of the crews of the 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mounts —video
Artillerymen of the Western Military District actively use the tactics of a fire raid: they arrive in a designated area, work out on the indicated targets and leave their positions. Unmanned aircraft crews help them correct the fire.
The military personnel of the district confidently carry out the task of destroying armored vehicles and fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fighters are well-coordinated, focused and focused only on victory!
09:25 Representation of the DPR in the JCCCinformsabout 75 facts of firing by the VFU per day
The enemy fired from MLRS, artillery 155mm, 152 and 122mm, firing 424 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.
Under the fire of the VFU were: Gorlovka, Ozeryanovka, Mikhailovka, Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Novoselovka Second, Donetsk, Makeevka, Yelenovka, Novotroitskoe, Petrovskoe, Sladkoe, Olginka, Blagodatnoe, Nikolskoe, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
08:31 Summary on the morning of May 03, 2023
At night, the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in the Kyiv, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
In Artyomovsk, the promotion of PMC Wagner amounted to 160 meters per day. Prigozhin reports that 103 PMC fighters died due to a lack of artillery rounds.
Near Zaporizhzhia, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the area of training of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The enemy is concentrating forces in the areas of Kupyansk, Krasny Liman, the activation of the movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. There is a transfer of personnel and equipment to the front.
In the Zaporozhye region in Melitopol, as a result of a terrorist attack, the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region was injured, three suspects were detained by the FSB.
In the Avdievka direction, the enemy occupied up to 1.5 km of the gray zone in the Troitsky area.
In the Krasnodar Territory in Taman, a fuel tank caught fire at night. Previously - UAV attack.
In the morning in the Bryansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Kurkovichi. In the evening, near the Snezhetskaya railway station, the railway tracks were blown up, a locomotive and several wagons of a freight train derailed. Earlier, an attempt to undermine the tracks was prevented on the Krasny Rog-Pochep stretch.
In the Kursk region - 10 arrivals at the settlement. Tetkino, Glushkovsky district.
The enemy fired 424 rounds of ammunition in the DPR. Gorlovka, Ozeryanovka, Mikhailovka, Wide Beam, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Novoselovka Second, Donetsk, Makeevka, Yelenovka, Novotroitskoye, Petrovskoe, Sladkoe, Olginka, Blagodatnoe, Nikolskoe, Vladimirovka are under fire. A civilian died.
08:30 Combat work of crews of 152mm self-propelled artillery installations "Acacia" -video
Artillerymen of the Western Military District actively use the tactics of a fire raid: they arrive in a designated area, work out on the indicated targets and leave their positions. Unmanned aircraft crews help them correct the fire.
08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/03/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on Stepnoy, Shcherbakov, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Charovnoye, Gulyaipol and Malinovka. The Ukrainian army is concentrating strike forces along the entire line of contact. So far, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not conducting active operations.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, again attacked in Marinka, in the direction of Pervomaisky and Severny (a settlement west of Avdiivka). There is no promotion. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Karlovka, Lastochkino, Avdievka and Yuzhny.
Thus, the intensity and geography of strikes by Russian troops has decreased over the past day. The Ukrainian army fired on Vodiane, Donetsk and Gorlovka.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again launched an attack in the direction of Predtechin. PMC "Wagner" continues assault operations in the southern and western parts of the city. In the north - oncoming battles. Like Bogdanovka. Russian artillery hit Belaya Gora, Konstantinovka, Ivanovsky, Chasov Yar, Grigorovka, Novomarkovo, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after artillery strikes, tried to advance towards Belogorovka and in the Serebryansky forest area near Dibrova. They also launched a ground attack at Novosyolovsky. No result. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Grigorovka (this is a settlement west of Luhansk Belogorovka on the banks of the Seversky Donets), Makeevka, Berestov, Krakhmalny, Kislovka, Kupyansk, Liman Pervy, Zapadny and Figolevka.