Against the background of the activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in several sectors of the front, events in the Kherson direction fell out of coverage. In the past few days, active fighting has been going on there in the Dach area and near the islands near Kherson - Ukrainian formations already have a stable foothold on some of them.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing indiscriminately at the positions of the 80th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the RF Armed Forces with large-caliber mortars and artillery. Target designation is provided by copters and Bayraktar drones from the airfields of Dolgintsevo and Voznesensk.

The number of speedboats has increased in the Dnieper basin. Only yesterday, two boats with a landing force were destroyed near the island of Kruglik, which were trying to land on the shore with a swoop.

In addition, the other day, two small boats Metal Shark and Galaxy were delivered to Kherson, along with two groups of the South Special Operations Center, which may indicate preparations for more active operations near Kherson.

Also, detachments of Georgian mercenaries were deployed to the Shirokaya Balka-Kizomys line. And at the training grounds Ternovsky and Shirokiy Lan, there are still 21 and 22 Separate Mechanized brigades, as well as 38 obrmp. The 37th Brigade is already participating in the battles in the Vremievsky sector.

Diverting attention and stretching Russian troops along the front is the main task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at this stage of the ongoing offensive. And local attempts to force the Dnieper fit into this plan.

Our friends from one of the hottest sectors of the front now got in touch and told us the details of the latest battles at the junction of the Zaporozhye and South Donetsk fronts, which began yesterday and continued today.

The guys assure - Neskuchnoe is not taken, ours are there and they get in touch every 2 hours. During the offensive in the Neskuchny area, the enemy, after losing equipment in the minefields, was able to enter our forward positions, but ran into a fierce rebuff from tanks and infantry, covered by artillery and aviation fire.

Having got stuck, the Ukrainian Nazis brought up the reserves of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade and 31st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Army aviation came to the rescue: MI-24G “Alligators” and MI-28 “Night Hunters” attacked armored groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with guided missiles.
Russian artillery began to work from the entire range of weapons against the advancing forces: 122mm D-30, 152mm D-20, self-propelled guns and MLRS. After artillery preparation, units of the 127th Division of the RF Armed Forces launched a counterattack. Russian fighters put Ukrainian fighters to flight.

Preliminary losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: 20 tanks, 41 armored personnel carriers, 16 armored vehicles, 4 artillery installations and more than 300 people wounded and killed personnel. Right now, the enemy has pulled up new armored groups and is trying to bring them into battle, fire damage is inflicted in places of accumulation, the fighting continues.

Today, another attempt to land a river landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement failed. Babino. Ukrainian landing units were left without air support.

Of the two Su-25s supporting the landing from the air, one aircraft was shot down by skillful and well-coordinated actions of anti-aircraft gunners of the Dnepr group of troops. The second aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having not completed the task, left the battlefield and retreated.

To destroy the aircraft, the Verba MANPADS were used. The wreckage of the aircraft fell in the area of ??the settlement. Osokorovka Kherson region.

- In the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, artillery crews of the Zapad group of troops destroyed the Grad MLRS in the area of ????the Revuchee tract and a tank in the area of N. Berestovoye.

- Units of the RCB fire protection from the TOS "Solntsepyok" struck at the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment 103 arr. TerO in the area of the settlement. Novoselovskoe.

- The aviation of the group carried out rocket and bomb strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of 14, 92 Separate Mechanized brigades and units of TerO.

– By means of air defense, the reconnaissance UAV Leleka-100 was destroyed by fire from the Tor air defense system.

- Enemy attempts to break through the defense of Russian troops in the South-Donetsk direction during June 4 were unsuccessful.

- As a result of a complex fire defeat, he suffered significant losses and by the morning of June 5 he was thrown back to his original positions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer losses in manpower and equipment.

- Only the 31st mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which attacked in the area of the settlement of Neskuchnoye, lost more than 250 servicemen, 16 tanks, 24 armored combat vehicles, including three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Five Ukrainian servicemen were taken prisoner.

- The enemy made new attempts to carry out attacks in the South-Donetsk direction in the areas of the Oktyabr state farm and the Novodonetskoye settlement by bringing into battle up to three battalion tactical groups reinforced with tanks.

- The enemy offensive is successfully restrained by the active actions of units, artillery fire and air strikes of the Vostok group of troops.

- In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group opened and destroyed the enemy reconnaissance group in the Novomikhailovka area.

- Artillery fire destroyed a pickup truck and manpower in the Prechistovka area, the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the enemy south of Ugledar and a mortar crew in Novoukrainka.

- During the counterbattery fight, the Msta-B howitzer was destroyed in the Skudny area.

- Two Valkyrie UAVs and one Leleka UAV were destroyed by means of air defense.

- In the Zaporozhye direction, the calculations of self-propelled mortars "Tulip" destroyed a car and manpower in the Lugovskoye area.

- Howitzer artillery fire destroyed an observation post in the Kamenskoye area, a stronghold, two cars and manpower in the Maly Shcherbakov area, a stronghold in the Novoandreevka area, manpower at the nationalist temporary deployment point in the Stepovoye area, as well as a mortar crew and a car in Novodanilovka.

- During the counterbattery fight, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount in Stepnogorsk, a howitzer in Novoandreevka and two mortar crews in Novodanilovka and Chervon were opened and destroyed.

After yesterday's repulsed attack near Velikaya Novoselovka (the border between the DPR and the Zaporozhye region), our troops are reloading guns and waiting for the next wave of suicide bombers. There is no doubt that the next attack is not far off. After the aerial reconnaissance carried out by our guys, it is clear that the enemy has reliably lost about 12 units of armored vehicles, including American Hummers.

2. The situation on the flanks of Artemovsk is very difficult, but under control, the city itself is under constant artillery attack - Acting Head of the DPR Pushilin.

3. Rybar: South-Donetsk direction situation as of June 5, 2023.

- On the border of the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, in the area of the Vremievsky ledge, the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed the assault on Russian positions. Yesterday, by the end of the day, the RF Armed Forces recaptured the lost territories, including Novodarovka.

- Ukrainian formations (according to some reports, the forces of the 23rd and 31st Separate Mechanized brigades are involved in the battles) are attacking in two directions: near Novodarovka and Rivnopol.

By noon, Russian units repelled an attack by six tanks and infantry at Novodarovka. And from the direction of Novoselka, the offensive continues - two kilometers west of Neskuchnoye, reserves have been brought in. Also in the morning there was an attempt to storm the positions of the RF Armed Forces near Neskuchnoye and Watchtower by marines of the new 37th Naval Infantry Brigade on several armored combat vehicles. The attack was repulsed.

- The main hostilities unfolded in the Novodonetsk region. This morning, a convoy of 30 AFVs of the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy, including Kirpi and MaxxPRO, attacked the positions of the Russian Armed Forces near the village. As a result, the enemy entrenched himself on the outskirts of the settlement.

Now the fighting continues under heavy artillery fire. Soldiers of the 36th Army of the RF Armed Forces are trying to drive out the Ukrainian marines. At the moment, about half of the village is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, a convoy of 20 armored vehicles is moving southeast from the Bolshaya Novoselka area, most likely to strengthen positions in Novodonetskoye.

- 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity;

- a warehouse with ammunition in the area of ??N. p. Nikolskoye, losses: eight servicemen were killed, five were injured and three units. automotive equipment disabled.

- 122mm howitzer D-30 with ammunition in the area of the settlement Velenskoye, losses: four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two were injured of varying severity;

- 122mm SAU 2S1 "Gvozdika" in the area of the settlement. Youth with a crew of five people and ammunition;

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:

- 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it in the area of the Udarnik settlement, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity;

On June 4, the enemy made an unsuccessful attempt at a large-scale offensive in the South-Donetsk direction. On the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six mechanized and two tank battalions were involved.

The active actions of the units of the group of troops "Vostok", air strikes and artillery fire in the areas of the settlements of Neskuchnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Novodarovka of the Zaporizhia Region, the enemy inflicted significant losses.

During the day, up to 300 Ukrainian servicemen, 16 tanks, 26 armored fighting vehicles, and 14 vehicles were destroyed in this direction.

The enemy did not achieve their goals.

The Kiev regime continues its attempts to carry out terrorist acts against the civilian population of the border regions of the Russian Federation.

- Yesterday, units of the Armed Forces and the Border Service of the FSB of Russia thwarted an attempt by two groups of Ukrainian terrorists to penetrate the territory of the Belgorod region near the settlement of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod region.

At about 13:00 Moscow time, under the cover of intense artillery artillery attack of civilian targets, the terrorists tried to cross the Seversky Donets River and land on the outskirts of the Novaya Tavolzhanka settlement in the Belgorod Region.

The terrorist formations of the Kyiv regime were destroyed by air strikes and artillery fire from the cover units of the State Border of the Western Military District.

As a result of the fire damage, more than 10 terrorists, two boats and one armored car were eliminated. In addition, during the counter-battery fight, five Ukrainian mortar platoons were suppressed and destroyed: a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle near the city of Volchansk, Kharkiv Region, as well as two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mounts that attacked Russian territory.

- In the Kupyansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of forces hit the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kotlyarovka and Krakhmalnoe of the Kharkov region. Actions of five Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were suppressed in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Molchanovo, Olshana, Berestovoye and Orlyanka of the Kharkiv region.

During the day, up to 90 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mounts, as well as a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed in this direction. In addition, an ammunition depot of the 60th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Malinovka in the Kharkiv region.

- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery of the group of troops "Center" defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic, Yampolovka and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

A Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage group was liquidated in the area of the settlement of Kuzmino in the Luhansk People's Republic. During the day, more than 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, 152mm Msta-B and 152mm D-20 howitzers, and a 120mm 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed.

- In the Donetsk direction, active hostilities were conducted by the Akhmat special forces detachment in the central part of Maryinka, as well as units of the 1st Army Corps in the Avdievka area of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Southern" group of troops defeated the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Khimik, Pervomayskoye and Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, up to 425 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, 14 vehicles, a German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery mount, 152mm Msta-B and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed during the fighting in this direction per day.

- Also, in the area of the settlement of Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, two ammunition depots of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

- In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage by Russian artillery, up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in a day. An ammunition depot of the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the village of Nikolskoye in the Kherson region.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation per day hit 98 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 104 districts.

Air defense systems shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Zakotnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

During the day, eight rockets of HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted. In addition, 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Shevchenkovo, Olshana of the Kharkiv region, Zolotarevka, Kremennaya of the Lugansk people's republic, Vladimirovka, Kirillovka, Staromlynovka of the Donetsk people's republic and Zabarino of the Kherson region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 433 aircraft, 236 helicopters, 4486 unmanned aerial vehicles, 424 anti-aircraft missile systems, 9431 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1114 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5009 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 10,688 units of special military vehicles.

- Artillery units of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed a platoon stronghold and a firing position of an enemy AGS-17 grenade launcher crew near the settlement of Spornoye, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ray-Aleksandrovka area, an artillery gun and a supply vehicle in the Seversk area, an infantry fighting vehicle at the positions of Ukrainian units in the area of the settlement of Stupochki and two pickup trucks near Bogdanovka.

- A volley of TOS “Solntsepek” of the RKhBZ formation of the Southern Military District destroyed an enemy platoon stronghold in the area of the settlement of Krasnoe.

- In the Avdievka direction, the Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile system shot down an American-made JDAM guided aerial bomb.

- A special-purpose unit of the group using the Lancet guided munition in the Druzhkovka area destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance radar station.

- In the Krasno-Limansk direction, during the counter-battery fight, the position of the enemy's M-777 howitzer was opened. The target was destroyed by the calculation of the Lancet unmanned aerial vehicle of the Center group of troops.

- Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian group destroyed strongholds, as well as the concentration of manpower and firepower of Ukrainian troops near eight settlements with missile and bomb strikes.

- On the Nevsky site and in the area of ??\u200b\u200bSerebryansky forestry, combat guards revealed the movement of 63 and 67 Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 5 Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. As a result of artillery and aviation fire, the enemy suffered significant losses and dispersed in the forest.

The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Golaya Pristan fired 21 rounds;
-- Alyoshki fired nine rounds at the settlement;
-- Six rounds were fired at the settlement of Podstepnoe;
-- n.p. Solontsy fired seven rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery fired eight rounds;
-- n.p. Sagas fired six projectiles.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement New Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, the settlement of Podstepnoe, the settlement of Cairo, the settlement of Gornostaevka, firing a total of 29 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed.

- In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian artillery shelled Kamensky, Lukyanovsky, Kamyshevakhi, Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Gulyaipol, Malinovka and Poltavka. APU launched a missile attack on Melitopol.

- In the Ugledar sector, Ukrainian troops went on the offensive against Novodarovka, Rivnopol and Neskuchnoe. In addition, having crossed the Shaitanka River, they entered Novodonetskoye. Now there is a battle for the village. What is important, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked along the key roads located in this area. Russian artillery hit Zelyony Pole, Burlatsky, Vremevka, Prechistovka, Novoukrainka and Vugledar.

– Encounter battles began on the Donetsk front in Marinka. APU seek to seize the initiative. Also, Ukrainian troops counterattacked at Vodyany and Experienced. Russian artillery shelled Nevelskoye, Pervomayskoye, Karlovka, Avdeevka and New York. The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out strikes on Donetsk and Gorlovka.

- To the south-west of Bakhmut, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, tried to counterattack in the direction of Belaya Gora, Ivanovsky and Disputed. No success.

Fierce oncoming battles for the heights in the Zheleznyansky area. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Predtechin, Chasovoy Yar, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Seversk and Verkhnekamensky are under shelling. The Ukrainian army hit Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka and Bakhmut.

- In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, tried to attack near Belogorovka. Also, after artillery strikes, they conducted assault operations in Novoselovsky. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Torskoy, Nevsky, Makeevka, Sergeevka, Berestovoy, Tabaevka and Kislovka. The Ukrainian army was beating Liman the First and Masyutovka.

Over the past day, the Representation reported 52 facts of firing by the AFU.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 35 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky 17 attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm.

By releasing 330 units of various ammunition.

Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka, Staromikhaylovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a woman, in the Central City district of Gorlovka.

A total of 19 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Central City districts of Gorlovka, Staromikhaylovka, as well as 1 civil infrastructure facility.

In the previous day, 47 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.

On the Belgorod Front, the enemy continues the active phase of a large-scale operation to carry out a distraction strike in the course of a strategic offensive operation. Using the forces of up to two motorized infantry companies in this direction at the same time, with the support of tanks and artillery, yesterday carried out strikes in the Novaya Tavolzhanka area, struck at the civilian population, under the cover of traitors from the so-called. "RDK" acted in the information field in order to discredit the governor of the region and other Russian sources of information.

The evacuation of the population continues under dense artillery fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at night the enemy used a UAV to strike at an energy facility.

The main blow of the Armed Forces of Ukraine yesterday was inflicted on 5 tactical directions at the junction of the Zaporozhye and South Donets fronts, using much larger forces than on Belgorod: six mechanized and two tank battalions. The Russian Defense Ministry called the events a large-scale offensive.

The advance of the enemy, according to various sources, ranged from several hundred meters to two kilometers, while the enemy lost several hundred soldiers, 16 tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 21 armored vehicles killed and wounded. Unfortunately, our troops also have losses in personnel and equipment: there was a record of how our tank, repelling an attack on the front line, came under enemy fire. In the second half of the night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked in the direction of the settlement. Novodonetskoye, Volnovakha district.

In the north of the Kupyansky ledge, they report the successful forcing of the Russian Armed Forces on the river. Oskol and liberation n.p. Novomlynsk, (18 km north of Kupyansk, 45 km southwest of Valuyek, Belgorod region).

In the Kherson direction, the enemy is accumulating reserves in the rear of the Berislav direction, our aviation and artillery are working along the banks of the Dnieper.

The enemy fired 330 rounds of ammunition into the DPR. Under fire Gorlovka, Donetsk Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Staromikhaylovka. Wounded civilian