The occupiers are advancing near Izium, Rubizhne and Popasna, and in the Kherson region – General Staff report

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO —  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022, 19:53

Russian troops are conducting offensive operations on the Slobozhanskyi, Donetsk and Pivdennyi Buh fronts.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, information as of 6 pm on Monday 2 May

Quote: "The greatest activity of the invaders is observed on the Slobozhanskyi and Donetsk fronts. 

On the Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Mykolaiv fronts, the enemy is regrouping troops, and strengthening artillery units and air defence units. It is trying to establish a system of logistical support for the deployment of troops in these areas."

Details: On the Slobozhanskyi front the invaders’ group of the 6th General Army, and the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets continue shelling Kharkiv.

On the Izium front, the Russian army continues to attack the area of Izium - Barvinkove ​​and Izium - Sloviansk. To strengthen the group, the occupiers are transferring the artillery and rocket artillery units to certain areas. 

In order to improve the transport infrastructure, the invaders have built a pontoon-bridge crossing over the Siverskyi Donets River. The occupiers continue to shell the positions of Ukrainian troops and civilian objects located at a short distance from the state border of Ukraine with the territory of the Russian Federation.

In the Belgorod region, the concentration of occupiers' reserves for fighting in the Eastern Operational Zone continues.

On the Donetsk front, the aggressors’ main efforts were focused on establishing full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and advancing in the directions of the settlements of Lyman and Siversk.

Measures are underway on the Tavriia front to regroup units and engineering equipment positions. In particular, a gun artillery unit was deployed at firing positions near the settlement of Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia Region. The invaders carried out artillery shelling of the positions of the Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​the settlement of Orikhiv.

In the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Region, the aggressors deployed a fuel depot and a point for repairing damaged equipment.

On the Pivdennyi Buh front, the Russian army is fighting to improve its tactical position. The soldiers keep on trying to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region, and continue to deploy rocket and gun artillery units to fire on positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The transfer of material resources from the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the use of the railway infrastructure of Ukraine continues.

On the Bessarabia front, the situation in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova remains tense. The Russian army, through the controlled media, continues to spread provocative reports about the growing threat to the population of Transnistria from Ukraine.

On the Volyn, Polissia and Siverskyi fronts, there is a possibility of demonstrative and provocative actions by the aggressors in the areas adjacent to the state border of Ukraine.

There is also a threat of missile strikes on targets in Ukraine.

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

In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, invaders’ ships are involved in missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, perform the task of isolating the area of ​​hostilities and conduct reconnaissance.

Russian occupying forces continue to destroy Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. They inflict rocket and bomb attacks and carry out artillery shelling of residential areas of the city of Mykolaiv, as well as settlements of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In the temporarily occupied territories, the Russian occupiers are artificially creating and exacerbating humanitarian and economic crises. There is a shortage of medicines in the settlements, the range of grocery stores is limited, and banking institutions do not function.

The General Staff emphasised that Ukraine's defence forces are inflicting losses on the enemy on all fronts and are ready for any changes in the operational situation.