General Staff: Russian troops regrouping to resume offensive on Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine

Olha Hlushchenko – Monday, 30 May 2022, 07:04

Russia is transferring military equipment to temporarily occupied cities and villages of Ukraine, regrouping its troops, and preparing to mount an offensive on the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, from Izium (a city in the southeast of Kharkiv Oblast and just to the northwest of Sloviansk) and Lyman (a city to the northeast of Sloviansk, in Donetsk Oblast).

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on Monday, 30 May

Details: On the Siversk front, Russian troops conducted air strikes in and around Zapsillia and Myropillia in Sumy Oblast, and opened artillery fire on Kindrativka, also in Sumy Oblast.

On the Kharkiv front, Russian forces shelled areas to the north and northeast of the city of Kharkiv, and the villages of Ruski Tyshky, Cherkaski Tyshky, Ruska Lozova, Pytomnyk, Borshchova, and Peremoha.

On the Sloviansk front, Russia is regrouping its troops in order to resume the offensive on Barvinkove and Sloviansk from the city of Izium.

A Russian Ka-52 helicopter squadron is prepared to provide air support to units of Russian troops based to the north of Izium.

Russia has transferred over 250 pieces of military equipment and weapons to the temporarily occupied towns and villages of Ukraine in order to replenish units that suffered losses. Russian forces have restored the rail bridge near the city of Kupiansk (in the east of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine) so as to improve the efficiency of the transfer of troops and equipment.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops focused their efforts on mounting an offensive in order to encircle Ukrainian troops in Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk and to block their main supply routes.

On the Lyman front, Russian troops are consolidating their hold on the city of Lyman and are regrouping in order to resume an offensive on Sloviansk.

On the Sievierodonetsk front, Russia is consolidating its positions on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Sievierodonetsk. In order to reinforce units of its troops on this front, military equipment and ammunition were transferred from Russian Federation territory.

On the Bakhmut front, Russian occupation forces are regrouping to continue their offensive in the direction of Oleksandropillia – Komyshuvakha.

Russia did not undertake active combat operations on the Kurakhove and Novopavlivske fronts. It continued to fire on Ukrainian troops, in particular by employing operational-tactical and combat aircraft.

On the Zaporizhzhia front, Russia has reinforced units of its troops by redeploying 120 pieces of military equipment and weapons from the city of Melitopol to the town of Vasylivka.

On the Pivdennyi Buh front, Russia’s main efforts are still focused on maintaining its previously occupied positions, obstructing the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and hindering the transfer of Ukrainian Defence Forces reserves to other fronts.

Russia is transferring military equipment from storage in Russia and from the territory of the temporarily Russian-occupied Crimea to Ukraine in order to replenish losses of its troops.

Russia has transferred units of its troops to the Mykolaiv front in order to conduct an offensive operation to reclaim the positions they have recently lost to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On the Kryvyi Rih front, Russia continues firing on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from artillery and to perform counter battery operations.