To your attention — operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06.00 03.05.2023 regarding the Russian invasion of our country.

Glory to Ukraine! The four hundred thirty-fourth day of Russia's large-scale military aggression against Ukraine has begun.

Last night, Russian terrorists attacked us with kamikaze drones Shahed-136/131. Information about the consequences of this attack is being clarified at the moment.

Yesterday, the enemy carried out three missile strikes, 39 air raids, and conducted 63 shelling attacks with multiple rocket launchers on our positions and populated areas. Civilians were injured, private residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed or damaged.

The likelihood of the enemy launching missile and aerial attacks across Ukraine remains high.

The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Mariupol axes — carrying out more than 30 attacks. The epicenter of combat operations remains Bakhmut and Mariupol, our defenders are holding their ground.

On the Volyn and Polesie axes, there have been no significant changes in the operational situation. Signs of enemy offensive groupings being formed have not been detected.

On the Northern and Slobozhanskyi axes, the enemy shelled populated areas with artillery, including Gasychyvka, Yelene, Bleshnya, Karpyovichy, Timonovychy, Leonivka, and Myrhopilly in Chernihiv Oblast; Znoby-Novgorodskoye, Uralove, Seredyna-Buda, Kucherivka, Riven, Vorozhba, Volvynne, Mykolaivka, Miropolia in Sumy Oblast, as well as Veterinarnoe, Vilkhyvka, Gatishe, Vovchanskyi, and Potikhonove in Kharkiv Oblast.

On the Kupyansk axis, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations but actively used UAVs to correct artillery fire. Artillery and mortar shelling affected Krasne Pereche, Figolivka, Novomlynskyi, Liman First, Kupyansk, Kislivka, Krokhmalne, and Berestevo in Kharkiv Oblast.

On the Lyman axis, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive operations south of Dibrova. Artillery shelling affected Makieyivka in Luhansk Oblast and Bihorivka, Verkhnyokamyanske, and Spirene in Donetsk Oblast.

On the Bakhmut axis, the enemy continues to conduct offensive operations. Fighting is ongoing in the city of Bakhmut. In addition, occupiers unsuccessfully attacked towards Ivanivske and Predtekhinoye. From enemy shelling, Vasylkivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Novomarkove, Hryhoriyivka, Khromove, Bakhmut, Ivanivskoye, Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Predtekhinoye, Dilievka, and Pivdenne in Donetsk Oblast suffered.

On the Avdiivka axis, the enemy conducted offensive operations around Firstaiorskaya in Donetsk Oblast but was unsuccessful. He also shelled Novokalynove, Avdiivka, Severne, Tonikyne, Karlivka, and Netaylove.

On the Mariupol axis, enemy attacks were repelled in the area of Mariupol. Enemy shelling affected Krasnogorovka, Georgiyivka, Pobeda, and Novomikhailivka in Donetsk Oblast.

On the Shakhtarsk axis, yesterday the enemy did not conduct offensive operations. He shelled Novoukrayinka and Prechystovka in Donetsk Oblast.

On the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson axes, the enemy continues to conduct defensive operations. Carried out shelling of more than 30 populated areas. Among them — Vremivka and Novosilka in Donetsk Oblast; Hulyaypole, Bihor'ya, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanylivka, Novoandriyivka, and Kamianske in Zaporizhzhya Oblast; Nikopol on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; Zolotaya Balka, Dudchani, Kachkarivka, Veseloye, L'vove, Ivanivka, Mikil'skoye, Antonivka, Dniprovske, and Kizomys in Kherson Oblast as well as the city of Kherson.

Russian occupiers continue to force the population temporarily occupied territory of Kherson Oblast to undergo passportization. To speed up this process, oppressors conduct demonstrative raid operations aimed at intimidating local residents with possible deportation and confiscation of property. The content of these actions involves a column of empty buses accompanied by representatives of the FSB who, citing a recently signed presidential decree in Russia on deporting people from occupied territories without Russian citizenship, present people with an ultimatum: either renounce their Ukrainian passport for a Russian one or be immediately deported with confiscation of property.

The Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out eight strikes against enemy personnel concentration areas over the past day. Rocket units and artillery divisions hit one command post, 12 ammunition storage points, four weapons and military equipment concentration areas, one air defense system, and another important target.

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