Kharkiv

The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police neutralized a criminal group that was selling sniper rifles, machine guns and grenades in different regions of Ukraine, detaining the organizers red-handed and seizing a large batch of illegal weapons.

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service have defused more than 490,000 explosive devices, including 3,352 aircraft bombs, and surveyed about 129,000 hectares of territory.

Six people, including an 11-year-old boy, were wounded in a Russian airstrike on Zolochiv in Kharkiv region. A man and his 38-year-old daughter were killed.

A Russian airstrike on Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, killed a man and his 38-year-old daughter, wounded five others, and caused significant damage to buildings and vehicles.

Russians shelled a suburb of Kharkiv, damaging 13 private houses, but there were no civilian casualties.

As a result of Russian missile attacks on Odesa, the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights was damaged, but no one was injured.

Two people were killed and three wounded as a result of a Russian attack on the village of Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, with two guided missiles.

During the latest enemy shelling of Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure in Kyivskyi district was damaged, and three attacks by enemy subversive combat vehicles took place between the villages of Lyptsi and Vesele, with no casualties reported.

In the village of Zolochiv, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region, a man and a woman in a civilian car were killed by Russian shelling, and two elderly people were injured.

On May 1, an explosion occurred in Kharkiv, and the city's mayor warned of the threat of repeated enemy attacks and called for caution.

Electricity consumption is almost at the same level, with a deficit in the evening peak hours and a surplus during the day due to the active operation of solar and wind power plants, while restrictions remain in Kharkiv and Kryvyi Rih regions due to damage caused by Russian shelling.

In Kharkiv, the SBU detained a collaborator who was collecting materials and preparing “information references” glorifying the Russian occupiers and denying their war crimes for Kremlin propagandists' talk shows on Russian TV channels.

Russian troops fired three Iskander-M ballistic missiles at densely populated areas of Odesa at night, causing casualties.

On April 30, a Russian attack on Kharkiv resulted in 10 injuries, one death, and damage to buildings, vehicles, and railroad facilities.

The flash in the sky was seen by residents of Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Zaporizhzhia regions. The network speculates that it was a meteor, as it was last year.

Estonia has returned 274 illegally exported archaeological artifacts to Ukraine, including ancient Scythian, Sarmatian and medieval jewelry, coins and horse harness, demonstrating support for Ukraine's cultural heritage during the ongoing war.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian defenders withstood 96 combat engagements against Russian attacks on several fronts, repelling attacks in seven directions.

The military situation in the Kupyansk sector remains unchanged, with no new front line opened yet, as the enemy is amassing troops for possible assault operations, which Ukrainian troops are repelling, according to the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.

During the 26 months of the full-scale war, russians damaged 1,588 and completely destroyed 210 medical facilities in Ukraine, with Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions suffering the most.

Ukraine is creating a third combat brigade, the Gart, of the State Border Guard Service to strengthen defense forces on its eastern borders, in addition to the existing Steel Frontier and Revenge brigades.

Digital TV broadcasting of 34 national and 3 regional Ukrainian channels has been restored in Kharkiv and the surrounding area after a TV tower was damaged by a russian missile strike.

A drunken 46-year-old Kharkiv resident cut off the head of a stray dog for barking at his dog. The animal survived.

Russian propaganda has launched another fake that Ukraine is preparing for peace talks with Russia in June, distorting President Zelensky's statement about a possible path to a just peace.

Ukraine's power system remains in short supply during certain hours due to damage from Russian missile strikes.

According to the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, it is too early to say that russia may open new front lines in the north, despite the build-up and regrouping of enemy troops in the Kharkiv area.

Due to grid restrictions and hostile attacks on energy facilities in eastern Ukraine, power outages occurred in Kharkiv region and Kryvyi Rih, while Ukraine provided emergency assistance by transferring excess electricity to the Polish grid.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a couple of Russian intelligence agents who were preparing Grad attacks on Ukrainian troops defending the northeastern border, determining their locations and passing the coordinates to the occupiers.

About 15 settlements in Kharkiv region came under artillery and mortar fire from the enemy, with several civilian casualties and damage to private homes in various locations.

Over the last day, 131 combat engagements took place on the frontline, the enemy conducted numerous attacks in the Avdiivka, Bakhmut and Novopavlivka sectors, but Ukrainian troops repelled these attacks and inflicted losses on the occupation forces.

Ukrainians in the Poltava region received fake reports of an alleged evacuation, which the State Emergency Service denied as hostile disinformation aimed at destabilizing the situation.