Over the past day, Ukrainian troops repelled 121 combat engagements in various sectors of the frontline, with the enemy conducting the most attacks in the Avdiivka and Bakhmut sectors and intensifying their activities in the Orikhivsk sector, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure.
Another 11 children, including two orphans, aged 1 to 16, were returned from the Russian occupation in Kherson region to Ukraine-controlled territory.
russians unsuccessfully tried to storm the Krynky area from the water on jet skis, but their attempts to conduct an assault operation from an open surface were thwarted.
Railroad workers have completed repairs to the shelling-damaged track at Kherson station, and trains to and from Kherson are now running as scheduled.
Over the past day, Russians attacked 6 localities in Donetsk region, damaging 10 civilian objects, including 9 residential buildings and an outbuilding, but no casualties were reported.
Russian shelling damaged critical infrastructure in Kherson, partially leaving the city without electricity, and hit residential areas, killing one person and injuring three others.
Russian troops attacked and damaged civilian railroad infrastructure, including the train station and tracks, in Kherson.
17 settlements in the Kherson region were shelled by the Russian army, resulting in the destruction of buildings and infrastructure, and a man and a woman were injured as a result of the shelling.
A 51-year-old woman was injured when Russian troops shelled the village of Bilozerka in Kherson region, damaging a dozen houses.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops shelled residential areas, damaging two high-rise buildings, 16 private houses, an administrative building, an office building, a gas pipeline, and private cars, and injuring one person.
Over the past day, russia launched 2 missile attacks, 83 air strikes and 101 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems at Ukrainian positions and localities in different regions.
The SBU served a notice of suspicion to the director of a "Crimean Patriot Center" for recruiting Ukrainian children and youth to serve in the Russian armed forces against Ukraine.
A 53-year-old resident of the Kherson region was suspected of collaborating with the Russian occupiers, as she voluntarily took the position of "chief accountant" in the occupation administration and exercised financial control over institutions subordinated to the Russian occupiers.
A 50-year-old volunteer was wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the village of Lviv, Kherson region, receiving an explosive injury and shrapnel wound to his shoulder.
Russian troops shelled residential areas of several settlements in the Kherson region, damaging buildings and wounding one person.
Over the past day, russia conducted 2 missile attacks, 120 air strikes and 89 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on Ukrainian positions and localities in different regions.
Today is the Day of Infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The event was launched by a presidential decree in 2019. The date of the celebration was chosen in honor of the fact that on May 6, 1648, a turning point occurred in the Battle of Zhovti Vody, as a result of which the Cossack army led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish army.
The Ukrainian Air Force informs that russian tactical aircraft launched guided aerial bombs in Kherson region.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops conducted air strikes and shelled several settlements, damaging residential buildings, a school, and a car, injuring one person.
Over the past day, russia carried out 5 missile attacks, 69 air strikes and 74 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on Ukrainian positions and settlements in different regions.
Strike unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become more active in Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnipro and Kherson regions, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
Guided aerial bombs were launched in Kherson region.
A fire broke out in Beryslav, Kherson region, after Russian troops dropped explosives from drones on an educational institution that had been previously destroyed by shelling.
Over the last day, 74 combat engagements took place, during which Ukrainian troops repelled 18 enemy attacks in the Avdiivka sector and numerous other attacks in different directions, inflicting losses on the enemy.
On May 5, it will be mostly sunny and dry in most regions of Ukraine, with only 1-6° C in Dnipropetrovska, Zaporizka and Khersonska oblasts, and 0-3. s below zero on the soil surface
Russian shelling in the Kherson region damaged the "Point of Unbreakability," a cell phone tower, an educational institution, and 10 private homes, but did not result in civilian casualties.
Explosions were reported in Kherson. The city and regional authorities did not comment on the explosions.
Ukraine's agricultural exports are set to grow by 15% in 2024, with April already a record month for Ukrainian exports since Russia's full-scale invasion, generating revenues that will help Ukraine defend itself.
The occupants are constantly trying to restore the situation in southern Ukraine through unsuccessful assault operations: 11 attacks took place yesterday and 3 more today at the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, but Ukrainian troops repel these attempts.
Russian shelling hit residential buildings and a summer kitchen in the suburbs of Kherson, causing fires but no casualties.