These are important events on the 1,164th day of the Russian Ukrainian War.
It’s where things stand on Saturday, May 3rd.
Fineting
Residents were killed in the South Herson area of Ukraine when the fallen attack drone exploded as the victims tried to move them away from the home.
At least 46 people were injured after Russia launched a massive drone attack in Kalkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said there had been Russian strikes in 12 locations in the city’s four central districts.
Telekov said an 11-year-old was among the children injured in the latest Russian attack, and eight of the injured were being treated in hospitals.
Russia said it continues to create “security strips” in the border area of Ukraine’s Smie region after ousting Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region across the border in western Russia.
More than 20 people have been injured after a Russian strike was attacked by the Zaporidian city in southern Ukraine. Regional Ukrainian authorities said four people were injured in a Russian joint drone and artillery attack east of Nikopol, southeastern Dnipropetrovsk. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that air defense units destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones in an hour. Eight drones were intercepted in the Bryansk border area, and two were intercepted via Crimea, annexed by Russia. Yury Slyusar, acting governor of Russia’s Rostov region, located on the eastern border of Ukraine, said that Russian air defense units had destroyed Ukrainian drones across five districts. The fragments falling from the destroyed drone damaged several homes, he said, but none of them were killed. The SBU, an internal Ukrainian security agency, accused the Russian intelligence agency of coordinating an attempt to assassinate prominent Ukrainian blogger Serhiy Sternenko, and accused an unnamed 45-year-old woman who had carried out a failed gun attack that injured her target.
Military assistance
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned the latest barrage of drone strikes in Ukraine’s civilian regions, complaining that the country’s allies are moving too slowly by helping to strengthen their own air defense capabilities. The US State Department has approved the associated equipment, along with the potential sales of F-16 training and maintenance, along with the associated equipment, according to the Pentagon. Sales include aircraft changes and upgrades, flight training and maintenance.
Principality
New economic sanctions are being prepared against Russia to strengthen the pressure to embrace the efforts of President Donald Trump, the US President of Moscow, according to three US officials. The targets include state-owned Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Politics and diplomacy
The Ukrainian army will take part in the British march procession on Monday to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Europe (VE) day marking the end of battles on the continent during World War II.
US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have renewed their calls to reach a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine, saying the conflict is clearly endless and warned that Trump needs a breakthrough “quickly” to be a breakthrough.
