Information Defence: Military-Political Situation in Ukraine as of May 4th - Ihor Zhdanov

Ihor Zhdanov, Information Defence Project, Open Policy Foundation

Informational Defence of Ukraine provides a daily review of the military-political situation in Ukraine as of the past day of May 4th, based on an analysis of open sources.

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1. The Armed Forces of Ukraine heroically restrain the enemy's attacks in the decisive battle for the Donbas.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone. The command of the russian troops is trying to increase the pace of the offensive attacks in the East of Ukraine in order to come to the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions , as well as to develop an offensive attack in the Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih areas.

In the Izium direction, theenemy is trying to seize the initiative and conduct offensive operations in the direction of Izium-Barvinkove. Moreover, the enemy is carrying out artillery shelling of the positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Hrushuvakha, Nova Dmytrivka, and Kurulka.

In the Slobozhanskyi direction there is an enemy group consisting of separate units of the 6th General Army of the Western Military District, the 41st General Army of the Central Military District, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets.

Invaders continue to inflict air and artillery strikes on Kharkiv.

In the Donetsk direction, themain