Russia continues to build up capacities to strengthen positions and continue the offensive. So, weapons and military equipment removed from storage in the Western, Central, Eastern military districts and the Northern Fleet are transferred by rail to the regions bordering Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Sunday, May 1.

In the Slobozhansky direction, enemy groupings continue to inflict air and artillery strikes on Kharkov. The occupiers continue their offensive on the Izyum-Barvenkovo \u200b\u200band Izyum-Slavyansk directions. Up to 300 units of weapons and military equipment were moved to these areas, and about a thousand mobilized people arrived from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. For air defense of the advancing troops in these areas, the enemy deployed two anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with the Buk-M2 air defense system and the Tor-M air defense system.

In the Donetsk and Tavria directions, the occupiers are active along the entire section of the collision line. The enemy is trying to carry out air strikes and fiery artillery destruction of the positions of our troops.

In the Liman direction, the enemy is attacking in the direction of Krymka and Aleksandrovka.

In the Popasnyansky direction, the invaders carry out assault operations in the direction of Novotoshkovskoye - Orekhovo. Settling on the achieved milestones.

On the Kurakhovsky direction, with the support of artillery, the enemy is trying to break through the defense of our units in the direction of Olenevka - Novomikhailovka.

In the Yuzhnobuzh direction, Russian troops are trying to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region and create favorable conditions for an attack on Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog.

In the Seversk direction, enemy units fired at the positions of our troops from the territory of the Bryansk region.

In the Volyn and Polesye directions, the enemy did not take active actions. At the same time, certain units of the armed forces of Belarus continue to cover the border in the Brest and Gomel regions, and the threat of missile attacks from this country remains..

Over the previous day, air defense units hit nine air targets:

two Su-25 aircraft and seven UAVs.

Only in the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions over the past day, nine enemy attacks were repulsed, eight tanks, one artillery system, twenty-four armored vehicles, one special vehicle and five vehicles (including two tankers) were destroyed.

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According to the US Department of Defense, part of the Russian military recently left Mariupol and is heading northwest towards Zaporozhye.