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Russo-Ukraine War - 03 May 2025 - Day 1165

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On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

The UK Ministry of Defence reported that Russia has likely incurred approximately 950,000 casualties (killed and wounded) since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In the first four months of 2025, Russia likely sustained approximately 160,000 casualties. Should these casualty rates persist for the rest of 2025, this would be the costliest year of the war in terms of Russian personnel, continuing the year-on-year trend of casualty increases.

The average daily Russian casualties during April 2025 was just over 1,200, and totalled 36,000 over the course of the month, according to Ukrainian General Staff reporting. This was a moderate decrease from the daily average of 1,300 in March 2025.

Whilst the numbers of casualties remain below the very high daily rates of nearly 1,600 in late 2024, when Russia was making territorial gains, it is still towards the high end in the overall context of the conflict. So far in 2025, Russia has not been able to translate continued heavy losses into significant advances in Ukraine.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that The Defense Forces are directing efforts to disrupt the execution of Russian invaders' offensive plans and exhaust their combat potential.

Since the beginning of the day, there have been 180 combat clashes, the Russian enemy launched two missiles and 55 air strikes, using two missiles and dropping 98 guided bombs, 1132 kamikaze drones strikes, over 4500 shells of Ukrainian troops and settlements.

In the Kharkiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled three Russian assaults in the Vovchansk district, another battle is ongoing.
The Russian enemy attacked five times Ukrainian fortifications in the Kupyans Воkomu direction in the area of the settlement of Zagrizove and in the direction of Novoosinovoye and Glushkivka.
In the Lyman direction today, Russian troops 12 times stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders near the settlements of Ridkodub, Yampolivka, Kolodyazi, Torske and in the direction of Grigorivka.
Our troops repelled six Russian attacks in the area of Chasovoye Yar and in the direction of May, Predtechniny and White Mountain in the Kramatorsky direction.
In the Toretsky direction, the Russian occupiers have four times today stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the Toretsk area and near Crimea and Diliyivka. There's still one battle going on.
In the Pokrovsky direction throughout the day, Russian forces carried out 68 assault and offensive actions. The activity of Russian occupiers was observed in the areas of settlements of Stara Mykolaivka, Green Field, Myrolyubivka, Elizabeth, Lisivka, Shevchenko, Oleksandropil, Kotline, Novosergiyivka, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyarivka, Trinity, Andriyivka and in the direction of Romanivka, Malinivka, New Poltavka, Peace-loving, Oleksiyivka. The fights have not subsided so far in 15 locations. The Russian enemy's aviation struck the controlled air bombs to the settlement of Shevchenko First.
According to preliminary calculations, Ukrainian warriors eliminated 36 and wounded 39 Russian invaders in this direction; destroyed a car, two motorcycles, two BPLA enemies.
In the Novopavlovsky direction, the invaders carried out 56 attacks on the position of Ukrainian troops, Russian forces tried to advance in the areas of settlements of Konstantinopil, Novosilka, Rivnopil, Privilne and in the direction of Odradnoy, Zelenoy Pol, Novopol, Shevchenko and Bagatir. Nine clashes are currently underway. Air strikes were suffered by Green Field, Novopil, Komyshuvakha, Temirivka, Novodarivka. The Russian enemy will suffer a substantial loss.
In the Gulyaipil direction, Russian forces used unkekorovaní aviation missiles across Malinivka and Gulyaipol.
In the Orihiv direction there were two clashes in the areas of Novodanilívka and Kamiansky. Novoandriivka suffered an air strike.
In the pridniprovsk direction, Russian forces once tried to approach the positions of Ukrainian defenders, received a cut off.
Defense Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk direction today repelled 23 attacks of the zagarbnytsky army. The Russian opponent made four aerial strikes, dropping seven CABs, also carried out 233 shells, of which 10 were from the systems of the fire.
In other directions, there have been no significant changes in the environment.