Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Russia's top military leadership has instructed its troops to capture the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region by May 9, the date on which Moscow celebrates Victory Day over the Nazis. . "The enemy is also concentrating efforts to break through our defenses west of Bakhmut, going out to the Siverskyi Donets - Donbas canal, capturing the Chasiv Yar settlement and creating conditions for a further advance to Kramatorsk," Syrsky wrote on Facebook.

"In order to respond adequately to the actions of the enemy and to strengthen the defense of our troops in this regard, measures have been taken to significantly strengthen the brigades with ammunition, drones and electronic warfare," he added. In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces said they have killed 890 Russian servicemen, raising the total losses attributed to the enemy from Kiev since the start of the invasion in February 2022 to 453.650, according to Ukrinform, citing the latest bulletin of the military leadership. Russian forces attacked several settlements in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring four others. This was announced by the regional authorities, quoted by local media. The Donetsk prosecutor's office explained that the Russian attacks hit the residential areas of the communities of Pokrovsk and Volnovakha and Ocheretyne. In the latter, a five-story residential building collapsed after being hit by a Kab-500 guided bomb.

One person was injured in a Russian attack that hit an ambulance in the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region, the regional military administration said, citing local media. Two people were injured in the attacks of the Russian forces that hit the Ukrainian city of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region yesterday, Governor Ivan Fedorov has announced, quoted by local media.