On May 1, 2024, the Russia-Ukraine war entered its 798th day.
In the early hours of yesterday morning, the Ukrainian army launched a large-scale missile attack on Crimea, targeting the Zhankoy airfield where the Air Defense Command of the Southern Military District is located, the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Chernnomorsky, the Black Sea Fleet base in Simferopol, and the missile base of the 31st Air Defense Division in the Saksky region;
There is a video showing that unlike the previous Su-24 carrying Storm Shadow, this time, like the previous two times, it was an ATACMS launched by the Seahorse.
Simferopol is located about 225 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory. Thus, it can be confirmed that Ukraine received ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km.
Continuing to repeat the previous judgment, the countdown to the fall of the Crimean bridge has begun. Plettenchuk, head of the Strategic Communications Center of Russia's Southern Defense Forces, said that the Russian army has been reluctant to allow trains loaded with fuel to pass through the Crimean bridge, citing "doubts about the integrity of the bridge."
Back to the Ukrainian battlefield.
Bakhmut front, situation east of Chasiv Yar: Russian troops have made new advances south of Mount Baba, reaching the waterway on this axis for the first time.
However, Estonian intelligence has judged that Russia will not be able to capture strategically important cities before May 9, and that it will be a slower-moving urban war.
On the Avdiivka front, Russian troops continued to advance along the railway from Ocheretyne in a northwesterly direction, taking control of new plantations near the eastern outskirts of Novooleksandrivka, but at a heavy cost.
A Russian soldier filmed their own losses, in the area around this plantation, and the number of corpses that could be seen per square meter was staggering.
On the Eastern Front, after a period of regrouping, the Russian army has completed its rotation and resumed the offensive, launching an offensive in the Kupyansk and Lyman regions in the last 24 hours, but so far there have been no confirmed changes in the front.
The German newspaper Bild reported that Russia may launch an offensive on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and as many as 40,000 Russian soldiers may participate in this round of offensive.
But as I said before, the Russian army's larger offensive last year ended in failure, and I doubt that the Russian army really planned to take Kharkiv and even Sumy.
On the Zaporozhye front, the offensive of the Russian army has come to a standstill.
Over the past period, the Ukrainian army has systematically destroyed 9 Russian air defense systems and 3 electronic warfare facilities in this theater of operations, paving the way for drones to dominate the battlefield.
In the first two months of 2024, Ukraine produced 200,000 FPV drones and plans to produce 1 million drones in 2024 to compensate for the shortage of artillery shells.
Yesterday's results announced by the General Staff of Ukraine.
Let's take a look at the other news.
Ukrainian SSO units hit two BUK air defense systems in the border area of the Sumy region.
UN sanctions observers confirmed that Russia is still using North Korean missiles in Ukraine.
The Latvian government announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, including drones, anti-aircraft artillery and other essential equipment;
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said after a meeting with opposition leaders today that next month's revised government budget will increase aid to Ukraine by 7 billion Norwegian kroner ($633 million) this year to 22 billion euros.
Ukraine destroyed more than 12,000 Russian artillery systems.
NATO has released a video of a Ukrainian pilot flying an F-16, and the training is in its final stages.
Hundreds of Ukrainians in Poland have expressed their willingness to return home to fight and will train in Poland.
Ukrainian athletes won 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 4 bronze medals at the WT President's Cup international rating competition held by the national team of the Ukrainian Taekwondo Federation in Estonia.
The country did not cross.
Finally, as usual, the old photograph was put on.
In Kyiv, a citizen is watching the memorial wall of the Ukrainian army.
Unlike Russia, which is secretive against its fallen soldiers, Ukraine has put a photo of every martyr on the memorial wall, remembering them forever.
A nation that respects its heroes and cherishes its independence and freedom cannot be truly defeated. As Zelensky said:
"The Ukrainian people will fight for their country and will give everything for it. We never take weapons first, but if someone attacks our country, we hold out until the last breath!"
Text/West Building Drinking Moon
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