Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.50 Russian troops attacked the city of Kharkov with drones on the evening of May 2, there are casualties. This was reported by the city's mayor Igor Terekhov and the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Sinegubov noted that six casualties are already known in Kharkov. Later, Terekhov clarified that the number of casualties has increased to 12 people.
22.34 A civilian died after stepping on a mine in the Berislav district. This was reported on May 2 by the head of the Kherson OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin. The incident occurred in a field near the village of Sablukovka. According to Prokudin, the 47-year-old man was seriously injured and died on the way to the hospital.
19:49 The Defense Forces have captured citizens of the Republic of Togo (located in West Africa) who fought on the side of Russia. This was reported by the press service of the Togolese Foreign Ministry.
We are talking mainly about young men, in particular students who left the country after receiving fictitious scholarships from Russian structures.
The department emphasized that it is actively cooperating with diplomatic partners to clarify the circumstances of the case and provide support to those detained as much as possible.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also assured of its commitment to protecting the rights, interests and security of Togolese people abroad.
The Ukrainian side has not yet released an official statement.
19.14 On May 2, a man with two knives attacked police officers maintaining public order on Kulikovo Field in Odessa. The law enforcement officers were injured, and one of them responded by using his service weapon. This was reported by the police of Odessa Oblast.
The attacker was shot in the legs. All the victims were hospitalized.
18.48 Ukraine's agreement with the United States on minerals has caused nervousness in Moscow and has already had an additional impact on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported , citing sources.
18:43 A new curfew schedule will be introduced in Donetsk Oblast from May 5. This is stated in the order of the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin. For most settlements in the oblast (except for frontline ones), the curfew will be in effect from 21:00 to 5:00 a.m. daily. For frontline villages and towns that are closer than 10 km to the front line, the curfew will last longer - from 15:00 to 11:00 a.m. the next day.
18.25 Machines from the South Korean company DN Solutions have been found at Russian enterprises producing Lancet combat drones and Iskander missile launchers. The total cost of this equipment is over $19 million.
18:10 The Cabinet of Ministers has approved an agreement with Japan that will allow it to receive about $3 billion under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) initiative. This was announced by Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal.
17.42 Russian occupiers launched 2,560 drones at Ukrainian territory in April - more than one and a half times less than in previous months. This was reported by the Center for Counteracting Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
17.45 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a telephone conversation with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian leader. The main topic of the talks was the steps needed to increase support and unity around Ukraine.
17.29 The court found a married couple from the Kharkiv region guilty of treason and sentenced them to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. This was reported on May 2 by the Office of the Prosecutor General. It is noted that the couple from one of the villages located in the suburbs of Kharkiv collected information about the locations of Ukrainian troops and equipment for the enemy. Posing as zoo volunteers who care for homeless animals, they drove around the area allegedly in search of abandoned pets. To divert suspicion from themselves, the man and woman even set up a "shelter" on the territory of their own home.
16.55 Since the beginning of the current day, 109 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Active battles are being conducted in four directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary as of 16:00.
16.48 Six children have been returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine within the framework of the BringKidsBackUA initiative. This was reported by the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Daria Zarovna. According to her, among those returned is a family with two children, who lived under occupation for a long time. The youngest child had health problems, but there was no access to the necessary medical care. The parents repeatedly tried to leave on their own, but each time they encountered obstacles from the occupation authorities.
16:22 The White House has prepared a number of options for increasing economic pressure on Russia, which has not expressed a desire to end the war in Ukraine, for US President Donald Trump. Bloomberg reports this, citing informed sources.
15.57 As a result of today's shelling of Donetsk region, at least one person was killed and three were wounded. This was reported on May 2 by the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin. According to him, at noon the Russians dropped an air bomb on Klinovoe of the Konstantinovka community. A 66-year-old woman was killed, a house was damaged. Konstantinovka itself came under artillery fire. Two people were wounded in the city, a house, a store, a cafe, a pharmacy, two industrial premises and four infrastructure facilities were damaged. Another person was wounded in Pokrovsk.
15:56 Ukrainian volunteer and activist Serhiy Sternenko posted a photo of the car after the assassination attempt on his Telegram channel. The suspect also hit the car during the shooting, but it was armored, which saved the driver's life.
15.31 The court arrested a 45-year-old native of Odessa region recruited by Russian special services, suspected of attacking volunteer and activist Sergei Sternenko. This was reported by Obshchestvennoye.
15.13 The international depository Euroclear in Belgium plans to confiscate about 3 billion euros of frozen Russian funds and redistribute them among Western investors who lost money in Russia, Reuters reports, citing an official source.
14.44 In 2024, JSC Ukrainian Defense Industry received a profit of UAH 1.309 billion. Most of the profit will go to the manufacture of weapons, expansion of production and its relocation.
14.25 The suspect in the attack on volunteer and activist Sergei Sternenko is a 45-year-old native of the Odessa region recruited by Russian special services. She was "hooked" when she was looking for "quick money" on the Internet, the SBU reported .
14.06 In 2024, Russia suffered heavy losses on the front since the start of the war in Ukraine. At least 45,287 soldiers were killed. And for every square kilometer captured, at least 27 occupiers died, the BBC Russian Service reported .
13.46 GUR cyber specialists attacked the infrastructure of major Russian Internet providers, including the SibSet company, as a result of which thousands of users were left without access to the Internet.
As a result of DDOS attacks, the servers of four branches of the company in Siberia, namely in Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo and Krasnoyarsk, were overloaded and disabled.
12.55 The detained attacker on volunteer and activist Serhiy Sternenko has been informed of suspicion of treason and attempted murder. This was reported by Suspilne with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
12:31 US President Donald Trump may have to reconsider efforts to mediate a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia if there is no "breakthrough" in the near future, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said on Fox News.
11.42 Drones attacked a military unit of the Russian space intelligence service in the Stavropol region of Russia. This was reported by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of the Russian Federation Andrey Kovalenko.
11.01 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has most likely adjusted his plans for war in Ukraine, but his strategy for a complete takeover of the country remains relevant. This was reported yesterday by the CNN channel , citing intelligence data.
10.58 During April, the Ministry of Defense codified and approved for use in the Defense Forces of Ukraine more than 120 new types of weapons and military equipment. More than 85% of them are domestically produced.
Among the types of military equipment, the most common are unmanned aircraft systems, ammunition for them, electronic warfare equipment and vehicles.
10.32 SBU and Prosecutor General's Office officers, together with law enforcement officers from France and Monaco, detained the son of the former president of the Motor Sich plant, Vyacheslav Boguslayev, for embezzlement of the company's assets. This was reported by the SBU. The special service does not name the detainee, but it is known from open sources that Vyacheslav Boguslayev's son is named Alexander.
According to the investigation, the son of the former president of Motor Sich helped his father appropriate the shares of the company before the start of the full-scale war and then sell them to third parties.
09.15 Over the past 24 hours, 199 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. In the Pokrovsky direction, defenders have stopped 64 Russian attacks.
The missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit six areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the Russian invaders, one UAV control point and two enemy air defense systems.
08.53 In the Unified Register of Persons Missing in Special Circumstances, more than 70 thousand people are currently wanted in Ukraine. Among them are 2740 children. This was reported by the Commissioner for Persons Missing in Special Circumstances Artur Dobroserdov.
According to him, this concerns military personnel, civilians, citizens of other countries and stateless persons who were legally on the territory of Ukraine.
08.30 Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 150 attack drones and drone imitators at night. Air defense forces shot down 64 UAVs, another 62 enemy drone imitators were lost without negative consequences.
As a result of the Russian attack, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye were damaged.
08.20 Russian troops carried out a massive attack on the Ukrzaliznytsia locomotive repair plant in Zaporozhye at night, the fire was extinguished until the morning. The next personnel of the enterprise were in shelter, there are no wounded or killed at the plant.
07.56 As of May 2, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 954,300 people (+1,110 per day).
07.35 In Zaporozhye, the number of wounded as a result of the Russian massive drone strike has risen to 29. Among the injured is a 13-year-old boy. 12 people are in medical institutions.
The Russians hit the city's civilian infrastructure. Residential buildings, a university, and an infrastructure facility were damaged.
07.20 In the Black Sea, 15 Russian ships have been recorded, five of which are carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to 34 missiles.
05.04 At night, the temporarily occupied Crimea is under massive attack by attack drones. Explosions are heard near military airfields, air defense is actively working and footage of fires has been recorded. Powerful explosions and bursts were heard in the area of ​​the Simferopol airport, as well as near the military airfields "Kacha" and "Belbek" in Sevastopol, Saki, Novofedorovka, Dzhankoy. The "governor" of occupied Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev reported that the Black Sea Fleet, in cooperation with air defense forces, is repelling a massive combined attack on Sevastopol over the sea in the area of ​​the city of Khersones, in the area of ​​the Sevastopol Bay, Kacha and Balaklava.
04.44 The war in Ukraine will not end anytime soon. This opinion was expressed by the Vice President of the United States of America, J.D. Vance. In an interview with Bret Baier from Fox News, the American Vice President noted that now each side knows what conditions for achieving peace the opponent is putting forward. And now everything "depends on the Russians and Ukrainians."
03.44 The Russian Foreign Ministry has stated that Russia "will never allow Ukraine to be restored to its 1991 borders." They claim that behind this lies "a cannibalistic instinct to exterminate everything Russian."
02.25 The United States of America is ready to introduce new sanctions against the Russian Federation and not to lift the current restrictions. This statement was made by the representative of the US State Department Tammy Bruce.
"We are not lifting any sanctions that are in place. President Trump wants everything we do as a nation to be diplomatic - he is very clear about that. But he also understands that there are other parts of the world, other global issues that need attention," Bruce said.
01.11 US President Donald Trump has appointed Julie Davis as the US Chargé d'Affaires in Ukraine. She welcomed the signing of an economic partnership agreement between the two countries, noting that Trump believes cooperation between the American and Ukrainian people should demonstrate "both sides' commitment to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine."
00.27 Russian occupation forces have carried out at least 10 strikes on Zaporizhia. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration Ivan Fedorov. According to the latest data, 14 people were injured as a result of the enemy attack on Zaporizhia. These are ten men and four women. Rescuers freed a man from under the rubble. Currently, doctors are providing him with all the necessary assistance.