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The Ukrainian military has announced that five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 wounded over the last 24 hours.

Ukrainska Pravda reports that Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian military’s Anti-Terrorism Operation (ATO), has announced at a briefing today that three Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded over the last 24 hours.

Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer defending Nadezhda Savchenko, has announced that the Russian Investigative Committee (SK) has extended their investigation into his client until November.

The leadership of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) have declared a state of martial law in order to prevent “provocations.”

The Ukrainian military claims today that Russian-backed fighters conducted 27 attacks on Ukrainian positions between 18:00 and midnight yesterday.

The video shows a convoy containing several armored vehicles, tanks, and supply vehicles. We have confirmed that the video was taken in Makeyevka (Makiivka). Using Yandex Maps, we can determine that the video was taken roughly here. Yandex is not detailed enough to match the angles exactly, and there is significantly more vegetation in the […]

The OSCE’s latest report, dated last night, May 3, at 19:30 Kiev time, foreshadows many of the events we are reporting today — significant escalation of fighting near both Donetsk and Shirokino (Shyrokyne). The report is excerpted below. Here is their summary:

As we have been reporting, various leaders of the Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk have continuously expressed doubts about whether peace talks will net any results. Part of the reason — they don’t want to hold elections according to Ukrainian law (a key part of the Minsk agreement) and they do not want to withdraw their […]

The last 24 hours have seen the most intense shelling since the conclusion of the Minsk agreement in February, the Ukrainian military has claimed. Certainly, since Saturday night, there has been a dramatic escalation in the number of artillery bombardments in the Donetsk area. Both sides are trading blame and it has been reported that […]

The shelling that hit Kievsky District in Donetsk is “as intense as it was before the February ceasefire,” citizens report, according to the city news page 062.ua.