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Ukrainian forces repelled 22 Russian attacks on the Bakhmut front near settlements in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.

Kurakhove, Donetsk Oblast
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On the Bakhmut front, Ukrainian defenders repelled 22 Russian attacks near the settlement of Bilohorivka (Luhansk Oblast), as well as Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Vyimka, Spirne, Novyi, Klishchiivka and Ivanivske (Donetsk Oblast).

The enemy has deployed up to four brigades of the Russian armed forces and plans to develop an offensive west of Avdiivka and Maryinka, making its way to Pokrovsk and Kurakhove.

From Ocheretyne, the occupiers are rushing to the Pokrovsk-Konstantinivka highway.

On the morning of May 3, Russia attacked the town of Kurakhove with high-explosive fragmentation munition, killing two people and injuring the other two.

Footage shows AFU utilizing Bradley to destroy Russian infantry fighting vehicle

Russians fired 16 times at the territory of the Donetsk region.

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