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05.05.2022 Donetsk region Russian troops continue massive shelling along the entire front line in the Donetsk region and launch rocket attacks on cities located in the rear. They do it to cause panic among the civilians. 1 civilian was killed, and 17 houses were damaged due to the night shelling of Chasiv Yar. After a missile attack on Kramatorsk, 25 were wounded, and 9 houses, a school and civilian infrastructure were destroyed. In Avdiivka, Grad MLRS destroyed 3 houses and broke the power line. In Mariinka, the Russian army uses cluster bombs in residential areas. Victims: 1 dead, 25 wounded; data are being specified. Source: Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

05.05.2022 Mariupol, Donetsk region The citizen of Mariupol did not want to become a bondsman of the "Russian world" and therefore set off on a path full of danger to get to the territories controlled by Ukraine. He walked 220 kilometres with his dog. Sometimes the dog, exhausted from fatigue, had to be carried in his arms. Now, the man and his four-legged friend are safe. Source: Deutsche Welle.

05.05.2022 Luhansk region Yesterday, the Russians directed 7 powerful artillery attacks on Severodonetsk, 7 more - on the Popasna and Hiske communities, 4 - on Lysychansk. The bodies of five dead have now been found and identified. Two of them are men from Novoivanivka who came under Russian shelling on the evening of May 3rd. A man from Toshkivka and a woman from Voievodivka died in the morning. A man from Popasna died later in the evening. Victims: 5 killed. Source: Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai.

05.05.2022 Zolochiv, Kharkiv region. Ivan Lysun took part in WWII from the age of 16 and reached the end of the war with two shell shocks and one wound. He could never have thought that those with whom he beat the Nazis side by side, shared a plate of porridge, dragged the wounded from the battlefield, would ever greet him with shells. Source: photos provided by eyewitnesses.

05.05.2022 Ukraine Russian troops have already damaged 400 healthcare institutions, and 40 more medical institutions have been destroyed to the ground and cannot be restored. "Hundreds of thousands of people have lost access to medical care due to the destruction of hospitals. In addition, patients have limited access to important medicines in many front-line and border regions," - Ministry of Health. The Russian military continues to block humanitarian convoys that could deliver medicines to the temporarily occupied territories. "Such actions of the Russians are real terrorism," - Ministry of Health notes. Source: press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

04.05.2022 Mariupol, Donetsk region Mariupol returned in 1991. There is a spontaneous market on the streets. People trade right from the land with vodka, clothes, medicines, vegetables, and homemade pickles. I remember such markets were common in my deep childhood. Next to the merchants, there are the graves of the city's residents, who were not lucky enough to survive the Russian "liberators" bombardments. Source: journalist Denys Kazanskyi.

06.05.2022 Kharkiv Russian troops shelled a village in the Nadezhdivskyi Starostynskyi District (Lozova amalgamated territorial community). One of the shells hit a private house, killing an 87-year-old woman. Victims: 1 person died. Source: Mayor of Lozova city, Serhii Zelenskyi.

05.05.2022 Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region On the evening of May 5, russian troops fired at the Azot chemical industry enterprise in Sievierodonetsk. Shells hit the gas station and the railway infrastructure of the Azot chemical plant, causing a fire. The State Emergency Service stopped the fire and the fire did not spread to the cisterns with chemicals. Over the past day, russian troops shelled residential areas of Sievierodonetsk 16 times. 12 buildings, an electrical substation, and a complex of commercial buildings were damaged. There are dead. Seven more residential buildings were destroyed in Rubizhne, and two in Novodruzhesk. There are destructions in Lysychansk, Horikhove, Hirne, Popasna. Victims: 2 people died. Source: Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai.

06.05.2022 Ukraine The destruction at the Kremenchuk refinery «reaches large proportions» and will not be able to resume operations until at least the end of the year. As previously reported, the shortage of automotive fuel in Ukraine is associated with the attacks of russian army on the facilities of the oil industry in Ukraine. Source: Head of the Poltava Regional State Administration, Dmytro Lunin.

06.05.2022 Luhansk region Two employees of the State Emergency Service disappeared in the Luhansk region. Rescuers on May 4 brought water to the residents of Nyzhnie Hirske village community on a fire truck. Since then, there has been no contact with the employees of the State Emergency Service who were on a humanitarian mission. The search did not give any results - neither the rescuers nor the car could be found. There is a possibility that they were captured because that day there were battles near the village. Searches continue. Victims: information is being specified. Source: Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai.

06.05.2022 Izium, Kharkiv region «I travelled through the fields, forests and crossed the river in a boat ...», - the story of a girl who saved her family from shelling near Izium. When russian troops entered the Kharkiv region, the son of a young woman was in a village near Izium with his grandmother. The village was almost immediately occupied. The girl went with volunteers almost to the front line. She found people who took her across the river in a boat. One of the villagers helped to get to the village through the fields and forests, bypassing the checkpoints of the russians, and take the family out. «This is a real hero», says the girl. The son’s first words were, «Mom, I knew you would save me». The child is still stressed out. Source: media.

06.05.2022 Ukraine The ministry of defence of russian federation listed civilian facilities where they «imagined» military equipment. In particular, the hospitals in Kharkiv, Odesa and Slovianka. Such statements justify the shelling of civilian infrastructure. Source: media.