Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,164

On Saturday, May 3, 2018, this is the current situation:

Fighting

A fallen attack drone detonated as a victim attempted to carry it away from a residential home, killing a resident in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine.
• Eight of the injured, according to Terekhov, were receiving hospital treatment, including an 11-year-old child who was one of the injured in the most recent Russian attack.
• After escorting Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region, which is located just across the border from western Russia, Russia claimed that its forces were still constructing a “security strip” in the Sumy region of Ukraine.

• After Russian airstrikes struck Zaporizhzhia, a city in southern Ukraine, more than 20 people were hurt.
• In a joint Russian drone and artillery attack on areas east of Nikopol city in the southeast of the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukrainian regional authorities, four people were also hurt.
• According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, its air defense units detonated ten Ukrainian drones in an hour. Eight drones were intercepted over Bryansk, a border region, and two over Crimea, which were both seized by Russia.
• Russian air defense units reportedly detonated Ukrainian drones over five districts, according to Yury Slyusar, acting governor of the region of Rostov in the eastern border of Ukraine. He claimed that while some homes were harmed by the destroyed drones, there were no injuries.
• The SBU, a top internal security agency in Ukraine, accused Russian intelligence of behind the failed gun attack that injured the target and injured prominent Ukrainian blogger Serhii Sternenko.

military assistance

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president, criticizes the most recent wave of drone strikes on Ukrainian civilian areas, and accuses the country’s allies of acting too slowly to improve its air defense capabilities.
• According to the Pentagon, the US Department of State has approved the potential sale of F-16 training and sustainment for $ 310 million to Ukraine. The sale might include maintenance and upgrades to aircraft, as well as flight training.

Sanctions

diplomacy and politics

• On Monday, to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end of fighting on the continent, Ukrainian armed forces will march in a British military procession.