Ports, Rails, Oil: Key Targets Of A Week Of Russia-Ukraine Strike Exchange

The night of May 3 marked yet another massive exchange of strikes between Russia and Ukraine. Russian forces attacked with 268 drones and a ballistic missile, while Ukrainian forces, in turn, conducted one of the most massive attacks to date, launching 600 drones across twenty regions of Russia in a single day.

Over the week, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia deployed approximately 1,600 strike drones, 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and three missiles, seeking to overwhelm Ukrainian air defense.

The geography of Russian strikes on May 3 covered six Ukrainian regions. The main emphasis was placed on the port infrastructure of Odesa Region: fires broke out in Chornomorsk at administrative and production facilities of a key logistics hub for grain and military imports. An Iskander-M ballistic missile struck a target in Krolevets in Sumy Region; drones attacked gas stations in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk Region, and also struck a railway locomotive and the area around the Dolhyntseve airfield in Kryvyi Rih.

Ukrainian forces continued their attacks on Russian oil infrastructure: the main target was the seaport of Primorsk in Leningrad Region, where a fire broke out.

In the preceding days up to May 2, Russia struck an underground drone assembly workshop in Kryvyi Rih, the fuel equipment plant in Chuhuiv, and power substations in Mykolaiv. Over two months, Russian drones disabled 12 locomotives at the ArcelorMittal steel plant, Ukraine's largest metallurgical combine. Ukraine, for its part, struck the Tuapse oil refinery for the fourth time in two weeks, taking about 60% of its tank farm out of service, and hit facilities in Perm, where an oil pumping station was completely destroyed.

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