{"id":427852,"date":"2026-05-06T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:40:09","slug":"isw-russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-map-and-update-may-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427852\/","title":{"rendered":"ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Map and Update, May 5, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways from the <a href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/russia-ukraine\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-5-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ISW<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>  Continued long-range Ukrainian strikes against cities in deep in the Russian rear demonstrate Russia\u2019s inability to reliably defend the major cities and infrastructure facilities of European Russia against drone and missile strikes.\u00a0 Ukrainian strikes are inflicting significant damage across a wide array of Russian cities.\u00a0 Russia\u2019s threat to retaliate against Ukraine for allegedly planned strikes against Moscow during Victory Day reflects Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s recognition that he cannot reliably defend these deep rear areas, including his capital, from Ukrainian strikes.\u00a0 Putin\u2019s insistence on holding the May 9 Victory Day parade reflects his refusal to accept the reality that Ukraine has brought Putin\u2019s war back to Russia.\u00a0 Russian forces conducted combined drone and missile strikes during the day on May 4 and overnight on May 4 to 5, killing at least seven civilians and injuring at least 35.\u00a0 Russian forces conducted a double-tap missile strike against first responders in Poltava Oblast, killing two and injuring at least 23.\u00a0 The May 4 and 5 Russian strike series inflicted significant casualties despite the relatively small number of drones and missiles in the package as Russia continues innovating its strike tactics to inflict maximum damage in ways that disproportionately impact civilians.\u00a0 Ukrainian forces advanced in Sumy Oblast and in the Pokrovsk direction. Russian forces advanced in Sumy Oblast.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>See the original<a href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/russia-ukraine\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-5-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JOIN US ON TELEGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of the war on the <a class=\"inarticle_link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Kyivpost_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Kyivpost_official<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways from the ISW: Continued long-range Ukrainian strikes against cities in deep in the Russian rear demonstrate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-427852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}