About 100 residents remained in the border village of Novaya Tavolzhanka. It is impossible to enter the village and clarify the data due to shelling.

On June 4, Ukrainian militants tried to cross the Seversky Donets River. They were destroyed by Russian air and artillery strikes. The head of the Shebekinsky urban district, Vladimir Zhdanov, said that on the morning of June 5, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 70 Grad MLRS shells at the village.