A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The enemy is trying to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as regrouping and strengthening of occupying forces to complete objectives
General Staff has released an operational update on the state of warfare as of 06.00 on April 30, 2022. Key points of the report:
The enemy launches air and missile strikes and launches artillery shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the depths of Ukraine, the positions of our troops along the line of contact and in the border areas.
In the Siversky direction, russian enemy units fired on the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Kindrativka, Katerynivka, Svarkove, and Bilokopytove.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on maintaining its occupied positions and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In order to strengthen the group, the enemy is moving individual units from the Eastern Military District from the territory of the Belgorod region to the area of the city of Izyum.
russian units tried to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Sulyhivka and Dovhenke, but were unsuccessful. In order to cover the groups of its troops in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions, the enemy is trying to deploy forces and means of air defense.
In the Eastern Operational Zone, russian enemy continues to advance on the Lyman (in the areas of Yampil, Ozerne, Lyman), Severodonetsk, where it is trying to complete the capture of Rubizhne, Popasna (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasna) and Kurakhiv (Olenivka and Novomykhailivka) directions. There is no success, the fighting continues.
Destroyed russia's armored personnel carrier
In the Mykolayiv direction, russian enemy intensified air reconnaissance in the operational depth of the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, presumably in order to expose the presence and nature of the actions of the reserves.
During the previous day, the air defense units of the Air Force and the Land Forces hit ten air targets: one plane and nine UAVs of the Orlan-10 operational and tactical level.
Overall, fourteen enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts over the past 24 hours, eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armored vehicles and fourteen vehicles were destroyed.
