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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary April 30th (updated)
2022-05-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:10 The UK government will increase the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, Boris Johnson's office said in a statement following his telephone conversations with Zelensky.

21:44 Servicemen of the territorial defense of Ukraine are detaining residents in Nikolaev for installing Telegram on their phones, SMS messages to Russian numbers and subscriptions to Russian channels on social networks, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said.

20:25 Briefing by official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov. The main thing for the evening of April 30:

– High-precision air-launched missiles hit 17 Ukrainian military facilities during the day

- Aerospace Forces aviation hit two command posts, nine strongholds, five ammunition and fuel depots in Ukraine

— During the day, over 200 nationalists and 23 units of Ukrainian armored vehicles were destroyed as a result of strikes

- Missile troops hit 319 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 12 command posts and 2 warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons

– By means of air defense in the area of ​​​​the village of Chervony Yar, Kherson region, a Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the air

16:32 Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of 10,000 rubles. veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the Donbass and the liberated territory of Ukraine.

15:06 Berdyansk is preparing to switch to the payment of pensions and salaries in Russian rubles - the acting mayor of Berdyansk Alexander Saulenko.

15:04 The coat of arms of Ukraine was dismantled from the facade of the Tokmak city council in the Zaporozhye region.

14:34 Found in Khersonshron with weapons to commit a terrorist attack by a sabotage group. A cache with RPGs, anti-tank systems, grenades and other arsenal was found in the industrial area of ​​the city. Also, in one of the warehouses, cars without license plates were found, which could be used by members of sabotage groups as a means of transportation.

14:27 Kyiv declared war on the monuments to Pushkin. ! Today in Chernihiv, a sculpture of a Russian poet was solemnly demolished. Moreover, the dismantling was carried out not by the city authorities, but by Ukrainian nationalists from the “terrodefense.”

14:00 In the Kherson region began to pay pensions in rubles. Now this process is organized in the Genichesk and Novotroitsk districts, said the head of the temporary military-civilian administration of the region V. Saldo.

13:45 The civil-military administration of Nova Kakhovka restored the monument to V.I. Lenin in front of the city council building.

The military-civilian administration of Nova Kakhovka restored the monument to V.I. Lenin in front of the city council building

13:30 Crimean Tatars are ready to participate in the Russian special operation in Ukraine as volunteers. The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy, Eyvaz Umerov, said that the Crimean Tatars support the president's course and are ready to defend Russia's sovereignty together with the entire multinational people.

12:46 Ukraine continues to fight with monuments and "friendship". In Cherkassy, ​​an inscription was burned on a monument about friendship between Russia and Ukraine.

12:23 In Kherson, the former Azovets was detained. The detainee turned out to be a former participant in the ATO, who fought in the Donbass as a machine gunner. According to him, he was fired due to non-compliance with orders. During the interrogation, he said that he had been at checkpoints in Volnovakha in 2016. He was detained while trying to leave the territory of Kherson. He also assures that he was in Azov from October 2015 to May 2016, being a sapper engineer, he did not kill people.

11:02 In Kakhovka has already begun preparation for the next academic year. This was announced in his address by the head of the CAA of Kakhovka Pavel Filipchuk. The department of education received a new head, who assembled a team of specialists. Work is underway on a new curriculum. School principals are consulted. Those who do not cooperate will not be detained. The academic year should start without delay - September 1. The administration will try to open kindergartens in the summer.

11:01 Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov: Russian air defense systems destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including three Bayraktar TB-2s. During the night, artillery units defeated 389 enemy targets.

10:47 The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that during the night, high-precision missiles destroyed four Ukrainian ammunition and fuel depots, as well as an area where nationalists were concentrated.

As a result of air strikes, nine areas of concentration of manpower and equipment were hit, up to 120 nationalists were destroyed.

In addition, Russian air defense systems shot down 18 Ukrainian drones, and two Ukrainian Smerch projectiles were shot down over Gorlovka and Snezhkovka.

09:54 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces as of April 30, 2022:

▪During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 556 people killed, wounded and captured. The total loss of killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU and State Border Service is over 47,000 people.

▪According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six tanks, 39 armored vehicles, 21 field artillery and mortars, seven MLRS, 25 vehicles and special equipment and 23 UAVs were lost.

09:31 The new administration has begun work in the Zaporozhye village of Mikhailovka and the entire Mikhailovsky district, which is controlled by the RF Armed Forces, social payments will soon begin, humanitarian aid will be received, Sushko, the head of the administration, told RIA Novosti.

09:26 Employees of the military-civilian administration delivered humanitarian aid to the nursing home with. Orlyanske, Zaporozhye region.

09:14 “Stop”: a captured Ukrainian militant turned to former colleagues:

"I want to tell my former colleagues and the rest of the Ukrainian servicemen I know - stop. Stop this damn war. Russia, Ukraine, we didn’t start this war, it’s all America. Americans, who are they, who asked them to climb here?" said the captured Ukrainian militant Mikhail Vishnyak.

The prisoner called Russia and Ukraine brothers-Slavs and said hello to his father and sisters in the city of Lugansk. According to Vishnyak, his conditions of detention are good.

08:08 At night, attacks were made on Kharkov (Saltovka region). Odessa and Nikolaev were also subjected to blows.

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