The Russian occupiers continued their offensive in the Eastern Operational Zone to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and create a land corridor with temporarily occupied Crimea.
During the day, on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 14 enemy attacks. Eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armored vehicles and fourteen vehicles were destroyed. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning summary on Saturday, April 30.
It was noted that units of Russian troops were moving from the territory of the Belgorod region to the Izyum region. We are talking about units from the Eastern Military District.
Under Slobozhansky’s direction, the enemy focused its main efforts on holding positions and striking in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy conducts air and missile attacks and firing on objects from artillery in the depths of the territory of Ukraine, the positions of our troops on the line of confrontation and in the border areas. The regrouping and strengthening of groups of Russian troops continues.
In the direction of Seversk, the Russians fired on positions of Ukrainian troops in the areas of the communities of Kondratovka, Yekaterinovka, Svarkovo and Belokopytovo.
Russian units tried to launch an offensive in the direction of Suligovka and Long, but were unsuccessful. To cover groups of its troops in the direction of Kharkov and Izyum, the enemy tries to deploy forces and means of air defense.
In the Eastern Operational Zone, the enemy continues to advance in Limansky (in the areas of the communities of Yampol, Ozernoye, Liman), Severodonetsk, where he tries to complete the capture of Rubizhne, Popasnyansky (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasnay) and Kurakhovsky (Olenevka and Novomikhailovka) directions. Without victory, the battle continues.
In the direction of Zaporozhye, the artillery shelling of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not stop.
There was no active enemy offensive in the direction of Yuzhnobuzhsky, there was isolated shelling of Ukrainian positions.
In the Bessarabian direction with no significant change.
In the direction of Mykolaiv, the enemy activated aerial reconnaissance in the depth of the operation of the defense positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, perhaps to expose the presence and nature of the actions of the reserves.
It was noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 10 air targets: one aircraft and nine UAVs of Orlan-10 operational-tactical level.
Earlier, the Pentagon reported that the Russian Federation had deviated from the offensive schedule for several days.
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Source: korrespondent
