Briefing by the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov as of 10.00 April 30, 2022 on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-launched missiles hit five Ukrainian military facilities during the night. Among them: four warehouses of ammunition and fuel in the areas of the settlements of Berezovoye, Vozdvizhenka, Pokrovskoye and Barvenkovo, as well as the area of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the nationalists.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit nine areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment overnight. More than 120 nationalists, four tanks and six armored vehicles were destroyed.
Missile forces hit four military facilities of Ukraine during the night: two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a battery of multiple launch rocket systems and a radar station.
During the night, artillery units defeated 389 enemy targets. Among them: 35 command posts, 41 strongholds, 169 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 33 artillery positions, as well as 15 warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition.
Russian air defense systems destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including three Bayraktar TB-2s, over the settlements of Gorlovka, Chervony Oskol, Petmanovo, Kramatorsk, Kozinka, Karpovka, Putilovo, Novoakhtyrka, Bezliky Liman and Peremoga.
Also during the night, two Ukrainian missiles of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were shot down over the settlements of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Snezhkovka in the Kharkov region.