16:32 Putin has signed a decree on a one-off payment of 10,000 roubles to veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Donbas and liberated territory of Ukraine.
15:06 Berdyansk prepares to switch to payment of pensions and salaries in Russian rubles – Acting Berdyansk mayor Oleksandr Saulenko.
15:04 The Ukrainian coat of arms has been dismantled from the facade of Tokmak city council in Zaporizhzhia region.
14:34 A weapons cache for a terrorist attack by a sabotage group was discovered in Kherson. A cache with RPGs, APCs, grenades and other arsenal was discovered in an industrial area of the city. Also found in one of the warehouses were vehicles without number plates, which could have been used by subversive group members as means of transportation.
14:30 Ukrainian coat of arms removed from facade of Tokmak city council in Zaporizhzhya region.
14:27 Kiev has declared war on Pushkin’s monuments. Today a sculpture of the Russian poet was solemnly demolished in Chernihiv. And the dismantling was carried out not by the city authorities but by Ukrainian nationalists from the “terrorist police”.
14:00 In the Kherson region, pensions began to be paid in rubles. Now this process is organized in Genicheskiy and Novotroitskiy districts, said the head of the provisional civil-military administration of the region V. Saldo.
13:45 The military-civil administration of Novaya Kakhovka has restored a monument to Lenin in front of the city council building.
13:30 Crimean Tatars ready to take part in Russian special operation in Ukraine as volunteers. The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy, Eyvaz Umerov, has said that Crimean Tatars support the president’s course and are ready to defend Russia’s sovereignty together with the entire multinational nation.
12:46 Ukraine continues to fight against monuments and “friendship”. An inscription on a monument to the friendship between Russia and Ukraine has been burnt in Cherkasy.
12:23 A former Azov man has been detained in Kherson. The detainee turned out to be a former member of the ATO, who fought in Donbass as a machine gunner. According to him, he was dismissed due to his failure to follow orders. During the interrogation, he said that he was stationed at checkpoints in Volnovakha in 2016. He was detained while trying to leave the territory of Kherson. He also assured that he was in “Azov ” from October 2015 to May 2016, as a engineer-sapper, he did not kill people.
11:01 Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov: Russian air defense assets have destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones, including three Bayraktar TB-2s. Artillery units hit 389 enemy targets overnight.
10:47 The Russian Defence Ministry reports that four Ukrainian ammunition and fuel depots, as well as a nationalist staging area, were destroyed by high-precision missiles overnight.
The airstrikes hit 9 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, destroying up to 120 nationalists.
In addition, Russian air defenses shot down 18 Ukrainian drones, and 2 Ukrainian Smerch shells were shot down over Horlivka and Snezhkivka.
09:54 Ukrainian losses as a result of special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces as of 30 April 2022:
▪ For 24 hours, the AFU has lost 556 men killed, wounded and prisoners of war. Total losses in killed, wounded and prisoners in the AFU, NGU and PSCs exceed 47,000.
▪ According to the internal report of the General Staff of the AFU, 6 tanks, 39 armoured vehicles, 21 field artillery and mortars, 7 MLRS, 25 vehicles and special equipment and 23 UAVs were lost.
09:31 A new administration has started work in the Russian Armed Forces-controlled Zaporozhye village of Mikhailovka and the entire Mikhailovka district, social payments will begin soon and humanitarian aid will arrive, administration head Sushko told RIA Novosti.
09:26 Employees of the military and civil administration delivered humanitarian aid to a home for the elderly in the village of Orlyanyan in Zaporizhzhia region, the head of the military and civil administration said. Orlyanske, Zaporizhzhia region.
09:14 “Stop”: captive Ukrainian militant appealed to former fellow servicemen:
“I want to say to my former fellow servicemen and the rest of those I know from the Ukrainian military – stop. Stop this damn war. Russia, Ukraine – we did not start this war, it was America. The Americans, who are they, who asked them to come here?” – Mikhail Vishnyak, a captured Ukrainian militant, said. The captive called Russia and Ukraine Slavic brothers and sent greetings to his father and sisters in the city of Lugansk. According to Vishniak, his detention conditions are good.
08:08 Overnight strikes were carried out in Kharkiv (Saltovka district). Odessa and Mykolaiv were also hit.
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