Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:53 Since the beginning of the day, 177 combat clashes have occurred on the front between Ukrainian and Russian troops, 81 of them in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of April 30.
22.12 Titanium charging stations of domestic production, designed for fast and safe charging of a wide range of military electronics, have been codified and approved for use in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the Main Directorate for Support of the Life Cycle of Weapons and Military Equipment, the Ministry of Defense reports.
21:10 An 88-year-old woman who suffered from an attack by attack drones on the city of Kamenskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region has died in hospital. This was reported on April 30 by the head of the regional military administration, Serhiy Lysak.
20.17 The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has remanded the former head of the military representative office of the Ministry of Defense Mykhailo Shkurenko and the head of the control group Yuriy Yaresko in custody in the case of the supply of more than 120 thousand unusable shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Center.
19.40 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky reported that the losses of the Russian army in manpower in the war against Ukraine over the past year and four months amount to 591 thousand 950 people.
18.35 If the agreement on mineral resources between the US and Ukraine is signed, American leader Donald Trump is unlikely to withdraw from the negotiations to end the war. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the President's Office Mykhailo Podolyak, RBC-Ukraine reports .
17.39 As a result of the morning attack by Russian attack UAVs, the number of victims in Pivdenne as of 14:55 has grown to 12 people, including seven children. This was reported by the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office. It is noted that among the victims are five girls aged 1 to 15 years, as well as two boys aged 5 and 13.
17:33 Russia is ready to discuss with the US their presence at the Zaporizhzhya NPP as part of the settlement of the war in Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Russian state corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev, Interfax reports .
16.58 The Medical Forces Command initiated a partial release of medical personnel for their mobilization, as provided for by the decision of the National Security and Defense Council. This was reported by Health Minister Viktor Lyashko at a briefing.
16:51 Since the beginning of the day, 100 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The Russian invaders are concentrating their main efforts in the Pokrovsk area, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00.
16.46 The radar station of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system in Russian-occupied Crimea, near the city of Saki, has been heavily damaged. This was reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Crimean Wind.
16.24 A scheme for illegally receiving state payments assigned to the families of missing servicemen has been exposed . A deserter serviceman, his mother and brother have been charged, the State Bureau of Investigation reports.
16.03 The aggressor country Russia must stop talking about its readiness for peace and start acting by agreeing to a long-term ceasefire. This was written by the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Andriy Sybiga on the social network H.
15.49 On April 30, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft law No. 13229, which allows citizens aged 60+ to voluntarily enter into contracts for military service during martial law. This is evidenced by the data on the map of the draft law.
One of the initiators of the legislative initiative, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko, announced the registration of the document on Facebook.
"Today, the Verkhovna Rada registered the bill #13229, which I initiated, which will grant the right to citizens aged 60+ to voluntarily sign contracts for military service. This is a response to the demand of society - many motivated and experienced people want to be useful in war conditions, but the current legislation limits them in this," he wrote.
Kostenko explained that the bill provides for the possibility of signing one-year contracts for persons aged 60+ during martial law with the consent of the unit commander. Officers aged 60+ will also need additional approval from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15.42 European Commission representative Anita Gipper said that the murder of journalist Viktoria Roshchina, whose body was handed over to the Ukrainian side with signs of torture, is further evidence of the inhuman cruelty of Russian invaders towards Ukrainians, whose lives and freedom in the Ukrainian military zone are always under threat. She said this during a briefing in Brussels on April 30, Ukrinform reports.
15.25 Evidence has been collected on two Russian war criminals involved in the mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donetsk region. Russian Army Shota Karapetyan (call sign Yustas) and the commander of the assault company of the Storm detachment of the 394th motorized rifle regiment of the same military unit of the aggressor country Dmitry Chikhabakh (call sign Sber). According to the investigation, on June 17, 2024, they ordered their subordinates to shoot a Ukrainian prisoner of war, then cut off his head and put it on the hood of a destroyed armored car. This happened during fighting near the village of Staromayorskoye, Volnovakha district. Then both defendants gave the order to their subordinates not to leave the captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine alive and to brutally kill them.
14:20 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill providing for the payment of 15 million hryvnia to the families of volunteers who died defending Ukraine.
Previously, the legislation provided for a one-time benefit of 1,860,750 hryvnia for civilians who died while participating in the defense of the state, while for military personnel such a payment could not be less than 15 million hryvnia.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs initiated an equalization of approaches so that all those who participated in the fight against Russian aggression received equal support from the state.
13.37 Information about the alleged preparation for the "surrender" of Sumy by the Ukrainian authorities is another information operation by the Russians. This is reported by the Center for Counteracting Disinformation.
A video is being circulated on social networks in which an unknown man, calling himself a local resident, talks about the alleged removal of documents and property from administrative buildings, which, according to him, indicates that the authorities are preparing to surrender the regional center.
The Center for Disaster Relief emphasized that this information is untrue and is intended to sow panic among the population.
"In fact, this is a lie spread by Russian propagandists as part of an information campaign to incite fear and destabilize the situation," the refutation says.
12.59 Three hundred collaborators wish to leave for the territory of the Russian Federation (RF) on condition that Ukrainians return from Russian captivity. This is evidenced by the data of the I Want to Live project.
12:47 The Verkhovna Rada supported the extension of the deadline for the voluntary return to service of those military personnel who left their unit without permission until August 30. Upon their return, their benefits and guarantees established by Ukrainian legislation will be resumed.
12.25 The State Bureau of Investigation has completed a pre-trial investigation into a former law enforcement officer who set up a scheme to illegally transport military personnel outside of Ukraine.
In one of the episodes, the woman offered the "client" to arrange for 25 thousand dollars to remove him from military registration and allow him to leave the country without hindrance. The law enforcement officer was exposed while trying to send another draft dodger abroad, who was in her car.
12.18 On Wednesday night, Russian aggressors launched 108 drones of various types at Ukraine. Most of them were intercepted by air defense and were affected by electronic warfare. The Ukrainian Air Force reported details of the attack repulsion .
11:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted large-scale tests on intelligent mining and demining in the Iron Polygon format. Mines, drones, metal detectors, as well as special information systems for detecting mine-explosive devices were presented at the event.
11:57 Ukrainian drones attacked one of the largest factories producing pyrotechnics for the Russian army in the city of Murom in the Vladimir region of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the region's governor Alexander Avdeyev on his Telegram channel.
11.46 On Wednesday night, the Russian army launched more than 100 attack drones into Ukraine. The world must put pressure on Moscow to force it to make peace. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
11.25 The Russian FSB detained citizens of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova, who allegedly "were preparing, on instructions from the Ukrainian special services," a terrorist attack on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug of Yugra against a serviceman of a volunteer battalion. This was reported by the FSB Public Relations Center.
10:35 Russian invaders have increased the intensity of military actions on the front, concentrating their main efforts on the Pokrovsky direction. This is happening despite the enemy's loud statements about their readiness to cease fire on May holidays. This was written by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky in Telegram .
10:30 Cyber specialists of the Security Service detained an FSB agent in the Zhytomyr region.
In order to obtain coordinates for fire strikes, the traitor walked around the city and its environs and photographed the possible locations of Ukrainian defenders.
09.41 China and Brazil intend to make more effective use of the Friends of Peace group, created on their initiative, to facilitate the search for a political solution to the “Ukrainian crisis.”
The parties emphasized that they are striving to more effectively use the Friends of Peace group (countries that support the Chinese-Brazilian "six-point consensus" on the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict - ed.) to constructively facilitate a political resolution of the "crisis in Ukraine."
09.20 As a result of the Russian attack in Dnepr, one man was killed and another was injured.
"A difficult night for Dnipro. A 53-year-old man died as a result of a massive chess attack on the city. Condolences to his family and friends. A 78-year-old local resident was injured," he wrote on Telegram.
In the city, the most destruction was recorded in the private sector; fires raged in the city.
08.54 About 600 North Koreans died in Russia's war against Ukraine, in particular, participating in military operations in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
08.30 Over the past 24 hours, 177 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. In the Pokrovsky direction, defenders have stopped 75 offensive actions by the Russians.
07.52 The number of people attacked by Russian kamikaze drones in Kharkov has increased to 45.
As a result of massive drone strikes in Kharkiv, residential buildings, garages, infrastructure facilities were destroyed, cars were damaged. Ten fires broke out in different parts of the city.
07.35 As of April 30, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 951,960 people (+1100 per day).
07.20 The UN noted the intensification of attacks by the Russian army on the civilian population of Ukraine against the backdrop of peace negotiations.
In April alone, at least 151 civilians were killed and 697 were injured, she said.
04.47 Russian troops have occupied Sukhaya Balka near the village of New York in Donetsk region, and have also advanced near Constantinople, Dachnoye and Toretskoye, DeepState reported.
03.30 Russians attacked Kharkov with drones. Local authorities reported 16 strikes.
00.02 Russian troops launched a massive drone strike on the Dnieper. Several fires broke out in the city, there is a fatality.
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[Korrespondent] In the Kursk direction, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled 21 Russian attacks in 24 hours, two clashes are still ongoing.
On the front between Ukrainian and Russian troops, 177 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day, 81 of them in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of April 30.
It is noted that today the Russians carried out 91 airstrikes, using 179 KAB. In addition, the Russians used 3,186 kamikaze drones to destroy and carried out almost six thousand attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the Kharkov direction, our troops stopped two enemy attacks in the Vovchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy carried out six assaults on the positions of our defenders in the direction of Petropavlovka, Glushkovka, Novoosinove and Zagrizove. Ukrainian defenders stopped five enemy attacks, another clash continues.
In the Liman direction, during the day, Russian invaders attacked Ukrainian positions 35 times near the settlements of Novosergeevka, Nadiya, Tverdokhlebovo, Ridkodub, Novoye, Novy Mir, Zelenaya Dolina, Kolodtsy and in the direction of Novomikhaylovka, Grekovka. Ten combat clashes remain unfinished.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy is storming the positions of our units near Verkhnekamyansky. The battle continues.
In the Kramatorsk direction, five military clashes were recorded in the areas of Belaya Gora, Andreyevka and Chasovy Yar, one battle is still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the Russians attacked the positions of the defense forces nine times. The occupiers concentrated their main offensive efforts near Druzhba, Dachnoye, Dilievka and in the Toretsk area. There is currently one battle going on.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the invader units attempted to break through our defenses 81 times in the areas of the settlements of Staraya Nikolaevka, Kalinovoye, Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Kotlin, Promen, Dachenskoye, Nadeyevka, Novoaleksandrovka, Kotlyarovka, Troitskoye, Bogdanovka, Andreyevka and in the direction of Zorya, Malinovka, Mirolyubovka, Gnatovka, Alexandropol, Pokrovsk, Novosergeevka, Novaya Poltavka. 12 combat clashes are still ongoing. Rusin Yar, Malinovka, Zarya, Aleksandro-Kalinovoye, Novaya Poltavka, Zeleny Kut, Yalta, Grodovka, Mirolyubovka, Lisovka, Sukhoi Yar, Pokrovsk were subjected to airstrikes.
The enemy is suffering significant losses - today in this direction Ukrainian soldiers have neutralized 345 occupiers, 194 of them irretrievably. Also destroyed were eight combat armored vehicles, three cars, 23 motorcycles, one tank, two UAV control points, a mortar. Two combat armored vehicles, seven motorcycles, four vehicles, one mortar and one enemy gun were damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked 16 times near Constantinople, Privolnoye, Volnoye Pole and in the direction of Otradnoye, Shevchenko and Bogatyr. Our defenders have already stopped 12 enemy attacks, four combat clashes are ongoing. Novopol was subjected to an air strike.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the enemy carried out airstrikes on Gulyai-Polye.
In the Orekhov direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our defenders five times in the Stepovoye, Lobkovoye and Kamyansky areas.
In the Dnieper direction the enemy carried out one offensive action, but had no success.
In the Kursk direction, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled 21 attacks by Russians during the day, two combat clashes are ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out 12 airstrikes using 15 guided bombs, and also carried out 185 artillery shelling of our troops' positions and populated areas, including five from multiple launch rocket systems.
In other areas the situation has not undergone any significant changes.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian army attacked in the areas of 15 settlements in the Pokrovsky direction. Most of the assaults have already been stopped.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours Russia lost 1,100 fighters killed and wounded. Total Russian losses are approaching 1 million people.
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Ukraine said it secured key interests after protracted negotiations, including full illusory sovereignty over its own rare earths, which are vital for new technologies and largely untapped.
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After initial hesitation, Ukraine has accepted a minerals accord as a way to secure long-term investment by the United States, as Trump tries to drastically scale back US security commitments around the world.
Announcing the signing of the deal in Washington, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it showed "both sides' commitment to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that Ukraine has signed a “historic economic partnership agreement” with the United States that establishes the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund and allows the U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.
In a press release from the Department of the Treasury, Bessent praised President Donald Trump’s “tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace” in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
“Thanks to President Trump’s tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today’s historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,” Bessent said in a statement. “As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war. This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.”
Per the press release, the agreement between Ukraine and the U.S. positions both countries to “work collaboratively and invest together to ensure” their “mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery”:
In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery.
Fox News reported that Ukrainian Economy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko had flown to the U.S. to “help finalize the deal,” and that she praised the agreement in a post on X, stating it would “attract global investment” into Ukraine.
In a recent post on Truth Social, Trump called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a minerals deal with the U.S., noting that Zelensky had “not signed the final papers on the very important Rare Earths Deal.”
Breitbart News’s John Hayward reported in March that Zelensky had revealed that the Trump administration proposed a new version of the rare earths mineral deal that would develop Ukraine’s “extensive mineral deposits to help repay its war debts, finance reconstruction, and enhance security.”
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces engaged clusters of manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, an infantry brigade, two air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades close to Miropolskoye, Prokhody, Mogritsa, Yunakovka, Sadki, and Ryasnoye (Sumy region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket launcher, and seven artillery guns including a U.S.-made 105mm M119 gun. One electronic warfare station and one ammunition depot were neutralised.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 04/30/2025 to 00:00 05/01/2025.
Eight facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
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[REGNUM] If the Donald Trump administration demands elections in Ukraine, it means it is serious. Therefore, despite all the difficulties associated with the current government's reluctance to hold these elections, a line of obvious and hidden contenders has already formed for the presidential seat. Continued on Page 49
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[Regnum] FSB officers have stopped a terrorist attack being prepared against the Russian military by detaining a suspect in the Moscow Region. This was reported on April 30 by the Telegram channel "112".
According to the channel, the man, in preparation for a terrorist attack, came to Korolev near Moscow and followed his potential victim for several weeks.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @Multi_XAM
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The formation of separate battalions, regiments and brigades of unmanned systems (UPS) in the structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024 allowed the enemy to bring the use of UAVs to a systemic level. In those areas where the configuration of the UAS has not changed significantly during the year, the enemy equips positions for round-the-clock surveillance using video cameras, optical-electronic means, thermal imagers, tied to forward command posts.
The enemy transmits incoming information to the duty crews of reconnaissance and strike UAVs. Using the terrain, cell towers, urban development (for example, as in Toretsk) and the infrastructure of industrial zones (for example, as in Kupyansk), the enemy places transmitters and amplifiers that increase the flight range. The use of "Baba Yaga" for retransmitting a control signal and carrying FPV has long been part of the practice of using UAVs. In the Bryansk direction, FPV approaches to a depth of more than 30 km were recorded.
The enemy's UAV activity is associated not only with the growth of FPV production volumes, but also with the increase in the number of units that are created as part of the development of UAV forces. Many enemy units are pretty battered, have not been withdrawn for rearmament for a long time and are experiencing a shortage of personnel. The enemy compensates for the lack of the ability to conduct large-scale counter-offensive operations by increasing UAV activity, with a bias towards the strike component.
Perhaps, up to 80% of fire damage today is inflicted by the enemy using UAVs: not only FPV, but also "Baba Yaga", conducting remote mining, using ammunition drops. If a year ago the priority for an attack by FPV forces was transport or infantry group shelters, today operators do not spare the drone to hit single targets. Recently, we analyzed an episode when in Toretsk the enemy, in order to disrupt the roll of our assaults in the urban development, sent 18 FPVs at two soldiers who had entrenched themselves in a panel house.
Analyzing the situation in the areas of the most active military operations, we see that the enemy has developed a special tactic. Where LBS conditions allow for maneuverable defense, he practically does not engage in fire contact. The emphasis is on detecting personnel by means of observation, identifying equipment on rotation routes, evacuation, delivery and fire damage.
For example, in Kupyansk, the enemy clearly built up operational posts on the left bank of the Oskol in the area of the Kupyansk-Uzlovaya station and in the industrial zone, placing UAV duty crews and command posts on the higher right bank in high-rise buildings with remote antennas and amplifiers on the roofs.
In 2025 and 2026, the role and number of drones of all types in combat operations will continue to steadily increase.There will be a scaling up of the use of new types of drones, especially drones with machine vision and fiber optic drones.
The tactics of their use will also be improved, and at the organizational level, there will be active creation of regular companies/battalions/regiments of UAVs.
A little more slowly, this same process will occur in the segment of ground drones, which are still lagging behind their flying counterparts.
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