Fighting until noon on May 1: Eastern and southern Ukraine received shelling, great damage on both sides

Ukrainian soldiers exercise in Zaporizhzhia province, Ukraine on April 30 reuters

Eastern and southern Ukraine is under shelling

Reuters quoted officials Ukraine said that on April 30, the east and south of this country continued to be shelled by Russia.

Governor Maksym Marchenko of Odessa reported that a Russian missile was launched from Crimea destroyed the runway at Odessa’s main airport, but no one was injured.

According to the Ukrainian military, the airport can no longer be used. “Odessa will never forget what Russia did,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced late on April 30 and said Ukraine would rebuild this place.

In his speech, Zelensky also said Russia was “gathering more forces to launch new attacks on the Ukrainian army in the east” and “Moscow is trying to increase pressure in the Donbass”.

Russia has not yet commented on the allegations and information given by Ukraine.

The two countries announced that they would destroy each other’s targets

Page Kyiv Independent On May 1, citing a report of the Air Force Command of Ukraine, the country shot down 9 targets of the Russian Air Force in the past 24 hours, including two SU-25 attack aircraft and seven unmanned aerial vehicles. (UAV).

Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on April 30 that Russia had lost 23,200 troops in Ukraine since the start of the operation. military especially on February 24th.

Ukraine also said Russia lost 1,008 tanks, 2,445 armored personnel carriers, 1,701 vehicles, 436 artillery systems, 151 missile systems, 77 air defense systems, 155 helicopters, 190 aircraft, 76 crates. fuel and 8 ships.

Russia has not confirmed the above information. Meanwhile, TASS news agency quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov on April 30 as saying that the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked five ammunition depots of the Russian Federation on the same day.

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and exterminated more than 200 nationalists.

Konashenkov also said that 23 Ukrainian armored vehicles were destroyed. Russian artillery and missile corps have hit 319 areas of Ukraine where manpower and military equipment are concentrated, 12 command posts and two arsenals and ammunition depots.

According to Konashenkov, precision missiles launched by Russia from the air hit 17 Ukrainian military sites, including five artillery clusters and multiple missile systems.

Since the beginning of the military operation, Ukraine has lost nearly 2,700 tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as 2,503 special military motor vehicles, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Konashenkov added that 143 Ukrainian aircraft, 112 helicopters, 660 drones, 279 surface-to-air missile systems, 308 missile systems, 1,196 field artillery and mortars have been removed.

Ukraine has yet to comment on these reports.

UK accuses Russia of spreading fake news online

Reuters reported British Foreign Office On May 1, Russia accused Russia of spreading false information about the military operation in Ukraine on social networkwhich targets politicians in several countries, including Britain and South Africa.

Russia has not yet commented on the allegation. However, Moscow has repeatedly said that Western media only partially reported on the Russian military campaign, while ignoring Moscow’s concerns about the Russian military operation. NATO expansion and persecution of Russian-speaking people in Ukraine, which Kyiv denies.

Evacuation of civilians at the Azovstal . factory

AFP quoted Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov battalion, as saying that 20 civilians had left the steel plant on April 30. Azovstal in the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. This is where Ukrainian forces in Mariupol have been entrenched all this time.

Earlier, Russia’s TASS news agency on April 30 reported that 25 civilians, including 6 children under 14 years old, had left the Azovstal factory.

This is the first group of civilians to be released from the factory after it was besieged in recent weeks. Previous evacuation attempts were unsuccessful.

See more: The first group of civilians to leave the ‘Azovstal fortress’ in Mariupol

Sweden accuses Russia of violating its airspace

Department of Defense Switzerland On April 30, accusing a Russian AN-30 spy plane of violating Swedish airspace on April 29, the agency said that some members of the ministry monitored and recorded the incident.

Russia has not yet responded to the allegation. However, Ministry of Defense of Russia has repeatedly affirmed that all aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces always conduct flights in strict compliance with international regulations on the use of airspace.

See more: Sweden accuses Russian spy plane of infiltrating airspace