[NewsFront] 23:57 In the period from 22.20 Moscow time to 23.15 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Nine over the territory of the Rostov region and
Four over the territory of the Belgorod region.
20:34 Calculations of FPV drones of the Rubicon Center struck armored vehicles, elements of communication systems, firing positions and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
19:15 Sappers of the assault detachment of the 44th Army Corps of the North group demining logistics routes in the Khar'kov direction.
17:45 HRV "Dnepr"continues active operations in the Stepnogorsk area and the junction of the northern outskirts of Plavni with the southern outskirts of Primorskoye in the Zaporozhye direction.
The 2nd defensive line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces passes through the Orekhovo-Novyakovlevka-Stepnogorsk-Primorsky region, covering the approaches to Zaporozhye from the south.
The enemy was forced to bring up reserves and counterattack. Fierce counter battles are underway.
These settlements are very important for the enemy. Further advancement in this area poses a direct threat to Zaporizhia, including allowing our troops to use barrel artillery to hit targets in Zaporizhia itself.
The enemy has brought additional UAV units to the area and is trying to defend it.
17:40 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation strucktarget in Khar'kov region.
The attack hit a warehouse of the ATB company in the town of Vasishchevo. According to available information, military products were stored there.
16:12 Russian FPV drone operators are deliberately disabling Ukrainian “ornithological” groups, depriving the enemy of technical support and creating favorable conditions for the advancement of our infantry, –video.
15:34 The Russian Armed Forces raised flags over the Antonovsky railway bridge, –video.
14:26 In a forest area near the village of Kazachya Lopan (Khar'kov region), the Ukrainian Armed Forces have set up a mortar crew position.
Intelligence detected the target's location, and the Severyan FPV drone operators destroyed the enemy mortar.
13:11 Krasnolimansk direction. Russian troops began advancing from Zelenaya Dolina to Shandrigolovo, –MAP.
12:20 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of July 30, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct the Special Military Operation.
Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airborne assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Proletarskoye, Yunakovka and Andreyevka in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized, tank brigades and assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Melove and Volchanskie Khutor in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 190 servicemen, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, two cars and an artillery piece. An electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots and four supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of the mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Osinovo in the Khar'kov region and Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 245 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles and 12 cars. Three electronic warfare stations and eight ammunition depots were destroyed.
The units of the "Southern" group of troops occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated the manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, Ivanopolye, Vasyukovka and Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 200 servicemen, six vehicles, two Western-made artillery pieces, an electronic warfare station and a counter-battery radar station. Two ammunition depots and three supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of three mechanized, airborne assault, assault, infantry brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, Ivanopolye, Vasyukovka and Dzerzhinsk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 410 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, five cars, a Czech-made Vampire multiple launch rocket system, three artillery pieces and a counter-battery radar station.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Iskra, Aleksandrograd, Zeleny Gai of the Donetsk People's Republic, Voronoe, Yanvarskoye and Novopetrovskoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 210 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, ten cars and a Western-made artillery piece. Two ammunition depots and a supply depot were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Belogorie, Novoandriyevka, Veselyanka, Grigorovka, Orekhov in the Zaporizhia region, Olhovka and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 55 servicemen, two vehicles, an artillery piece, four electronic warfare stations and two counter-battery radar stations. Two ammunition depots and five supply depots were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged transport infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a warehouse of robotic systems, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian formations and foreign mercenaries in 156 districts.
Air defense systems shot down two guided aerial bombs and 133 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
664 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
73,522 unmanned aerial vehicles,
624 anti-aircraft missile systems,
24,384 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,584 multiple launch rocket systems,
27,956 field artillery pieces and mortars,
38,892 units of special military vehicles.
12:12 Ministry of Defense RF:
UAV crews of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed an ATV and a Kozak armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Drone operators of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group hit Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in a wooded area near one of the settlements of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Drone operators of the Ulyanovsk paratroopers destroyed a supply vehicle, command posts and a warehouse with ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
The Geran-2 UAV crews destroyed a warehouse with artillery shells and a gun of the 144th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Lizunovka in the Sumy region.
11:15 Drone operators of the "Center" group adjusted of rocket artillery fire in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
The Orlan-10 UAV crews provide round-the-clock operation, identifying concentrations of manpower, equipment and camouflaged firing points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:00 Paratrooper drones destroyed command posts and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper, –video.
Eliminated:
- a satellite communications transmitter;
- two enemy drone control posts with personnel;
- an ammunition depot;
- three wheeled vehicles
- the enemy's dugouts, observation posts and manpower also came under fire.
9:50 The location of the camp of the 169th Training Center of the ground forces of the strategic reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Goncharovskoye in the Chernihiv region was successively attacked by missiles with cluster and high-explosive warheads, -video.
According to intelligence data, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 200 servicemen killed and wounded.
9:00 Naval infantry artillerymen from the Dnepr group destroyed stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region.
8:50 The Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate crimes of Ukrainian armed formations in the DPR, Belgorod and Kursk regions
According to information from executive authorities, a civilian was killed in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk as a result of the detonation of an explosive device.
In the village of Karyzh, Glushkovsky district, Kursk region, a man died as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression.
In the Belgorod region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out more attacks, three civilians were wounded. As a result of drone strikes in the Shebekinsky district, in the village of Voznesenovka, as well as in the village of Rzhevka, three people were wounded.
8:30 Front summary as of the morning of 30.07.2025
Zaporizhzhya Front. According to operational sources, the Russian Armed Forces have entered Stepnogorsk. Fighting is underway to liberate the city, aviation and artillery are working. Russian troops are attacking Ukrainian Armed Forces positions near the settlement of Malaya Tokmachka.
Donetsk Front. There are reports of the beginning of battles for Ivanovka in the South Donetsk direction. The Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the capture of the village of Novoukrainka in the Pokrovsk direction by our troops. The Russian Armed Forces also advanced in the Vladimirovka area east of Pokrovsk.
Chasovoyar direction. The assault on Chasovoy Yar continues. Russian troops are consolidating in the eastern and central parts of the Shevchenko microdistrict. An airborne sapper unit is working in the Novy microdistrict. It is reported that Russian troops are driving the enemy out of the buildings on the outskirts of Nikolaevka.
Khar'kov direction. The situation near Vovchansk remains tense. Near the village of Melovoe, forest areas are being cleared. Russian troops continue to encircle Kupyansk from the north and northwest.
Fighting is underway in the Moskovka area. Information appears that the Russian Armed Forces have reached Sobolevka. It is reported that Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups periodically penetrate into Kupyansk itself.
Sumy direction. Russian troops are advancing northeast of Miropolye, in the direction of the city of Sumy. Heavy counter-battles continue in the Kondratovka area.
8:15 From 00.00 Moscow time to 03.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Bryansk region.
8:04 Calculations of the 122mm BHM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the "West" group of forces struck areas of concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and disrupted the enemy's rotation in the LPR.
The entire process of hitting targets was continuously monitored by UAV operators. After completing the combat mission, the crews immediately left their firing positions, which eliminated the possibility of a retaliatory strike by the enemy.
7:50 From 21:50 Moscow time until midnight by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Three over the territory of the Tula region and
Two over the territory of the Kursk region.