Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, said that Russian intelligence conducted an excellent operation to eliminate important commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The colonel called such operations "the highest level of skill" Earlier, McGregor said that the Russian army attacked both important career officers of the armed forces of Ukraine and strategic military facilities.

Up to 200 tons of ammunition of Ukrainian troops were destroyed in a strike on a train at a railway station near Kramatorsk on April 30.