Troops 2nd Belorussian Front, developing the offensive, on April 30 they captured important road junctions in the northwestern part of Pomerania and in Mecklenburg. In the battles for April 30, the troops of the front captured 8,500 German soldiers and officers and captured 66 aircraft and 100 field guns.
Moravian-Ostrava offensive operation
38th Army 4th Ukrainian Front broke through the enemy's last line of defense and, in cooperation with the 1st Guards Army, which crossed the Odra River north of the city, captured Moravian Ostrava.

Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Mikhailovich Martynov at the La-5 fighter.
During the Great Patriotic War, he flew on LaGG-3, LA-5, LA-7 aircraft. He completed 267 sorties, conducted 49 air battles, in which he destroyed 16 enemy aircraft. Participated in hostilities on the Kalinin, Stalingrad, Southern, Southwestern, North Caucasian, Voronezh, First Ukrainian, Fourth Ukrainian fronts. At the end of the war, he participated in the Moravian-Ostrava operation (in Czechoslovakia). He finished the war with the rank of senior lieutenant, flight commander.
Berlin offensive operation
The Soviet command rejected the attempts of the German command to start negotiations on a temporary ceasefire. There is only one demand - surrender!
30 April 61st Army 1st Belorussian Front crossed the Havel River and by the end of the day reached the Lindow-Val line.
The 1st Polish Army fought on the front of Val, Zanzk.
The 3rd shock army stormed the Reichstag during the day. The assault on the Reichstag building itself began, which was defended by more than 1000 Germans and SS men from different countries. In different places of the Reichstag, several red banners were fixed - from regimental and divisional to home-made ones.
At 21.30 on April 30, the Banner of Victory was raised on the dome of the Reichstag.

A photograph of a Soviet soldier hoisting a red banner over the Reichstag taken, which later became known as the Banner of Victory - one of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Yevgeny Chaldei on the roof of the Reichstag.

In the photo: Yegorov (right) and Kantaria in a 1945 photo of the year with the Banner of Victory
The 5th shock army advanced 850 meters in a day. The 2nd Guards Tank Army developed an offensive from the northwest towards the 8th Guards Army. By the end of the day on April 30, she approached the Tiergarten park. It was not possible to completely close the encirclement around the enemy grouping in the Tiergarten park. There was a narrow corridor 400 meters wide. The 8th Guards Army reached a distance of 800 meters from the Imperial Chancellery. At 23.30 April 30 at Front edge The truce Lieutenant Colonel Zeyferd arrived with a package addressed to the commander of the 8th Guards Army Soviet troops. The 33rd Army cleared the area of ​​Wendisch-Buchholz and Halbe from the remnants of the troops of the German 9th Army. In the battles of April 30, the troops of the front captured more than 14,000 German soldiers and officers.

A group of German prisoners under escort Soviet soldiers on a street in Berlin.
3rd Guards Tank Army 1st Ukrainian Front continued to compress the enemy grouping in the Schöneberg and Wilmensdorf area.
On April 30, Adolf Hitler shot himself in his bunker. His wife Eva Braun took the poison. Several German officers carried the corpses into the garden, doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. At this time, Soviet units were fighting a quarter from the bunker.
On April 30, 98 were shot down and destroyed on all fronts. German tanks and self-propelled guns. In air battles and fire anti-aircraft artillery 26 enemy planes shot down.
There were 9 days left before our Victory.