Международная редакция Федерального агентства новостей.
Азия, Африка, Балканы, Ближний Восток, Латинская Америка: пишем просто и понятно о сложном и далеком.
🔹 Zelensky ruled out presidential elections before the end of war; 🔹 Total mobilization starts in Chernihiv and Lviv Oblasts; 🔹 Armed Kyiv supporter arrested in Bakhchisarai district of Crimea; 🔹 Zelensky: A quarter of Ukraine bomb shelters is unfit for use; 🔹 Repairs of Chongar Bridge to take 15-20 days, a pontoon crossing established nearby; 🔹 Kyiv authorities jailed for 5 years owners of Telegram channel that monitored actions of local military comissariates.
🔹 Authorities in Kherson Oblast report Dnieper river is returning to its streambed; 🔹 Explosions reported in Odesa, Kirovohrad, Poltava Oblasts and Kyiv; 🔹 Russian T-90M "Proryv" tank eliminated a group of ZSU infantry in combat area; 🔹 RuAF Su-34 landed strikes on Ukraine International Legion troops in Kupyansk front; 🔹 LPR reported elimination of ZSU personnel and equipment column near Kalinovka; 🔹 ZSU launched strikes on Chongar Bridge connecting north Crimea to mainland; 🔹 State Dept acknowledges that Western strategy in increasing military support to ZSU; 🔹 In total, 46 civilians killed after destruction of Kakhovka dam and flooding; 🔹 Russian forces pushed back ZSU by 1 km in north of LPR; 🔹 Kyiv's Chief intelligence directorate (GUR) acknowledged Russian strikes on its HQ.
🔹 Russian Emercom to bring mobile rescue equipment to mitigate results of destruction of the Kakhovka dam; 🔹 ZSU landed strikes on temporary shelters for people evacuated from the flood zone, one woman was killed; 🔹 Crimea PM Aksenov reports 2 ZSU ballistic missiles were intercepted over peninsula; 🔹 Russian Army Group "West" thwarted 3 attempts by ZSU to conduct personnel rotation in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Explosions reported after Russian precision strikes in Odesa; 🔹 Russia PM Mishustin creates a committee to combat effects of flood in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Air Defense of Russian Army Group "South" shot down 2 HIMARS missiles over Lugansk; 🔹 Russian artillery destroyed 2 "Gvozdika" self-propelled howitzers on Lyman front; 🔹 Red Cross ready to help population, suffering after destruction of Kakhovka Hydropower Plant dam.
🔹 Russian Air Defense shot down 6 missiles ZSU launched at Berdyansk; 🔹 Military air forces launched training in north Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv protests after a map of Ukraine without Crimea was published in Hungary; 🔹 Ukraine Central Bank obliged all Ukrainian banks to report bank card payments; 🔹 Gorlovka penitentiary colony infrastructure damaged after ZSU shelling; 🔹 Emergency blackouts in Kyiv Oblast due to weather.
🔹 Ukrainian media reported explosions in Kharkiv; 🔹 Head of Crimea Parliament Konstantinov vows to purge Kyiv oligarchy assets from Russian peninsula; 🔹 Politico: Germany and Hungary FMs had a fight over Ukraine; 🔹 Rogov: Kyiv trying to take Zaporizha NPP hostage; 🔹 RIA source: Kyiv medical services in Kherson practice illegal organ harvesting from bodies of ZSU servicemen; 🔹 Morocco FM reiterated country's neutral stance on confrontation in Ukraine.
🔹 ZSU shelled Energodar, wounding ambulance car driver; 🔹 4 UAVs downed by Russian Air Defense in north Crimea; 🔹 Authorities in Kharkiv Oblast confirmed Russian strike on critical infrastructure object; 🔹 Russian deputy PM Marat Khusnullin: Plan for restoration of DPR's Bakhmut shall be developed after liberation of the town; 🔹 Hackers from "Ukraine Salvation Army" cracked Kyiv government official web-sites and reports an attack on systems of Zelensky's office; 🔹 Japan and US confirm that Zelensky to make a personal visit to Hiroshima for G7 summit.
🔹 Five grain carriages gone off tracks after explosion on a railway in Crimea; 🔹 ZSU UAV bombed sports and recreation complex in Kursk Oblast; 🔹 Explosions reported in the night in Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine; 🔹 DPR People's Council adopts a bill on help for businessmen who want to invest in the region; 🔹 DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy received 2,7 bln rubles (33,6 million USD) to cover debts on wages; 🔹 NYT: Contrary to statements by Zelensky, US never allowed to train ZSU pilots on European F-16.
🔹 Air Defenses active in north of Crimea; 🔹 A shootout reported on the border of Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 ZSU fired 4 HIMARS missiles on Rubezhnoye (LPR); 🔹 Power grid damaged after a strike on Dniepropetrovsk Oblast; 🔹 Russian Investigative Committee files criminal proceedings on Kyiv and Kharkiv prison officers after new evidence emerges on torture of Russian prisoners; 🔹 Emercom: ZSU fired 49 times on Kherson Oblast left bank.
🔹 Zelensky bans toponyms associated with Russia and Soviet Union; 🔹 Adepts of schismatic OCU are trying to seize a church of canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the village of Trebukhiv in Kyiv Oblast; 🔹 Head of Ukrainian "Naftogaz" national energy company engaged in negotiations with US Big Oil; 🔹 Brazil's Lula to send an advisor to Kyiv to meet Zelensky; 🔹 Latvia to give ZSU all remaining Stinger MANPADS; 🔹 Rail transit shall resume from Russian Kherson Oblast to Crimea; 🔹 Trump pledges to stop conflict in Ukraine after winning the elections in 2024.
🔹 ZSU targeted a hospital in Svatovo using HIMARS; 🔹 Satellite imagery shows major defensive networks in Crimea; 🔹 ZSU fired over 100 shells on civil in Russian Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Loud explosions heard in Kramatorsk in the night; 🔹 RIA: some 80% Ukrainian prisoners ready to testify on their crimes in hopes for clemency; 🔹 The Washington Post: US do not anticipate that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv could start in 2023.
🔹 Zelensky raised Ukraine's military spending by 14,5 billon dollars; 🔹 Authorities in Crimea and Sevastopol ban military parades and "Immortal Regiment" march on Victory Day 2023 due to security concerns; 🔹 Russian Interior Military to monitor Russian citizens who renounced citizenship of Ukraine; 🔹 Shmyhal: Kyiv shall start the offensive as soon as its ready, maybe in summer; 🔹 Israel says ready to host Russia-Ukraine peace talks; 🔹 The Guardian reports "Russian hackers" are tweaking CCTV cameras in Ukrainian cafes to monitor movements of ZSU.
🔹 DPR PM Pushilin reports Russian forces improved tactical positions on Maryinka and Horlivka axes; 🔹 Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church reports takeover of church in Khmelnitsky by schismatics; 🔹 LPR PM: Kyiv security forces raid civilian houses in Kupyansk; 🔹 Zelensky included Kyiv minister of industry to General Staff; 🔹 Authorities in Russian Kherson Oblast approved construction of alternative route to Crimea; 🔹 Governor Saldo reports ZSU are getting ready to cross Dnieper; 🔹 LPR reports that ZSU tries to deceive Russian intelligence with disinformation about counteroffensive.
🔹 ZSU shelled village of Arkhangelskoye in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 One of attackers died while trying to seize chapel of canonical Orthodox Church not far from Kyiv; 🔹 Head of Crimea informs that a missile from Ukraine was shot down around Theodosia; 🔹 The Washington Post: ZSU 59th Brigade has to scavenge unexploded Russian munitions due to munitions hunger; 🔹 Ukrainian Customs Service intercepted a cargo of Orthodox relics, including 80 pieces of hallowed remains of Orthodox saints and rich churchware, attempted to smuggle out of Ukraine; 🔹 Russian strike destroyed hangars near grain silo in Orekhiv, detonating munitions and destroying several Western-supplied howitzers stored in grain complex.
🔹 Crimea started distributing land plots among veterans of special military operation; 🔹 Farmers in Poland plan to block border crossings with Ukraine to stop unregulated grain imports; 🔹 RuMOD: Kyiv regime plots a provocation in Sumy Oblast, planning to accuse Russia of using chemical projectiles; 🔹 Russian forces with tanks attempt offensive through forests north and south of Maryinka; 🔹 US State Secretary Anthony Blinken rules out any ceasefire between Russian and Kyiv forces in current situation; 🔹 Emercom reports ZSU fired around 100 shells on civilian infrastructure in Kherson Oblast.
🔹 ZSU shelling hit a village in Russian Kursk Oblast, 7 civilians wounded; 🔹 Military journalist and volunteer of DPR PM "Vostok" battalion Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) killed in blast in café in Saint Petersburg; 🔹 Pro-Kyiv forces seized an canonical Orthodox church in Khmelnitsky; 🔹 Secretary of Kyiv NSC Danilov says he has a plan for capturing Crimea; 🔹 Ukrainian forces shelled Mariupol with cluster munitions; 🔹 One thermal power plant in Ukraine stops operation after shelling; 🔹 Czechia MOD announces new batches of weapons and equipment for Kyiv; 🔹 Kyiv started manufacture of new airbombs; 🔹 Russian military reports increased ZSU activity near Enerhodar.
🔹 On April 3, US to announce new 2,6 bln dollars military aid package for Kyiv; 🔹 US's general Milley says Kyiv will not be able to achieve its military goals in 2023; 🔹 Kyiv SBU accused canonical vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra metropolitan Pavel of "inciting religious hatred" and "justification of Russian special military operation"; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities report calm in Energodar after the visit of IAEA Director Grossi to Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 RuMOD reports ZSU attempted unsuccessful reconnaissance attack on Kupyansk axis; 🔹 Kyiv Interior Ministry reports on establishment of 8 brigades for recapture of Crimea and Donbas.
🔹 White House: NATO is going to provide Kyiv with everything necessary for counter-offensive; 🔹 RuMOD: 4 enemy infiltration and sabotage groups eliminated in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Fixed-wing UAV shot down in the night above Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Orban: EU countries closing for discussion on sending peacemaker corps to Ukraine; 🔹 Head of Crimea Parliament Konstantinov: ZSU shall face serious problems if they try to break to Azov Sea; 🔹 Russian servicemen in zone of special military operation had a teleconference with relatives and friends in Leningrad Oblast.
🔹 Biden says that Western unity against Russia does not depend on events in Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky admits that Kyiv forces cannot start a counteroffensive yet; 🔹 Crimea authorities say that Kyiv presents a threat to maritime shipping in Black Sea; 🔹 Reports that Kyiv decided to raise tariffs on transit of Russian oil; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities report that a terrorist attack was prevented in Enerhodar; 🔹 Russian forces control some 29 settlements in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Medvedev: Russian General Staff prepares for possible Kyiv forces offensive.
🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities: "Dozens" of foreign mercenaries eliminated after precision strike on a base in Kyiv-controlled part of Zaporizha; 🔹 Japan and Germany agreed to step up sanctions against Russia; 🔹 Pope says he will continue to seek peace in Ukraine; 🔹 ZSU fired over 5600 artillery shells on left bank of Dnieper in 2023; 🔹 Germany's Scholtz says that Beijing shall continue direct contact with Kyiv; 🔹 Newsweek: US are not concerned with territorial integrity of Ukraine; 🔹 Politico: problems with munitions for Ukraine can lead to breakup of NATO; 🔹 Congressman Gosar: UAV Reaper incident over Black Sea can lead to new escalation in Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky issues personal sanctions against Syria president Bashar al-Asad; 🔹 Head of Crimea says a powerful group of forces is present in the region.
🔹 Poland to give Kyiv 4 Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets, once received from GDR; 🔹 UAV downed in Saki District of Crimea; 🔹 France MOD: Batch of AMX-10RC wheeled tanks already in Ukraine; 🔹 UN did not find evidence of "Ukrainian genocide" by Russian troops; 🔹 Mayor of Kyiv-controlled Konotop confirmed strike on local Territorial Defense base; 🔹 Governor of Orlov Oblast says presence of sabotage group in the region was not confirmed.