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🔹 Russian forces repelled 2 attacks by ZSU storm troops in Artemovsk front; 🔹 US State Dept puts procurement of video equipment for Ukrainian police out to tender; 🔹 "Ukrhydroenergo" says water level in Kakhovka reservoir dropped by 7 meters after destruction of dam; 🔹 UAV fell in Russian Kaluga Oblast, without casualties; 🔹 Artillery of Russian "South" group of forces landed strikes on ZSU field camps in Donetsk front; 🔹 Zelensky office says Ukraine membership to NATO was "officially supported" by 20 countries of Alliance.
🔹 In the night, ZSU blew up the dam of Kakhovka Hydropower Plant on Dnieper, starting cascade destruction of the facility, risk of flooding in 80 settlements, including Kherson; 🔹 Pushilin: ZSU attempted breakthrough in DPR, were repelled with losses; 🔹 Explosions reported in Kharkiv and Zhitomir, Dniepropetrovsk and Kharkiv Oblasts; 🔹 LPR reported ZSU used UAVs with range over 300 km; 🔹 Russian attack jets landed strikes on ZSU 81 Air Mobile brigade; 🔹 RuMOD reports Russian forces eliminated some 1500 ZSU troops and 8 Leopard tanks in South Donetsk axis; 🔹 Russian forces group "Vostok" repelled ZSU offensive on South Donetsk axis; 🔹 Robert Kennedy Jr. acknowledged presence of US biolabs in Ukraine; 🔹 Russian Air Defense shot down ZSU plane on Kherson front.
🔹 RuFM reacts positively on Vatican attempts to reach peace in Ukraine; 🔹 President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik rules out transfer of weapons for Kyiv; 🔹 US general Milley: F-16 will cost a lot and won't be some "absolute weapon" for Kyiv; 🔹 Explosions reported in the night in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, air raid siren sounded around all Ukraine; 🔹 Reports: some 100 criminal sentences issued in Ukraine for dodging mobilization in a single month; 🔹 ZSU in the morning made started another shelling of Donetsk.
🔹 Medvedev: Since 2023, over 117 000 men signed a contract with Russian Army as volunteers; 🔹 ZSU shelling hits village of Staryi Khutor in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 ZSU launched MFOM missile on Donetsk, it is used to discard Germany-supplied anti-tank mines; 🔹 Ukrainian power operator DTEK reports one on thermal power plants in Ukraine was shut down due to sustained damage; 🔹 During summit of League of Arab States Zelensky criticized Arab leaders for neutral stance on Russian special military operation; 🔹 Three villages in Russian Kursk Oblast without power after ZSU shelling; 🔹 New prisoner exchange returned home 35 Russian prisoners of war.
🔹 Kyiv FM Kuleba: Zelensky tours Europe to gather weapons for ZSU counteroffensive; 🔹 Kyiv states that destroyed munitions depots in Ternopil did not contain depleted uranium munitions; 🔹 Romania wants to extend ban on imports of Ukrainian grain; 🔹 Deputy UN SG Griffith says negotiations on Ukraine grain deal to continue in coming days; 🔹 Germany to send Kyiv 4 more IRIS-T SAM systems; 🔹 John Kirby: US do not intend to give Kyiv ATACMS long-range missiles for HIMARS; 🔹 Over 90 000 consumers in Donetsk without power after ZSU shelling; 🔹 69 miners rescued in DPR from two mines without power.
🔹 Head of European Commission comes to Kyiv to meet Zelensky; 🔹 ZSU shelling targeted Kurkovichi village in Russian Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Flak protection shield for UAV operators tested in Donetsk; 🔹Washington Post: UK may supply Kyiv with long range missiles; 🔹 RuAF landed strikes on ZSU pontoon crossing on Lyman front; 🔹 Zelensky says Kyiv is developing "a new security strategy".
🔹 Russian Air Defense repelled another UAV attack on Sevastopol; 🔹 ZSU reports that industrial facility in Mikolaiv Oblast was damaged by explosions; 🔹 RIA: ZSU artillery killed 5 Ukrainian servicemen in Maryinka; 🔹 IAEA: Situation in Zaporizha NPP is becoming unpredictable and possible dangerous; 🔹 Russian "Center" group of forces launched strikes on two ZSU brigades; 🔹 ZSU fired 14 155 mm shells on Makeevka and Donetsk.
🔹 One civilian dead, 2 more injured after ZSU launched massive strikes on Novaya Kakhovka; 🔹 DPR's Pushilin reports Russian forces managed to improve positions on Avdiivka axis; 🔹 Russian forces eliminated 2 ZSU infiltration and sabotage teams on Kupyansk axis; 🔹 Rogov reports increased shelling of Zaporizha Oblast by ZSU; 🔹 2 ZSU attacks repelled near Orekhiv; 🔹 LPR's Marochkov: Kyiv amasses Air Defenses on Donetsk axis; 🔹 Pro-Russian resistance in Kherson helped to destroy hangar with military vehicles and ZSU base camp; 🔹Reuters: South Korea president didn't rule out weapons supply for Kyiv.
🔹 Putin visited Donbas and Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces landed a strike on ZSU positions near Seversk; 🔹 Russian army group "Vostok" thwarted ZSU attempt to conduct combat reconnaissance on South Donetsk axis; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities call shelling from ZSU "an act of impotent rage"; 🔹 LPR reports that hospitals in Kharkiv and Dniepropetrovsk Oblasts are crowded with wounded ZSU servicemen; 🔹 LPR PM speaker says ZSU shelled their own positions in Bakhmut; 🔹 Republican congressman called for Biden administration to make public info about US servicemen currently in Ukraine.
🔹 ZSU shelled Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Donetsk on Easter night; 🔹 After Poland, Hungary bans imports of some agricultural produce from Ukraine; 🔹 Russian forces landed precision strike on base camp of "Foreign Legion" mercenaries in DPR territory; 🔹 Some 12 000 schoolchildren left Ternopil Oblast since September 2022, some schools are on the edge of closure; 🔹 Kyiv Education Ministry plans to shorten school classes; 🔹 France FM Catherine Colonna calls to "start creating conditions for Ukraine talks"; 🔹 German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) received 337 complaints on war crimes in Ukraine.
🔹 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.
🔹 CNN reports US spied on Zelensky; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed munitions depot, ZSP defense position and dugout on Donetsk front; 🔹 DPR reports that Russian forces eliminate 3-4 ZSU infiltration and sabotage groups per week; 🔹 Five civilians died in LPR in last week due to ZSU shelling; 🔹 Concentration of Air Defense units increased in vicinity of Special Military Operation zone; 🔹 Reports about loud explosions in Kyiv Oblast in the night.
🔹 ZSU shelled village of Tishanka in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Zelensky says Poland shall give ZSU 200 Rosomak APCs instead of 100; 🔹 Hungary steps up Ukraine grain transit controls in its territory to ensure grain reaches destination countries; 🔹 Germany to buy anti-UAV equipment because someone monitors training of ZSU troops in its territory; 🔹 Zelensky's aide Ustenko: Ukrainian international reserves exceed 30 bln dollars; 🔹 RuMOD: Russian forces thwarted three ZSU attempts for combat reconnaissance in South Donetsk axis.
🔹 ZSU shelled Lisichansk, with civilian casualties; 🔹 9 civilians dead after ZSU strike on Donetsk; 🔹 Greece ready to give Kyiv another shipment of APCs; 🔹 Interior Ministry department created in Russia-controlled part of Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Mayor of Lviv declared "the end of history of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church" in the Western Ukraine city; 🔹 Head of European Commission supports some proposals of Chines peace plan on Ukraine; 🔹 Xi Jinping called to avoid use of nuclear weapons in Ukrainian conflict; 🔹 Ukrainian foreign reserves reached 11 years high; 🔹 Deputy Kyiv FM blamed Germany for failure of Minsk agreements.
🔹 Russian forces repelled combined ZSU artillery strike on South Donetsk front; 🔹 Agricultural complex damaged in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Kyiv authorities in Slovyansk threaten caregivers with forced evacuation of their children; 🔹 Governor Saldo: ZSU terrorist sleeping cell uncovered in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 2 ZSU howitzers destroyed on right bank of Dnieper; 🔹 5 ZSU infiltration and sabotage teams eliminated in Kupyansk front.
🔹 Army group "Vostok" reported two failed counterattacks by ZSU on South Donetsk front; 🔹 Russian Duma Speaker: Giving Kyiv munitions with depleted uranium could lead to a global tragedy; 🔹 Japan's Kishida invited Zelensky to come online to G7 summit, invitation accepted; 🔹 Russian Black Sea Fleet repelled attack if marine UAVs in Sevastopol; 🔹 Kherson Oblast authorities say that Kyiv regime exhumed bodies of civilians killed by ZSU in Snihurivka to blame Russia; 🔹 LPR: ZSU in Kupyansk front left their wounded behind; 🔹 LPR says Kyiv police forces ignore ZSU pillaging civilian buildings near Bakhmut.
🔹 Vladimir Putin visited Mariupol; 🔹 RuMOD published videos of Pacific Fleet Marine Troops Air Defense in combat duty near Vuhledar; 🔹 Zelensky says several Western countries pledged new military aid packages for Kyiv; 🔹 ZSU fired over 80 shells on civil infrastructure in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 ZSU launched 25 missiles and 3 shells on Kirovsk District of Donetsk.
🔹 Zaporizha authorities report Kyiv started moving combat aircraft to Zaporizha front; 🔹 LPR authorities report ZSU stepped up attacks of sabotage teams along line of contact, started fortifications to south of Kremennya; 🔹 Reports that a large batch of Western military equipment arrived in Kostyantynivka near Bakhmut; 🔹 Donetsk evaluates resuming rail transit with other cities; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities started recalculation of pensions to Russian system; 🔹 UK PM called to speed up Western military aid to Ukraine; 🔹 Russian Kherson Oblast authorities say that Kakhovka HPP is well protected; 🔹 Novaya Kakhovka officials accused Kyiv of attempting to destroy the city; 🔹 Head of Zaporizha Oblast says attempts of ZSU to "stick their nose" across Dnieper are doomed to fail.
🔹 Kyiv drafts women with chemical and biological education to ZSU; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU has low fuel resource in Svatovo-Kremennaya front; 🔹 Mayor of Donetsk reports extremely dire situation after ZSU shelling, blames West for killing of civilians; 🔹 Estonian NGO stopped helping Kyiv after suspicions of embezzlement; 🔹 SIPRI: Ukraine becomes worlds third major arms importer; 🔹 Lukashenko congratulates Pope, notes similar views on peace in Ukraine; 🔹 Air Defenses activated in Russian Belgorod Oblast, 4 missiles shot down; 🔹 American Thinker: US save utilization costs by sending surplus military equipment for Kyiv.
🔹 Rosgvardia in LPR disarmed Ukrainian UAV with explosives; 🔹 ZSU prisoner says officers throw infantry to the front as cannon fodder, themselves staying far from battle; 🔹 DPR Emercom sappers cleared more than 40 Lepestok anti-personnel mines in Petrovsky district of Donetsk; 🔹 Russian forces uncovered a hidden cache of weapons and ammo in Vergulevka village (LPR); 🔹 Russian governor of Kherson Oblast says more and more people in city of Kherson hope for Russians to return; 🔹 Kyiv viceMOD Hanna Malyar says ZSU to bring reinforcements to hold Bakhmut; 🔹 Russian forces prevented UAV attack in Crimea; 🔹 Around 70 ZSU prisoners in DPR decided to apply for Russian citizenship and join volunteer battalion; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities reports ZSU forces gather closer to line of contact.