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🔹 Kyiv Rada registered a bill for renaming Georgia as Sakartvelo; 🔹 ZSU UAV fell near local migrant center in village of Mayski in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Kyiv authorities in Dniepropetrovsk Oblast report damage to high-voltage line; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities inform that ZSU disrupted IAEA monitoring team rotation; 🔹 Reports about explosions in Mikolaiv Oblast; 🔹 FAZ: Kyiv requested Taurus cruise missiles with 500 km range from Germany.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Center for Ukrainian refugees was set on fire in Ireland; 🔹 France to provide ZSU with light wheeled tanks AMX-10RC; 🔹 Beijing special envoy to visit Europe to discuss solutions for Ukrainian crisis; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Mikolaiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dniepropetrovsk and Kharkiv Oblasts of Ukraine; 🔹 In Germany, Zelensky paid a visit to military base for training ZSU servicemen; 🔹 ZSU attacked Luhansk using Storm Shadow missiles developed by UK and France; 🔹 Locals report that ZSU set on fire a residential building with civilians while retreating in Bakhmut.
🔹 Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced against Russian plan for settlement of conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 Vladimir Zelensky urges to lift all restrictions on shipments of weapons for ZSU; 🔹 Wall Street Journal: NATO poised to propose "immediate help" to Kyiv on Vilnius summit; 🔹 Ukrainian parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2023 can be cancelled; 🔹 People in Ukraine may face blackouts next winder due to deficit of imported energy resources; 🔹 German authorities awarded Zelensky with Charlemagne Prize, awarded for "unification of Europe"; 🔹 Kyiv Intelligence reports that reconnaissance teams received 105 German-supplied "Vector" UAVs.
🔹 Zelensky proposed Pope Francis to support Kyiv "peace plan"; 🔹 ZSU shelled "Avangard" stadium in Luhansk; 🔹 Japan to deliver Kyiv 40 mln dollars worth of power supply equipment; 🔹 Germany to send Kyiv 2,7 bln euro military aid; 🔹 Rogov: Kyiv retains plans to seize Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 LPR temporarily shuts down mobile internet due to constant ZSU strikes; 🔹 Borrell embraces delivery of long-range weapons to Kyiv.
🔹 Financial Times: none of 20 M109 self-propelled howitzers that were given Kyiv by Italy, was in order for combat; 🔹 EU to give 1 billion dollar for "emergency reconstruction" of Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky says ready to start ZSU counteroffensive without Western fighter jets; 🔹Bild: Germany trains 1000 ZSU Special Forces troops for counteroffensive; 🔹 Kyiv protests against EU and Poland ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and agroproducts; 🔹 Governor of Russian Sevastopol: Fire in fuel depot eliminated;
🔹 Bild: ZSU trained assault river crossing near German town of Minden for several months straight; 🔹 Ukrainian military commissars in Dnipro ambushed men near opened fast food restaurants; 🔹 On Kherson front, ATGM operator shot down UAF Su-25; 🔹 UK sent Kyiv thousands of munitions for Challenger 2 tanks, including munitions with depleted uranium; 🔹 ZSU shelled city of Tokmak in Zaporizha Oblast, two civilians wounded; 🔹 Local sources in ZSU-held Kostyantinivka (DPR) report explosions in the city.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Pentagon announced new 2,6 bln dollar military aid package for Kyiv, including munitions and ATGM; 🔹 ZSU shelling hit border village of Aleshkovichi in Suzem District of Russian Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Bild: In polls 64% Germans voted against sending Kyiv fighter jets, only 28% approve that move; 🔹 Mayor of Lviv announced that property of canonical Ukraine Orthodox Church shall be arrested and transferred to the city or schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine; 🔹 People in Lugansk paid respects to the memory of war journalist and volunteer soldier Vladlen Tatarsky, assassinated in Saint Petersburg; 🔹 People in Kramatorsk report series of explosions in the city.
🔹 Russian loitering munitions landed precision strikes on Kyiv and Dniepropetrovsk Oblast; 🔹 Der Spiegel: Germany to step up military aid to Kyiv to 15 bln euros; 🔹 Bulgaria can't give Kyiv more 155 mm munitions as it has not enough left in storage; 🔹 Head of DPR says ZSU lost around 30 troops near Vuhledar in an attempt to test Russian defenses; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities expect ZSU could stage a provocation during IAEA director visit to Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Petition with demands to ban depleted uranium munitions filed in Zelensky's web site.
🔹 Scholz: EU decided to step up shipments of munitions for Kyiv; 🔹 Romanian senator introduced a bill to enact territorial claims to Ukraine; 🔹 Poland's Morawiecki: Poland shall get a 800-900 mln euro refund for weapons sent for ZSU; 🔹 Kyiv returned seriously injured prisoners to Russia; 🔹 Germany gave Kyiv 3 auxiliary armored engineering vehicles Pionierpanzer 2A1 Dachs; 🔹 Icons and holy scriptures from Ukrainian Orthodox Church are being traded on online marketplaces after series of raids by Kyiv police and security services.
🔹 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.
🔹 3,6 km long trenches created near Yevpatoria in Crimea to prevent assault from Black Sea; 🔹 90 US-made Stryker infantry fighting vehicles came to Germany on the way to Ukraine; 🔹 ZSU shelled village of Butyrki in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Rheinmetall wants to buy back from Switzerland 96 obsolete Leopard 1A5 tanks to repair and send to Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky meets Europarliament president in Lviv, says Kyiv wants to start negotiations on joining EU in 2023.
🔹 Kyiv Special Services conducted mass raids in city of Zaporizha; 🔹 DPR military servicemen will receive Russian citizenship immediately; 🔹 LPR PM speaker says Kyiv received spoiled munitions for Soviet-type artillery; 🔹 LPR says ZSU created new pontoon river crossings south of Makiivka; 🔹 Germany FM leaves to Kyiv to decide if Crimea would be a part of peaceful solution; 🔹 Reports about explosion in Ivano-Frankivsk; 🔹 Reports that ZSU in Bakhmut urges young people to join volunteer corps.
🔹 RuMOD says Kyiv activates preparations to invade Transnistria; 🔹 China publishes a peace plan proposal on Ukraine; 🔹 Crimea railroad between Sevastopol and Simferopol was sabotaged last night; 🔹 UN GA adopts anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine; 🔹 UK PM Sunak to call G7 countries to help Kyiv with long-range weapons; 🔹 Germany MOD Pistorius states "no red lines" in help for Kyiv regime.
🔹 Over 5,3 million refugees from Ukraine moved to Russia in last year; 🔹 Joe Biden visits Kyiv, pledging new 460 mln dollars military and package; 🔹 Germany MOD says Germany has not fighter jets requested by Kyiv; 🔹 Series of explosions rocked Zaporizha; 🔹 Russian military intelligence SVR reports on destruction of most NATO equipment in Ukraine; 🔹 US to give Kyiv additional 10 million dollars to restore power grid; 🔹 Russian Orthodox Church allowed servicemen in Ukraine to skip Greater Fasting.
🔹 ZSU pillage villages in Kyiv-controlled part of Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Germany to supply Leopard tanks to Kyiv by end of March; 🔹 Kyiv regime prepares provocation with dead civilians in Snigirevka; 🔹 First battalion of ZSU troops finished training with US-supplied Bradleys in Germany; 🔹 Woman-sniper from ZSU eliminated in LPR.
🔹 Russia launched night attack on ZSU military installations in several regions of Ukraine with loitering munitions and precision missile strikes; 🔹 Ukraine launched an attack on Crimea with UAVs, Russian Air Defense repelling attack; 🔹 UK MOD Ben Wallace urged ZSU to "ration" artillery munitions; 🔹 Russian offensive on Vuhledar stalled in minefields around the town; 🔹 Kyiv forces General Staff expects Russian offensive on Kupyansk and moves equipment and personnel to left bank of Oskol river; 🔹 Germany MOD Boris Pistorius says NATO can give Kyiv only 17 Leopard 2A6 tanks, not promised "two battalions".