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🔹 Zelensky discussed ZSU leaks with Kyiv forces Chief of Staff; 🔹 Blinken says ZSU to start counteroffensive in next weeks; 🔹 Wagner Group engaged in fierce combat for Bakhmut railway station; 🔹 Cyprus refused to send weapons to Ukraine; 🔹 RuFM Lavrov discussed conflict in Ukraine with Turkey foreign minister; 🔹 RuMOD: US restarted construction of biolaboratories in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv agrees to stop grain exports to Poland, retaining transit; 🔹 Xi Jinping: prolongation of conflict in Ukraine will hurt all sides; 🔹 Russia and IAEA identify measures required to improve communication of Zaporizha NPP.
🔹 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.
🔹 Zelensky says he's ready to meet Xi Jinping; 🔹 Russian Polyansky in UN: Kyiv has turned Bakhmut into a symbol of resistance, and that was a mistake; 🔹 Spain to give Kyiv first six Leopard tanks in middle April; 🔹 Reports that Kyiv uses farmers vehicles to bring munitions; 🔹 Hundreds of canonical Orthodox Church adherents came to Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra for a prayer before Kyiv seizes it; 🔹 IAEA director general Rafael Grossi to visit Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Russian Investigative Committee starts investigations on Kyiv crimes against Orthodox Church clergy.
🔹 Warsaw reports that Polish mercenary was killed in Ukraine; 🔹 Ukrainians in Snihurivsky District (Mikolaiv Oblast) report that Kyiv started total mobilization of local men; 🔹 Putin and Erdogan discussed events in Ukraine in a phone call; 🔹 FT: EU trying to push Xi Jinping for talks with Zelensky; 🔹 Russian soldiers in Zaporizha Oblast managed to shoot enemy UAV with assault rifle; 🔹 Italy says UK does not coordinate its positions on Ukraine with EU; 🔹 Scholtz says it is necessary to prepare for a long-term support of Kyiv; 🔹 Kremlin: US do not let Kyiv even think about peace talks with Russia.
🔹 US called "not to get stuck" on idea of giving Kyiv certain types of weapons or military equipment; 🔹 Kyiv reports continued contacts with China on meeting of Zelensky with Xi Jinping; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU used silent mortars in Kupyansk front; 🔹 LPR says ZSU are masking their positions in Svatovo-Kremennaya front; 🔹 Trump called to stop conflict in Ukraine due to risks of global war; 🔹 Kyiv Energy Ministry announced starting production of nuclear fuel in Ukraine; 🔹 US military expert: US prepared ZSU to strike Russia; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities says civilians are leaving Kyiv-controlled part of the region.