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🔹 Town of Aleshki in Russian Kherson Oblast is under water after destruction of Kakhovka Hydropower Dam; 🔹 In the evening, ZSU shelled Russian town of Shebekino in Belgorod Oblast for an hour, with various types of weaponry; 🔹 Zelensky says he's expecting a "powerful" amount of F-16 fighter jets from West; 🔹 Moscow and Kyiv both requested for UN SC meeting after destruction of Kakhovka dam; 🔹 Governor Balitsky reported preparations to hold "main strike" of ZSU offensive; 🔹 Zelensky had a meeting with Pope's envoy for Ukrainian peace plan; 🔹 Rogov presumes that around 10 000 ZSU troops can be relocated from Kherson to other fronts after destruction of Kakhovka dam; 🔹 RuMOD Shoigu reports that 71 KIA while repelling latest ZSU attacks.
🔹 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.
🔹 Kyiv has already approved terms for activization of ZSU counteroffensive operations, says Zelensky; 🔹 In the morning, ZSU launched shelling of Mikhailovka village in Russian Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Media reports major corruption in military commissariats of Kyiv regime; 🔹 Explosions in Kyiv after Russian strikes; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov: ZSU requires some 120 Western-made fighter jets for offensive; 🔹 LPR reports arrival of foreign mercenaries in Kharkiv and surroundings.
🔹 Explosions were heard in Kyiv in the morning; 🔹 Kyiv delegation in PABSEC attacked a member of Russian delegation; 🔹 Zelensky demands a "clear signal" that Ukraine shall join NATO after the end of conflict; 🔹 Zelensky's wife came to London for coronation of king Charles III; 🔹 Mayor of Odesa under arrest for corruption; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha Oblast bans alcohol trade until August; 🔹 EU to give Greece about 80 mln euro for production of munitions for ZSU; 🔹 US: Kyiv has all it needs to start counteroffensive; 🔹 Netherlands say that discuss giving F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv with partners.
🔹 Media reports on Zelensky's plans to meet Netherlands FM and MOD; 🔹 Russian forces repelled ZSU UAV attack on residential areas; 🔹 Industrial plant in Dniepropetrovsk Oblast damaged by Russian strikes; 🔹 Kyiv reports high intensity strikes on the city; 🔹 LPR: ZSU switch to reinforced security regimen in rear areas; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities report concentration of ZSU forces near front lines; 🔹 LPR reported a large ZSU convoy headed towards Seversk.
🔹 Pentagon: US gave Kyiv nearly 100% of planned military aid, but will continue; 🔹 ZSU shelling killed 2, wounded 14 civilians in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Governor Saldo assured that authorities in Kherson Oblast shall provide Russian troops with required recreation and rest; 🔹 Period for preferential import of Starlink generators and terminals ends in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv says Ukraine produces spare parts for Western combat equipment "better than original"; 🔹 DPR develops personal splinter protection complex; 🔹 Rogov says Kyiv finished moving troops to Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Kyiv MOD calls Japan to give Kyiv radioelectronic warfare equipment; 🔹 Kyiv forces received US-supplied Zuni missiles.
🔹 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;
🔹 ZSU shelled Leninsky village in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces launched massive strike on ZSU positions in Vuhledar; 🔹 Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary demand EU to ban grain and other agricultural imports from Ukraine till 2024; 🔹 RIA: Russian top new tanks T-14 Armata are already being used for striking Ukrainian positions, but yet to take part in direct combat; 🔹 ZSU accumulates reserves in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Borrell reports that EU gave Kyiv 13 bln euro worth of weapons and military equipment and provided training of over 16 000 ZSU personnel.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Denmark to give Kyiv 19 Caesar self-propelled howitzers; 🔹 Greece PM pledges further support of Kyiv regime; 🔹 ZSU received new batch of tank munitions; 🔹 Head of DPR Pushilin commended troops of Wagner Group who distinguished themselves in Bakhmut; 🔹 Rada called NATO countries to expedite accession of Ukraine to NATO; 🔹 Ukraine withdraws from border transit agreement with Russia; 🔹 Secretary of Kyiv National Defense and Security Council dispels rumors of "magical" timing of ZSU counteroffensive; 🔹 Authorities in Rovno Oblast of Ukraine ban canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
🔹 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.
🔹 S&P ratings agency lowers long term sovereign credit rating of Ukraine; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities say that plan for ZSU offensive was developed in US and UK; 🔹 Russian artillery destroyed 2 ZSU self-propelled howitzers in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces eliminated around 10 ZSU troops near Maryinka; 🔹 Brazil's Lula criticized US and EU for unwillingness to find peaceful solution for Ukraine; 🔹 Pentagon investigates leak on plans of ZSU offensive; 🔹 China ambassador states that West cannot give Beijing any orders on Ukraine.
🔹 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.
🔹 ZSU General Staff acknowledged "partial success" of Wagner Group forces in Bakhmut; 🔹 UkrMOD Reznikov: ZSU will start counter-offensive on several axes; 🔹 UAF command staff advisor: Kyiv shall prepare to receive F-16 fighter jets; 🔹 Ukrainian Rada to discuss call-up for mobilization via online messengers and SMS; 🔹 Prigozhin: Battle for Bakhmut serves systematic elimination of ZSU forces; 🔹 Karchaa: Head of IAEA found out that there were no offensive weapons stationed in Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Spain confirmed pledge to give Kyiv 6 Leopard tanks after April 9; 🔹 Zelensky: Kyiv still has no Patriot SAM systems, we need 20 batteries of them; 🔹 Head of Kyiv Ministry of Finance: Warfare costs us 3,5 bln dollars every month; 🔹 Schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine names its vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.