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🔹 Counterterrorist operation protocols imposed in Russian Belgorod Oblast after a major attack on Russian soil claimed by Pro-Kyiv Legion for Russian Freedom (LRF) and Russian Volunteer Coprs (RVC) terrorist groups; 🔹 Series of precision strikes in Kharkiv; 🔹 Zelensky's office denies Kyiv involvement with attack on Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 US Air Force Secretary Kendall: F-16 fighter jets given to Kyiv by Europe shall be stationed on Ukrainian soil; 🔹 In Chernivtsy, mobilization summons were given to parish members who supports metropolitan of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate; 🔹 Kyiv requested Sweden to give UAF Saab Gripen multirole fighters; 🔹 Ukrenergo power operator reports decoupling of power plant in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after damage to high-voltage lines.
🔹 Power supply restored in Kakhovka after ZSU shelling; 🔹 Reports about explosions in Kharkiv; 🔹 Washington approved Brussels for training of ZSU pilots only for technical language and F-16 tactics manuals; 🔹 Grain deal extended till July 17; 🔹 SBU accuses Orthodox priest in Iziyum of "denying Russian aggression"; 🔹 Reuters: Pentagon mistakenly overpriced equipment sent for ZSU by 3 billion dollars.
🔹 Rogov: Kyiv tries to flood Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Adherents of Greek Catholic Church request Kyiv to ban canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church; 🔹 China expressed readiness to settle the conflict in Ukraine together with Russia; 🔹 Russian forces group "South" destroyed munitions depot and landed strikes on ZSU group of vehicles in DPR territory; 🔹 Loud explosions reported in the night in Kyiv-controlled city of Zaporizha; 🔹 Kyiv forces finished training 10 000 UAV pilots; 🔹 Hungary PM Victor Orban says not to expect help from European Commission in situation with Ukrainian grain imports.
🔹 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 teams to pass training on 31 US-supplied Abrams battle tank; 🔹 Rogov: Ukrainian UAV used chemical weapons against Russian troops, one serviceman hurt; 🔹 Germany MOD Boris Pistorius says ZSU strikes on Russian territory is an acceptable strategy; 🔹 Russian mine clearing teams removed more than 180 anti-personnel mines in Zolotoye village in LPR; 🔹 Zelensky signs a bill on mandatory exams — Constitution, history and language — to get Ukrainian citizenship; 🔹 Russia's new regions to get some 411 bln rubles (5 bln USD) in 2023; 🔹 SBU initiates criminal investigations on 61 members of Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy, 19 priests stripped of citizenship.
🔹 Stoltenberg: NATO countries gave Kyiv over 150 billion dollars since 2022; 🔹 Netherlands confirm joint plans with Denmark to give Kyiv 14 Leopard 2 tanks in 2024 after repairs; 🔹 Kyiv city council abrogate contract for lease of land for Russian embassy; 🔹 South Korea MOD does not consider sending weapons for Kyiv; 🔹 Police in Kyiv cordon off Orthodox Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and do not let the parish in; 🔹 Germany chancellor Scholz says Kyiv does not need new types of weapons.
🔹 Unknown space object fell in Kyiv Oblast, possibly a NASA satellite; 🔹 In the night, Russian Air Force and UAVs landed strikes in Kharkiv, Zaporizha and Dniepropetrovsk Oblasts; 🔹 Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra blocked by emergency services under a pretense of bomb threat call; 🔹 WSJ: Kyiv demanded from Turkey to arrest a marine vessel allegedly loaded with grain in Crimea; 🔹 ZSU fired 12 mortar shells at Lomakovka village in Russian Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Russian Duma on the first reading has adopted bills for creating free trade zone in new Russian regions.
🔹 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.
🔹 Over a 1000 ZSU troops trained by Spain; 🔹 EU wants to help rebuild Ukraine using seized Russian assets; 🔹 Washington Post: ZSU servicemen learned to use US-supplied equipment from video lessons on YouTube; 🔹 Former CIA analyst Fleiz: attempt to change Ukraine borders by US may lead to escalation; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov says no NATO servicemen are present in Ukraine; 🔹 Slovakia Minister of Agriculture says high levels of pesticides were detected in Ukrainian grain; 🔹 Two parishes in Zhitomir Oblast switched from canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Kyiv-sponsored Orthodox Church of 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 US to give Kyiv older M60 tanks as bridge layers; 🔹 Israel shall extend humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees; 🔹 War journalist Sreda reports Russian forces took hold of tire repair shop in Maryinka; 🔹 TNYT: ZSU move reserves amassed for counteroffensive to Bakhmut; 🔹 City council of Berezan' (Kyiv Oblast) strips canonical Orthodox Church of rights to lease land; 🔹 Mayor of Avdiivka reports forcible evacuation of children.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 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 precision strike hits Shkolny airfield in Odesa, major fire erupted; 🔹 RuMOD: 3 ZSU infiltration and sabotage groups eliminated on Kupyansk front; 🔹 Rada approves a bill for a forceful eviction of canonical Church monks from Pochaiv Lavra and monastery in Ternopil Oblast; 🔹 ZSU used UAV to attack buildings of district military commissariat and police in Sevsky district of Russian Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Storm troops of Russian 1st Guards Tank Army have taken several ZSU fortified areas near Kuzemovks; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities: ZSU use frequent strikes on Melitopol to test the water before large offensive.
🔹 Poland gave Kyiv several of its MiG-29 fighters; 🔹 Zelensky plans to visit Warsaw on April 5; 🔹 Germany vicePM Habeck comes to Kyiv; 🔹 Terrorist act against a car with passenger in Melitopol; 🔹 Evgeni Prigozhin declares Bakhmut "legally captured" by Wagner troops; 🔹 ZSU amassed a major group of forces for offensive in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Zaporizha proposed to strengthen air defenses; 🔹 Reports that in Romania Rheinmetall creates a maintenance center for military equipment sent to Ukraine; 🔹 Rada announced plans to give seized canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church cathedral in Khmelnitsky to schismatic pro-Kyiv Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
🔹 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.
🔹 Poland to produce 100 Rosomak armored personal carriers for Kyiv; 🔹 Kyiv arrests vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra metropolitan Pavel, sent for home confinement for 2 month; 🔹 ZSU shelled bordering villages in Russian Kursk Oblast, without casualties; 🔹 Poland's call to limit export of Ukrainian grain joined by Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia; 🔹 RuMOD Shoigu reports that Russian military industrial complex increased production of precision weapons "many-fold"; 🔹 Zelensky issues sanctions against 33 Russian citizens and 225 companies.
🔹 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.