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🔹 Explosions in the night reported in Odesa, Kharkiv and Kherson; 🔹 Two industrial facilities on fire after Russian precision strike; 🔹 Japan discussed sending artillery munitions for ZSU with United States; 🔹18 people dead after destruction of Kakhovka dam; 🔹 Reports US planning for fast-track training ZSU servicemen with Abrams main battle tanks; 🔹 Russian National Guard uncovered ZSU training camp for terror and sabotage teams; 🔹 Air Defense in Crimea shot down 9 UAVs during the night; 🔹 Sweden and Denmark to give Kyiv 9000 artillery munitions; 🔹 Rogov reported new unsuccessful ZSU attacks in Zaporizha front.
🔹 RuMOD reports border villages and towns in Belgorod Oblast back under Russian control; 🔹 Counter-Terrorist Operation regime cancelled in Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Netherlands to give 260 mln euros for procurement of munitions for Kyiv forces; 🔹 Czechia MOD to train around 4000 ZSU troops by 2024; 🔹 EU's Borrell reports transfer of 220 thousands of munitions for Kyiv; 🔹 EU MODs could not agree on new military aid for Kyiv; 🔹 ZSU terror group lost 7 armored vehicles during attack on Russian soil.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 UAV with two parachutes found on the ground close to Moscow; 🔹 ZSU shelled villages in Zaporizha Oblast for several hours; 🔹 Kyiv regime arrests military commander blamed for a failed attempt to steal Russian fighter jet; 🔹 Cyprus to evict 3000 Ukrainian refugees due to coming tourist season; 🔹 France authorities arrest two Neonazi ZSU fighters who returned home with weapons and ammo; 🔹 Estonia FM: EU to give Kyiv 1 billion munition rounds before 2024.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 In the night, ZSU launched a HIMARS missile strike on Melitopol, all missiles shot down by Russian Air Defense; 🔹 Rogov: ZSU actions in Zaporizha are guided by foreign advisors; 🔹 On Kupyansk front, Russian artillery thwarted 3 attempts to secure rotation of ZSU troops; 🔹 South Korea to send additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine; 🔹 Politico: EU can't decide, where to buy munitions for ZSU; 🔹 Pentagon signed a contract for manufacturing Abrams tanks for Ukraine; 🔹 Over 16 000 ZSU servicemen finished training in EU.
🔹 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.
🔹 Last cathedral of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast captured by adherents of schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine; 🔹 Unidentified UAV with Ukrainian symbols found in New Moscow at the railroad; 🔹 Trump: Ukraine could be overrun within two years; 🔹 Paris to double supply of 155 mm artillery munitions for Kyiv; 🔹 Starlink satellite connection terminals are being shut down across Ukraine after suspicions of fraud; 🔹 During night attack of Russian "Geran" loitering munitions Russian forces managed to shoot down UAF Su-27 interceptor.
🔹 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.
🔹 Reports in the night about explosions in Dniepropetrovsk and Sumy Oblasts; 🔹 Ukrainian UAVs dropped bombs on several border villages in Belgorod Oblast, without casualties; 🔹 Swiss-made MOWAG Eagle I armored car was identified in Kyiv-controlled Chasiv Yar; Switzerland never gave a permission to export it to Ukraine, currently authorities in Bern are trying to figure out how Swiss equipment got to Ukraine; 🔹 Sweden to give Kyiv new 604 million dollar worth package of military aid, including artillery and munitions; 🔹 Several Russian military units received humanitarian aid from "People's Front".
🔹 EU summit confirmed pledge to give Kive 1 million artillery shells; 🔹 US to give Kyiv older Abrams tanks from reserves, not newly manufactured; 🔹 High court in DPR sentenced ZSU servicemen Andrey Nayden and Danila Kolenov for 25 years for murdering civilians in Mariupol; 🔹 Kyiv received first four MiG-29 fighter jets from Slovakia; 🔹 Kyiv Rada plans to cancel lifetime bonuses for ZSU veterans due to pressure on budget; 🔹 France MOD refutes claims about ZSU pilots trained to fly Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
🔹 Stoltenberg: ZSU fire 4000-7000 artillery shells daily, NATO is yet unable to produce that amount of munitions; 🔹 Blast in Russian Melitopol, police officer wounded; 🔹 RuMOD reports 5 enemy sabotage groups were eliminated in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Reports that Kyiv plots a new provocation planning to cut Zaporizha NPP from power; 🔹 IAEA scraps plans for demilitarized area around Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Czechia president Petr Pavel: We exhausted our capacities for military aid.
🔹 Zelensky visited ZSU positions on Bakhmut front; 🔹 Zelensky's aide calls to cut Russian oil price cap by half; 🔹 Kyiv reports that production of 122 mm munitions ZSU has started abroad; 🔹 Russian Kherson governor Saldo: Line of defense along left bank of Dnieper in Kherson Oblast was strengthened threefold; 🔹 UK FM says supplying Kyiv with depleted uranium munitions does not lead to nuclear escalation; 🔹 Russian MP: Russia confirmed that NATO created military facilities in Ukraine under guise of biolaboratories; 🔹 DPR reports that tens of thousands ZSU soldiers are positioned in Chasiv Yar; 🔹 US Congress to hold hearings on Ukraine aid audit; 🔹 Slovakia reports Ukrainian technicians started acceptance procedures for MiG-29 fighter jets.
🔹 US called China leader to push for Russian pullout from Ukraine; 🔹 Austria won't supply Kyiv with military equipment, but shall continue military aid; 🔹 Bulgaria refused to engage with deal for providing Kyiv with 155 mm munitions; 🔹 EU Council to consider expanding EU Peace Fund by 3,5 billion euros; 🔹 Japan FM confirmed visit of PM Fumio Kishida to Kyiv; 🔹 LPR PM speaker reports Ukrainian forces use residential houses near Bakhmut and do not evacuate civilians; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU used older Soviet howitzers in Kupyansk front; 🔹 State of emergency introduced in Dzhankoi (Crimea) after UAV attack; 🔹 Janes: North Macedonia confirmed that gave Kyiv Su-25 assault jets unfit for flight.
🔹 Air Force commander Serhii Holubtsov says "Kyiv lost its best military pilots waiting for F-16s"; 🔹 ZSU attempted unsuccessful exploratory attack near Svatovo; 🔹 Poland embassy to France refuted ambassador claims about Warsaw going to war with Russia if Kyiv fails its mission; 🔹 EU to approve Borrell's plan on crediting Kyiv for another 2 bln euros to procure munitions; 🔹 LPR PM: ZSU servicemen trained in NATO countries started coming to Svatovo-Kremennaya front; 🔹 UK MOD says London shall provide military aid for Poland after it gives MiG-28 fighter jets to Kyiv.
🔹 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.