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🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Pushilin: Russian forces repel Ukrainian reconnaissance at Vuhledar; 🔹 IAEA Director Grossi will return back to Russia for further negotiations on Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Kyiv Foreign Minister says EU during conflict was more of worth than NATO; 🔹 Rogov: ZSU gather forces at the line of contact in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 DPR first vice premier Solntsev becomes head of government; 🔹 Kyiv declares possession of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church void; 🔹 LPR ombudsman: Russian prisoners tortured if they refuse to sing national anthem of Ukraine; 🔹 SBU creates team for implementation of NATO standards; 🔹 Kyiv receives a billion dollar grant from US.
🔹 RuMOD: "Solntsepyok" heavy flamethrower systems destroyed 3 ZSU fortified points in Lyman front; 🔹 Kharkiv Oblast reports damage to critical infrastructure object in Chuhuiv District; 🔹 Head of Ukraine Energy Ministry called for world power companies to share profits with Kyiv; 🔹 ZSU special operations sabotage teams operate in Bakhmut front; 🔹 Russian forces eliminated 3 enemy sabotage groups in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Vicar of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra warned Zelensky about consequences of eviction of canonical Orthodox Church clergy; 🔹 Armenia votes against statement on Ukraine on Biden's "Summit for Democracy"; 🔹 LPR says ZSU provokes Russian forces to return fire.
🔹 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.
🔹 Kyiv Ministry of Culture says Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra will not be given non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine; 🔹 RIA Novosti sources report Polish special forces arrived in Dnieper to identify "supporters of Russia"; 🔹 EU's Borrel says 1100 ZSU servicemen currently in training in Poland; 🔹 Russian artillery landed strikes on ZSU artillery positions in Zaporizha front; 🔹 Kyiv troops have shelled three settlements in LPR with artillery and missile launchers; 🔹 ZSU shelled Donetsk with NATO-made munitions.
🔹 The Telegraph: UK gave Kyiv laser guided Brimstone-2 missiles; 🔹 Oryx: Turkey to provide Kyiv with Sungur air-to-air missiles for Bayraktar UAVs; 🔹 Russian embassy in Washington condemns US reaction to execution of Russian war prisoners; 🔹 SBU cracks down on ancient Orthodox Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, belonging to Moscow Partiarchate, searching for "possible sabotage groups and anti-Ukrainian propaganda"; 🔹 Zelensky urged Ukrainians to ration electricity; 🔹 Associated Press fired anchor who reported that "Russian missile strike in Poland";