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🔹 Zelensky and Xi Jinping had a phone call about events in Ukraine and bilateral relations; 🔹 Kyiv to send an envoy to China; 🔹 Kyiv FM assured that spring offensive will proceed; 🔹 Head of Wagner Group Evgeny Prigozhin warned that ZSU will start counteroffensive after May 2; 🔹 NATO commander in Europe: Kyiv shall get weapons from West to start counteroffensive; 🔹 Reports that EU countries did not agree on procurement of munitions for ZSU; 🔹 40 captured servicemen return to Russia; 🔹 Zelensky's aide says politics of US and NATO who forced Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons, led to conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha reports ZSU brings reserves to front line.
🔹 Poland PM Mateusz Morawiecky announced transfer of another batch of MiG-29 fighter jets for ZSU; 🔹 Slovakia Agriculture Ministry discouraged import of Ukrainian grain after identification of pesticides; 🔹 EU Council: Peace Fund funded 4,6 bln dollar worth military aid for Kyiv; 🔹 Three members of ZSU infiltration and sabotage group caught in Melitopol; 🔹 Moldova willing to help Kyiv with mine clearing on controlled territories; 🔹 Die Welt: EU will have to give back frozen Russian assets; 🔹 Evgeniy Prigozhin says that Wagner Group eliminated at least 38 000 Ukrainian troops.
🔹 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 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.
🔹 Zelensky says recapturing Crimea shall "restore peace" in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov confessed he asked Santa Claus to bring fighter jets; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal rules out peace with Russia "for another 100 years"; 🔹 Prigozhin says Kyiv brings Leopard tanks to Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut; 🔹 Zaporizha advisor says Kyiv sent ZSU troops to borders of Transnistria; 🔹 ZSU twice shelled Vasilyivka in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Estonia sends Kyiv new package of military aid worth over 1% of country's GDP; 🔹 Saudi Arabia to give Kyiv 410 mln dollars; 🔹 Biden's advisor Jake Sullivan rules out giving Kyiv fighter jets at present moment.