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🔹 ZSU commander Valeri Zaluzhny informed about visit of Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer to Ukraine; 🔹 Russian "Lancet" loitering munition destroyed US-supplied "Avenger" SAM complex; 🔹 Israel Defense: Israel already delivered RADA early missile defense alarm system to Kyiv; 🔹 War correspondent Alexander Simonov: ZSU are planning a false flag operation against civilians in Bakhmut; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities called IAEA Director General to stop "voodoo dances" around Zaporizha nuclear power plant; 🔹 ZSU shelled Tetkino in Kursk Oblast, ruining a school, a kindergarten, 6 residential houses and gas pipeling.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Kyiv Rada approves planting 2 km wide minefields along borders of Russia and Belarus; 🔹 ZSU used UAVs to attack Dneprorudnoye; 🔹 2 hidden caches with weapons and munitions found in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 ZSU blew up water dam in Bakhmut; 🔹 Wagner Group forces capture Yagodnoye village on north borders of Bakhmut; 🔹 Kyiv forces attempted missile strike on Svatovo; 🔹 NATO's Stoltenberg says conflict in Ukraine to end by negotiations.
🔹 Pentagon says US to bring M2 Bradleys to Ukraine in next weeks; 🔹 Reports that EU Foreign Ministers approved new 500 mln euro tranche of military aid for Kyiv; 🔹 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg awarded with a bonus "for Merit before the people of Ukraine"; 🔹 EU summit on Ukrainian crisis to be held in Istanbul on February 22; В 🔹 Kyiv Rada to strengthen control of Kyiv MOD tenders; 🔹 Kyiv plans to mobilize 150 thousands more Ukrainians by April; 🔹 Former Poland FM Sikorsky admits Warsaw planned annexation of Western Ukraine in the first days of special operation.
🔹 ZSU move West-supplied armor to Svatovo front; 🔹 Kyiv MOD superiors called to Parliament to explain laundering of public funds from ZSU; 🔹 "European Solidarity" party calls for parliamentary control of ZSU tenders; 🔹 New Germany MOD Boris Pistorius to visit Kyiv; 🔹 Spiegel: Berlin ready to give Kyiv only 19 oldest Leopard tanks Bundeswehr uses for target practice; 🔹 New limits for power consumption introduced in Kyiv, Odesa and Dniepropetrovsk Oblasts; 🔹 UK sends Sea King helicopter to Ukraine as part of military aid; 🔹 Protest in support of Donbas and against ZSU held in southwest France; 🔹 ZSU sabotage group eliminated in Zaporizha Oblast.
🔹 Putin: Russia had to reunite with Donbas earlier, maybe we could prevent such loss of life; 🔹 Kyiv says "won't object" against negotiations with Russia; 🔹 Wife of Zelensky says "over 90% of Ukrainians are ready to live without power and heating for 2-3 years if this will lead to accession to European Union"; 🔹 Kyiv bans exports of firewood; 🔹 Scholtz: Russia shall stop strikes against critical infrastructure in Ukraine; 🔹 Stoltenberg: Ukraine faces horrible winter; 🔹 Engineering teams started transition of two nuclear power units to hot shutdown for heating of Enerhodar; 🔹 Rada considers a bill to remove Russia from UN; 🔹 Six civilians dead after ZSU shelling of Novaya Kakhovka.