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🔹 Netanyahu: Western weapons supplied for Kyiv already emerge at the borders of Israel; 🔹 Russian FSB arrests 5 persons who attempted to smuggle a kilogram of radioactive Cesium-137 to Ukraine; 🔹 Russian Air Defense was twice activated in Kursk during the night; 🔹 Russian forces in the night launched precision strikes on central regions of Ukraine; 🔹 Hungary and Poland proposed to extend ban on imports of Ukrainian grain to EU; 🔹 Kyiv authorities destroyed six monuments of Soviet soldiers in West Ukraine.
🔹 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.
🔹 Five grain carriages gone off tracks after explosion on a railway in Crimea; 🔹 ZSU UAV bombed sports and recreation complex in Kursk Oblast; 🔹 Explosions reported in the night in Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine; 🔹 DPR People's Council adopts a bill on help for businessmen who want to invest in the region; 🔹 DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy received 2,7 bln rubles (33,6 million USD) to cover debts on wages; 🔹 NYT: Contrary to statements by Zelensky, US never allowed to train ZSU pilots on European F-16.
🔹 Kyiv FM Kuleba: Zelensky tours Europe to gather weapons for ZSU counteroffensive; 🔹 Kyiv states that destroyed munitions depots in Ternopil did not contain depleted uranium munitions; 🔹 Romania wants to extend ban on imports of Ukrainian grain; 🔹 Deputy UN SG Griffith says negotiations on Ukraine grain deal to continue in coming days; 🔹 Germany to send Kyiv 4 more IRIS-T SAM systems; 🔹 John Kirby: US do not intend to give Kyiv ATACMS long-range missiles for HIMARS; 🔹 Over 90 000 consumers in Donetsk without power after ZSU shelling; 🔹 69 miners rescued in DPR from two mines without power.
🔹 ZSU missile strike hits a factory in Luhansk; 🔹 Head of Kyiv NSC plans to end the conflict "before winter"; 🔹 Kyiv withdraws from two agreements on state border with Russia and Belarus; 🔹 Kyiv issues new sanctions against companies in Russia and Belarus; 🔹 Countries of EU demand to extend ban on grain imports; 🔹 Kyiv gets another 132 mln dollar credit from World Bank; 🔹 New group of attack UAVs created in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Reports that Rheinmetall plans to establish tanks repair and manufacturing facilities in Ukraine; 🔹 Belgium to send Kyiv 92 mln euro of profits from seized Russian assets.
🔹 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.
🔹 European Commission bans import of Ukrainian grain and agricultural produces to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia; 🔹 Russian UAVs attacked Kyiv Oblast in the night, fuel depot on fire in Kropivnitsky after UAV strike; 🔹 2 ZSU UAVs exploded in the area of Russian military airfield in Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Kyiv MOD: Wounded soldiers will be assigned with non-combat duties; 🔹 Russian embassy: US ignore the truth about mass murder in Odesa; 🔹 Train derailed after explosion of railroad in Bryansk Oblast, Russian police and military started search for saboteurs; 🔹 Ukraine state debt topped 119,9 billion dollars in March 2023 (60% ВВП Украины на 2021 год); 🔹 Rogov: Russian UAVs attacked ZSU training grounds in Zaporizha.
🔹 Financial Times: none of 20 M109 self-propelled howitzers that were given Kyiv by Italy, was in order for combat; 🔹 EU to give 1 billion dollar for "emergency reconstruction" of Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky says ready to start ZSU counteroffensive without Western fighter jets; 🔹Bild: Germany trains 1000 ZSU Special Forces troops for counteroffensive; 🔹 Kyiv protests against EU and Poland ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and agroproducts; 🔹 Governor of Russian Sevastopol: Fire in fuel depot eliminated;
🔹 ZSU shelled Leninsky village in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces launched massive strike on ZSU positions in Vuhledar; 🔹 Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary demand EU to ban grain and other agricultural imports from Ukraine till 2024; 🔹 RIA: Russian top new tanks T-14 Armata are already being used for striking Ukrainian positions, but yet to take part in direct combat; 🔹 ZSU accumulates reserves in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Borrell reports that EU gave Kyiv 13 bln euro worth of weapons and military equipment and provided training of over 16 000 ZSU personnel.
🔹 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.
🔹 In Russian Belgorod, 2 power substations damaged after probable UAV strikes; 🔹 ZSU fired 102 shells targeting civilian infrastructure in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Shmyhal: Canada will give Kyiv Russian An-124 cargo plane; 🔹 Kyiv-Warsaw talks on grain exports are scheduled for April 17; 🔹 Russian ambassador says Denmark "has no red lines" for weapons transfer to Kyiv; 🔹 Series of explosions reported in Zaporizha in the night.
🔹 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.
🔹 ZSU shelled village of Tishanka in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Zelensky says Poland shall give ZSU 200 Rosomak APCs instead of 100; 🔹 Hungary steps up Ukraine grain transit controls in its territory to ensure grain reaches destination countries; 🔹 Germany to buy anti-UAV equipment because someone monitors training of ZSU troops in its territory; 🔹 Zelensky's aide Ustenko: Ukrainian international reserves exceed 30 bln dollars; 🔹 RuMOD: Russian forces thwarted three ZSU attempts for combat reconnaissance in South Donetsk axis.
🔹 Crimea started distributing land plots among veterans of special military operation; 🔹 Farmers in Poland plan to block border crossings with Ukraine to stop unregulated grain imports; 🔹 RuMOD: Kyiv regime plots a provocation in Sumy Oblast, planning to accuse Russia of using chemical projectiles; 🔹 Russian forces with tanks attempt offensive through forests north and south of Maryinka; 🔹 US State Secretary Anthony Blinken rules out any ceasefire between Russian and Kyiv forces in current situation; 🔹 Emercom reports ZSU fired around 100 shells on civilian infrastructure in Kherson Oblast.
🔹 Zelensky discussed ZSU leaks with Kyiv forces Chief of Staff; 🔹 Blinken says ZSU to start counteroffensive in next weeks; 🔹 Wagner Group engaged in fierce combat for Bakhmut railway station; 🔹 Cyprus refused to send weapons to Ukraine; 🔹 RuFM Lavrov discussed conflict in Ukraine with Turkey foreign minister; 🔹 RuMOD: US restarted construction of biolaboratories in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv agrees to stop grain exports to Poland, retaining transit; 🔹 Xi Jinping: prolongation of conflict in Ukraine will hurt all sides; 🔹 Russia and IAEA identify measures required to improve communication of Zaporizha NPP.
🔹 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.
🔹 North Macedonia gives Kyiv 4 Su-25 attack aircraft; 🔹 State Secretary Antony Blinken voiced against attempts to freeze conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 US to kickstart ZSU spring offensive with a new 350 mln dollar aid package; 🔹 Russian Air Defense shot down Ukrainian UAV in Kuibyshev district of Donetsk; 🔹 RuFM announced that grain deal shall expire in 60 days; 🔹 ZSU moves reserves to Avdiivka to push back Russian advancement to the north and south-west sectors of the city.
🔹 ZSU lost around 20 troops and at least 7 vehicles in a failed attack to south of Orekhov; 🔹 Poland ambassador to France Jan Rosciszewski: Warsaw will enter the conflict if Kyiv shall be defeated; 🔹 Turkey MOD declares prolongation of "grain deal"; 🔹 Russia-controlled town Oleshki in Kherson Oblast changed its name to Tsyurupinsk, after communist Alexander Tsyurupa; 🔹 Russian forces landed strikes on two hangars used by ZSU Territorial Defense troops; 🔹 Kremlin: American UAVs over Black Sea show scale of US engagement against Russia; 🔹 Russian Investigative Committee opened a case after IED destroyed car of Novaya Kakhovka police commander.
🔹 US MOD pledges over 150 Leopard tanks for Kyiv, without no exact timeline; 🔹 Zelensky fires top officials of military administrations in Khmelnitsky, Odesa and Kyiv-controlled part of LPR; 🔹 Ukraine's Association of Forwarding Agents bring out corruption in Odesa Oblast in course of "grain deal"; 🔹 Military Media Center: West gave Kyiv 117 575 pieces of weaponry in 2022 only; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Ukraine 3 times in a day; 🔹 Russian forces repelled local ZSU attack near Pologi.