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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.
🔹 Reports about beginning of "total mobilization" in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk; 🔹 Russian soldiers from Kaluga Oblast who distinguished themselves in special military operation will get plots of land; 🔹 Zaporizha Oblast reports ZSU strike on Tokmak; 🔹 People in Kyiv hoard iodine after Zelensky touts possible "terrorist attack" on Zaporizha Nuclear power plant; 🔹 Russian Investigative Committee (SK) issues warrants on 150 war criminals responsible for war crimes of Kyiv regime; 🔹 Russian forces took 20 prisoners on Kremennaya axis; 🔹 Russian Khabarovsk Region to form 2 separate artillery platoons for Special military operation; 🔹 Debris with French markings found after ZSU strike on a bridge on border of Kherson Oblast and Crimea.
🔹 Kyiv Rada registered a bill for renaming Georgia as Sakartvelo; 🔹 ZSU UAV fell near local migrant center in village of Mayski in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Kyiv authorities in Dniepropetrovsk Oblast report damage to high-voltage line; 🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities inform that ZSU disrupted IAEA monitoring team rotation; 🔹 Reports about explosions in Mikolaiv Oblast; 🔹 FAZ: Kyiv requested Taurus cruise missiles with 500 km range from Germany.
🔹 RuFM reacts positively on Vatican attempts to reach peace in Ukraine; 🔹 President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik rules out transfer of weapons for Kyiv; 🔹 US general Milley: F-16 will cost a lot and won't be some "absolute weapon" for Kyiv; 🔹 Explosions reported in the night in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, air raid siren sounded around all Ukraine; 🔹 Reports: some 100 criminal sentences issued in Ukraine for dodging mobilization in a single month; 🔹 ZSU in the morning made started another shelling of Donetsk.
🔹 RuFM Lavrov says that weapons supplied to Kyiv by West keep spreading in the world; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed "Strela-10" SAM and US-supplied M777 howitzer in Kherson front; 🔹 Russian police and National Guard uncovered a cache with weapons and explosives in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 LPR reports that ZSU amasses forces to strike positions in flanks of Artemvosk; 🔹 Kremlin says Russia opposes attempts to "freeze" conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 RuMOD reports that Russian Forces Group "South" thwarted three attacks of ZSU assault forces; 🔹 Massive UAVs attack repelled in Russian Belgorod Oblast.
🔹 Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced against Russian plan for settlement of conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 Vladimir Zelensky urges to lift all restrictions on shipments of weapons for ZSU; 🔹 Wall Street Journal: NATO poised to propose "immediate help" to Kyiv on Vilnius summit; 🔹 Ukrainian parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2023 can be cancelled; 🔹 People in Ukraine may face blackouts next winder due to deficit of imported energy resources; 🔹 German authorities awarded Zelensky with Charlemagne Prize, awarded for "unification of Europe"; 🔹 Kyiv Intelligence reports that reconnaissance teams received 105 German-supplied "Vector" UAVs.
🔹 Head of European Commission comes to Kyiv to meet Zelensky; 🔹 ZSU shelling targeted Kurkovichi village in Russian Bryansk Oblast; 🔹 Flak protection shield for UAV operators tested in Donetsk; 🔹Washington Post: UK may supply Kyiv with long range missiles; 🔹 RuAF landed strikes on ZSU pontoon crossing on Lyman front; 🔹 Zelensky says Kyiv is developing "a new security strategy".
🔹 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;
🔹 Pushilin: Russian forces established fire control over ZSU positions in Maryinka; 🔹 IED exploded near residential building in Melitopol, killing a police officer, authorities describe this as a terrorist act; 🔹 ZSU step up movement of forces to Zaporizha front; 🔹 Kyiv does not confirm statements of NATO that Alliance delivered "nearly all" pledged weapons and military equipment; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed ZSU S-300 SAM and Gepard SPAAG in Kherson front; 🔹 DPR reports ZSU making attempts to counterattack on Vuhledar axis; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU foreign mercenaries are stationed near Russian border in Kharkiv Oblast.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 One civilian dead, 2 more injured after ZSU launched massive strikes on Novaya Kakhovka; 🔹 DPR's Pushilin reports Russian forces managed to improve positions on Avdiivka axis; 🔹 Russian forces eliminated 2 ZSU infiltration and sabotage teams on Kupyansk axis; 🔹 Rogov reports increased shelling of Zaporizha Oblast by ZSU; 🔹 2 ZSU attacks repelled near Orekhiv; 🔹 LPR's Marochkov: Kyiv amasses Air Defenses on Donetsk axis; 🔹 Pro-Russian resistance in Kherson helped to destroy hangar with military vehicles and ZSU base camp; 🔹Reuters: South Korea president didn't rule out weapons supply for Kyiv.
🔹 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.
🔹 Head of Kyiv Ministry of Education raises plans to cut classes and introduce mandatory basic military training; 🔹 ZSU shelled administrative building of poultry farm in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Explosive-laden UAV fell in Russian Bryansk; 🔹 Pope called for Ukrainians and Russians to strike peace; 🔹 German right-wing party AfD in Nurnberg stages a protest against sending weapons for Kyiv; 🔹 Italy send Kyiv some 20 self-propelled howitzers M109L.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 ZSU shelled Lisichansk, with civilian casualties; 🔹 9 civilians dead after ZSU strike on Donetsk; 🔹 Greece ready to give Kyiv another shipment of APCs; 🔹 Interior Ministry department created in Russia-controlled part of Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Mayor of Lviv declared "the end of history of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church" in the Western Ukraine city; 🔹 Head of European Commission supports some proposals of Chines peace plan on Ukraine; 🔹 Xi Jinping called to avoid use of nuclear weapons in Ukrainian conflict; 🔹 Ukrainian foreign reserves reached 11 years high; 🔹 Deputy Kyiv FM blamed Germany for failure of Minsk agreements.
🔹 ZSU shelling hit a village in Russian Kursk Oblast, 7 civilians wounded; 🔹 Military journalist and volunteer of DPR PM "Vostok" battalion Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) killed in blast in café in Saint Petersburg; 🔹 Pro-Kyiv forces seized an canonical Orthodox church in Khmelnitsky; 🔹 Secretary of Kyiv NSC Danilov says he has a plan for capturing Crimea; 🔹 Ukrainian forces shelled Mariupol with cluster munitions; 🔹 One thermal power plant in Ukraine stops operation after shelling; 🔹 Czechia MOD announces new batches of weapons and equipment for Kyiv; 🔹 Kyiv started manufacture of new airbombs; 🔹 Russian military reports increased ZSU activity near Enerhodar.