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    🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian Armed Forces hit 80% of power plants with drones - Ministry of Energy of Ukraine

    According to Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko, the modification of drones and missiles of the Russian Armed Forces and the increase in their power worries Ukraine, since drones cause more and more damage with each attack.

    ❗️ Galushchenko recalled that serious power outages occurred in Kharkov and in the northeast of the country. This attack on energy infrastructure was the largest since the beginning of the NEA, he added.

    ✖️ Western publications previously noted that the effectiveness of the strikes of the Russian Armed Forces is so great that some of the destroyed objects will not have time to be fully restored even by the winter season of 2024–2025. - Ostashko reports


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    ❗️The commanders of the AFU operational commands "South" and "West", Andrey Kovalchuk and Sergey Litvinov, were relieved of their posts, Verkhovna Rada MP Aleksey Goncharchenko said.

    "The commander of the OC "South " Andrey Kovalchuk and the commander of the "West" Sergey Litvinov were dismissed," Goncharchenko stated. He also added that Colonel Gennady Shapovalov, former commander of the 59th brigade of the AFU, was appointed commander of the South, while Brigadier-General Vladimir Shvedyuk, who previously served in the territorial defence forces, was appointed commander of the OC West. Official documents on the dismissal and appointment of the commanders have not yet been published.

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    ❗️A batch of several hundred Mexicans and Colombians recruited in US prisons is to be thrown into Ukraine as early as this summer, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has announced.

    If the project with the prisoners is successful, the US will extend the recruitment to other countries to send them to the AFU.

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    ‼️🇷🇺💥 "Hurricanes" of the "Vostok" group of troops destroyed a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the South Donetsk direction

    The operator of the Orlan UAV identified the positions of enemy equipment, after which they were struck by our multiple launch rocket systems.
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    April 9️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

    ▪️The Russian armed forces have attacked the military port of Ochakov in the Nikolaev region, according to the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Lebedev.

    ▪️He also said that an AFU position in the centre of Poltava had been destroyed, with three arrivals into the city overnight. The power system of Dneprodzerzhinsk, in the Dnepropetrovsk region, was also hit, and the city has serious problems with electricity.

    ▪️Rosaviatsia recommended that airlines and airport operators prioritise service to participants in the special military operation during check-in, inspections and delays.

    ▪️A Ukrainian Neptun anti-ship missile was destroyed over the Black Sea, the Defence Ministry said.

    ▪️The AFU attacked the building of the training centre of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with a drone, the plant's press service said. The aircraft hit the roof, there were no casualties.

    ▪️The commanders of the Southern and Western operational commands of the AFU have been dismissed from their posts, said Rada member Goncharenko. According to him, this is not the last reshuffle.

    ▪️Six Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the Belgorod region during the day, the defence ministry said.

    ▪️Ukrainian troops lost a total of up to 930 men in all directions during the day, the Russian defence ministry said in a statement. The Russian military has taken more favourable lines in the direction of Donetsk, the tactical position has improved in the direction of Avdeevka and the frontline position in the direction of south Donetsk. During the day, 236 Ukrainian drones and one Neptun anti-ship missile were shot down.

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    Important news for Wednesday morning, April 10:

    🔷 The village of Bogdanovka in the northeast of Chasov Yar came under the control of the Russian Army.

    🔷 Five UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Bryansk region - Ministry of Defense.

    🔷 The power system of Nikolaev was hit by a night strike, the underground movement reported.

    🔷 The Ukrainian “administration” announced the defeat of infrastructure in Odessa.

    🔷 If Chisinau reacts to the declaration of independence of Gagauzia by military means, the autonomy will appeal to everyone, including Russia, said the head of the autonomy Evgenia Gutsul.

    🔷 The court sentenced Kuznetsov, a native of Tatarstan, to 9 years in prison for attempted treason and an attempt to join the terrorist organization Legion “Russian Freedom” banned in the Russian Federation.

    🔷 US authorities intend to ban American citizens and private companies from using Kaspersky Lab software, CNN reported, citing sources.

    - FRWL reports

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    🇷🇺 In Mariupol, the FSB and the Russian National Guard detained 20 illegal migrants from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. As a result of operational activities, eight people were expelled from Russia.

    The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that foreign citizens were charged under articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation on violating the regime of stay in the Russian Federation. Filtration and inspection activities in the DPR, carried out jointly by the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian National Guard, are currently ongoing.

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    🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

    10 April 2024

    The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

    ▫️In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and repelled a counter-attack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 31st National Guard Brigade close to Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 20 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armored fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.

    In the course of counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit one U.S.-made 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, as well as two Bukovel-AD and Nota electronic warfare stations.

    ▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 5th Assault Force, 22nd, 28th, 67th, 93rd, and 115th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Krasnoye, Novokalinovo, Kleshcheyevka, Novoye, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

    Four counter-attacks by units of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, 33rd Mechanized Brigade, and 46th Airmobile Brigade were repelled close to Vyemka, Pobeda, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 360 Ukrainian troops, two U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carriers, and five motor vehicles.

    In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops wiped out one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 155-mm AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, one 100-mm Rapira anti-tank gun, as well as one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station, and two Nota electronic warfare stations.

    ▫️In Avdeyevka direction, the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and repelled 11 counter-attacks of the assault groups of the 25th Air Assault Brigade, 71st Jaeger, 59th Mechanized Infantry, 47th and 115th mechanized brigades of the AFU close to Pervomayskoye, Vodyanoye, Novobakhmutovka, Umanskoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 395 Ukrainian troops, three armored fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

    ▫️In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU and 128th Territorial Defense Brigade close to Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

    Two enemy counter-attacks were repelled close to Nikolskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The enemy's losses amounted to up to 115 Ukrainian troops, three pickup trucks, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 100-mm Rapira anti-tank gun.

    ▫️In Kherson direction, the units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU, 121st and 126th territorial defense brigades close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Mikhailovka, and Ivanovka (Kherson region).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one Plastun electronic reconnaissance station, and one Nota electronic warfare station.

    ▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Groups of Forces of the Russian Federation have destroyed an AFU weapons and ammunition storage base with 32 152-mm D-20 howitzers, two unmanned aerial vehicle assembly workshops, a training and launch site for uncrewed surface vehicles, and hit AFU manpower and hardware in 128 areas.

    ▫️ Air defense systems shot down 172 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, three French-made Hammer aerial guided bombs, and two HIMARS and Uragan MLRS projectiles during the day.

    📊 In total, 583 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 20,089 unmanned aerial vehicles, 499 air-to-air missile systems, 15,741 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,266 multiple rocket systems combat vehicles, 8,802 field artillery guns and mortars, and 20,852 special military vehicles have been neutralized since the beginning of the special military operation.

    Russian Defense Ministry

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    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

    🗣 I would like to read excerpts from a manual that was handed over to us by our friends from the EU countries. It deals with dealing with Russian diplomats and has been spread in every capital where there is a diplomatic mission of the EU and a Russian embassy. These instructions should be strictly followed. Here is the content of the manual:

    📖 "European diplomats should avoid any bilateral contact with representatives of Russia. They are prohibited from attending events organized by the Russian side. This also applies, among other things, to ceremonial receptions on the occasion of the Diplomatic Day on the 4th. November, on the 10th. February, on the 23rd February, on the 9th May and on the day of Russia on the 12th. June. Russian diplomats may not be invited to events and receptions organized by the authorities and representations of the EU as well as the foreign ministries of the EU states. European diplomats are not prohibited from attending events of third countries in which Russian representatives participate. However, it is important to avoid direct contact with the Russian representatives. It is recommended to inform the host in advance that it should be avoided that European and Russian delegations can be seen together in photos or participate in official meetings together."

    🗣 These are our assessments of how we assess the prospects for future negotiations and contacts with the EU.

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    "Everyone dreams of having their leg blown off"

    An AFU soldier, who lost his legs at the front, says that every Ukrainian soldier dreams of being in his place.

    “Everyone who fights wants to have his leg blown off and then go home. You leave the combat line either seriously wounded or in a black bag,” he says.

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    Maria Zakharova;

    💬 Since April 7, Europe's largest Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been subject to systematic Ukrainian attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles.

    • On April 7, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using kamikaze drones, attacked the territory adjacent to the canteen of the Zaporizhia NPP. Then the drone attacked the cargo port area, and later the power unit No. 6 of the station was attacked by drones (the dome was hit), as well as the training center. The attack on power unit No. 5 of the Zaporozhye NPP was repelled.

    • On April 8, a kamikaze drone was shot down over the station. He fell on the roof of the turbine room of power unit No. 6.

    • On April 9, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the training center of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, where the world's only full-scale reactor hall simulator is located.

    Russia raised the issue of attacks by the Kyiv regime against the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant both at the International Atomic Energy Agency and at the UN Security Council. She called on the Agency’s leadership to give direct, without any prevarication, assessments of Ukraine’s criminal actions.

    👉 On our initiative, an extraordinary session of the IAEA Board of Governors will be convened in the very near future.

    👉 The issue of Ukrainian attacks on the station will also be raised during the UN Security Council briefing.

    We intend to seek from relevant international organizations an honest recognition of what is happening not only around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, but also around Ukraine in general.

    At the same time, we are aware that the Westerners have taken the path of hushing up, or even directly approving, the criminal actions of the Kyiv regime, including those committed against nuclear facilities.

    ❗️ We will make every effort to ensure that such complicity with the crimes of Kyiv does not go unnoticed by the sensible majority in the international community.


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    #UkraineRussiaWar
    Zelensky canceled demobilization. Ukrainian soldiers have lost their last hope of returning home. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are a one-way ticket.
    Russia continues to rapidly develop its success, capturing new and new territories.

    The Russians Entered Urozhaine. Fights Are Going On In Krasnohorivka. Military Summary For 2024.4.10

    PREMIRE: 12:45 PM GMT +3

    YouTube English (https://youtu.be/NM_47liALXY)

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    Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com)

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    The New Yorker magazine, was once a great publication, and might occasionally be still, but, like some many once great liberal/cosmopolitan magazines, it has turned into a propaganda machine to turn educated left leaning Americans into pro-war, pro-censorship, pro-corporatocracy neo-Liberals. And of course, they need to constantly emphasize that everything is Trumps fault. Not too long ago I saw they had an article on the Georgia Guidestones and thought perhaps that, the New Yorker, which frequently had very lengthy detailed articles, might do justice to this complex story: but it didn't. Instead, it focused on how gleeful MAGA-hatted Americans were about the violence and vandalism done to a couple of stones that brought a tremendous amount of tourist dollars to an impoverished corner of America. (Moral of the story for this and most of their articles: America is ruined and it's all Trumps fault.) But it is still worth noting what they are up to and some interesting truth slips through in their magazine. And seeing how they cover the news may be a bellwether of what is to come.

    They just did a rather epic (long, as they often are) article on the war in Ukraine: Battling Under a Canopy of Drones by Luke Mogelson. It makes the argument that Ukraine was successfully fighting the war and had taken back many cities like Kupiansk, but things only turned around at Bakhmut, and not it is evident that they are losing, and may not be able to turn that around. They do not make the fact that the Ukranians are not getting all the weapons they ask for a primary reason, although they mention that house Republicans are not giving them the support they want because:

    Quote many Republicans have adopted Donald Trump’s hostility toward the country, regurgitating Russian propaganda that vilifies and dehumanizes Ukrainian citizens.
    But the article paints a really grim portrait of what it is like being a Ukrainian and fighting the war, and also shows how much distrust and dislike they have of their leadership.

    Quote Many have lost confidence in their politicians, in their commanders, in their fellow-citizens, and now in their American allies.
    And that leadership would include Zelensky. The author talks about two of the soldiers whom he knew well and had found out from the platoon leader that they had both died. He texted back to the platoon leader:

    Quote that it seemed like all the best men were dying. The officer corrected me: “Everyone dies here. . . . The best, the worst. We remember the bright, strong personalities. Everyone else just fades into nothingness.”

    He likened President Zelensky to Pinocchio for claiming that only thirty-one thousand Ukrainian soldiers had been killed. He also reminded me that the figure did not include those M.I.A., which constituted “a huge part of our losses.”
    That is quite a shift in the narrative, comparing Zelensky to Pinocchio.

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    Propaganda 101 - kinda

    How to hijack a peaceful farmers protest in Germany and manufacture it to appear to be a pro-Ukraine weapons supply gathering, for broadcast?

    Welcome to ZDF: (< sarcasm)

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    A huge new Russian missile and drone attack just a few hours ago, knocking out a whole bunch more of Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

    https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status...95171941097647

    https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/statu...12486699033067

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    Joseph P. Farrell | News and Views from the Nefarium | Apr. 10, 2024

    Source: gizadeathstar.com



    Well... now the Russians are naming names and drawing connections... and guess who's on their list?

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    "Earth is currently restricted today for normal development of timeline progress. With us telling you everything would change everything."

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    ...

    ... the Drones' war:

    US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China

    by Tyler Durden

    Thursday, Apr 11, 2024 - 11:00 AM

    Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

    Drones from American startups are glitchy and expensive prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China.



    The Wall Street Journal comments American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine
    The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds of its best drones to Ukraine to help fight the Russians. Things didn’t go well. Skydio’s drones flew off course and were lost, victims of Russia’s electronic warfare. The company has since gone back to the drawing board to build a new fleet.

    Most small drones from U.S. startups have failed to perform in combat, dashing companies’ hopes that a badge of being battle-tested would bring the startups sales and attention. It is also bad news for the Pentagon, which needs a reliable supply of thousands of small, unmanned aircraft.

    “The general reputation for every class of U.S. drone in Ukraine is that they don’t work as well as other systems,” Skydio Chief Executive Adam Bry said, calling his own drone “not a very successful platform on the front lines.”

    Ukrainian officials have found U.S.-made drones fragile and unable to overcome Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology. At times, they couldn’t take off, complete missions or return home. American drones often fail to fly at the distances advertised or carry substantial payloads
    .

    Ukraine has found ways to get tens of thousands of drones as well as drone parts from China. The military is using off-the-shelf Chinese drones, primarily from SZ DJI Technology.

    The U.S. has called DJI a Chinese military company and a surveillance tool for Beijing, which DJI denies. The Pentagon banned DJI drones in the U.S. military, and congressional legislation would ban new DJI products in the U.S.

    Skydio employees went back to Ukraine 17 times to get feedback, Bry said. Its new drone is built around Ukraine’s military needs and feedback from public-safety agencies and other customers, he said, rather than U.S. Defense Department requirements that are sometimes divorced from battlefield realities.
    I suspect China is selling drones and drone parts to both Ukraine and Russia. What a racket.

    Meanwhile, US drones made to US Defense Department specs are garbage.

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    Quote Posted by Tintin (here)
    Propaganda 101 - kinda

    How to hijack a peaceful farmers protest in Germany and manufacture it to appear to be a pro-Ukraine weapons supply gathering, for broadcast?

    Welcome to ZDF: (< sarcasm)



    Unbelievable!!! ZDF is public television, payed for by German taxpayers. So taxpayer money is being used to lie to the taxpayers. At least in the U.S., we have pharma funded TV, so the cost of lying to the public is covered by big pharma, and members of the war industrial complex.

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    No need to follow anyone, only consider broadening (y)our horizon of possibilities ...

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    ❕ Missile strike on Ukrainian territory on April 11: details from Military Chronicle

    🔺 Tu-95MS missile carriers and Geran-2 barrage munitions hit multiple targets, including both military and infrastructure/energy facilities.

    Which targets were hit?

    ▪️ Tripillya (Kiev Oblast). Trypilska TPP.

    ▪️ Kharkov, TPP-3.

    ▪️ Kharkov, Malyshev plant, shop No. 510 and building No. 400.

    ▪️ Chuguev (Kharkov region). Central depot of engineering ammunition in A-2467.

    ▪️ Kharkov, plant "Turboatom". Foundry and building of KHEMZ.

    ▪️ Stryi (Lvov region), gas gathering point No. 2.

    ▪️ Susk (Rivne region). 1448th Central Artillery Armament Base.

    ▪️ Chervonograd (Lvov region). 72nd separate mechanization battalion of the AFU.

    ▪️ Chervonograd (Lviv region), substation Chervonograd-2 110/35/6 kV.

    ▪️ Odessa, 330/110/10 kV Usatovo substation.

    It is noteworthy that when striking power generation facilities, eyewitnesses recorded multiple arrivals, just as in the case of the recent Dnieper hydropower plant attack.

    This indirectly suggests that the Russian Air Force has been tasked with completely destroying or critically damaging ALL major non-nuclear power generation facilities in Ukraine.

    Given the fact that the strikes on the Ukrainian energy system are systemic in nature (and it is not the first time that some facilities, such as CHPP-3 and substations in Odessa, have been hit), the cumulative effect of a sharp shortage of electricity generation may manifest itself in the near future.

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    🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

    11 April 2024

    ▫️ In response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage the oil, gas and energy facilities of the Russian Federation, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike tonight by air- and sea-based high-precision long range weaponry, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles at the facilities of the Ukrainian fuel and energy plant. The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the targets have been engaged.

    The strikes disrupted the work of the Ukrainian military industry enterprises, thwarted the transfer of reserves to combat zones, and made it difficult to supply fuel to the AFU troops and military units.

    ▫️ In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines, and inflicted losses on units of AFU 103rd territorial defense and 13th national guard brigades close to Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region) and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

    ▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 54th mechanized, 46th airmobile, 79th and 80th air assault brigades near Belogorovka, Ostroye, Konstantinovka, Krasnogorovka, and Verkhnekamenskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses were 520 Ukrainian troops, three armored personnel carriers, and four motor vehicles.

    In the course of the counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, one 152-mm Msta-B gun, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, as well as two Nota electronic warfare stations were eliminated.

    ▫️ In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation, and repelled eight counter-attacks of assault groups of AFU 25th air assault, 71st jaeger, 59th motorized infantry, 24th, 47th, 115th mechanized brigades near Pervomayskoye, Novokalinovo, Novobakhmutovka, Umanskoye and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 275 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks.

    In the course of the counter-battery warfare, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer were eliminated.

    ▫️ In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on units of AFU 58th motorized infantry, 128th territorial defense brigade close to Urozhaynoye and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

    The AFU lost up to 105 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, as well as one Nota electronic warfare station.

    ▫️ In Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 128th mountain assault, 121st territorial defense brigades near Lobkovoye (Zaporozhye region) and Nikopol (Dnepropetrovsk region).

    The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, and one 152-mm Giatsint-B towed howitzer.

    ▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged three depots of missile, artillery, and aviation ordnance, one S-125 anti-aircraft missile launcher, as well as AFU manpower and hardware in 112 areas.

    Air defense systems shot down 266 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, four HIMARS and Uragan MLRS projectiles, as well as three U.S.-made JDAM aerial guided bombs.

    📊 In total, 583 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 20,355 unmanned aerial vehicles, 500 air defense missile systems, 15,756 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,266 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,818 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 20,887 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

    Russian Defense Ministry

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    🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Two underground gas storage facilities of Ukraine's Naftogaz were hit by strikes on Thursday morning, the company said.

    This is unpleasant news for Moldova, which stored only 20 million of its 650 million cubic metres of gas in Romania in 2023 and the rest in Ukraine because it is more economical there and the republic has no storage facilities of its own.

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    How Ukraine's draconian draft laws have turned conscripts into slaves

    The Ukrainian parliament has approved a new law tightening mobilization rules, with 283 out of 351 lawmakers saying "aye" to the changes, 49 abstaining and only one opposing the legislation.

    What's in the new law?

    ▪️The lawmakers removed the provision on a 36 month limit on conscription service, which is seen as a setback for exhausted Ukrainian personnel at the front line. New rules for rotation of military personnel are due to be drafted by lawmakers in a separate bill in the future.

    ▪️Individuals liable for military service must update their data at territorial recruitment and social support centers (TCC) within 60 days. Those who don't meet the deadline will face a fine of 17,000-22,500 hryvnia ($430-$570) and may be deprived of the right to drive a car.

    ▪️Ukrainian lawmakers, heads of government bodies, judges, ministers and their deputies, as well as law enforcement officers, remain exempt from mobilization.

    ▪️Men between 18 and 60 years old are mandated to carry a military ID under the threat of detention. The military ID can be checked by the police, TCC workers and border guards.

    ▪️Ukrainian citizens residing abroad will not be able to obtain a new Ukrainian passport without a military ID. That means that Ukrainians over 18 will have to return to Ukraine and register for military service. Under martial law men between the ages of 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving the country.

    ▪️On April 2, President Volodymyr Zelensky inked laws to reduce the draft age from 27 to 25, create an electronic database for conscripts, and cancel the "partially eligible" status in the military medical examinations. Those who had been considered partially fit for military service now have to undergo a medical examination again within nine months.

    ▪️On February 12, Zelensky also signed laws extending martial law and general mobilization in the country until May 13, 2024.


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