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🇺🇦 Zelensky: We thwarted the Russian offensive in March, now assault operations are intensifying, but the front is holding.
▪️Regarding threats to the PURL program due to the war with Iran - we have no such signal.
▪️If we are involved in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, we will help.
🤔 An internal crisis is brewing in Russia: dissatisfaction with Putin's policies and the course of the war is growing among Russian elites and security forces, — The Guardian
➡️ Putin's inner circle is gradually losing trust in him, and the Kremlin dictator himself is becoming increasingly isolated.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky is working on a strategy for negotiating with Russia without US help, - Politico
He has become more cautious about future US involvement and now hopes that Turkey will hold the next round of talks with Russia.
🇷🇸 Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections and an end to the more than decade-long rule of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, - Reuters
‼️ Russia will not be able to capture Donbas before August 2027, — ISW
Giving Russia the rest of the Ukrainian Donbas would be a strategic mistake, wrote the American Institute for the Study of War, arguing that it would take the Russian army at least 18 months to achieve this by force.
📰🇪🇺 Fears grow in Europe that Putin could attack within a year — WP
Previously, Berlin and other capitals believed that Russia could threaten NATO’s eastern flank by 2029. Now, the consensus is growing that it could happen much sooner — before Europe can build up its own military power.
❗️👀 Putin is losing control of Russia. Every step he takes accelerates its decline, —The Economist
"A bleak view from Moscow" from a former senior Russian government official:
▪️"Putin has led Russia into a dead end, and no one knows what will happen next";
🇭🇺😵💫 Orban is going all-in. Sensing that he could lose the April 12 election, he is building his campaign on anti-Ukrainian narratives, in particular, scaring Hungarians with an invasion by the Ukrainian army.
🫡 Ukrainian troops are regaining territory during counterattacks on the southern front: 300 square kilometers have been liberated, — Zelensky.
😁 Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tsalikov, Shoigu's right-hand man, was found to have hundreds of millions in real estate.
He is accused of creating a criminal organization, embezzling budget funds, and accepting bribes.
Even more surprising is that all of this came to light after 2024.
🇺🇸 U.S. Senators sent a letter to Rubio and Bessent raising serious concerns about the national security implications of a delegation of sanctioned members of the Russian Duma visiting the US for meetings with Members of Congress and executive branch officials.
💀 Russian Z-bloggers reported that Andrei Syrotyuk, call sign "Eagle," a battalion commander with the 121st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 6th Division of the Russian Armed Forces, killed a group of his own soldiers with FPV drone strikes because they were too slow in their assault.
📉 The Russian Finance Ministry and the Central Bank have told Putin that further financing of the war on the current scale threatens to lead to a dangerous increase in the budget deficit, - Bloomberg
Without spending cuts, it will be impossible to stabilize state finances.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: Over the past few days, we have been receiving signals from American side that the talks may soon resume. But with what mood will the Russian side come to the talks?
1: Russians see the active use of air defense missiles in the Middle East
2: package of EU sanctions is at an impasse.
📰 Reuters: NATO general calls for expanding Europe’s fuel pipelines eastwards in case of war with Russia
NATO’s 10,000km network of pipelines, buried 0.8m deep, was built during the Cold War mainly to serve Western air forces in conflict with the then USSR.
❗️Putin will not stop if he gets Donbas, and the next attempt will be to seize the regional centers - Dnipro and Kharkiv, - Zelensky
"Some Americans believe that Donbas means nothing to us. They do not want to admit that Putin will lie to them and that he can continue occupation after such steps."
🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelensky: Ten export centers in Europe will be operating already in 2026 for Ukrainian drone exports.
🦅 We will gain 300-500 billion from drones in about 10 years.
❗️❗️"Russian Army is retreating in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk directions for the first time since 2023", — Head of Council of Reservists Tymochko
❗️❗️A Russian-made navigation system, first seen on drones intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses in December, was found in a drone that recently attacked a British air base in Cyprus, — The Times.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: This week alone, the Russians have struck Ukraine with 1,770 strike drones, over 1,530 KAB, and 86 missiles, including over 20 ballistic missiles.
Each of these missiles contains at least 60 foreign components supplied to Russia to circumvent sanctions.
🇭🇺❗️Orban was booed at his own election rally. In response, he broke down, began accusing them of promoting Ukrainian interests.
🇫🇷❗️ Russian drone approached the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while it was docked in Malmö, - SVT
The drone took off from a nearby Russian vessel and flew toward the carrier during its visit to Sweden for a strategic exercise.
Swedish Armed Forces used EW to jam it. Drone disappeared.
🇫🇮☢️ Finland’s government plans to remove a legal ban on nuclear weapons on its territory, allowing them to be deployed during wartime.
The amendment, justified as strengthening NATO deterrence against Russia, still needs parliamentary approval.