[Korrespondent] 22:48 "Authorities" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region announced the detention of "an agent of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine", who allegedly transmitted data on the location of "military and civilian objects" in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The occupiers also report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly fired at the city of Tokmak, "presumably from HIMARS", two people were injured.
22:28 In Avdiivka, despite the forced evacuation, there are still two children, said the head of the city military administration Vitaliy Barabash: "Legally, the forced evacuation of children from Avdiivka has begun, in fact, no. We are looking for children. Now we have two children left. Over the weekend we still took out the two children we found. Parents hide the children who remain in the city. They don’t want to say under any pretext why they are hiding them. We are looking for."
21:52 Zelensky met with the founder of the Virgin Group and the Virgin Unite Foundation, British entrepreneur Richard Branson, who joined the team of ambassadors of the United24 fundraising platform, the president's press service reported.
9:47 pm The White House cannot yet say whether the leak of classified Pentagon materials has been stopped, or whether the publication of new data is possible, said John Kirby, national security adviser to the Biden administration.
21:43 Billionaires and philanthropists Howard Buffett and Richard Branson are visiting Ukraine - together with First Lady Elena Zelenskaya, they opened the construction of Ukraine's first kitchen factory in Bucha. The kitchen factory project is part of the school food reform launched in 2022.
21:32 The Pentagon is still studying the causes, scope and consequences of the leakage of classified information, which, in particular, related to the combat capability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the actions of American allies, said Chris Meagher, assistant to the head of the US Department of Defense. According to him, the head of the department, Lloyd Austin, was first informed about the "drain" on April 6.
Meagher noted that the leak revealed "extremely secret, classified" information, which poses a "very serious national security risk" to the US. "These are highly classified classified materials that employees of the Department of Defense and, of course, other US authorities use for their work," he said.
21:24 More than a year after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, thousands of our citizens continue to travel to different parts of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian carriers organize a round trip transfer several times a week. You can leave, in particular, for Moscow from almost every regional center of Ukraine - Kyiv, Rivne, Lvov or Dnipro. More details in the material Simple route.
21:18 The leak of "secret documents" of the Pentagon should not undermine Ukraine's relations with Western partners, Podolyak said: "This is a normal analytics. And I don't see that this should somehow undermine our mutual relations with partners. This does not confuse any plans, because they are being developed, they are still operationally and tactically being worked out. According to him, some of the data that is reflected in the documents has already been voiced before - for example, the fact that Ukraine does not have enough air defense systems.
20:57 Zelensky appointed Ruslan Kravchenko head of the Kiev Regional State Administration.
20:41 In one of the settlements of the Berislav community of the Kherson region, the Russians attacked a boat with civilians from a drone - two people were seriously injured, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
19:39 Ukraine will start receiving Leopard-1 tanks from Denmark before the summer, the acting official said. Kingdom Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen. He clarified that we are talking about about 100 tanks. Poulsen also added that next month Kyiv may receive CAESAR self-propelled guns - the Ukrainian military is already trained on them at training grounds in Denmark.
19:07 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: "He spoke about the situation on the battlefield and about the current defense challenges facing Ukraine. We agreed to continue cooperation in the field of security."
18:28 Danilov said that the counter-offensive is already underway: "The Ukrainian counter-offensive is going on every day. We are not waiting for magical dates, we are acting calmly, systematically and consistently destroying the Russian occupiers. The information hype is not in favor of the plans of the Defense Forces of Ukraine."
17:46 Brazilian President Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on April 14, the parties plan to discuss, in particular, the war in Ukraine, writes The Guardian.
17:07 Ukraine handed over five more seriously wounded prisoners of war to the Russian side, the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war said. Among them was the only woman who was in Ukrainian captivity. According to international humanitarian law, the repatriation took place without any conditions for the Russian side.
In addition, in Ramadan, Ukraine handed over two Muslim prisoners of war who fought in the Russian army. This was done in support of Kyiv's proposal to exchange Muslims "all for all" from both sides as a sign of respect for culture and traditions.
The headquarters noted that on March 24, the Ukrainian side had already repatriated five transportable, seriously wounded Russian soldiers, but Russia still holds much more wounded prisoners of war, which, according to the Geneva Conventions, should have been immediately returned without preconditions.
16:40 Ukraine returned another 100 of its citizens from Russian captivity
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16:36 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia As-Sudani: "Noted that Ukraine is ready for a new page of bilateral cooperation. We agreed to activate all existing mechanisms of interaction and launch new ones. We also discussed the Ukrainian formula for peace."
16:19 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 106 Russian servicemen returned from Ukrainian captivity.
16:16 The Rada appealed to the NATO member states and to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regarding the acceleration of Ukraine's entry into the alliance, People's Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said. In particular, people's deputies call for the implementation of the decision of the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit on Ukraine's membership, as well as to promote the adoption of joint documents in support of Kiev's approach to future membership in the alliance during the spring session of the NATO PA in Luxembourg and during the July summit in Vilnius.
16:05 The Rada supported the exemption from VAT and duties on the import of goods for security and defense, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak. The document also proposes exemption from VAT taxation of operations for the supply of services related to military software.
15:26 The Rada voted for the return of payments of 30,000 hryvnias to military personnel, as well as to employees of the National Police and the State Emergency Service who serve in the rear, MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said. These payments were canceled on February 1, which caused a public outcry.
15:20 In April, an international event will be held in Ukraine with the participation of Zelensky, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki and head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the Polish agency PAP reports, citing a high-ranking source in the EU. One of the main topics of the talks will be the issue of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
14:53 The Rivne Regional Council voted to ban the activities of the UOC-MP in the region, and in Rivne itself, deputies terminated the right to use land plots on the territory of the community that the UOC-MP uses.
14:32 Germany handed over to Ukraine another package of military assistance, which, according to the German government, included four more Dachs armored engineering vehicles (three units were previously transferred); 60 Zetros trucks under the Mercedes-Benz brand; 42 mobile antenna mast systems; 34 reconnaissance drones; more than 83 thousand 40 mm ammunition.
13:57 The Russians launched another air strike on Avdiivka, Donetsk region, destroyed another multi-storey building. There were no casualties, since all the residents of the house were evacuated in a timely manner, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, about 1,800 people now remain in Avdiivka. Kirilenko stressed that they are constantly risking their lives, and called on all civilians to leave the front-line settlements - local authorities provide assistance with evacuation.
13:25 The Russians fired at the territory of the bakery in Orekhov, Zaporizhia region, there were no casualties previously, the President's Office reported.
13:06 At a meeting with Lukashenko, Shoigu said that he would discuss the further stay of the Russian military in Belarus and the possible "expansion of the scope" of cooperation.
13:04 Peskov said that the main parade on Red Square on May 9 "is being prepared and planned to be held." At the same time, he added that decisions on holding parades in the regions are made by local authorities - "the safety of citizens is a priority."
12:59 Ukrenergo held the first auction for the export of electricity to Moldova (delivery day - April 11), and is also preparing an auction for the supply to Poland (for April 12). In addition, the possibility of opening exports to Slovakia is being agreed. Given the war in Ukraine and the risks associated with it, exports are planned only for a short period - at daily auctions, and only if Ukrainian consumers are provided with priority and electricity production is in excess, Ukrenergo stressed.
12:52 During a meeting with Shoigu in Minsk, Lukashenko said that Belarus needs guarantees of protection from Russia "as its own territory in the event of external aggression."
12:44 Ukraine has returned another 24 children whom the Russians illegally took out of the Kherson region,
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12:18 SBU reported suspicion to a collaborator - the owner of one of the Crimean travel agencies, which helped the Russian Federation to illegally deport Ukrainian children. Investigators have documented the facts of the forcible removal by the Russians of more than a thousand Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied regions in the south and east of Ukraine. Minors were taken to Sevastopol during September-October last year under the guise of "voluntary evacuation". Among the victims are orphans and hundreds of children whose parents were illegally detained by the invaders while trying to leave the war zone. The suspect is hiding in the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine.
11:43 Germany may ban Russian athletes from entering the country if the IOC allows them to compete, German Interior Minister Nancy Feather said. In her opinion, the opening of international competitions for representatives of Russia is "a slap in the face of Ukrainian athletes," and offering Putin a stage for propaganda would mean betraying all the values of sport.
"Countries hosting major sporting events are not powerless. They are able to control whether Russians can take part in them by issuing visas. If we organize international competitions in Germany, we will be able to act accordingly. Here we will always act with a clear position " Feather explained.
11:35 Ukraine is gathering an international coalition to return Ukrainian orphans, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said. She recalled that Russia illegally detains 4,396 orphans. "In this matter, the help of the world community is very important for us. Now a pool of international leaders is already being formed who have expressed their public support for such a coalition. Among them are Ursula von der Leyen, Mateusz Morawiecki and others. There must also be an intermediary. It can be anyone: International Committee of the Red Cross, UNHCR, UNICEF, etc. I hope that such a platform will start to operate soon," Vereshchuk added.
10:44 In Belgorod, they also decided not to hold a parade on May 9, "so as not to provoke the enemy," Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
10:27 A parade on May 9 will not be held in Kursk "for security reasons," Governor Roman Starovoit said.
09:58 Reuters, citing two American officials, reports that the Pentagon's "secret data" leaked to the network was made public by an American, and not by any of the allies. According to them, documents that only the United States had got into the network. It is also possible that the documents could have been forged.
09:49 British intelligence reports that over the past week, the Russian military has stepped up tank attacks around the city of Marinka, 20 km from Donetsk, so this area has become another hot spot on the front. Analysts note that the battles for Marinka have been going on since 2014, the city was destroyed as a result of artillery skirmishes. The settlement is important because it allows you to control the approaches to Donetsk and the key road H15.
Russia continues to prioritize operations in the broader sector of Donetsk, including the Marinka and Avdiivka areas, and spend significant resources for minimal gain, intelligence says.
09:26 On April 9, the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces, Alexander Syrsky, visited the hottest sectors of the front in the Bakhmut direction, made operational decisions on the spot and set tasks. According to Syrsky, the Defense Forces have exhausted the Wagnerites in this direction, so the enemy is forced to involve special forces and air assault units in the battles for Bakhmut.
"The fighting is tough on both sides. The enemy has switched to the so-called Syrian scorched earth tactics. They are destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fire. The defense of Bakhmut continues. The situation is difficult, but controllable," Syrsky stressed.
09:02 The Russians are evicting an entire village in the Mariupol region to accommodate their military. We are talking about the village of Lesnoye, located right in the middle of the forest near the village of Nikolskoye, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, people are literally evicted to the streets, with the "nationalization" of houses. The formal reason is the alleged lack of confirmation of the right of ownership and identity (since the house books burned down in the forestry office in Mariupol). There are seven families left in the village who have lived there for a long time, mostly pensioners, there are also several families who have moved from Mariupol.
08:43 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 10.
- personnel - about 178,820 (+670) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3637 (+1),
- armored combat vehicles - 7028 (+4),
- artillery systems - 2750 (+10),
- MLRS - 534 (+1),
- air defense systems - 282 (+0),
- aircraft - 307 (+0),
- helicopters - 292 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2323 (+11),
- cruise missiles - 911 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5607 (+5),
- special equipment - 311 (+2).
08:26 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, 58 enemy attacks were repulsed in the indicated directions, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
05:54 The military-political command of Ukraine has changed some of its military plans due to the leak of secret American documents, CNN reports, citing a source close to Zelensky.
03:22 Photocopies of "classified Pentagon documents" were posted on the Discord server dedicated to the popular video game Minecraft (a messaging platform among online players) back in January, investigators from the international group Bellingcat found out. According to them, from the Discord network, the photos spread to other sites, after which they appeared on several Russian channels in Telegram, and only after that - in The New York Times.
The photo showed maps of hotspots in Ukraine, such as Bakhmut and Kharkiv, a schedule for the delivery of Western ammunition to Ukraine, as well as maps and catalogs of Ukrainian air defense equipment, including a calendar of ammunition expenditures. According to these data, by May 23, Ukraine will allegedly have completely exhausted the possibilities of providing medium-range air defense, and the country can withstand two or three more waves of strikes.
At the same time, Bellingcat reports that changes were made to the photos - this is evidenced, in particular, by resolution indicators, differences in numbers, spacing between them and letters, etc.
01:20 Ukrainian children who were returned from Russia say that they were beaten and punished for refusing to sing the Russian anthem and mentioning that they are Ukrainians, said Daria Gerasimchuk, presidential commissioner for children's rights. She clarified that the appeal to children depended on the specific place where they were detained, but in some places they were punished: they were not allowed to go for walks, they were forced to write and rewrite some Russian texts, to sing the anthem of the Russian Federation and the song “Russia, forward” every morning. " etc.
Gerasimchuk stressed that a total Russification of Ukrainian children is taking place in Russia: they are set against their parents, convincing them that their parents abandoned them and they should not return to Ukraine, where supposedly no one is waiting for them.
Gerasimchuk said that now there is no single mechanism for the return of children, and a separately designed rescue operation is carried out for each deported child or mini-group. At the same time, the Russian authorities are in no way involved in the return of children or the negotiation process, but on the contrary, they constantly move abducted children, do not allow them to inform their relatives about themselves, and do not allow representatives of international organizations and third countries to visit them.