[Korrespondent] 21:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have regained control over the village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubynske near Chernihiv, the Operational Command of Pivnich reported.
21:33 In Prague, the street where the Russian embassy is located has been renamed the street of Ukrainian Heroes.
21:28 Arakhamia said that Russia "orally" adopted the project proposed by Ukraine in Istanbul - with the exception of the issue of Crimea. Now Kyiv is waiting for Moscow to confirm its statements in the negotiations in writing.
He also said that negotiations are underway with China through diplomatic channels so that it becomes the country-guarantor of Ukraine, but with Beijing the issue "is less worked out than with other countries."
20:57 Peskov said that Russia would like to continue negotiations with Kiev in Belarus, but the Ukrainian side does not want this. He also stressed that Ukraine is not a friendly country of either Russia or Belarus. And the military potential of Ukraine, according to Peskov, "is practically destroyed during the "special operation" of the Russian Federation."
As for the negotiations with Kiev, they "are not going well, but the main thing is that they continue, the main thing is that hostilities in Ukraine stop through negotiations, and it does not matter on which platform these negotiations will take place," Peskov said.
20:49 As a result of a missile attack on Mirgorod, the runway and the infrastructure of the airfield were damaged, the fuel depot caught fire, the OVA said.
20:33 The entire Kiev region has been liberated from the invaders, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.
20:17 For a month, law enforcement officers detained about 600 saboteurs in Ukraine, said First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Enin.
20:15 4,217 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors today, Vereshchuk said.
20:10 The fighters of the National Guard taken out by the invaders from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who guarded the station and were captured by the Russians on February 24, are allegedly in the Russian city of Smolensk and the Belarusian city of Bragin, Energoatom reports, citing the wife of one of the prisoners. According to her information, the captives are starved and not even given water.
20:07 In Shepetovka, Khmelnytsky region, today at about 17:00 a missile attack was launched on an industrial facility. According to preliminary data, there are no victims, the fire is being eliminated by the employees of the State Emergency Service, said the head of the Khmelnytsky OVA Serhiy Gamaly.
19:52 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "the military airfield Mirgorod in the Poltava region was disabled with high-precision weapons, Ukrainian combat helicopters were destroyed"
In addition, "high-precision missiles in the areas of Lozova and Pavlograd destroyed armored vehicles and ammunition sent to reinforce Ukrainian troops in the Donbass."
19:27 Panic is spreading among the Russian military due to the radiation exposure of the personnel of the units based in the Chernobyl zone, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The population of the Belarusian village of Bragin was advised to avoid contact with the Russian occupiers who had withdrawn from the contaminated zone.
19:13 The State Bureau of Investigation has initiated the nationalization of almost 1,400 railway cars from Russia and Belarus.
19:11 According to Ukrainian intelligence, local residents of the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region "treated" the Russians from the 3rd motorized rifle division of the Russian Federation with poisoned pies. As a result, two invaders died immediately, 28 more were in intensive care.
About 500 more servicemen of the 3rd motorized rifle division of the Russian Federation are in hospitals as a result of severe alcohol poisoning of unknown origin. The Russian command writes off these cases as so-called "non-combat losses."
19:06 Pope Francis speaks about the war in Ukraine: "Again, some dictator, unfortunately, entangled in anachronistic statements of nationalist interests, provokes and fuels conflicts, while ordinary people feel the need to build a future that will either be common or it won't exist at all.
19:04 In the unrecognized Transnistria, rumors are spreading about forcible coercion of army personnel to participate in the war against Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In addition, panic is spreading among the military personnel of the Russian Federation due to radiation exposure of personnel based in the Chernobyl zone. The population of the Belarusian Bragin is recommended to avoid contacts with Russian invaders who have withdrawn from the contaminated zone.
18:43 Lithuania has become the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas , the country's Energy Ministry said.
18:35 Russian invaders got to the Balakleya regional hospital: about 70 patients and medical staff need immediate evacuation. According to the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov, the hospital building was damaged.
18:30 Belarusian media publish a video and report that on April 1 and 2, six traffic accidents involving convoys of military equipment occurred in the Gomel region.
18:04 As a result of the Russian blow to the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration 36 people were already killed. As the governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim reported, his secretary who was searched for a long time died.
17:48 The Cabinet of Ministers is considering the possibility of introducing an unconditional basic income for the population , Oleg Ustenko, adviser to the President of Ukraine on economic issues, said. This means that the state regularly pays a certain amount from the budget to each citizen just like that - without any conditions and the need to work off the money received.
17:17 The Cabinet of Ministers decided to pay "combat" compensation in the amount of 100 thousand hryvnias:
- defenders and defenders who were injured;
- people taken prisoner or hostages;
- people who were forcibly deported to other states;
- relatives and friends of the victims.
17:13 In Lviv, it was allowed to sell light alcoholic drinks - beer, cider, natural wine - from 12:00 to 20:00, the city council said. However, they cannot be drunk in public places, on summer grounds and terraces. At the same time, the city is tightening control over the sale of strong alcohol: if it is sold and drunk in public places, violators will be involved in community service.
17:10 Podolyak believes that sanctions against Russia are not enough: "In order to bring down the Russian economy and stop the killing of Ukrainians, either a direct embargo on all energy resources is needed, or an indirect embargo by closing ports for goods (85% of oil is tankers). Or tell us: fight to the last Ukrainian."
16:55 The Ministry of Finance has calculated that Ukraine spends about 10 billion dollars in a month of hostilities.
16:52 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 620,000 Ukrainians have returned, the State Border Service reported. At the same time, according to the agency, if in the first weeks the majority of entering Ukrainians were men, now the increase is more due to women and children.
16:50 As a result of rocket attacks of the Pavlogradsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the tracks were damaged and the cars exploded, one person was injured, the regional administration reported.
16:39 Under the rubble of the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration, the body of the head of the Belarusian community in the region Tatiana Demennikova was found, Radio Liberty reports.
16:32 The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that unarmed photographer Max Levin was killed with two shots from small arms.
16:30 First Deputy Economy Minister Denis Kudin said that although a significant number of enterprises have suspended their activities, over the past ten days the economy as a whole has begun to recover, business in safe regions is returning to work. Farmers have already started sowing.
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16:27 In the Kiev region, a curfew is in effect from 21:00 to 06:00, and in the recently liberated settlements of Brovarsky, Vyshgorodsky and Buchansky districts, the ban on movement will be in effect from 21:00 Saturday, April 2, until 06:00 Tuesday, April 5, according to the regional administration.
16:16 Over the past 24 hours, more Ukrainians have returned to the Lviv region across the Polish border than they left. The flow of refugees from Ukraine has significantly decreased, said the head of the Lviv regional military administration Maxim Kozitsky.
15:57 The mayor's office of Pavlograd confirmed the strike on the city - the strike fell on the railroad. The overpass, rolling stock and several houses were damaged. There are no victims or injured.
15:24 Arestovich said that the Russians began to implement their plan to take the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass into the "cauldron". He confirmed the information that the occupiers were already in control of Izyum, and that an offensive was beginning from the south, in the area of ​​Ugledar.
15:02 Russian troops left Gorodnya near Chernihiv, said the chairman of the local community Andriy Bogdan. According to him, before leaving, the Russians blew up the crossing and cut off part of the community from communication with Chernigov.
14:47 Presidential adviser on economic issues Oleg Ustenko said that, according to the Ukrainian authorities, the country's losses from hostilities amounted to one trillion dollars. He also said that Ukraine expects to receive $400 billion from frozen Russian assets into the country's reconstruction fund.
14:33 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio confirmed that Italy is ready to act as a guarantor of Ukraine's neutrality.
14:20 Turkey is ready to allocate ships to organize the evacuation of civilians and the wounded from Mariupol by sea, the country's Defense Ministry said.
13:51 A large number of enemy troops from the territory of Russia entered the Konotop district of the Sumy region, said the head of the regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, a conditional corridor has been formed through which military equipment from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions is constantly moving towards the Russian Federation. The invaders open chaotic fire on people who appear near this equipment or along the movement of the columns.
13:40 In the Lugansk region, a forest near Kremennaya caught fire due to shelling, there is a threat of throwing fire to residential buildings, Governor Sergei Gaidai said.
He also said that near Severodonetsk, the Russians broke a gas pipeline with a diameter of 500 mm, almost the entire Luhansk region was left without gas.
13:33 In the Belarusian city of Narovlya, Russian invaders have set up a specialized bazaar where they sell property stolen in Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry reports. The assortment includes washing machines and dishwashers, refrigerators, precious jewelry, cars, bicycles, motorcycles, dishes, carpets, works of art, children's toys, cosmetics.
Also, the Russians are trying to exchange the stolen currency, but due to internal restrictions, Belarusians are reluctant to buy euros and dollars, offering to contact local banks. The Russians refuse, explaining this by a command ban.
13:29 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said that on April 1, the Russian invaders refused to let people evacuated from Melitopol in their own cars through the checkpoint.
On the morning of April 2, according to him, the Russians wrote down all the surnames, names and numbers of cars for "checking" and only after that they will decide whether to let them go to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
13:27 The Russians intend to surround the grouping of the Joint Forces and reach the administrative borders of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
13:26 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, more than 120 powerful cyber attacks on the resources of state authorities and military command and control have been quickly identified and neutralized. According to the SBU, the largest number of them fell on the night of the invasion - it was then that the enemy wanted to destroy the entire cyber defense of Ukraine.
13:21 After the end of martial law in Ukraine, a state of emergency will be introduced , Shmyhal said. Such a situation, according to him, will be maintained during the liquidation of the consequences of hostilities throughout the territory of Ukraine.
13:16 In the Kiev region, after several weeks of searching, they found the body of photojournalist Max Levin, who disappeared on March 13. According to LB.ua, the body of the photographer was found near the village of Huta Mezhyhirska.
It is known that Levin, accompanied by Alexei Chernyshov, a serviceman and former photographer, went to Guta Mezhigorskaya on March 13 to document the consequences of Russian aggression, since then contact with them has disappeared. The whereabouts and fate of Chernyshov are still unknown.
13:11 As a result of an enemy missile attack on the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration on March 29, 35 people were killed , Governor Vitaly Kim said.
12:42 The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine predicts a decline in GDP in the first quarter of 2022 by 16%, and by the end of the year - up to 40%.
12:38 The media cite a screenshot from the official website of JSC Sukhoi, the manufacturer of the Su aircraft that Russia uses in the war against Ukraine. The general director of the enterprise, Yuriy Slyusar, allegedly condemned the war in Ukraine, announced the reduction of the company's staff due to the impossibility of working under sanctions and his dismissal. The statement from the site soon disappeared.
12:35 In Nikolaev explosions are heard today, the mayor Alexander Senkevich told that pyrotechnicians who are engaged in clearing of enemy shells work. Residents are asked not to worry.
12:31 Investigative journalists from the Conflict Intelligence Team found evidence that the missile in Belgorod came from Russia. The CIT also believes that it was a cruise missile - the Ukrainian army does not use such.
At the same time, investigators doubt that this was a deliberate provocation on the Russian side. Most likely, this is an error in pointing or descent of the ammunition from the trajectory.
12:28 Arestovich spoke about yesterday's events in Chernobaevka: "With two blows, the Ukrainian military destroyed almost a battalion of invaders. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the invaders' self-propelled artillery, a tent camp and about 32 armored vehicles."
12:26 Local residents in Energodar went to a rally, sang the anthem of Ukraine, and when they began to disperse, paddy wagons arrived, in which the invaders began to "pack" the locals, Energoatom reports. After that, a series of powerful explosions sounded, the inhabitants of the city began to scatter. It is already known about several victims who were hospitalized.
The city began to jam communication, the Internet disappeared, mobile operators do not work.
12:24 In Energodar, the invaders are shelling the city center, dispersing the local residents who went to the rally, eyewitnesses report.
12:15 Belarusian media write that Russian invaders are storming courier deliveries in Belarus in order to send home the loot - jewelry, things, phones.
12:13 In the Zaporozhye region, the Russians used phosphorus ammunition, the military-civilian administration reported. There were no casualties.
12:10 The United States sent personal protective equipment to Ukraine in case of a potential attack using chemical weapons, the Biden administration said.
12:03 Russian troops are moving across the territory of Belarus, leaving Ukraine, said a representative of the leader of the Belarusian opposition Tikhanovskaya. According to some reports, they are relocating to the east of Ukraine.
11:57 Arestovich is convinced that the Russians will launch missile strikes on Ukraine until the last day of the war - simply because "they have a lot of air-launched cruise missiles," and they hit them from strategic bombers that do not even enter the airspace of Ukraine .
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office also predicts the Ukrainian army will reach the border with Belarus: "I think that our troops will go there [to the north] today or tomorrow, and it will be possible to say that the territory of the Kiev region will be liberated to the Belarusian border."
11:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Russian troops launched rocket attacks on storage facilities with gasoline and diesel fuel of the Kremenchug oil refinery, as well as on military airfields in Poltava and Dnipro.
11:26 Under the rubble of the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration, which was hit by a Russian rocket on March 29, found the bodies of 31 dead already, another person died in intensive care. Rescuers continue to dismantle the rubble.
11:05 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 2:
- personnel - about 17,800 people,
- tanks - 631,
- armored fighting vehicles - 1776,
- artillery systems - 317,
- MLRS - 100,
- air defense systems - 54,
- aircraft - 143,
- helicopters - 134,
- automotive equipment - 1236,
- ships/boats - 7,
- tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
- UAV operational-tactical level - 87,
- special equipment - 24,
- launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:02 In the Sumy region, the invaders captured the deputy chairman of the Novoslobodskaya territorial community of the Konotop region Alexei Shibaev.
11:01 Fedorov said that after the victory, Ukraine, together with Elon Musk, will build its own Starlink ground station to improve the quality of satellite Internet for all Ukrainians.
11:58 Anonymous hackers hacked into the server of the Russian Lipetsk Mechanical Plant, which produces components for anti-aircraft missile systems. According to the hackers, 20 GB of the plant's internal data has already been leaked to the network.
10:57 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin signed a "decree", according to which in the settlements that came under the control of the militants, they will take into their ownership all movable and immovable property that was previously in state or communal property of Ukraine.
10:50 Occupants kidnapped the mayor of Tavriysk, Kherson region Nikolai Rizak , the city territorial community reported. Since the evening of April 1, there has been no information about his whereabouts, the requirements of the Russians to Rizak are also unknown.
10:36 "Afghanization" and a long, exhausting conflict for Russia, as someone expects, will not happen, Podolyak said: "The Russian Federation will leave all territories except the south and east, will try to dig in tightly there, put up air defense, sharply reduce losses and dictate terms. Heavy weapons are indispensable if we want to take the Russians away."
10:08 The Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow and the Consulate General in St. Petersburg are significantly reducing their activities. The Kingdom said that due to the aggressive war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, it was impossible to maintain normal diplomatic relations.
10:03 Vereshchuk named the seven humanitarian corridors agreed on today:
- From Mariupol to Zaporozhye by private transport: Mariupol - Mangush - Berdyansk - Tokmak - Vasylivka - Kamianske - Zaporozhye
- From Berdyansk to Zaporozhye: Berdyansk - Tokmak - Vasylivka - Kamianske - Zaporozhye. The route will be followed by buses and private cars.
- Rubizhnoye - Bakhmut: Rubizhnoye - Severodonetsk - Lisichansk - Bakhmut
- from. Nizhne - Bakhmut: Nizhne - Gornoe - Lisichansk - Bakhmut
- Severodonetsk - Bakhmut: Severodonetsk - Lisichansk - Bakhmut
- Popasnaya - Bakhmut
- Lisichansk - Bakhmut
09:52 In the Kharkiv region, servicemen of the 95th airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down two Mi-8 transport and combat helicopters of the invaders with the Korsar anti-tank missile system. The Command of the Airborne Assault Forces stated that "this is, in fact, the first time that an air target has been successfully destroyed from an anti-tank system."
09:48 Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News that Ukraine could strengthen NATO: “NATO does not want to accept us. I think this is a mistake, because if we joined NATO, we would make the alliance much stronger. We are not a weak state "We do not propose to strengthen us at the expense of NATO countries ... We are an additional force, a driving force. I think Ukraine is the most important component of the European continent."
09:42 Ukrainian troops continue their offensive during the withdrawal of Russian forces in the vicinity of Kiev, moving from Irpen to Bucha and Gostomel, British intelligence reported. In the East, after stubborn fighting, the Armed Forces of Ukraine strengthened the key route in the east of Kharkov after the liberation of Trostyanets in the Sumy region.
09:23 Moldova will remain neutral and will not join Western sanctions against Russia, President Maia Sandu said.
08:57 Anonymous hackers claimed to have leaked 15 GB of data stolen from the charity wing of the Russian Orthodox Church and published about 57,500 emails via DDoSecrets.
08:54 In the Lugansk region, the invaders again fired at Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lisichansk, Kremennaya, Gornoye, Berezovo, Toshkovka, the governor said.
08:52 The US military postponed the test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, scheduled for April 2, in order to reduce nuclear tensions with Russia amid the war in Ukraine, writes Reuters. Now the rocket test should take place at the end of the year.
08:48 The US Department of Defense will provide Ukraine with a military aid package worth up to $300 million. We are talking, in particular, about machine guns and drones, the Pentagon said.
08:35 Russian occupiers fired at the outskirts of Krivoy Rog from Gradov at night, the head of the military administration of the city, Alexander Vilkul, said. There are no victims.
08:22 British intelligence believes that the destruction of ammunition depots and an oil depot in Belgorod further complicates the Russians' attempts to attack Kharkiv, since the likely loss of supplies from these depots will put an additional burden on the already stretched supply chains of the Russian Federation.
08:10 The occupiers launched rocket attacks on Poltava and Kremenchuk at night, said the head of the regional military administration Dmitry Lunin. In particular, in Poltava there was one strike on an infrastructure facility, in Kremenchug there were many strikes on infrastructure facilities and residential buildings.
07:57 About 30 wounded Kadyrovites were admitted to the Alchevsk hospital in the Lugansk region from the combat area near Popasna. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the invaders leave the dead on the battlefield. Over the past week, the irretrievable losses of personnel in the units of the so-called 2nd Army Corps amounted to about 800 people.
07:50 Russia is holding military training with reservists from April 4 to May 23, 2022. At the same time, work has intensified to attract units of Russian troops, which are based on the territory of Pridnestrovie, to carry out provocations and demonstration actions on the border with Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In particular, Russian troops and units of the so-called "Pridnestrovian-Moldavian Republic" are being redeployed in order to demonstrate their readiness for military operations against Ukraine.
01:29 Zelensky said that Russia is trying to take people to the army in Crimea, and this is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.