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2023-04-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 4th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:46 Zelensky said that he addressed the Chilean parliament: "It doesn't matter what the distance between our peoples is. We equally value life and defend the international order. We must deprive rashism of even hope for support in Latin America."
22:42 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a military meeting today in a special format: "General Syrsky - on Bakhmut, commander-in-chief, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate - on the general military situation. The Ministry of Defense - on the supply of ammunition and everything else on the needs of our defenders. Decisions "They are already being implemented. We have been preparing all day for the international events scheduled for this week. They are important, courageous, ambitious. We keep the internal situation under control, in particular, spiritual independence. We also guarantee it."
In addition, the president noted two important decisions: the United States is providing a $2.6 billion defense support package, and the work of the UN Independent International Commission, which is investigating Russian crimes against Ukrainians, has been extended.
21:18 The Foreign Ministers of the NATO countries supported the development of a multi-year support program for Ukraine, which will help it move closer to the alliance, Stoltenberg said following a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission. In turn, Kuleba clarified that this is not a MAP - this issue has been removed from the agenda, since Ukraine has applied for membership.
21:14 Responsibility for the explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg, as a result of which Vladlen Tatarsky died, was taken over by the local column of the National Republican Army. The partisans said in a statement that the rally was organized personally against Tatarsky and a group of activists who support the war in Ukraine.
20:51 Kuleba said that the work of the Ukraine-NATO commission was unblocked, and the next meeting could be held in Vilnius with the participation of Zelensky: "For the first time in six years, a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission was held. This main basic format of interaction at a high political level was blocked. And "we not only managed to unblock it, but there is a great desire to hold such a meeting with the participation of the president at the summit in Vilnius. This is important because the commission is an important mechanism for the allies to make the necessary decisions."
20:25 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjarto expressed dissatisfaction with the resumption of the work of the Ukraine-NATO commission, which gathered for a meeting in Brussels: "The invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine violates the principle of unity of allies within NATO, but we will take part in the meeting in a constructive spirit." Szijjarto added that Budapest would stop blocking Ukraine's rapprochement with NATO "provided that the Ukrainians return the rights to the Hungarians of Transcarpathia, which they enjoyed until 2015."
20:14 Zelensky during a video meeting with the US National Association of Governors explained why America should help Ukraine and invest in the country's defense: "The Kremlin dreams of humiliating America, Europe, the entire free world ... The Kremlin dreams of splitting NATO, provoking a conflict that will put your nation is faced with a choice: to fight or not.It is Ukraine that is now your reliable last frontier... Thanks to the Ukrainian fortress, in particular, your people will not have to make this choice... The enemy of freedom must lose quickly and reliably where he came with a criminal and unprovoked aggressive war. That is why we are turning to the United States for support, for weapons and for finance. If Ukraine survives, your world, your allies and partners will survive."
19:36 Zaluzhny said in a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, that the situation at the front is "difficult, but controllable." During the conversation, the parties paid special attention to the issue of the supply of weapons and ammunition, and also stressed the importance of strengthening the air defense system of Ukraine. We discussed the future steps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the de-occupation of Ukrainian territory.
19:11 Forced evacuation of children has been announced in 21 settlements of the Donetsk region, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. 126 children from those settlements where the situation remains critical are subject to mandatory evacuation. Evacuated children accompanied by a parent or legal representative will be provided with free housing, social guarantees, humanitarian aid and psychological support.
18:52 The Pentagon has announced a new $2.6 billion military aid package to Ukraine. The package includes additional ammunition for the Patriot and HIMARS air defense systems, 155mm and 105mm artillery shells, 120mm mortar shells.
18:45 Bakhmut and Maryinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities. The Russians continue to concentrate their main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - more than 45 enemy attacks were repelled during the day, the General Staff said in an evening summary.
In Starobelsk, Luhansk region, the occupying "authorities" use representatives of public utilities to move Russian military personnel into apartments and houses temporarily abandoned by citizens of Ukraine. This is done under the pretext of preventive checks of meter readings by utilities. There has also been an increase in the cases of the removal of local residents in an unknown direction without explanation after random checks of mobile phones.
18:19 Khmelnitsky Regional Council unanimously decided to ban the activities of the UOC in the region. The decision also instructs local authorities to conduct an inventory of UOC lands for further withdrawal.
17:46 Kuleba said after meeting with Blinken that "more military aid is on the way."
17:20 The Russians are going to destroy the burial places of the murdered Mariupol residents - mass graves in Mangush, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, in March, the "DPR" prosecutor's office began an inventory of cemeteries in the Donetsk region. The Mangush occupation administration responded to a request from the prosecutor's office that there were no "unregistered" cemeteries in the village. We are talking about a mass grave along the highway, where the murdered Mariupol residents were massively buried, which in reality exists, but according to the documents - no.
Due to inspections by the local prosecutor's office, the local "authorities" decided to destroy the graves and all signs of burials - otherwise they will have to explain where the money for the burial went. “Therefore, a bulldozer and an excavator should bury evidence not only of war crimes, but also of bribery and profit on the mountain of Mariupol,” Andryushchenko noted and showed a photo of the graves, which he also promised to hand over to the FSB of the Russian Federation.
16:59 Norway has joined the tenth package of EU sanctions against Russia, the country's government announced.
16:47 Kamenets-Podilskyi City Council voted to terminate the right of the UOC-MP to use land plots and churches in the city.
16:13 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, thanking him for 2.4 billion Canadian dollars (almost 1.8 US dollars) in aid to the Ukrainian budget and significant defense support. We discussed in detail the situation on the battlefield and Ukraine's further security needs.
15:52 Finland has officially become the 31st member of NATO , US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said at a document exchange ceremony between Finland and the alliance. At the same time, he ironically thanked Putin for the expansion of NATO and the membership of Finland. Read more about what the accession of Finland means in the material Alliance is getting closer to Russia .
15:33 Putin and Lukashenko will hold talks on Wednesday, April 5, and on April 6, a meeting of the supreme state council of the "union state" will be held in Moscow, decisions are planned "on a number of issues of integration cooperation," the Kremlin said.
15:06 The head of the Belarusian KGB, Yuri Tertel, said that "camps for the training of militants" supposedly exist on the territory of Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic. According to him, these forces allegedly plan to "intensify terrorist activity in Belarus" in the spring.
14:49 24 thousand people have already been included in the list of sponsors and those involved in the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, said the head of the NAPC, Alexander Novikov. He clarified that any foreign company that continues to work in the Russian Federation sponsors the killings of Ukrainians. "We have created the world's largest database of those involved in the war. This is 24,000 people. In Ukraine, due to the operation of this base, sanctions have been imposed on the largest number of people in world history," Novikov said.
According to him, a separate part of this project is the international register of war sponsors, which includes international companies that have not left Russia. With the help of a special database, any bank or foreign agency will see that this or that company is marked as one that does not conduct socially responsible business, but finances the war. For companies, this is a huge reputational pressure, the head of the NAPC added.
14:31 Zelensky said that he had spoken with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in particular, they discussed the need to prepare the 11th package of sanctions and progress in implementing the recommendations of the European Commission.
14:16 The SBU has collected an evidence base on the former rector of one of the churches of the Izyum diocese of the UOC-MP, who blessed the Russian military during the occupation of the Kharkiv region. In particular, the archpriest organized a staged church procession for the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus, in which he tried to attract local residents. He blessed the Russian occupiers and blessed their columns of military equipment in the Kupyansky district, and the entire process was filmed for further publication in the propaganda media.
During the liberation of the Kharkiv region, the attacker fled with his family to Russia, where he was appointed rector of the Orthodox parish of the St. John the Baptist Church of the Tver and Kashin diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
13:48 Speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty confirmed that the head of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin brought the flag to the Bakhmut city administration building, which had long been destroyed as a result of fighting in the city. According to Cherevaty, Bakhmut remains the main focus of Russian strikes, primarily by Wagner PMC mercenaries.
13:34 The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, during a meeting with Lukashenka in Minsk, said that the Polish leadership allegedly "cannot refuse" plans to return the lands of western Ukraine and is "waiting for a good moment" to gain control over these territories. He also said that the West is trying to convince Tbilisi of the need to open a "second front" against Russia.
13:07 In the Poltava region, the curfew has also been reduced: from April 5 it will last from 00:00 to 04:00, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin. "This is a step towards businesses, working in particular in the areas of catering and trade, so that establishments can extend their work, and workers can get home," he explained.
12:53 Peskov said that Finland's entry into NATO is another "aggravation of the situation," and the expansion of the alliance is "an encroachment on Russia's security." At the same time, he noted that this situation is fundamentally different from the problem with Ukraine, since "Finland has never been anti-Russia."
12:39 The Russians temporarily stopped using "Shaheds" from the south due to the high effectiveness of Ukrainian air defense, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. According to her, this night the enemy used a slightly different tactic - in particular, sent "Shaheds" from the eastern coast of the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov along relief features at a low enough height so that they were as invisible as possible.
12:36 Shoigu said that the Iskander-M missile system, capable of carrying nuclear missiles, was handed over to the Belarusian military. According to him, since April 3, training of the Belarusian crews of the complex has begun at the training ground in Russia.
12:33 Valery Fadeev, head of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, said that Wikipedia contains "many distortions", so it needs to be closed and an alternative created.
12:19 Lithuania prohibits Russians from buying real estate in the country - this decision was made by the Parliament for reasons of national security. The ban will be valid until 2024 and will not apply to Russians with a residence permit.
11:57 In Russia, the court sentenced Yevgeny Nikiforov, a resident of the Volgograd region, to six and a half years in prison, who allegedly was going to fight on the side of Ukraine against the Russian Federation.
11:44 Khmelnitsky City Council has terminated the right to use land on the territory of the Holy Intercession Cathedral, where a clergyman of the UOC-MP and believers beat a military man. Now the council has passed to the OCU.
11:40 A scandal broke out in Russia: they want to build a giant mosque on the "holy Orthodox place". Muscovites and "Kadyrovtsy" intervened in the situation. More details - in the material "Kadyrovtsy" threaten with war .
11:17 Beijing is ready to discuss the settlement of the Ukrainian issue with the European Union, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said: "We are ready for dialogue and contacts with the European side on the political settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. We hope that the EU will show strategic independence and political wisdom." Mao Ning stressed that China is not a party to the military conflict and actively supports the peaceful resolution of the crisis.
10:56 British intelligence believes that Russia can work on the creation of new private military companies that could become an alternative to the Wagner group in the war against Ukraine. According to analysts, Russia would like to gradually replace Wagner with other PMCs due to tension between the Russian Defense Ministry and Prigozhin. At the same time, intelligence adds that none of the known Russian private military companies is comparable to the Wagner group in terms of size and combat capability.
Moscow probably appreciated the "convenience" of using PMCs, since it creates fewer hard limits on payments and such structures are more effective than a regular army. In addition, it will be easier for society to perceive large losses among PMC mercenaries than in the regular army, intelligence notes.
10:39 Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat specified that there are five fighter brigades in the Armed Forces, three of them are armed with MiG-29s. "The transfer of Polish and Slovak MiG-29s will slightly increase the capabilities of the Air Force's fighter aircraft in carrying out current combat missions, but in no case will solve the issue of "counteroffensive", "victory", etc. To gain air superiority and victory, we need modern multi-purpose aircraft with a wide range of weapons," he stressed.
10:17 Kuleba said that he began his visit to Brussels with a meeting with Borrell. According to him, one of the topics of the meeting was the European initiative for the joint purchase of ammunition for Ukraine. In addition, the diplomats discussed the expansion of support under the European Peace Fund and future contacts between the EU and China. Borrell said the EU will continue to support Ukraine "for as long as necessary and make Russia pay a high price for its aggression until it stops."
09:51 Russia recently began using planning bombs, dropping several dozen of them a day across the entire demarcation area from Su-35 and Su-34 aircraft. Such tactics pose a threat to Ukrainian air defense, said Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"There is no lull. The enemy's aviation, unfortunately, is working, and yesterday it was said more than once in the news that they began to use glide bombs that can fly tens of kilometers - up to 70 km, an approximate distance. The enemy uses 10-15, up to 20 bombs per day along the entire line of demarcation from Su-35, Su-34 aircraft, which are not included in the zone of destruction of our air defense. And this is a new threat for us, which must be promptly responded to," Ignat said.
He added that so far Ukraine has nothing to react to: in order to drive enemy aircraft as far as possible from the Ukrainian borders, long-range systems and air defense systems, as well as fighters that can use air-to-air missiles at long distances, are needed.
09:08 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were killed (two in Toretsk, one each in Avdiivka and Torsk), three more were injured. In the Kherson region, one person died, in the Kharkiv region - one was injured, according to the OVA.
08:43 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy as of the morning of April 4.
- personnel - about 175,690 (+530) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3627 (+8),
- armored combat vehicles - 6999 (+6),
- artillery systems - 2697 (+3),
- MLRS - 528 (+1),
- air defense systems - 280 (+0),
- aircraft - 306 (+0),
- helicopters - 291 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2277 (+15),
- cruise missiles - 911 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5562 (+9),
- special equipment - 298 (+0).
08:26 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, 69 enemy attacks were repulsed. The most fierce fighting continues for Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka, the General Staff reported in the morning report . In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is trying to take Bakhmut under full control and continues to storm him. He led unsuccessful offensive operations near the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and Ivanovskoye.
In certain settlements of the Kakhovka district of the Kherson region, on April 2, the Russians forbade local residents to leave their homes. All public places were closed during the day. In some villages of the Kakhovka district, pensioners need to stand in line to receive pensions, money is not enough for everyone and not in full. However, for a certain "reward" receiving social benefits becomes more accessible.
07:48 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) confirmed the data of Russian sources that Wagner PMC mercenaries captured the Bakhmut administration building, Russian forces are moving into the city center. Analysts cite footage of the Russian flag at the top of Bakhmut's shattered administration.
According to ISW, the Wagnerites will continue their attempts to consolidate control over the central part of Bakhmut and will try to move west through the densely populated areas of the city in the direction of Khromovo. Together with the Wagnerites in Bakhmut, regular Russian troops, including the Airborne Forces, are increasingly active, experts say.
ISW also reports that on March 10, Russian security forces ordered a number of government officials and employees of state-owned companies to surrender their passports under the threat of forcible seizure of documents or forced dismissals. Analysts believe that in this way the Kremlin seeks to prevent elites from traveling abroad.
07:24 The Russians attacked the south of the country at night with kamikaze drones of the Shahed-131/136 type. Of the 17 drones, 14 were destroyed, including 13 in the sky of the Odessa region and one over the Mykolaiv region, OK Pivden reported. As a result of a hit on one of the enterprises in the Odessa region, a fire broke out, which was eliminated before the morning. According to preliminary information, people were not injured.
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