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MK is broadcasting events in Ukraine online. The 407th day of the special operation is underway. A Ukrainian light aircraft crashed near Bryansk, the pilot was detained. Deputy Pentagon spokesman Sabrina Singh said the United States will supply Ukraine with a batch of Abrams tanks by the end of 2023. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw said that in the future there will be no borders between Ukraine and Poland — neither political, nor economic, nor historical.
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White House National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said that the decision to hold peace talks with Russia should be taken only by Ukraine: «Only President Zelensky can initiate such negotiations and determine their terms.»
Diplomat: Putin is one step away from a decisive blow to the West
«Izvestia»: The French manufacturer of dairy products Danone is preparing to withdraw some of its brands from the Russian market.
Channel Operation Z: Russian Spring military commissars published the first footage of armored personnel carriers with light roller mine trawls LWMR (Light Weight Mine Roller), designed including for offensive operations — demining for attacks.
Ministry of Defense: Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed surrendered Ukrainians by firing 300 shells
The Telegram channel of the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 17 times over the past day, firing 72 ammunition.
RTS TV channel: Serbian President Alexander Vučić suggested that in the future the conflict in Ukraine could escalate «in a hard trench fight».
Russian war correspondent Semyon Pegov, who works in the WarGonzo project, reported on his Telegram channel that the center of Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) is under the control of the Wagner PMC.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov said that peace talks for President Zelensky would mean «political suicide».
Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak suggested that the Russian Federation could voluntarily leave Crimea after a series of successful offensive actions from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Voenkors of the RV: The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to throw the Wagner off the «road of life» in Artemivsk
The Ukrainian agency Strana.ua reports about the shelling of Kherson.
According to the online map of the Ministry of Digital Development of Ukraine, an air alert has been announced in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Judging Freedom: Retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter reminded Western countries that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a master of victory. As an example, he cited the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria.
The DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that the number of victims in the shelling of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk had increased to five people.
«Cyber Front Z» asked the Foreign Ministry to recognize Ponomarev as a terrorist.
The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft resolution on providing participants in a special military operation in Ukraine and their families with the opportunity to receive additional professional education free of charge, in the near future the government will adopt a resolution, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting with deputies on Thursday.
Podolyak named four important components of the expected counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the village of Panteleimonovka, firing eight shells of the «NATO» caliber of 155 millimeters in an hour and a half, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
All NATO countries agree that Ukraine's entry into the alliance is impossible in in the short term, the Financial Times writes.
Three civilians were killed, one was injured when a bus stop in Lisichansk in the LPR was shelled, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reported.
Acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that all necessary assistance would be provided to the families of those killed and wounded during the shelling of Donetsk on Thursday.
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a summary for Thursday, April 6:
— Russian troops destroyed up to 80 military personnel and the self-propelled gun «Nona» of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;
— The RF Armed Forces destroyed over 140 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
— On April 5, a unit of the 53rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering 14 people, surrendered near Avdiivka in the DPR. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine deliberately opened artillery fire on the Ukrainian military who surrendered near Avdiivka, all 14 people were killed;
— The RF Armed Forces destroyed the missile and artillery weapons depot of the 107th rocket brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Sergeevka in the DPR;
— The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation prevented an attempt to counterattack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Vodiane and Nikolskoye in the DPR.
The prosecutor asked to sentence opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia) to 25 years in prison in the case of treason and spreading fakes about the Russian army, his lawyer Maria Eismont told reporters.
According to RIA Novosti at least four people were killed during the shelling of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.
Twelve transformer substations were de-energized in the rear Kalininsky district of Donetsk due to shelling with the use of MLRS, Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin said.
the seizure of churches said that the history of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the city was over.
The leadership of the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant reported to Shoigu about the creation of a new double armor.
The British Ministry of Defense reported that more than 10,000 Ukrainian military personnel had already been trained in the kingdom.
In 2023, London plans to train a total of 20 thousand military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Dmitry Peskov's statements following the results of the State Council of the Union State:
— There was no talk of deploying strategic nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation on the territory of Belarus today;
— The actions of Belarus's neighbors are very unfriendly, Russia cannot stand aside;
— The topic of import substitution was high on the agenda of the Supreme State Council of the Union State;
— The Russian Federation will respond appropriately to the deployment of an American nuclear weapons in Europe.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' signed a decree on the appointment of the chief military priest in the NVO zone. He became the chairman of the department for interaction with the Cossacks of the St. Petersburg diocese, Archpriest Dimitry Vasilenkov.
In Podolsk, they reported the fall of a makeshift drone.
«An unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by an air defense system in the Valuysk city district. There were no casualties or injuries, its remains fell into the field. The task force is examining the territory,» he wrote in his Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Xi Jinping expressed his willingness to talk with Zelensky.
In Volgograd, a Wagner soldier was found dead after returning from the front.< /p>
«The nationalists have almost stopped firing at military facilities from HIMARS in the LPR, but now they are randomly hitting the civilian population. In this way they are trying to destabilize the situation in the region,» said the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Xi Jinping: China is ready to join France in calling for early talks on Ukraine.
Putin at a meeting with Pushilin: “Ukrainian forces must be moved away from the line of contact to where they cannot harm Russian servicemen. Our task is to make sure that there are no shelling at all. Yesterday, 14 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered in one of the LBS sectors alone «.
Founder of PMC «Wagner» Prigozhin: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are not leaving Artemovsk yet.
The DPR called the irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk.
Russian subdivisions have occupied the railway station in Artemovsk, almost the entire city is already in the hands of Russian forces, Yan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, said on television.
An attempt to penetrate Ukrainian saboteurs was stopped in the Bryansk region.
Mash: a homemade drone with cameras fell on the territory of the Fakel plant in Khimki.
Defense One: US sends experimental weapons to Ukraine to fight drones.
The US and NATO must take responsibility for the Ukrainian issue, the alliance has no right to criticize China or provide pressure on him, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a briefing on Thursday.
Russian artillerymen destroyed the Ukrainian Msta-B howitzer, as well as a 120-mm mortar, along with crews and gun ammunition near Kherson. RIA Novosti writes about this.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine use different methods of warfare in different areas. This was stated by a retired senior lieutenant of the People's Militia of the DPR, military commander Alexander Matyushin. According to him, Western methods are used in the Kiev, Kharkov and Slavyansk directions, Soviet methods are used in the Donetsk direction.
Military expert, Lieutenant Colonel of the LPR Andrey Marochko published in his TG channel photos of a strange UAV shot down on the front line. He did not indicate the crash site of the drone. According to the Russian fighters who destroyed it, the size of the device is two desks. A shaped charge is suspended from it, designed to destroy armored vehicles.
Representatives of the United States, Britain, Albania and Malta left the UN meeting during the speech of the Russian children Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, while she was making a speech at an informal meeting of the Security Council, Reuters writes.
Russian State Duma deputy Sultan Khamzaev proposed punishing the army with correctional labor. According to him, he will submit this initiative to his colleagues for discussion, RIA Novosti writes.
The emergency services of the Zaporozhye region reported that Ukrainian troops launched a strike from the HIMARS MLRS on Melitopol last night.
The governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz in his Telergam channel said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired mortars at the village of Zapesochye in the Pogarsky district.