In several regions of Ukraine, air alerts have been issued for a possible kamikaze drone attack and anti-aircraft guns have been activated.
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01:23 Pentagon leak, Ukraine wanted to attack Russian troops in Syria
01:15 Air alert in different regions of the country, Office of the President: “Don’t ignore them, keep safe”
09:53
Zelensky’s greetings for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent his best wishes to Muslims in Ukraine and around the world on the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the holy month of Ramadan. “Today Muslims celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan. For the second time, Ramadan ends during the evil state’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine, against all our people and our entire community,” he said, adding, “The holiday of Eid al-Fitr deserves to be held under completely different circumstances . It deserves the peace we so long for, the victory we all aspire to. I believe the Lord will bless Ukraine with freedom for all our territories and for all our people. ‘ he added in a video message.
Volodymyr Zelensky (grip) 09:19
The large amount of mud on the front slowed down the Russian and Ukrainian troops
The large amount of mud currently present in Ukraine is most likely slowing down operations of both Ukrainian and Russian armed forces. According to the British secret service in its daily update on the war in Ukraine. However, the 007ers add to His Majesty, in the face of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive, the Russian media is likely exaggerating the impact the mud is having on Kiev soldiers in order to boost Russian troops’ morale and undermine that of Ukrainian supporters.
A Ukrainian soldier from the 57th Motorized Brigade (AFP) 08:34
Moscow does not want to avoid checkpoints between Russia and the occupied territories
The checkpoints between Russia and the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine are significantly slowing down the supply of Russian ammunition to the front, but the Kremlin does not plan to remove them for security reasons, writes the Institute for War Research (ISW), as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.
Russian soldiers have complained that checkpoints are significantly slowing down ammunition shipments to the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the US Intelligence Center reports. Experts at the think tank say Putin is likely trying to fix delays at checkpoints by increasing staff to speed up checks, but has no plans to eliminate them. “The Kremlin can also use these checkpoints to prevent the mass movement of men from occupied Ukraine trying to avoid forced mobilization, to prevent Russian conscripts from fleeing to Russia, and to aid Russian filtering efforts,” the statement said Relationship. “The existence of these checkpoints underscores once again that Russian officials do not regard the residents of occupied Ukraine as Russian citizens and govern them as the occupying power they are, despite persistent claims that the illegally annexed territories are part of Russia,” the study center concludes .
07:51
A Moscow warplane accidentally bombs the Russian city of Belgorod
According to the Moscow Defense Ministry, a Russian warplane accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast left a crater about 20 meters wide in the city center.
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Two women were injured and several buildings damaged, she said, when a Su-34 fighter-bomber accidentally dropped bombs on the city. The incident happened at 10:15 p.m. local time last night, Russian news agencies reported. An investigation is underway. Photos and videos on social media show homes damaged by the blast, while one image appears to show a car on the roof of a building.
Belgorod – a city of 370,000 inhabitants – is located about 40 km from the Ukrainian border. It is north of Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, and people have been living in fear of Ukrainian bombing since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. Russian jets regularly fly over the city.
07:29
Attack on Kiev at night, shot down 8 drones
“After a 25-day hiatus, the capital of Ukraine suffered another enemy airstrike.” This is what the head of the military administration in Kiev, Serhiy Popko, wrote on Telegram after the air raid alarm sounded over the city and other Ukrainian regions during the night. “According to preliminary information, the Muscovite aggressor probably used a new batch of Iranian Shahed drones. During the approach to the capital, about 8 enemy targets were detected and shot down” and “there are no casualties or damage” in the capital, he underlined.
04:57
Hungary has banned imports of other products from Ukraine, including honey and meat, while Poland wants to ban milk
Hungary has banned imports of honey and some meat products from Ukraine, as well as grains, until June 30, increasing pressure to expand proposed EU-wide measures. Poland has joined calls to ban more food imports, including milk.
04:03
Chinese Foreign Minister: “We support a peaceful solution through dialogue and diplomacy”
China is not heating up the situation in Ukraine and supports peaceful resolution of international disputes through dialogue and diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Friday. China has no plans to engage in a major power contest, Qin said at the Lanting Forum in Shanghai, adding that he opposes attempts to erect walls and barriers to disrupt international supply chains.
01:30
Prague, tests completed, Ukrainian wheat is of good quality
Checks carried out by the Czech authorities on cereals and meat from Ukraine did not reveal any samples that did not meet the quality standards applicable in the Czech Republic. The Minister of Agriculture announced this today Zdenek Nekula.
According to the minister, there is no reason why the Czech Republic should ban imports of these products, as Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have done.
Nekula, as well as the heads of the national authorities responsible for the control of agricultural products, confirmed that every sample of imported food was analyzed for the presence of more than 400 residues of active substances, including pesticides, microtoxins or heavy metals.
01:23
Pentagon leak, Ukraine wanted to attack Russian forces in Syria
Ukraine, with the help of the Kurds, planned an attack on Russian forces in Syria. This emerges from the secret Pentagon files leaked in the last few days and read by the Washington Post.
01:20
Belgorod, city center explosion: “Abnormal fall of ammunition from Russian plane”
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The explosion that caused the 20-meter crater in the center of the Russian city Belgorod would have been caused by the emergency ejection of a bomb from one Su-34 aircraft of FRussian Aerospace Forces flying over the southwestern Russian city. This was announced by the Moscow Ministry of Defense.
“On April 20 at around 10:15 p.m. Moscow time, when a Su-34 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces was conducting a flight over the city of Belgorod, an emergency aerial bomb trip occurred,” the ministry said Losses. An investigation is underway
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Airplane alarms in different regions of the country, Presidential Office: “Don’t ignore them, keep safe”
Airplane alerts in several regions of theUkraine for a possible attack with kamikaze drones and the flak. This was reported by the UNIAN news agency, citing the military authorities. The sirens have sounded in the regions Kyiv, Chernihiv And Zhytomyr. “Threat of attack by enemy drones – says a message to the population – We invite residents to stay in safe places until the end of the alarm signal.” Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President, also urged the alerted residents , not to ignore the air alert. Yermak also reported that the air defense.
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