🇺🇸 Two senior Pentagon officials tell NBC News that "Russia may begin the next phase of its military campaign in Ukraine this weekend or early next week."

Aftermath of another night of war in Severodonetsk

🇷🇺 The deputy commander of the Russian 8th Army, Major General Vladimir Frolov, was killed in action in Ukraine, the city administration of St. Petersburg announced yesterday.

Inside the Mykolaiv airport

🏳🇵🇰 Taliban sends reinforcements to Khost Province following Pakistani airstrike, clashes underway - reports

🇺🇦ꖦ❓ — Irrelevant, but still Interesting to note that the Last Azov Regiment on both Telegram and Twitter was 3 days ago, a Statement from its Deputy Commander callisign "Kalina" calling to Ukrainian Central Government to break the Siege and discussing the situation on the battleground

Telegram, 5:32 pm UTC
Twitter, 5:27 pm UTC

https://t.iss.one/polkazov/4415
https://archive.is/KsAnf

🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense: Update on the situation in Mariupol at 1000 hours

According to intercepted radio communication, the Ukrainian government forbade the last holdouts in the city from negotiating with the Russians, and apparently ordered that anyone willing to lay down their arms be shot on the spot.

About 400 of the surrounded men at the Azovstal are "foreign mercenaries," mostly from European countries and Canada. Radio conversations have been overheard in at least six foreign languages.

If they continue to resist, all of them will be destroyed.

🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense: Statement on Foreign Mercenaries

🌎 A total of 6824 foreign mercenaries from 63 different countries have participated in combat in Ukraine.

🇵🇱 1717 from Poland
🇺🇸 ~1500 from the USA
🇨🇦 ~1500 from Canada
🇹🇩 ~1500 from Romania
🇬🇧 ~300 from the UK
🇬🇪 ~300 from Georgia
🏴 193 from Turkish-controlled areas of Syria

💀 1035 foreigners were killed in action by the Russian Armed Forces.

🏃🏼‍♂️ 912 foreigners reconsidered their decision and fled the country.

Foreign mercenaries are not considered combatants under international law. They came to Ukraine to earn money by killing Slavs.

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 Russian Ministry of Defense: Operation on a Turkish Mosque in Mariupol

At the request of Turkish President Erdogan, a special operation was carried out in the Primorsky district of Mariupol yesterday to free hostages held by Ukrainian Nazis in a Turkish mosque.

The mosque was secured and 29 militants, foreign mercenaries among them, were killed.

The hostages, citizens of (Azerbaijan), were freed and brought to safety.

Footage of the Ukrainian surrender in Mariupol

🇸🇪🔥 Muslims riot and commit arson in Sweden. Virtually all mainstream media headlines place the blame on right-wing organisations for "provocative" behavior instead of placing the blame on the Muslims for their violent criminal behavior. More to follow

— PHOTOS: Images have emerged of the Russian cruiser 'Moskva', damaged by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles prior to its sinking.

@TGNewsU

🚈 🛤 Rail connection between Crimea, Zaporozhya, and Donbass will soon resume

The Russian occupied southern part of the Zaporozhya province contains highly important rail junctions.

Southern Ukraine will prove to be extremely valuable and strategic to Russia as a proper land connection between Crimea and the mainland. It appears they will aim to hold on to it permanently.

Turns out the North Crimean Canal was just one of many vital pieces of infrastructure in the region.

The town of Vasilevka contains a junction where trains coming from the Energodar nuclear power plant can travel on to the cities of Crimea, and vice versa.

Another branch exists connecting this rail network with that of the Donbass.

A future for strategic resources: Donbass coal can be supplied to the power plant, and iron ore from the mines of Dneprorudny to the metallurgical plants of the Donbass.

Artificial borders are being erased from the map and historically economically tied regions are becoming a single unit again. "We are returning the railways built by the Russian Empire and the USSR back to Russia again."

Reviving the economy of the region is what will incline the remaining inhabitants to sympathize with Russia.

Translation: @CIG_telegram / @UkraineUpdates

— JUST IN: Riots in Sweden, Islamist rioters attack Police. Many Policemen injured.

🇷🇺❌🇫🇮📹 — Since April 12, 2022, it was reported on both Russian and Ukrainian Channels that the Russian Federation Armed Forces began to gather troops to the border with Finland after the announcement of ✧🌍 NATO membership.

Per videos published on social medias, Heavy weapons, including missile systems, have been spotted heading towards the Finnish border hours after the Kremlin warned Helsinki against joining NATO.

⚡ As of the morning of 18 April 2022, the Russian Army appears to be advancing in many directions in Ukraine after resuming offensive operations:

🚩 Lugansk province:
The town of Kremennaya has been captured, and units are expected to advance into Severodonetsk. Gains have also been made in Popasnaya.

🚩 Kharkov province:
The Russian Army has begun moving out of the Izyum bridgehead in three directions (west, southwest, and south) towards Barvinkovo.

🚩 Zaporozhya province:
The Russian Army has begun moving northwards. Advances have been noted west and east of Hulyaipole, and combat is reported across the entire front.

Kept you waiting, huh?

The king returns...