❗️Russian MoD warns of strikes on Ukraine’s main government decision-making centers in Kiev and beyond if sabotage operations and attacks on Russian territory continue.

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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says she still considers Crimea Russian and doesn’t mind the ban on visiting Ukraine.

Le Pen will face Macron in the second round of the French presidential election on April 24.

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❗️Biden tells Zelensky US will provide new capabilities to Ukrainian forces, including artillery systems, artillery rounds, armored personnel carriers and helicopters.

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❗️Pentagon: A number of NATO countries intend to start supplying Ukraine with tanks.

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WSJ Editorial Board: It’s Joe Biden’s inflation. He blames Vladimir Putin, but his policies and the Federal Reserve are at fault.

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❗️Zelensky: Russia will either negotiate to end the war on Ukraine’s terms or forever disappear from the world stage.

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❗️Ukraine sinks Russian Cruiser Moskva with a missile strike, according to multiple reports.

The Russian MoD has thus far only confirmed that the cruiser sustained serious damage due to a fire and ammunition explosions.

Moskva is the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with a crew of 510. The ship’s destruction could mean the worst mass casualty producing event of the war so far.

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I believe the war is about to heat up, for four reasons:

1) The siege of Mariupol is almost over; its end will free up a ton of Russian & Donbass troops for other major operations.

2) Strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have reportedly been put on high alert.

3) The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that NATO vehicles transporting weapons for Ukraine are considered legitimate military targets.

4) The Russian Ministry of Defense has threatened to bomb "decision-making centers" in Ukraine, including Kiev, if the Ukrainians fire at Russian territory again.

Via: https://t.iss.one/RWApodcast/98

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“It feels like the situation is escalating — or perhaps degrading — to the point where Moscow needs to decide if it is prepared to wage a nuclear war over Ukraine.”

— Artyom Lukin
International Relations Scholar
Far Eastern Federal University

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“This is one of the most powerful warships in the world. No way will Turkey allow one of the remaining two ‘Slava’-class cruisers into the Black Sea to replace ‘Moskva.’ Russia lost half its naval firepower off Ukraine and can’t restore it without going to war with NATO.”

— David Axe
Journalist at Forbes

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❗️Trump joins Biden in labeling the Ukraine conflict “a genocide.”

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❗️Ukraine vows a strong response if Russia hits decision-making centers in Kiev.

"We have excellent capabilities to strike Russia," warns Zelensky’s adviser Alexey Arestovych.

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❗️Biden administration moves to provide Ukraine with capability to target Russian forces in Crimea and Donbas, WSJ reveals.

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❗️Russia’s Investigative Committee says Klimovo was attacked from two helicopters that entered Russian airspace at low altitude and carried out at least six air strikes on a residential area.

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❗️Another attack with civilian casualties is being reported in Zhuravlevka by the governor of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast.

Earlier today we saw reports of Ukrainian strikes on civilian targets in Bryansk Oblast.

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❗️Joe Biden says he’s ready to visit Ukraine.

According to an earlier Politico report, the Biden administration is holding internal discussions about sending a high-level official — possibly President Biden or Vice President Harris — to Kyiv to show further support to Ukraine.

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❗️Russian MoD confirms sinking of Black Sea flagship Moskva.

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Opinion: Missile? Fire? Either way, a stricken ship speaks to Russian incompetence, a Western official says.

Per the New York Times:

A senior Western official on Thursday could not confirm that the Russian Black Sea flagship had been hit by a Ukrainian missile, as the Ukrainians say, or was badly damaged in an accidental fire, as the Russians say. But the official said that either version displayed significant Russian incompetence.

Given the importance of the cruiser, the Moskva, it is almost impossible to believe that a fire would be allowed to reach the ammunition magazine without extraordinary failures on the part of the crew, the official said.

And if it were a Ukrainian cruise missile that hit the ship, as seems credible, that displays almost more incompetence and carelessness, given that the Moskva was equipped with a sophisticated, three-layer defense against a missile strike.

However it happened, so much damage to such an important ship is a deep embarrassment to the Russian Navy and will do much to boost Ukrainian morale as a bigger fight looms in the Donbas. It will also make it harder for Russia to resupply its forces from the sea or to provide artillery cover for them, the official said.

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