🇨🇭🇷🇺⚡️- Switzerland has refused Western demands to freeze additional Russian assets.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump called the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea the “smartest people in the world” and stated that “Russia did not blow up their own pipeline.”

🇲🇩 - Moldova's pro-EU president Maia Sandu has called for a "people's assembly" on April 20th to call for Moldova's integration into the EU.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️- China has imposed a no-fly zone over northern Taiwan for April 16th to April 18th

Settlements in the Artemovsk region transferred to the zone of responsibility of the RF Armed Forces from PMC "Wagner".

🇺🇸⚡️- FOX News will be hosting the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- According to Seymour Hersch, the NYT investigative journalist who uncovered the Nord Stream bombing conspiracy, the US is drafting a peace proposal for an end to the conflict in Ukraine

🇫🇷 For the first time in France's history, the number of practicing Muslims has exceeded that of practicing Catholics among 18-59 year olds.

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🇺🇸⚡️ - A truck has crashed on the highway, spilling 20 tons of contaminated soil from East Palestine - the site of the train derailment earlier this year.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- US Special Forces have been deployed to the US Embassy in Kiev

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The CIA has claimed that Iran is “two weeks away” from enriching enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️- Leaked CIA information seems to confirm that British Special Forces are in Ukraine

🇺🇸⚡️- NPR has left Twitter after being labeled “state-funded media”

🇨🇳 - A spokesman for China's People's Liberation Army referred to Taiwan's government as a "cancerous tumor that must be removed".

🇷🇺⚡️- A local in Odessa stuck a sign on the former location of a monument to the famous Soviet general Zhukov. The statue was removed during Ukraine’s “decommunization” (read: renazification) campaign in 2016.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has announced a lawsuit against his former Jewish attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million, for the breaching attorney-client relationship and unjust enrichment

🇯🇵 - Rumors were flying around earlier about a North Korean missile strike on Japan. The missile crashed in the Sea of Japan and appears to have been launched as part of a North Korean test.

🇺🇦 - The Armed Forces of Ukraine have ordered nationalist batallions to shoot soldiers planning to desert, amid preparations for the much-vaunted "Zaporozhye counteroffensive".
Ironically, those nationalist batallions are reported to be plotting a coup against Zelensky, to be staged in the event he abandons Ukraine's claim to the Crimea.