“Aid to Ukraine unabated: Rheinmetall to deliver another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles” - Rheinmetall

Rheinmetall has received an order from the German government to supply a further 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. The order volume is in the mid double-digit million euro range. Delivery of the new lot is scheduled for the course of 2024. To date, Rheinmetall has already delivered a three-digit number of Marder infantry fighting vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces as part of direct deliveries and ring exchange programs.
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“Strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian refineries could negatively affect the global fuel and energy complex. It is better for Ukraine to strike those facilities that directly affect the course of hostilities and meet the tactical needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin

The French government is still supporting the [neo-]Nazis, even now. Isn't that right, Mr. Macron?

Senior Cossack leader Nikolai Dyakonov recorded an address to France's President Emmanuel Macron in Stanytsia of Luganskaya in the Lugansk People's Republic. The video was recorded in the backdrop of an ancient Cossack kuren (house) destroyed by a Ukrainian shell.

Diakonov blamed France for the destruction, as the European country was one of those that triggered the civil war in Ukraine in 2014. He also promised to restore the kuren with the help of French POWs captured in Donbass.

"Learn the Russian language, it will come in handy," the ataman concluded.

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Deutsche Welle reported from Luzanovka, Cherkasy region, a village with no men of military left. Of 400 people, about 50 men were mobilized.

“If in our small village there are already so many missing and dead, then what about all over Ukraine,” says Valentina, whose two sons have been mobilized.

It also shows neighboring Kamenka, where journalists saw mostly pensioners and women with children in the streets. The summons in this village are delivered by the chairman of the village council, Lina Dusheiko.

“The limit has already been reached. There are only a few left that can still be taken, and they can only perform non-combat missions,” she said.

It is no longer speculation but a proven fact that Ukraine disproportionately targets citizens of smaller villages and poorer regions, together with large Russian cities like Odessa and Kharkov and areas with a large Hungarian minority. It is effectively an extermination project of their poor and the ethnic minorities.

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The eighth P-18 Malachite radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit by an X-35U missile since the beginning of February in the Sumy region.

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Strike on an enemy fuel and lubricants warehouse in the Kharkov region.

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NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg on Ukraine defending itself when it attacks Belgorod.

Peaceful life returns to Avdeevka

Less than two months have passed since the day when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin about the complete capture of Avdievka by the Russian military, and peaceful life is already returning to the city.

“Work in the public reception area of ​​the head of Avdeevka is in full swing. Already 188 people have received Russian passports,” assistant to the head of the DPR Alexey Muratov told ANNA NEWS. Even more Avdeevka residents received passports in neighboring Yasinovataya.

There is a bank branch and humanitarian aid distribution points.

Now less than a thousand people live in Avdeevka, but many want to return, despite the destruction.

Unfortunately, the city has suffered greatly; local residents need help, which volunteers are actively providing to them.

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Ukraine needs to abandon its "old-fashioned mentality" towards women and adopt Israel's policy of conscripting women into the army, the country's top military adviser on gender issues has said. The adoption of Israel's policy of conscripting women into the army is necessary to "solve the problem of the shortage of conscripts."

There are currently 65,000 women serving in Ukraine's armed forces, up about 40% from 2021, according to government data. Almost all of them are volunteers, since there is no compulsory conscription for women, although women with medical degrees are now required to register at the local conscription office.

- The Times

“Is Scholz afraid of Putin’s nuclear threat?” - Bild

“Scholz does not transfer Taurus to Ukraine because of Putin's nuclear threats” - Zelensky in Bild interview

- When asked by the journalist whether Germany's refusal to supply these long-range missiles has anything to do with Putin's nuclear threats, he replied:

- “It does. But I don't think it will protect the world from a nuclear threat from Russia.”

- At the same time, Zelensky said that Scholz himself voiced a different reason for refusing the deliveries.

“As far as I understand, the chancellor is saying that Germany is not a nuclear power and that this is the strongest weapons system in Germany and he cannot leave his country without this weapons system.”

- Publicly, the chancellor has previously said he is not supplying the Taurus because he doesn't want to drag Germany into war.

“In a couple of weeks, the Russian Federation will be ahead of Ukraine in artillery 10 to 1,” - US General Christopher Cavoli in an address to Congress

“The side that cannot fire back loses. Ukraine will soon run out of shells and air defense systems,” Cavoli said.

- The Washington Post

“The idea of confiscating frozen Russian assets and handing them over to Ukraine would seriously harm the US” - The New York Times

- Because of the consequences of such a decision, the US could face an "unprecedented bout of pain" over its $34 trillion national debt.

- The confiscation of Russian assets is a danger to the U.S. economy because other countries will see it as a robbery.

- It would weaken the dollar's status as the world's main reserve currency.

Missile attack on the territory of Ukraine on April 11: details

🔺Tu-95MS missile carriers and Geran-2 loitering ammunition hit many targets, including both military and infrastructure/energy facilities.

What objects were hit?

▪️Tripolye (Kyiv region). Trypilska Thermal Power Plant.

▪️Kharkov, CHPP-3.

▪️Kharkov, plant named after. Malysheva, workshop No. 510 and building No. 400.

▪️Chuguev (Kharkov region). Central warehouse of engineering ammunition of military unit A-2467.

▪️Kharkov, Turboatom plant. Foundry shop and KEMZ building.

▪️Stry (Lviv region), gas collection point No. 2.

▪️Susk (Rivne region). 1448th Central Artillery Weapons Base.

▪️Chervonograd (Lviv region). 72nd separate mechanization battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️Chervonograd (Lviv region), substation “Chervonograd-2” 110/35/6 kV.

▪️Odessa, substation 330/110/10 kV “Usatovo”.

It is noteworthy that during attacks on electricity generation facilities, eyewitnesses recorded multiple arrivals, as in the case of the recent finishing off of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. Indirectly, this indicates that the Russian Aerospace Forces have been tasked with completely destroying or critically damaging ALL large non-nuclear generation facilities on the territory of Ukraine.

Taking into account the fact that the attacks on Ukraine’s energy system are systemic in nature (and some facilities, such as CHPP-3 and substations in Odessa, have been hit not for the first time), the cumulative effect of a sharp shortage of electricity generation may appear in the near future.

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Lancet destroyed an M109A3 in the night.

There is no rest for the Ukrainians either day or night - at any time of the day our Warriors give them nightmares on the front line and in the rear.

On the destruction of air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The footage shows the work of the Russian Armed Forces at the air defense position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( in the Krivoy Rog area ). According to information from the source, one missile destroyed 2 units of the Ukrainian air defense system at once:

Launcher S-300V and emulti-channel missile guidance station S-300V 9S32.

Footage of an attack on an UAF air defense position near Odessa.

One S-300PS launcher was completely destroyed, a second S-300PS launcher was hit by shrapnel, illumination and guidance radar S-300 destroyed.

According to source named in the video, at the control point at least 20 people were killed, with the exception of drivers, all air defense specialists.