The US has proposed raising tens of billions of euros in debt for Ukraine secured against the future profits generated by Russian state assets frozen by western countries, ⁦Isobel Koshiw⁩ ⁦Guy Chazan⁩ ⁦Paola Tamma⁩ ⁦Laura Dubois⁩ report on.ft.com/3Q1wqKh

Russia destroyed Trypillya thermal power station today, the biggest energy provider for Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Cherkasy oblasts.
Our source in Ukraine energy industry says with such pace Russia will destroy 100% of UA's energy capabilities by summer, making it impossible to live here

The head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has commented on yesterday's drone attacks for the first time

'Nobody will protect you but yourselves... Don't wait for air defence systems to operate, they are solving other tasks,' he told local company bosses
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After yesterday's UAV attacks on Tatarstan, acquaintances of mine in Yekaterinburg, a city *over 2,000km from Ukraine* where I spent a year as a student, are now sharing this government guidance on how to act in the event of a drone strike

On Tuesday Ukraine hit a Russian drone factory 800 miles away from the frontline. Next target, Ukrainian military intelligence says, is the Kerch bridge connecting occupied #Crimea with Russia. 'Its destruction is inevitable,' agency in Kyiv tells me theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Russia continues to blame Kyiv for the Crocus terror attack without evidence

The Defence Ministry now claims there's been a major surge in the number of men signing up to fight in Ukraine, with most saying their main motive is to 'avenge' the victims t.me/mod_russia/372…

Russian courts are now sentencing foreign nationals for 'spreading fakes about the army'

Moscow's Chertanovsky court has issued an arrest warrant for Roman Klichuk, the mayor of Ukraine's Chernivtsi

On social media he wrote about Russian war crimes
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Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Russia now has 240 military training grounds, up from under 100 in 2012

Among them, he says two new ones have been constructed in occupied Ukraine with another five planned
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Also students from Africa under similar pretenses- the factory likely has some Iranian personnel there as per the contract between the Alabuga JSC and Iran

After the latest drone attacks on Russia this morning - both over 1,200km from Ukraine - the chair of the State Duma’s defence committee Andrei Kartapolov says they will only cease once Kyiv is taken
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This morning's drone attacks on Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan are by all accounts the deepest into Russian territory since the start of the war

The Russian authorities are 'working on the issue' of removing Moscow’s blacklisting of the Taliban as a terrorist organisation, the Foreign Ministry says
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This will of course be conveniently ignored by the Russian state media so that they can continue to push the narrative that Ukraine was ultimately behind the attack

Putin has issued a series of instructions to the government on the back of his February state of the nation speech

One of them seems to be nothing less than an attempt to gain favour among kids - he's ordered a reduction in homework and tests in schools
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There’s one extraordinary front page today in Russia which sums up Moscow’s attempts to link Ukraine and the West to the Crocus City concert hall massacre. #ReadingRussia

IS hasn't yet said which of its branches/affiliates are responsible for this attack as the claim came from the group's 'news agency” Amaq, which doesn’t normally mention such info. The group may claim it under the banner of its low-profile 'Caucasus Province' branch