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Ukraine’s PM reveals when Ukraine’s counteroffensive may start

Pravda Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, has stated that the Ukrainian forces’ counteroffensive may start in the summer. Source: US media outlet The Hill Details: Ukraine’s Prime Minister said in an exclusive interview that the counteroffensive may start this summer. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/12/7397469/

Attacks on Sumy Oblast: over 90 strikes in a day

Pravda Ukraine Russian occupiers fired on nine locations in Sumy Oblast on 11 April, with 91 strikes and damage recorded. Source: Sumy Oblast Military Administration on Facebook Details: The Russians fired on Bilopillia, Nova Sloboda, Seredyna-Buda, Myropillia, Khotin, Yunakivka, Znob-Novhorodske, Shalyhyne and Esman hromadas [an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and…

Russia tests intercontinental ballistic missile, its warhead hits target in Kazakhstan

Pravda Ukraine The Russian Ministry of Defence has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, its warhead hitting a target at a test site in Kazakhstan. Source: Kremlin-aligned news outlets TASS and RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian Defence Ministry Details: It is reported that the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Kapustin Yar test…

Crimean Tatar woman who refused Russian passport, held in Russian detention centre

Pravda Ukraine Leniie Umerova, Crimean Tatar who tried to get from Kyiv to occupied Crimea to visit her sick father, has been detained by Russian authorities for more than four months. Leniie’s brother says the reason for detention is that she does not have a Russian passport. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/11/7397463/

It’s quieter now, but it’s foolish to passively hope for victory – Zelenskyy

Pravda Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that Ukraine needs unity now no less than it did a year ago. Source: Zelenskyy in his nightly video address Quote: “We are now at a stage in the war when it is important for both our society and our partners not to lose sight of the path…

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries control over 80% of Bakhmut, leader says

Jerusalem Post He used a red marker pen to highlight the relatively small, mainly residential area of the city that remained to be captured by Russian forces. “There the war continues,” he said. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-738995

Arrest warrant issued for wife of Kremlin-aligned ex-politician

Pravda Ukraine The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has put Oksana Marchenko, the wife of the godfather of the Russian dictator Viktor Medvedchuk on a wanted list. Source: the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Details: Marchenko is wanted by the main administration of the Main Directorate of the Security Council of Ukraine…

Ukraine and Canada agree on updated Free Trade Agreement

Pravda Ukraine Ukraine and Canada have announced the completion of negotiations on an updated Free Trade Agreement between the two countries; this document will replace the existing agreement that has been in effect since 2017. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/11/7397452/

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence explains why Armed Forces do not leave Bakhmut

Pravda Ukraine The city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast took the brunt of the Russian invaders in the East, and leaving the city would mean allowing the Russians deeper into the Ukrainian territory. Source: Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence, on the air of national television Quote from Maliar: “It is in Bakhmut where…

Members of European Parliament and Verkhovna Rada to hold joint meeting for first time

Pravda Ukraine The heads of the committees of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) and the European Parliament will hold the first ever joint meeting of parliamentary bodies on Wednesday, 12 April. Source: This was announced by the European Parliament on Tuesday evening, reports European Pravda. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/11/7397450/