🦩 Intelligence Online says MBDA is helping refine Ukraine’s FP-5. The missile now includes Western-made inertial guidance and jam-resistant GPS modules similar to those used in Storm Shadow. MBDA is a major European missile manufacturer owned by Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo. 

🇷🇺 Russia is pushing a law that lets Putin use the army abroad under the excuse of rescuing detained Russians. It means that #Russia is getting ready for limited operations against the Baltic countries without pausing its war in Ukraine.

These are Russia’s oil revenues broken down by week. It is a clear illustration of why Trump’s Iran adventure extended Russia’s ability to keep waging war. Because of this madness, more Ukrainians will die. Both civilians and soldiers. #Trump is an absolute piece of filth.

👀 Orbán and his inner circle could actually face trial in the EU over corruption. Magyar promised to join the EPPO, which would allow EU investigators to probe how billions in EU funds were used during Orbán’s rule. They’re looking at over €28 billion in public contracts. #Hungary

🧑‍⚖️ #Ukraine identified the Russian commanders behind the May 23, 2024 strike on Kharkiv’s Faktor-Druk printing house. Three guided missiles killed 7 people, injured 20+, and destroyed equipment, warehouses, and piles of textbooks.

😞 In #Cherkasy, an 8-year-old boy was killed in today's Russian strike. Nine people were injured, including a child.

📉 Want to draw attention to the recent analysis by @jakluge.de 1. Russia’s contract army pipeline is slowing down. Sign-ups fell 20% year-on-year: from 35.5k to 28k a month. 2. Signing bonuses are rising again, with the average payout now around $20,000.

👀 An explosion hit the area near the gunpowder plant in #Kazan. Locals reported multiple blasts and a fire. For now, authorities are calling it an industrial accident. Waiting for more details.

⚡ #Germany just locked in €4B for Ukraine: hundreds of Patriot GEM-T interceptors, 36 IRIS-T launchers, €300M for long-range strike power, and 5,000 AI mid-strike drones. GEM-T interceptors can shoot down cruise missiles but not ballistic ones.

💥 On April 11, Russia dropped five 250-kg bombs on a school in #Kherson, wiping out an entire section of the building. And that is on top of artillery strikes, FPV drone human safari, and random drone-dropped mines on roads in and around the city.

💥 Today, Russians tried to destroy the Pechenihy Reservoir dam in the #Kharkiv region. They hit it with six guided bobms, aiming for flooding, chaos, and an environmental disaster down the stream. This attempt failed.

🇸🇰 Slovenia’s new parliament speaker, Zoran Stevanović, says he wants a referendum on leaving #NATO, calling it part of the promises he made to voters, according to RTV SLO.

⚡ Zelenskyy rejected any EU-lite or NATO-lite option. Ukraine does not need fake membership, and Europe does not need a watered-down Ukrainian army either. Real security means full integration, not its bargain-bin version.

👀 Sukhoi aircraft plant. Fire at the Gagarin aircraft plant hit Workshop No. 46, a key link in Su-57 production. Several roof sections collapsed, pointing to major damage inside. If the shop is badly hit, production of Russia’s only so-called 5th-gen fighter slows down hard.

🪖 The screenshot from the video lists the following systems and munitions 1: Reportedly, the Koral from the Luch Design Bureau 2: A missile for the Vilkha system 3: FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile 4: Neptune cruise missile 5: SAM missile for the Osa system 6: Areion/Palyanytsia missile-drone

⚡ Zelenskyy said the Druzhba pipeline should be repaired by the end of April. Not everything, especially the reservoirs, will be fully restored, but the pipeline itself should be back in operation. All it took was for #Orban not to get reelected.

💥 The death toll in #Dnipro after the Russian ballistic strike has risen to five. A 40-year-old man has died in hospital.

⚡ Ukraine hit a storage site for Russian loitering drones at Donetsk Airport with SCALP missiles and GBU-39 bombs. SCALP is Franco-British. GBU-39 is American-made.

Looking at all the weapons and robots around #Zelenskyy, I clearly see that Russia’s goal of demilitarizing Ukraine will never be achieved. We couldn’t even have imagined all of this in 2022.

💥 Four dead, twenty-five wounded in #Dnipro after the Russian ballistic strike.

💥 Russians attacked #Dnipro with Iskander-M ballistic missiles. So far, four dead and fifteen wounded.

A Russian drone punched a hole through the wall in an apartment building this morning. #Kharkiv

#Yelets in the Lipetsk region is under attack. Most likely, Ukraine is going after Energia — a defense plant that makes batteries and power units for Russian missiles, drones, and glide bombs.

The so-called ceasefire is over, so Ukraine is back to disrupting Russia’s rear logistics, transport, command, and military supply lines. #Melitopol. A substation is on fire.

🇮🇱 Haifa accepted the Russian bulk carrier ABINSK, IMO 9303869, after 21 days of waiting, SeaKrime journalist Kateryna Yaresko reports. The vessel carried 43,765 tonnes of stolen Ukrainian wheat (!) shipped via Port Kavkaz from occupied Ukrainian territories. 

An update: European Aquatics restored Russian and Belarusian youth and junior teams under their own flags, anthems, and uniforms in February 2026. World Aquatics restored full participation for senior athletes under national flags, anthems, and uniforms on April 13. 🫠

Ukraine’s water polo team was handed a 5-0 technical defeat after refusing to play against so-called neutral Russians. 💬 “The decision was the only right one, because we have no moral right to play against an aggressor that keeps destroying our country and killing our people.”

Quick update on airspace over Russia: Crimea is getting hammered, so we’ll likely have new videos tomorrow. Otherwise, all clear.

🇭🇺 FT: The EU is ready to unfreeze €35bn for Hungary - but only if the next government meets 27 conditions, including unblocking the EU’s €90bn loan to #Ukraine and dropping Budapest’s veto on new sanctions against Russia.

37 days into this fundraiser for the 12 Guards Foundation, which evacuates animals from Ukraine’s frontline cities and supports them all the way from rescue to adoption. $2,450 left to raise out of $7,000. For people in the USA, donations are tax-deductible. #alinaCollects5

🏊 European Aquatics restored Russian and Belarusian youth teams under their own flags, anthems, and uniforms, while World Aquatics still keeps seniors neutral. Apparently, it missed the part where teenagers help assemble Shaheds in Alabuga for Russia’s war on #Ukraine.

🔝 For the first time in the full-scale war, Ukrainian forces captured a Russian position using only drones and ground robots, without infantry, #Zelenskyy said. Russian troops surrendered. In three months, Ukrainian ground robotic systems carried out over 22,000 missions.

Moment of the Russian airstrike on the central part of #Kherson city on April 11. Russians have long stopped pretending they are not hitting civilians and openly publish their strikes on Telegram.

Music to my ears. Magyar said that #Ukraine is the victim of this war, and no one should be telling Ukrainians on what terms they must accept peace. No country should be forced to give up its territory.

🫠 The 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade used captured Russian soldiers to test whether #Russia was honoring the ceasefire. They dressed them in neutral clothing and allowed an evacuation to proceed...

I think #Magyar will be less toxic than Orban, but he is still talking about a referendum on Ukraine’s EU path, keeps pushing the Hungarian minority issue, rejects fast-track accession, and is against sending weapons. That means the drama may get smaller, not disappear.

With Orban gone, Hungary should stop acting like the EU’s brake on Ukraine. That means less blocking on aid and sanctions against #Russia, and fewer political tantrums every time Brussels needs to make a decision.

🇭🇺🇺🇦 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has cancelled the recommendations to refrain from traveling to Hungary.

Kudos to #Zelenskyy for refusing to make concessions to Orbán. He did not allow oil to flow through the Druzhba pipeline that Russia had damaged, despite Europe's pressure for him to do so because of Orbán’s blackmail.

🇺🇦 On display were also an exhibition version of the Neptune cruise missile and the Areion missile-drone, a reworked version of the Palyanytsia project. Areion comes in a launch container made for the Neptune launcher, but it can also be moved and launched from a trailer or semi-trailer.

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian long-range Sichen UAV is on display at an exhibition marking Ukraine’s Defense Industry Worker Day. Warhead - 40 kg Range - up to 1,400 km Shahed-like shape ☝️

On April 13, 2025, #Sumy experienced one of the darkest mornings of the full-scale war. Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles at the crowded city centre. It was Palm Sunday – a day when many families were out in town. 35 people were killed, and over 120 were injured.

Russia is attacking the Kharkiv region with Kh-22 anti-ship missiles. No, there are no ships in the Kharkiv region. Yes, Russians don't care; they fire at #Ukraine everything they have.

🇹🇷 It turned out that The Telegraph recycled an old hardline quote from 2024 and presented it as a new threat. Turkey’s Center for Countering Disinformation rejected these claims.

🔥 Here is the burning JSC Apatit chemical plant in #Cherepovets. 800 km from the front line. Ukrainian forces continue to strike Russian chemical industry facilities that produce explosives or components used to make them.

💥 Explosions rock #Cherepovets in Russia. The target could to be the chemical plant JSC Apatit.

🇨🇳 “Nothing should block ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz," said Guo Jiakun, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC, during a briefing. Well, then talk to your friends in Iran.

Can Ukraine now get back the money Orban stole from Oschadbank, please?

🇩🇪 While Orbán is serving out his last days in power, AfD wants to revive Nord Stream, according to Welt. Vance, #Germany is waiting for you to endorse Alice Weidel.

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