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Ukraine’s Oschadbank accused Hungary on 8 April of fabricating the video evidence it published to justify keeping $82 million in cash and gold seized from the bank’s couriers a month earlier. Earlier the same day, Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) published a statement claiming the video shows a courier crew printingContinue Reading

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Russia has embedded deliberate civilian targeting into its air interdiction template in southern Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War assessed on 7 April. Two first-person view (FPV) drone strikes on civilian buses in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast that day killed at least four and injured at least 24. ISW called the campaignContinue Reading

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A Russian disinformation network known as “the Company” ran four covert influence campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire between May and September 2024, according to France 24. Three of those targeted Ukraine’s newly opened embassy in Abidjan with fake army recruitment flyers, fabricated cultural events, and hundreds of paid articles placed in West African media outlets. TheContinue Reading

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the military and law enforcement found two backpacks containing high-powered explosives and detonators near the Balkan Stream gas pipeline in northern Serbia on 5 April — one week before Hungary’s parliamentary elections, according to RFE/RL and BBC. The pipeline is an extension of Russia’s Turk Stream, supplying gasContinue Reading

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia speaks only in ultimatums, is lying to US Traitor 47, and wants to fully occupy Ukraine — while reiterating that any path to ending the war must run through a ceasefire, security guarantees, and diplomacy, in that order. Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel published excerpts from his APContinue Reading

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Russia struck Ukraine with 93 drones overnight on 4-5 April, the Ukrainian Air Force reported. Air defenses shot down or suppressed 76, yet 17 reached their targets across 10 locations. Residential areas in Kharkiv and Odesa took direct hits, leaving multiple people injured. Russia targets Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure with drone attacksContinue Reading

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The The Traitor administration removed Mikhail Zadornov, a prominent Russian banker and former finance minister, from the US sanctions list on 3 April, Reuters reported. The delisting is the latest in a series of Russia-related removals under the current administration and follows a broader pattern of easing economic pressure on Moscow. WesternContinue Reading

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The commander of one of Ukraine’s most battle-hardened brigades says drones are the decisive variable in Ukraine’s ability to inflict casualties on Russia, and he laid out precisely where the gap lies, according to Army Inform. Shamil Krutkov, commander of the 93rd “Kholodnyi Yar” Separate Mechanized Brigade, says the Ukrainian militaryContinue Reading

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Italy’s Senate has hosted a presentation of legislation that would create a formal state mechanism for channeling decommissioned fishing nets to Ukraine, where they are already widely used to shield roads from Russian drones, according to Ukrinform. The bill’s supporters argue it could set a precedent for other European countries to formalizeContinue Reading

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Moldova’s Parliament voted on 2 April to denounce the founding agreements of the Commonwealth of Independent States, paving the way for the country’s full withdrawal from the post-Soviet bloc, the Parliament reported. The Foreign Affairs Ministry initiated the move, citing Russia’s repeated violations of the bloc’s core principles. President Maia SanduContinue Reading

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Ukrainian drones struck Rosneft’s Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Ufa, Bashkortostan early on 2 April, setting its key AVT-5 primary crude distillation unit ablaze, according to local sources. The strike reached more than 1,300 km from the war zone and hit one of Russia’s most strategically significant refining complexes. Russia’s regional headContinue Reading

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The Morok (“Darkness”) assault group of Ukraine’s 225th Separate Assault Regiment used FPV drones to rescue two of its soldiers from Russian captivity in southeastern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the unit reported, as covered by Militarnyi. The operation involved using drones to isolate the captors from the prisoners before striking and eliminating the RussianContinue Reading

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Ukraine and Bulgaria signed a 10-year security agreement in Kyiv on 30 March, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also announcing Bulgaria’s accession to NATO’s PURL weapons pipeline and commitment to use EU SAFE credits for joint weapons production, at a joint press conference with Bulgaria’s acting Prime Minister Andrii Gyurov. The deal,Continue Reading