🇺🇦 About 30,000 people are mobilized every month in Ukraine but less than a third of them actually reach the combat positions, according to an analyst of the "Come Back Alive" foundation Anton Muraveynik.

According to him, approximately 8-9 thousand people make it to the frontline, while the rest "become a burden for the Armed Forces".

He noted that a significant number of people who should not have been mobilized end up in training centers: some are eligible for deferment, others undergo treatment instead of training. However, they arrive in the brigades with the status of "fully fit".

As a result, 15-50% of such soldiers are later recognized as "limitedly fit". After that, they either continue treatment, or are sent to rear positions.

The number of people in combat positions decreases, while the number in rear units increases. According to his estimates, in a brigade of 2,500-3,000 people, there may be about 50 fighters directly on the frontline.

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🇷🇺💬As a result of enemy shelling, a number of energy facilities in the Zaporozhye region were damaged, which led to a complete power outage in the region, reported Governor Yevgeniy Balitsky:

All services are in a state of high alert, and energy workers are making every effort to restore electricity supply to the maximum number of subscribers.

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🇺🇦💥 A port was again targeted in the Odessa region

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🤣🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇷We would like to help with the unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz, however, so far America has not approached us with such a request - Zelensky

"We already have experience of a blockade in the Black Sea, we could help"

Americans are constantly in contact with Iran and they don't have time for Ukraine - Zelensky

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🇺🇦Kiev is experiencing such a shortage of Patriot missiles that "it couldn't be any worse," - Zelensky.

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🇮🇷🇨🇳 According to a Financial Times investigation, Iran significantly strengthened its military capabilities by acquiring a Chinese surveillance satellite. Leaked Iranian military documents indicate that the satellite, designated TEE-01B, was obtained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force in late 2024 after being launched from China.

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🇦🇪 The UAE has abandoned its migrant workforce.

Following the start of military aggression against Iran, thousands of migrant workers in Dubai have been left stranded, unable to leave the country.

Workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines—who form the backbone of the UAE’s economy—are now facing layoffs, wage cuts, or forced unpaid leave, according to Tasnim News.

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🇺🇸 The favorite pastime of woke MAGA diehards: whataboutism.

Trump shares a post from some random Twitter nobody claiming the media had no issue portraying Obama as Jesus.

Two problems:

1. Obama himself never posted anything like that.

2. Trump says it’s “a doctor, not Jesus”… so why the weak damage control?

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🇺🇸 The Naval Safety Command confirmed in its report that an MQ-4C Triton ISR drone crashed into the Persian Gulf on April 9, as we reported.

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🇲🇩 Moldova will officially leave the CIS in April 2027, a notification has already been sent to Minsk - the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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🇺🇸💬🇨🇳🇮🇷Trump:

I wrote a letter to Xi. I asked him not to give Iran weapons. He wrote me a letter, and he is saying that he is essentially not doing that.

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🎥 ON TODAY'S SHOW!

Professor Marandi: Why Islamabad Talks Collapsed & What Comes Next

We welcome back Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi, who was part of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad, to discuss how the talks unfolded, why they ultimately failed, and whether more negotiations are in the works.

➡️7PM CET - 8PM MSK - 1PM ET - 10AM PT

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The United States and Iran have reached a “principle agreement” to extend their current ceasefire until April 22 to continue negotiations, according to the Associated Press, citing sources.

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🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇳Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the EU of preparing a major war against Russia during a UN Security Council meeting on April 13, 2026.

The meeting was the annual session on UN-EU cooperation. Nebenzia used it to deliver sharp criticism of the bloc and also took the time to address the EU Chief Foreign Affairs Embarrassment Kaka Kallas directly. His central claims were:

➡️Accusation of War Preparations: He stated that increased European defense spending proves Europe is "seriously preparing for a major war against Russia".

➡️Providing Evidence: He cited that EU defense spending reached €381 billion last year, a nearly 60% increase, ranking second only to the US.

➡️Threat of Response: Nebenzia warned that Russia would be forced to respond to these "anti-Russian attacks," adding that no conqueror who came to Russia "with the sword" has ever left unscathed.

➡️He also accused the EU of sabotaging peace efforts in Ukraine and escalating the conflict by supplying weapons.

➡️Apart from calling out EU's preparations for a mayor war, he called Brussels a New Reich, and mocked Kaka Kallas’s history knowledge — all in one speech.

Vassily Nebenzia:

“These large-scale military preparations leave no doubt that Europe is seriously engaged in preparations for a major war against Russia. This is nothing more than playing with fire since we will be forced to react to anti-Russian attacks in a mirror manner. And none of the conquerors who came to us with a sword, and there are countless of them, left Russia in good health.

Such an overtly militaristic course is far less surprising if one looks closely at those responsible for formulating it. Some comments are so absurd and ridiculous that it would be quite appropriate to raise the question of the total professional unsuitability of their authors.

In particular, the head of European diplomacy, speaking at a conference of the EU Institute for Security Studies last year, commenting on Vladimir Putin’s speech at the celebrations in China, said the following:

‘Russia turned to China and said, Russia and China fought in World War II. We won World War II. We defeated Nazism. And I thought, This is something new.’

If you know the story, it raises a lot of questions.

And this is said by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, who obviously knows nothing about the fact that it was the peoples of the Soviet Union and the Celestial Empire who took the brunt of the Second World War, suffering heavy human losses. Still, we would very much like to meet the history teacher of Ms. Kallas.

To sum up, I would like to say that apparently the EU is moving from the beautiful post-war idea of a united Europe in transit through the blooming garden to the construction of another Reich. We hope that both in the European countries themselves and in the international community as a whole, there are still sober heads who understand the risks and are ready to prevent such a development of events. Thank you for your attention.”

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🇮🇷 Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters issued a firm warning to the United States:

➡️If the U.S. continues the unlawful maritime pressure and blockade activities in the region, and persists in endangering Iranian commercial and oil shipping, it will be seen as a violation of the current ceasefire framework.

➡️Iran states it will not allow normal import and export shipping to proceed under conditions of insecurity in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, or the Red Sea if these actions continue.

➡️Tehran emphasizes it will act decisively to defend its sovereignty and economic interests.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 Alright, this blockade lasted for a long time

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🇮🇷🇺🇸The Iranian Foreign Ministry representative did not confirm media reports about an agreement with the US to extend the ceasefire.

The US must prove the seriousness of its intentions to end hostilities. They have repeatedly disrupted the negotiation process, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that the date of the second round of negotiations with the US has not been scheduled yet, and called the views put forward by the US during the first round of negotiations in Pakistan unreasonable and unrealistic.

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🇷🇺🇦🇿The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Azerbaijan state that they have reached a settlement on the consequences of the plane crash in December 2024, which soured relations between the two countries.

They agreed that the cause of the crash was an "unintentional action of air defense" over Chechnya.

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