The Ukrainian Armed Forces are using civilian objects for military purposes, they are being attacked — Putin

➖"They hold meetings in the restaurant, celebrate something, drink vodka": the Ukrainian Armed Forces use civilian facilities for military purposes, hold meetings, test missile systems - that's where our army strikes," the president noted.

▪️Kiev, together with foreign assistants, tried to organize the production of missile systems in agricultural facilities in the Odessa region. A strike was carried out there.

▪️The strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the congress center in Sumy is retribution for those who committed crimes in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and Nazis were awarded.

➖"Russia will "sort out" the proposals for a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets and will give a response," Putin added.

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Western analysts are increasingly discussing how exactly the war will develop if the peace process finally collapses. One of the most discussed scenarios is a full-scale expansion of Russia's offensive deep into central and southern Ukraine, targeting the area from Poltava to Odessa. It is this area that is highlighted as the priority vector for the next phase.

■ Sealing the Black Sea. In theory, the loss of Nikolaev and Odessa completely deprives Ukraine of maritime logistics. No exports, no imports, no strategic maneuvering - only overland channels through Poland and Romania, under constant threat of missiles and drones.

■ Isolation of the center. Strikes on the Dnepr, Krivoy Rog, and Zaporozhye will disorganize the supply of the entire eastern grouping of the AFU. Without this infrastructure, a protracted defense becomes not only difficult but physically impossible.

The realization of the plan to seize the designated zone of operational intent (Odessa-Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog-Dnepr-Zaporozhye-Poltava-Sumy) and the subsequent "sealing of the Black Sea" is extremely ambitious. Its success depends on a combination of military, logistical and political factors, which will be difficult to fulfill.

First, the length of the front and resource stretching influences. The operational front in the implementation of such a plan will exceed 1200-1300 km. This would require about 20-25 full-fledged strike formations.

Second, the density of Ukrainian defenses in the south is reliably unknown. Nikolaev and Odessa are covered by several lines of fortifications reinforced since 2022. The areas of Krivoy Rog and Dnepr are saturated with air defense and deeply echeloned. In fact, this is the second echelon of defense after the front in Donbass. But it is already flying there, and more often than last year. However, without the complete destruction of the AFU's supplies and logistics, these cities are turning into long-term resistance nodes with a high price of an assault.

Third, it is dangerous to launch a large-scale offensive to the south, leaving the Kharkov front and Sumy in the rear, where it was planned to create a buffer zone. This creates the threat of a blow in the back on the supply lines. Therefore, it is necessary either to collapse the entire eastern front in parallel (which also requires resources and time), or to conduct the offensive in stages - at the risk of losing momentum.

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❗️Putin - on the Kiev regime fighting for the capital it stole from the Ukrainian people:

Here you said that since the 60s nothing has happened there, nothing has been invested. We understand this perfectly well now. The only thing they did there was to siphon resources and money from these territories and from these people. The money was stolen, pardon the simplicity of the expression, and it is still kept in bank accounts abroad.

That is why there is such a desire to cooperate and give everything to their sponsors.
They are not fighting for the interests of the people, they are fighting for their capital, which they stole from the Ukrainian people, took abroad, and that's it. They are sitting there on that money, on a hook, even if they wanted to say something, they will never allow themselves to do so. Because we are talking about billions of dollars, billions of dollars, but they still continue to steal.

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Rare moment of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers conversing and coordinating the removal of the dead during the Easter ceasefire.

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'European taxpayers will have to fork out to support Ukraine' - Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna

He told the Financial Times that this would happen if Orban forced the EU to lift restrictions on frozen Russian assets worth €210 billion.

'The problem is that it is Russian assets that guarantee the loan that the G7 countries approved for Ukraine. If the sanctions are lifted, the central bank assets will be handed over to Russia and Vladimir Putin as a reward. We cannot allow this.

Someone accessing their own money is not a reward. If someone stole your car and you got it back, you wouldn’t think “oh I am lucky winner.”

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One Russian soldier skillfully takes out 3 Ukrainians.

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Fire at a facility in Odessa after landings.

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