🇷🇺🇺🇦 No safety during retreat: Ukrainian soldiers say rear defensive lines are virtually non-existent.

An article with this headline was published by the AP agency.

It cites the opinion of several Ukrainian military personnel who believe that not enough fortifications are being built for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

“It is necessary to increase the pace of construction of fortifications... so that when retreating we retreat to a prepared position. These fortifications are not enough,” said unit commander Batyar.

“There was a lack of responsibility... People didn't understand that fortifications could save lives if done in advance. Many thought that we... would not need to prepare such lines. They did not expect a new Russian offensive,” said Alexander, deputy infantry commander of the 47th brigade in the Avdeevka area.

Five commanders in Avdeevka and Chasov Yar told the AP that without well-prepared positions they could not gain a foothold in unfamiliar terrain and defend themselves without suffering huge losses.

In Chasov Yar, the lack of fortifications helped turn the situation in favor of Russia. In mid-March, the 67th Ukrainian brigade was deployed and took up positions about 3 kilometers from the city and, as its soldier said, instead of dugouts and a labyrinth of trenches, they discovered a series of holes, “barely enough to hide in during artillery attacks.” .

Under fire, “soldiers crawled out of the holes and started digging towards each other so that there would be some kind of communication between them,” he said. The soil was so sandy that when shells hit, the dug trenches crumbled.

Unable to take cover and unable to resist Russian barriers, they retreated 2 kilometers back. According to the serviceman, more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers died or went missing.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The enemy confirms the further loss of positions in Kislovka and in neighboring Kotlyarovka (Svatovo-Kupyansk direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that over the past week the villages of Berdychi, Semenovka and Novobakhmutovka have been completely liberated, and in total, 547 square kilometers of Russian territory have been liberated since the beginning of the year.

PS. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet announced those actually liberated - Solovyevo, Ocheretino, Novokalinovo and Keramika.

🇷🇺 Military attaches of foreign states at an exhibition on Poklonnaya Hill.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 They report an arrival in Kharkov. We are waiting for more detailed information.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A report from the defense of Chasovoy Yar is published by The Kyiv Independent.

The Russian Federation is constantly pressing here due to its advantage in people and weapons, and its strategy “is beginning to bear fruit: exhausted by endless positional battles, overloaded Ukrainian units are beginning to lose ground,” and the Russian Federation has already encountered the first streets of the city.

The Ukrainian military is tired of being on the front line for a long time without rotation, as well as the delay in preparing fortified defensive lines.

Ukraine's main weapon here now is drones. But 90% of Ukrainian injuries are precisely a consequence of the work of Russian drones. Although the Russian Federation attacks with a much wider range of weapons.

“Sometimes there are so many drones in the air, so many people wanting to work at the same time, that our guys end up interfering with each other’s video feed,” says a Ukrainian military officer.

Also, Russian drones became equipped with night vision, which significantly complicated the evacuation of the wounded.

“Previously, it was possible to evacuate the wounded at night in cars, but now doctors or infantry often have to pull them out on foot,” military doctors say.

The main problem of Ukraine is the lack of soldiers. Realizing this, the Russian Federation attacks in several places, creating an overstrain of the Ukrainian defense.

The city is the “gateway” to the agglomeration of four cities - from Konstantinovka through Druzhkovka to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.

🇨🇳🚀 China launched Change'6 spacecraft to the far side of the Moon

🇨🇳 Chinese scientists expect that as part of the Chang'e-6 mission they will be able to bring soil samples about 4 billion years old from the far side of the Moon to Earth, Ge Ping, deputy director of the Center for Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering of the Chinese National Space Administration, told reporters.

🇩🇪❗️Part of Berlin was covered in toxic smoke due to a fire at a factory, citizens received emergency alerts - civil defense department

🇩🇪❗️A fire in Berlin with toxic smoke occurred at a metallurgical plant of the defense-industrial company Diehl, local media write.

Diehl produces, among other things, the Iris-T air defense systems.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Chancellor Scholz laughed when asked why Taurus long-range missiles were not transferred to Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡The Russian Federation threatens Western countries with a “retaliatory strike” for attacks on Crimea.

“Moscow is warning Washington, London and Brussels that any aggressive actions against Crimea are doomed to failure and will receive retaliation,” said Russian Foreign Ministry Speaker Zakharova.

This is how she commented on the increasingly frequent hints of an imminent attack on the Crimean Bridge.

And Peskov said that “the Kremlin views Cameron’s statements about Kiev’s right to use British weapons to strike the Russian Federation as a direct escalation.”