🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Trump wants to end the war and will pressure Ukraine to cede territory to Russia - The Washington Post

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian troops occupied Bogdanovka. Thus, the RF Armed Forces were able to attack Chasov Yar from the north, as well as from the eastern and southern directions

🇺🇦 Due to a shortage of ammunition, Ukrainian soldiers are sent on dangerous missions: to search for unexploded ordnance on the battlefield, writes The Wall Street Journal.

They are taken, in particular, from swamps and other bodies of water, where there is a greater chance that the projectile will be preserved. We are talking about Russian shells that are fired at Ukrainian positions.

According to Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Maxim Polyukhovich, he not only has to examine the swamps, but also walk several kilometers through minefields in search of shells.

He said that "the commanders' appetite is growing" and he is sent on such missions almost every day. According to the soldier, this is dangerous because unexploded shells can be damaged and can detonate at any moment.

Other officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed to journalists the acute shortage of shells, which they have to constantly save and “shoot only at the most important targets.”

🇷🇺 The robot minesweeper "Stalker" weighing 27 tons is being tested in a special operation zone near Avdeevka in the DPR

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺 “If Ukraine loses, we all lose” - British and French Foreign Ministers David Cameron and Stephane Sejournet

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillerymen in the Kupyansk direction with pinpoint precision destroy any shelter where the enemy is hiding.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has changed its tactics of attacking Ukrainian energy compared to the winter of 2022-2023, writes the Financial Times.

The differences are as follows:

- if then the main target was distribution stations and transformers, now - power plants in specific regions, less protected than Kiev.

- the strikes are carried out by high-precision missiles and in such a way that it was impossible to restore the stations by next winter. This may take several years. "The obvious goal now is permanent, irreparable damage," the article says.

-the same number of missiles that were used during the previous campaign are now aimed at five to six energy facilities in one region

- in this way, the Russians are trying to disconnect large industrial areas and cities from power supplies.

- drones are also used for energy attacks - as a cheaper way to hit other parts of the energy system, for example, transformers.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel ends the active phase of the operation in the Gaza Strip and withdraws almost all its troops from there - The Jerusalem Post

Only the 933rd Nahal Infantry Brigade will remain on the territory of the Palestinian enclave, which will guard the conditional “Netzarim corridor” - the demarcation line from the Gaza border with Israel to the Mediterranean coast, cutting the enclave in two.

In this regard, the previously announced IDF operation to storm the city of Rafah in southern Gaza is being postponed, which the US authorities demanded from Israel, threatening serious consequences. Apparently, the Israeli leadership, directly dependent on US military assistance, was forced to agree to American demands to suspend the war.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The American Military Watch Magazine was concerned about Russian ODAB-500 bombs with thermobaric warheads.

The use of thermobaric glide bombs provided Russian forces with an even greater advantage over the Ukrainian Armed Forces in firepower. Thanks to these weapons, Su-34 missions have become even more deadly. Such warheads are well suited for neutralizing heavily fortified enemy positions: they disperse a cloud of gas into the air, which is then detonated using vacuum explosives, creating a high-pressure shock wave.

The widespread use of glide bombs has increasingly alarmed Western and Ukrainian sources: in January 2024, several Ukrainian military personnel told the NYT that the use of these bombs would provide Russian strikes with “additional destructive power,” as the 500-kilogram shell would destroy even underground bunkers.

🇷🇺 The area of the dam break in Orsk.

According to government officials, the situation will begin to stabilize no earlier than April 20. The material damage caused to the area is significant.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fire after a Geran raid at an oil depot near the village Novograd-Volynsky, Zhytomyr region, judging by the smoke, has not yet been extinguished.

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed, with the help of Iskander, a warehouse of heavy UAVs and a workshop for their production in Zaporozhye, temporarily occupied by Kiev - Russian Ministry of Defense

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of a warehouse of heavy UAVs and a workshop for their production in temporarily occupied Zaporozhye