🇺🇦The situation in Ukraine

A TCC worker with a machine gun threatened a man with a child, but got a beating from concerned citizens

🇺🇦Ukraine. The men who came to the church to light the Easter cakes, seeing the TCC workers, ran in all directions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Pursuit of a Ukrainian BTR-4 and its destruction by FPV drones in the Kupyansk direction.

🇻🇦⚡️Pope Francis has died, Reuters reports, citing the Vatican

According to a medieval prophecy about the popes, the current one is the last one before the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ...

🇻🇦The cause of Pope Francis' death could have been a stroke or a cerebral hemorrhage, writes the newspaper La Repubblica.

🇻🇦❗️Pope Francis has died of a stroke, the Vatican has confirmed.

The pontiff fell into a coma and suffered irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse.

🇺🇸🇨🇳Trump Wants to Meet Xi Jinping in Person

However, Beijing fears that the Republican will turn the leaders' meeting into a spectacle and wants the US to appoint someone responsible for trade negotiations, Politico writes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Putin confirmed that in Sumy the Russian Armed Forces attacked a facility where Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were being awarded for their "successes" in the Kursk region.

🇺🇦Footage from the Poltava pre-trial detention center, medical unit office.

According to the investigation, the "torture chamber" was set up on the territory of the medical unit. There, people were tied to a metal bed for several days without food, water or toilet.

This is how they “punished” people who refused to cooperate with the administration, violated the rules, or complained about the actions of employees.

💵❗️Gold prices exceeded $3,500 per ounce for the first time in history

🇺🇸❗️Trump promised to reveal the contents of his peace plan for Ukraine this week

📍According to a source for The New York Post, this plan could include the deployment of European troops if a ceasefire agreement is reached.

📍There is also talk about “resilience forces” that should become part of the security guarantees that Kyiv needs.

📍Also under consideration is the creation of a peacekeeping force to monitor the ceasefire – a “joint commission” involving Russia, Ukraine and a third non-NATO country that would monitor the front lines. The US could be involved, but not as a military force on the ground, the source said.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukraine is ready for negotiations with Russia in any format after the ceasefire, Zelensky said.

It is also reported that tomorrow the US may offer to officially recognize Crimea as Russia's and freeze the front line as part of a peace agreement

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Freezing the conflict along the current front line was Vladimir Putin's proposal, Western media say

According to their information, Trump expects a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia to be concluded by April 30, by which time Russia will allegedly completely expel the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Kursk region and end military operations.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸❗️ Ukrainian delegation plans to ignore Trump's 'peace plan' in London talks - Axios

The New York Times also reported that Zelensky disrupted the negotiations by refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

US Secretary of State Rubio has cancelled a trip to London, where talks on settling the Ukrainian conflict will take place, amid Zelensky's words about refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸US withdraws from negotiations , says Ukrainian MP Bezugla

An hour earlier, US Secretary of State Rubio cancelled a trip to London, where negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict will take place, against the backdrop of Zelensky's words about refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦The Trump administration has shut down an interagency task force "gathering intelligence on Russian war crimes in Ukraine," the Washington Post reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The publication added that the position of group coordinator was also abolished.

🇺🇸❗️American billionaire Elon Musk, amid falling profits at his company Tesla, said that starting next month he will reduce his participation in the work of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"My time on DOGE will probably be significantly reduced next month," Musk said on a conference call with investors for his electric car company.

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️EU refuses to lift sanctions against Russia in talks with Americans — Reuters, citing diplomats

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺❗️Russia will never participate in negotiations where the deployment of European troops in Ukraine is discussed — Matviyenko