A Ukrainian drone strike triggered a large fire near the Vostochnaya mine in Gukovo, Rostov region in Russia, with locals reporting a powerful explosion.

🚀🇺🇦 A new batch of missiles for Patriot arrived "these days", - Zelensky

❗️Russia wants to have a buffer zone along the border — its own and Belarus’s, this also includes Chernihiv and Sumy regions, — Zelensky

❗️The main goal of the Russians is the Pokrovsk direction. The Russians want to capture Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka, Pokrovsk by the end of April, as well as shell the front-line territories — Kherson, Dnipro, Nikopol, Odesa.

❗️As soon as the weather allows them to go on the offensive, they will try to do so. When the weather is worse, they will use drones more. Wherever they can terrorize with FPV drones, they will do so. We must be ready for this, because this is their tactic.

Trump warns Iran over reported tanker tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, urging Tehran to stop immediately and accusing it of failing oil transit commitments; he also declares “victory” on blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions and rejects criticism.

113/128 drones shot down 💥🇺🇦

🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 WSJ: China quietly pushed Iran toward U.S. talks during the war, gaining diplomatic credit with Xi and Trump.

Beijing want to build leverage ahead of their summit, where Xi is expected to press Trump to move closer to China’s position that Taiwan should reunify with the mainland.

❗️Strikes hit the Volgograd-Tikhoretsk oil product pipeline, a major diesel supply route in southern Russia, running from the Volgograd refinery via Tinguta to Tikhoretsk and onward to Novorossiysk’s Sheskharis export terminal, Russian media confirms.

If sanctions against Russian oil were lifted because of the war in the Middle East, will they return now that there is a ceasefire? The answer to this question will reveal the real reason for their lifting, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Rai Italia.

“In my opinion, Russia has deceived the Americans again — deceived the President of the United States. The Russians lied about the role of their oil supplies in maintaining the stability of oil markets. If the US reimposes sanctions, that will be fair. But if not…

We heard that Russia wanted the Americans to buy certain energy assets in Europe that belong to Lukoil. I ask myself the question: ‘If I want to sell energy assets that are sanctioned, what do I do?’ I come up with a scheme to lift the sanctions. How else could I sell them?’”

🇨🇳🇹🇼👀 China's President Xi Jinping received Taiwan's main opposition party leader on Friday, in a rare meeting which saw both sides stress a desire for cross-strait peace, - BBC

"The leaders of our two parties are meeting today in order to safeguard the peace and stability of our shared homeland, to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and to allow future generations to share in a bright and beautiful future," said Xi in a meeting at China's Great Hall of the People on Friday.

He added that China was willing - on the common political foundation of opposing
Taiwan independence - to strengthen exchange and dialogue together with various parties, including the KMT.

Xi also reiterated that those on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese, and that they all wanted peace.

In response, Cheng said the "rejuvenation of the Chinese people is a shared aspiration of the people on both sides of the Strait".

She added that it would be a "positive contribution to world peace and human progress".

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