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[01:19:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️CBC: Canada to extend a $1.7 billion loan to Ukraine. Canada will extend a $2.4 billion Canadian dollars ($1.7 billion US) loan to Ukraine in the coming budget year to help prop up Ukraine's finances. The measure is identified in the latest federal budget.

[02:49:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ Prosecutor General’s Office records over 76,500 Russian war crimes, crimes of aggression in Ukraine. The Russian military has committed 76,753 war crimes and crimes of aggression in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s all-out war, Prosecutor General’s Office said on March 28.

[04:04:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ General Staff: Ukrainian military repels 57 Russian assaults over past day. Russian forces are concentrating on conducting offensives toward Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Marinka in Donetsk Oblast, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its morning update.

[07:04:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of March 29, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. https://t.co/nqEuTRh7hR

[07:34:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Biden concerned over Russia's plans to deploy nukes in Belarus. "They haven't done that yet, unless something happened while I was on the helicopter," U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters on March 28, cited by CNN. "Sure, I'm concerned about that." https://t.co/0NlMKoWVIx

[08:04:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: The long-running drama over the reform of UkrOboronProm, Ukraine’s problematic state-owned defense production giant, is seeing a new round amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of the country. https://t.co/vfPyBcyRge

[08:19:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️8 injured as Russia attacks 8 Ukrainian regions over past 24 hours. Russian troops struck a total of 100 settlements, damaging 19 infrastructure facilities, Ukraine's Defense Ministry media center reported on March 29. https://t.co/onT63Sg6zV

[09:19:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Zelensky invites China's Xi Jinping to Ukraine. "We are ready to see him here," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Associated Press published on March 29. "I want to speak with him."

[10:34:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️UK Defense Ministry: Ukraine pushes Wagner troops back from Bakhmut supply line. Ukraine's military has likely pushed Russia's Wagner Group fighters back from Donetsk Oblast's 0506 route in one of its recent achievements in the Bakhmut sector, the ministry said on March 29.

[11:34:41] Twitter DefenceU: RT @DefenceHQ: Meet The Challenger 2, the latest tank to be donated to Ukraine as the UK continues to #StandWithUkraine. The @BritishArmy has been training Ukrainian tank crews on how to operate and fight with the mighty Challenger 2 tank. Read more here: https://t.co/6m9aZlgGHW

[11:34:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Energoatom: IAEA chief arrives at Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has arrived at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine's nuclear energy company Energoatom said on March 29.

[11:34:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: This is Grossi's second visit to the Zaporizhzhia plant since it was captured by Russian troops and the first one since an IAEA mission started working at the station in September last year. https://t.co/uh5crfqh6S

[11:34:44] Twitter DefenceU: RT @oleksiireznikov: Marder is an excellent example of German quality. I've tried it myself. Look forward to taming Leopards soon. I love the way they roar! Would be happy if @AnkaFeldhusen can join me. Let’s do it together! Thank you to @Bundeskanzler, Boris Pistorius & the people! https://t.co/uTE8hwewpV

[12:34:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Media: Spain to deliver first Leopard tanks to Ukraine after Easter. Span will send six out of ten Leopard 2A4 tanks it has pledged to Ukraine right after Easter, Spanish news outlet El Pais reported on March 29, citing its sources in the government.

[12:34:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: The exact date of the tanks’ delivery is unknown. Catholic Easter will be celebrated on April 9 this year. On March 23, Spain’s Defense Ministry said it would transfer the first six Leopard 2 tanks by the end of the following week. https://t.co/dQd4GeJN0z

[12:49:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Moscow Patriarchate refuses to leave Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. https://t.co/KkCQqEMd50

[12:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: The abbot of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo, said on March 29 that he and other members of the Russian-controlled church have the right to stay and won't leave the Lavra until the end of the ongoing legal proceedings, reported Ukrainska Pravda.

[12:49:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images

[14:04:58] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Poland discusses creation of coalition to boycott 2024 Olympics over Russian participation.

[14:05:00] Twitter KyivIndependent: "Such a decision should be made in a wider coalition of countries, and only then, if it is possible to go ahead with a broad front, it will be possible to talk about tough decisions and recommendations," said Marcin Pszydach, head of the Polish presidential foreign policy bureau.

[14:19:48] Twitter DefenceU: "Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love." Ovid Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to March 29, 2023: https://t.co/dXRsi2WaAV

[14:19:52] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Official: Russia trying to undermine trust in Ukraine's decisions about Bakhmut. To achieve this, Russia is conducting a psychological operation, presenting the battle for Bakhmut "as an apocalyptic event," said Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar. #WarDisinfoWatch

[14:19:54] Twitter KyivIndependent: "Overwhelmed by the approach of 'the end,' the frightened society would begin pressuring the country's leadership to stop defensive operations, according to the enemy's plan," explained the official. https://t.co/UbId8Kxtof

[14:19:56] Twitter DefenceU: RT @KpsZSU: While someone hesitates, doubts and argues, we have lost another future F-16 pilot... Major Denys Kyrylyuk, deputy commander of the tactical aviation brigade's aviation squadron 831, died on March 28. 80 combat sorties. We will never forget you. https://t.co/gqUGXOTnJr

[14:34:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Russia to launch drills of Yars ICBM systems. The Russian Defense Ministry announced on March 29 that strategic military training has begun with the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system, boasting a stated range of 11,000 kilometers.

[14:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: Preparations to fortify the southern front line look well underway, but the spring counteroffensive promised by the Ukrainian government still seems to be in the distant future for the troops stationed there. Our @AlexanderQuery talked to these soldiers. https://t.co/5cDx6UtTIm

[15:04:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: The long-running drama over the reform of UkrOboronProm, Ukraine’s problematic state-owned defense production giant, is seeing a new round amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of the country. https://t.co/vfPyBcyRge

[15:04:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Putin admits sanctions may hurt Russia’s economy. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin admitted that Western sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine could negatively affect the country’s economy, as reported by the Russian state-controlled RIA Novosti agency.

[15:19:41] Twitter DefenceU: The white flag of the russian Olympic team is dripping with the blood of innocent Ukrainian civilians. #boycottrussiansport https://t.co/htv4ZjrGR2

[15:34:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️National Bank of Ukraine revises GDP growth forecast for 2023. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects Ukraine's GDP to grow by 1% in 2023, Forbes reported on March 29. The NBU originally forecasted a 0.3% growth in 2023.

[15:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Mine explosion kills 2, injures 2 in Kharkiv Oblast. Two people died and two were injured by a mine explosion in Kharkiv Oblast, the State Emergency Service said on March 29. The incident occurred in the city of Barvinkove, about 50 kilometers southwest of liberated Izium.

[15:49:47] Twitter KyivIndependent: According to Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov, the two fatal casualties were a 16-year-old boy and a 34-year-old man.

[15:50:01] Twitter DefenceU: Kharkiv, a city 30 km from the russian border. russians expected to capture it in a day. When they failed, they took revenge on the city with relentless terror. The story of those who resisted in the 8th episode of the "Kids of Bomb Shelters" series by @ulybinyulian 1/4 https://t.co/3GU4bnnbZu

[16:04:42] Twitter DefenceU: Shells, missiles, bombs… russians sought to turn the lives of the city’s residents into hell. They were shelling residential areas and infrastructure daily to make cold and darkness into russian allies. 8th episode of the «Kids of Bomb Shelters» series by @ulybinyulian 2/4 https://t.co/a41tjbPqYW

[16:04:43] Twitter DefenceU: Due to broken elevators, hungry elderly people were trapped in their cold and dark apartments for weeks. Children spent months living in basements and subways due to shelling. Besieged Kharkiv in the 8th episode of the «Kids of Bomb Shelters» series by @ulybinyulian 3/4 https://t.co/nBbd1iXztV

[16:04:44] Twitter DefenceU: They survived. The Synenko family - Oleksandr, Olga, and their five children from Kharkiv - in the 8th episode of the «Kids of Bomb Shelters» series by @ulybinyulian. They may have run out of food and candles, but they never ran out of love. 4/4 https://t.co/Bemr4cvN1X

[16:04:54] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Reznikov: Counteroffensive planned in several areas in spring. Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in an interview with Estonian television channel ERR that the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces is planning a counteroffensive in several areas in spring.

[16:04:56] Twitter KyivIndependent: The minister believes that in 2023 the world will see “positive changes for Ukraine." "I am sure that we will continue to liberate temporarily occupied territories, as was done in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson (oblasts). This will all continue," he said.

[16:34:58] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️CNN: Russia & US suspend nuclear-related communications. U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb said that the U.S. had taken a "diplomatic countermeasure" in response to Russia's decision to no longer provide data on its nuclear arsenal, CNN reported.

[16:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Governor: Russian shelling injures 3 in Podoly, Kharkiv Oblast. Three women, aged 70, 69, and 68, received shrapnel wounds as a result of the Russian shelling of Podoly village on March 29, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

[17:04:48] Twitter ZelenskyyUa: Провів продуктивну розмову з @GiorgiaMeloni. Говорили про наші двосторонні та міжнародні ініціативи. Шлях до миру в – повне виведення російських військ з території і реалізація нашої формули миру. Вдячні друзям за підтримку. Працюємо далі!

[17:19:46] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️General Staff: Russian assault on Bakhmut continues with 'partial success,' Ukraine still holds the city. The Russian military has had "partial success" in its ongoing assault on Bakhmut, but the Ukrainian military still holds the embattled city, the General Staff reported.

[18:04:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Air Force: Ukraine needs 4th-generation fighter jets, no time to waste. Ukraine urgently needs fourth-generation modern fighter jets, Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said. He added that the Soviet MiG-29 fighter jets supplied by Poland and Slovakia were not enough.

[18:19:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Wallace: More than 220,000 casualties on Russian side. Over 220,000 Russian troops have been killed or injured since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News, citing U.S. intelligence.

[19:19:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Reuters: Germany to provide additional 12 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine. Germany has approved additional military aid for Ukraine worth 12 billion euros, Reuters reported on March 29.

[19:19:42] Twitter KyivIndependent: The aid package comprises 3.2 billion euros that will be distributed in 2023, as well as credit lines worth 8.8 billion euros that will be allocated between 2024 and 2032.

[19:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️US State Department denies Russia formally indicated 'change' in nuclear-related communications. US State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel denied on March 29 that Russia had officially suspended all nuclear-related communications, CNN reported on March 29

[19:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: Other than the "diplomatic countermeasure" taken by the U.S. to withhold a biannual data update, a State Department spokesman told CNN that the U.S. continues to "fully implement the New START treaty, including the central limits.”

[20:04:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Minister: Croatia hopes to provide Ukraine with Mi-8 helicopters 'in near future.' Croatia hopes to provide Ukraine with Mi-8 helicopters in "the near future", Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banožić said at a press briefing on March 29. He didn't specify the number.

[20:04:49] Twitter ZelenskyyUa: Thank you to everyone who supports the struggle for independence! didn't waste a single week during the full-scale war – we're constantly strengthening our state, our Defense & Security Forces, our confidence in advancing towards victory. Glory to our warriors! Glory to ! https://t.co/BGwMwEk03x

[20:49:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Zelensky: Democracy needs victory this year. President Zelensky spoke of Ukraine's daily fight for democracy during the online Summit for Democracy on March 29, Voice of America reported. "The enemies of democracy must lose, and our national goal is to win," he said. https://t.co/NfJLeX7aUJ

[21:04:51] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Ukrenergo: Ukraine signs multilateral emergency assistance agreement. Ukrenergo, the state-owned power grid operator, said that Ukraine can now receive extra technical assistance with electricity from more EU countries through a multilateral emergency assistance agreement.

[21:34:41] Twitter KyivIndependent: Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive involving Western tanks may begin in April or May. https://t.co/D0w4tkEXLF

[23:19:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ Russian forces attack 4 communities in Sumy Oblast. Russian forces attacked Bilopillia, Znob-Novohorodske, Seredyno-Buda, and Shalyhyne, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on March 29. No casualties or destruction were reported.

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