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[01:04:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ Ukraine destroys 3 Russian observation posts in south. Ukraine's Southern Command said that Ukrainian forces also killed nine Russian troops and destroyed one Merlin-type reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle, a large-caliber artillery system, and four vehicles in the south.

[03:19:50] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ Russian media: Members of Russian government not allowed to travel abroad, Kremlin officials not impacted. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin reportedly banned government officials from leaving Russia without special permission.

[03:19:52] Twitter KyivIndependent: Permits can be issued by Mishustin only for official trips, Russian media outlet The Bell reported. According to the media, the restrictions don’t apply to employees of Russia’s Presidential Administration.

[04:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ General Staff: Ukraine downs Russian aircraft, 7 drones over past day. Ukrainian forces downed Russian Su-25 aircraft and seven UAVs, including three Orlan-type drones, three Lancet, and one Merlin, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in its morning update.

[05:04:43] Twitter DefenceU: During the holy month of Ramadan, Iftar was held in for the first time on the official level, with the participation of the President, Muslim soldiers, diplomats & the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. @ZelenskyyUa promised that it would become a tradition starting this year https://t.co/8iZLKCPiPQ

[05:19:43] Twitter DefenceU: RT @oleksiireznikov: Visiting Had a great meeting with my colleague @GiorgallasM Provided an update on the situation on the battlefield. Grateful to for its strong support of our territorial integrity, assistance in defense (trainings, incl. a course on de-mining) & humanitarian spheres https://t.co/Vkbp6Iop5K

[05:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡ ISW: Alleged leak of classified war documents highlights Russians’ fear of upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive Russian milbloggers expressed concerns over the supposed classified documents about Ukraine’s war effort, emphasizing the fear of the counteroffensive, the ISW said.

[05:49:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: “While several prominent Russian milbloggers immediately rejected the validity of the documents and suggested that they are fakes, they fixated on the possibility that the released documents are disinformation intended to confuse and mislead Russian military command,”the ISW said

[05:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: The ISW suggested that the New York Times article detailing U.S. and NATO plans for supporting Ukraine “exposed a significant point of neuralgia in the Russian information space.”

[07:34:48] Twitter KyivIndependent: These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of April 8, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. https://t.co/mH9Nx9rpWS

[07:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡UK Defense Ministry: Russia ‘highly likely’ failed to degrade Ukraine’s energy system. Russia has conducted mass missile strikes since October 2022, but the frequency of attacks has dropped since early March 2023.

[07:49:44] Twitter DefenceU: Australian Bushmasters near Bakhmut. Arsen Fedosenko https://t.co/ocgzTVx2xk

[08:49:43] Twitter DefenceU: Unlike parade grounds, the roads to victory look something like this. https://t.co/0IVURyngyv

[09:04:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Governors: Russian attacks hit 8 regions, kill 5 civilians within 24 hours. Russian attacks were reported in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts. According to the governors, five civilians were killed, and 10 were injured.

[09:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Telegraph: Twitter lifts restrictions on top Russian government accounts. The Telegraph reported that Twitter had removed search restrictions on the Russian president's official Twitter account, as well as Russia's foreign ministry and the Russian embassy in London accounts.

[10:04:43] Twitter DefenceU: Maryinka. A wounded soldier is evacuated from the battlefield by his brothers in arms from the 79th Air Assault Brigade. For more than a year, the battle for Maryinka has been nonstop. There isn't a single surviving structure in the city. However, the fortress holds. https://t.co/9NfDqTbByh

[10:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Ukrenergo: Russia fired over 1,200 missiles, drones at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since October. It was “the most difficult heating season in the history of the Ukrainian energy system,” Ukrenergo said, adding that 43% of the energy grid was damaged.

[11:04:43] Twitter DefenceU: Ukrainian and Polish presidents are passing by Jan Matejk's painting "Stefan Batory near Pskov." The painting depicts a scene from the 16th century Livonian War,when the embassy of moscow Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible begged the Polish king for peace on their knees @jakub_szymczuk https://t.co/HcFpw0viO7

[11:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Officials: Russia hits Zaporizhzhia Oblast with missiles, injures 1. Russian forces on April 8 attacked civilians in the front-line towns of Huliaipole and Orikhiv in southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

[11:19:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: Read the Kyiv Independent's April 4 report from the two front-line towns almost completely destroyed by Russia. https://t.co/B4ck0FNuoz

[11:34:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: A year ago, Russia hit the Kramatorsk railway station, packed with civilians fleeing Donetsk Oblast. The April 8 missile strike killed 61 people and injured over 100. In September, the Kyiv Independent talked to survivors about the attack and recovery. https://t.co/sWfudUGRNj

[12:04:43] Twitter DefenceU: Provisional field hospital of Ukrainian 67th Mechanized Brigade in the vicinity of Bakhmut. https://t.co/ZEyywR8y0G

[12:49:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Satellite imagery shows new 70-kilometer Russian trench in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Russia has dug a 70 kilometer long unbroken trench as part of their defensive lines in the occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, according to the Center for Journalistic Investigations. https://t.co/uf3hSrvInS

[12:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: The images, captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite, show the trench stretching from a point nine kilometers from the occupied city of Melitopol to just outside Marynivka village in Prymorskyi District. Photo: Sentinel-2 via Center for Journalistic Investigations

[13:04:44] Twitter DefenceU: On April 8, 2022, russian terrorists attacked Kramatorsk railway station, where thousands of people were waiting for evacuation. A cluster-munitions-equipped rocket was deliberately launched into a crowd. 61 civilians, including 7 children, were killed at the time. Donetsk RMA https://t.co/Sz1uBWD3wV

[13:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Explosives injure two people in Kharkiv Oblast. In the city of Izium, a 53-year-old woman stepped on an anti-personnel mine in a graveyard, while in the village of Slobozhanske, a man was seriously injured while trying to take apart an unidentified object.

[14:04:47] Twitter DefenceU: "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to April 8, 2023: https://t.co/Z1TUHuSN2S

[14:34:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡NGO: 31 deported children returned to Ukraine. Ukraine has arranged the return of 31 more children that had been forcibly deported to Russia, Mykola Kuleba, head of the NGO Save Ukraine announced on April 8. The children are expected to arrive in Kyiv in the late afternoon.

[14:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡Air Force: Increased Russian use of gliding bombs highlights need for F-16 jets.

[14:49:47] Twitter KyivIndependent: Air Force Spokesperson Yurii Ihnat stated that Russian forces are using high-explosive 500 kilogram bombs that have been modified with wings and elementary guidance systems to enable Russian planes to strike from beyond the range of Ukraine's air defenses.

[15:04:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: Burkhard said he assured Zaluzhnyi of continued weapons and training support for the Ukrainian military.

[15:04:47] Twitter DefenceU: These trenches aren’t going to dig themselves. According to soldiers of the 1st Special Purpose Brigade: "He who has not held a shovel in his hands has never fought. Because a shovel is sometimes more effective than a machine gun." https://t.co/45F9nHOpVI

[15:42:44] * steve4 joined #ukraine

[16:04:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡2 injured in Russian airstrikes on Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Russian airstrikes on the front-line towns of Orikhiv and Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on April 8 injured two civilians, according to the regional prosecutor's office. https://t.co/TLZO4LTtrT

[16:04:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: The bombs struck private residences and outbuildings, knocking out windows and wounding two men aged 56 and 67. Photo: Zaporizhzhia Oblast Prosecutor's Office

[17:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Ukraine, Poland to jointly repair T-64 tanks. Ukraine's state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom announced on April 8 that it would launch joint maintenance of Soviet-era T-64 tanks with a unit of state arms producer Polish Armaments Group (PGZ).

[18:04:49] Twitter KyivIndependent: "NATO is the only consistent security guarantee to Ukraine, and also for Europe to evade a new war of aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation," Estonian Foreign Minister @UrmasReinsalu said in an exclusive interview with the Kyiv Independent. https://t.co/eldBPS2OOh

[18:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: "NATO is the only consistent security guarantee to Ukraine, and also for Europe to evade a new war of aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation," Estonian Foreign Minister @UrmasReinsalu said in an exclusive interview with the Kyiv Independent. https://t.co/dGunIbHXla

[19:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️General Staff: Russia tries to capture entire Bakhmut, fierce fighting rages for Marinka. Russian forces continue their offensive on Bakhmut in their latest attempts to completely capture the city in Donetsk Oblast after 8 months of hostilities, the General Staff reported.

[20:19:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Zelensky: Poland to send 200 Rosomak infantry vehicles to Ukraine. Poland will provide Ukraine with 200 Rosomak infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and half of them will arrive in the nearest future, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 8.

[20:34:43] Twitter ZelenskyyUa: The values we're all fighting for in fit each nation regardless of whether it's geographically far from our people. Each values security & protection from terror. The more the world knows about aggression the faster the aggressor will lose and calmness will return worldwide https://t.co/HmsaTG9Ac2

[20:49:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Zelensky: NATO can't protect Europe without Ukraine joining the alliance. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 8 that NATO could only guarantee the protection of Europe when Ukraine officially joins the 31-member alliance.

[20:49:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: "Only together with Ukraine will the alliance guarantee real protection for Europe from any encroachment on the life of peoples — on existing borders and on the international order based on rules," Zelensky said in his address. https://t.co/ar4KRQBXIF

[20:49:45] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Governor: 2 killed, 1 injured by Russian shelling in Kharkiv Oblast. Two men were killed, and a woman was injured by a Russian shelling in villages near Kupiansk in the northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on April 8.

[22:04:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Ukraine claims Russia planning early graduations for military schools amid personnel shortage. Ukraine's military said that Russia is preparing to hold early graduations from some military schools amid a personnel shortage caused by the "significant losses" on the battlefield.

[22:04:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: In a Facebook post, the General Staff claimed that the Russian military leadership has likely decided to hold early graduations from higher military educational institutions in several Russian cities on April 29 this year.

[23:34:43] Twitter KyivIndependent: ⚡️Russia shells 4 communities in Sumy Oblast. Russian forces shelled four communities in Sumy Oblast on April 8, firing more than 79 rounds from various types of weapons, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on Facebook.

[23:34:44] Twitter KyivIndependent: According to the post, Russia shelled the Bilopillia, Khotin, Velyka Pysarivka and Myropillia communities. Russian forces used at least nine explosives to target the Myropillia community, while the Bilopillia and Khotin communities were attacked with mortars and grenades.

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