This is exactly why Ukraine has recently intensified strikes on Russia's oil facilities and especially export hubs:

Iran war doubles Russia's main oil revenue to $9 bln in April.

🇫🇷 La possibilité d'une "guerre ouverte" avec la Russie reste "ma préoccupation première", a déclaré jeudi le chef d'état-major français des Armées, le général Fabien Mandon, qui avait déjà mis en garde contre le risque d'un "choc dans trois, quatre ans".

➡️ u.afp.com/SEkK

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

Russians hit bus in Nikopol: four killed, 16 injured – photos Four people were killed and 16 others were injured as a result of a Russian strike on a bus in Nikopol on the morning of 7 April.

💔 Russians hit bus in Nikopol: four killed, 16 injured

Russian FPV drone hits bus in rush hour attack as strikes kill 8, injure 52 across Ukraine At around 9 a.m., a Russian FPV drone, guided by a Russian operator, deliberately struck a passenger bus in central Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing three people and injuring 16 others. Three o...

⚡️ Russian FPV drone hits bus in rush hour attack as strikes kill 8, injure 52 across Ukraine.

"This is deliberate Russian terror against peaceful cities and civilians," Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said.

Ukraine asked to ease attacks on Russian oil refineries amid Iran war price surge, Budanov says "We are receiving certain signals about this," Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, told Bloomberg.

⚡️Ukraine asked to ease attacks on Russian oil refineries amid Iran war price surge, Budanov says.

"We are receiving certain signals about this," Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, told Bloomberg.

À Kiev, l'ancien patron de la CIA apporte son soutien à l'Ukraine et salue «l'expertise» de son armée L'Ukraine a été visée, ce vendredi 3 avril 2026, par une attaque à grande échelle lancée par la Russie, avec plus de 500 drones kamikazes lancés dans le ciel ukrainien en journée. Pendant ce temps, à ...

🎧 À Kyiv, loin du bruit de Washington, la voix d'une autre Amérique: l'ancien patron de la CIA apporte son soutien à l'Ukraine et salue «l'expertise» de son armée 👇

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Russia increases attacks on civilians, killing 16 and injuring 94 more In one of the worst attacks, a Russian drone targeted a market in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing at least five people and injuring 27 on the morning of April 4.

⚡️Update: Russia's attack on market in Nikopol kills 5, injures 27.

The number of victims injured in a Russian attack on a market in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, has risen to 27, local authorities reported. Russia struck the market the morning of April 4, killing five people.

This was once a bustling mall in Kharkiv, now a ruin bombed by Russia. Today, only dust and ghosts dwell here.

Map of Ukraine with several regions highlighted in red for air raid alerts. Concentration of drones over Kyiv

🔴 Kyiv is under attack this morning. A fire started in an office building of Darnytsia district. Drones continue to target the capital and beyond.

Source: military administration

Ukraine war briefing: Russian army records almost no territorial gains for first time since 2023, analysis shows Russian advances slowing, thinktank’s data shows; 14 killed in Ukraine in massive drone and missile salvo. What we know on day 1,501

"Russian army records almost no territorial gains for 1st time since 2023: The ISW attributed the slowdown to Ukrainian counteroffensives, but also to “Russia’s ban on using Starlink terminals in Ukraine” & “the Kremlin’s efforts to restrict access to Telegram”."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

🔴 In Chabany, Kyiv region, Russians attacked a veterinary clinic, killing at least 20 animals, injuring many others.

Rescuers carried out an emergency evacuation of animals, provided oxygen & tried to stabilize tje injured ones.

Source: State Emergency services of Ukraine

🔴 Zhytomyr region: Russia killed one person, injured another 10.

18 buildings were destroyed, of which 9 were residential buildings. More than 100 residential buildings, 55 outbuildings, and 2 shops were damaged.

Source: State Emergency services of Ukraine

On top of having killed at least one person in Bucha district near Kyiv & injuring several others, Russia also killed at least 20 animals in a veterinary clinic as part of its ongoing drone attack today against Ukraine.

Reminder: Moscow launched ~ 500 drones as of this morning.

Info: Ukrinform.

Rheinmetall and housewives with 3D printers in the kitchen: how a European defence giant underestimates the Revolution on the frontline An open letter to Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall

"A €500 FPV drone that destroys a €4 million tank is not a borderline case. It is a textbook innovation event: minimal input, maximum output, novel process, replicated at four million units per year."

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/...

Ukraine: les évacuations de trains de passagers de plus en plus fréquentes face aux attaques russes Depuis plusieurs mois, la Russie a intensifié ses frappes sur le réseau ferroviaire ukrainien. Ces attaques ne se limitent plus aux infrastructures, elles visent aussi les trains de passagers, en gare...

🇺🇦 Depuis 2022, la Russie a lancé plus de 5000 attaques sur le chemin de fer ukrainien. Les trains de passagers sont eux aussi visés et les voyageurs fréquemment évacués à même les voies en raison du danger imminent des drones.

A bord, un passager témoigne pour @rfi.fr 👇

www.rfi.fr/fr/europe/20...

Powerful talk by Olga Burlyuk on the legacy of a dire lack of expertise on Ukraine, its history, language, and scholarship, in Western Europe and beyond, its structural roots and severe implications

And this historical-epistemic fact:

“Truths doesn’t lie in the middle. Truth lies where it lies” 🔥

Helen McEntee is making her first trip to Ukraine since becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence. For more on this Emmanuelle Chaze, freelance journalist based in Ukraine.

🇮🇪🤝🇺🇦 Today during her first visit to Ukraine since taking office, Irish Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister Helen McEntee reiterated Ireland's support & announced "an additional €40.3 million in humanitarian aid and stabilisation support".

🎧 My report for @news.rte.ie 👇

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

1/ With losses escalating in Ukraine, a Russian region has ordered businesses to send their employees to fight. Varying recruitment quotas have been set depending on the size of the business. The 'voluntary-compulsory' scheme appears to be a de facto form of mobilisation. ⬇️

Informe desde Kiev: diplomáticos visitan Bucha tras cuatro años de la masacre

🇺🇦 Hoy se cumple en Ucrania el 4. aniversario de la liberación de Bucha. Durante las semanas de ocupación rusa, en 2022, 501 habitantes fueron ejecutados por los soldados rusos. Un trauma que sigue muy presente para los ucranianos hoy en día.

Mi informe desde Kyiv 👇

www.france24.com/es/video/202...

Butch We remember. We will not forgive. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the liberation of the city of Bucha from Russian occupation. “For me, Bucha is a personal pain. During the days of its occu...

The statement of Ukraine's General Prosecutor, Ruslan Kravchenko, at the time (2022) Prosecutor of Bucha district, on the war crimes he was one of the first to witness first-hand.

gp.gov.ua/en/posts/buc...

Reportage international - Les drones intercepteurs Strila en Ukraine Avant la guerre au Moyen-Orient, les drones intercepteurs étaient surtout une affaire qui regardait l'Ukraine. Mais depuis plus d'un mois, ces drones attirent tous les regards. Alors que Kiev continue...

🎧 Pour survivre, l'Ukraine a dû développer ses capacités de défense contre les drones kamikazes, et son expertise des drones intercepteurs est désormais convoitée.

Les entreprises 🇩🇪 Quantum Systems & 🇺🇦 Wiy Drones s'allient pour produire en masse les drones Strila 🏹

Reportage @rfi.fr 👇

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NEW: Ukraine’s operational and strategic ability to inflict mounting costs on Russia is generating increasing anxiety in the Russian ultranationalist information space.

Read more in the March 30, 2026, Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar033026

Thanks for saying it out loud, I had typed this exactly this morning and then I remembered that for some of my bosses I'm already "an activist" because I dare to say Kyiv instead of Kiev 😅

"Housewives" and "Lego": Rheinmetall says it respects Ukraine after CEO's controversial remarks German defence concern Rheinmetall has said it has "the utmost respect" for Ukrainian weapons manufacturers after its CEO Armin Papperger compared Ukrainian drones to "Lego bricks" made by "housewives...

After 4+ years of full-scale war, the CEO of one of a major defense concern still hasn't grasped that Ukraine has more expertise, being forced to urgently develop it, than engineers manufacturing war tools without facing an immediate existential threat.

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Russian Oil Companies May Declare Force Majeure After Ukrainian Attacks Russian oil companies have reportedly warned buyers that they may declare force majeure on supplies from Baltic Sea ports. The reason is ongoing Ukrainian strik

🔥❌ Russian oil companies have reportedly warned buyers that they may declare force majeure on supplies from Baltic Sea ports. The reason is ongoing Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure.

Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/russian-oil-...

Nous ne sommes pas prêts pour les ingérences dans notre élection présidentielle de 2027.
Je suis sidéré de voir l’action publique engager nos moyens de contre-ingérence contre les fakes grossiers sans agir sur tout le spectre de l’action informationnelle ennemie.

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike oil terminals in Russia's Leningrad Oblast in third straight night of attacks Ukrainian drones reportedly struck oil terminals in the port cities of Ust-Luga and Primorsk in Russia's Leningrad Oblast overnight on March 27, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

⚡Ukrainian drones reportedly strike oil terminals in Russia's Leningrad Oblast in third straight night of attacks.

Ukrainian drones reportedly struck oil terminals in the port cities of Ust-Luga and Primorsk in Leningrad Oblast overnight on March 27, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

Merci 🙏 j'en ai aussi parlé à plusieurs reprises sur RFI et sur Radio Vatican.

Oui, ces fausses équivalences dans beaucoup de médias sont vraiment navrantes, et je tiens à préciser que les correspondants sur place ne sont pas responsables des bandeaux et/ou des lancements lus par les présentateurs. Ces derniers temps, "l'Ukraine a répliqué" est aussi hallucinant.