🛢️📉 Russia’s oil industry is facing serious export challenges as Ukrainian drone attacks continue to hit key infrastructure. At the same time, Moscow plans to halt oil transit from Kazakhstan to Germany.
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🇪🇺 European Union to approve €90 billion loan to Ukraine on Wednesday, - Politico
🚁 In Portland, UK, a German Sea King Mk41 helicopter was prepared for transfer to Ukraine, - Militarnyi
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❗️ We will negotiate, buy, exchange, sometimes even blackmail to get missiles for air defense, — Zelensky
🇺🇦 Ukraine is not seeking an alternative to the EU, but an alliance of Ukraine, the UK, Turkey, and Norway would make the EU the strongest in the world, — Zelensky
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🇺🇦 Ukraine expects oil to resume flowing through the Druzhba pipeline as soon as Tuesday, - Bloomberg
🚀 We need to make our own anti-ballistic system in a year so as not to depend on Patriot. This is realistic, but very difficult due to questions in the components, — Zelensky
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⚡️Also UAV depot hit in the area of Novaya Karakuba and an enemy command and observation post near Blagodatne in the Donetsk region.
🇪🇺 Ukraine is offered "symbolic" EU membership, — FT
💥 SSO hit enemy arsenals and logistics hubs in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia.
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🔥 It was also confirmed that targets in Sevastopol (Crimea) were hit this night - a large landing ship of project 1171 and a large landing ship of project 775.
💥 In addition, enemy ammunition depots were hit in the areas of the settlements of Urzuf and Loknya.
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💥 The image from Sentinel-2 satellite shows damage to at least two buildings of Atlant-Aero plant in Taganrog.
🔥 ATESH agents successfully disabled a substation in the Voronezh region, disrupting supplies to the Russian army in the Kharkiv direction.
💥 BAVOVNA in Novocherkassk!
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VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝
⚡️BAVOVNA at Tuapse refinery
🔥 Gvardiyska oil depot in Crimea was hit.
🔥 Large landing ships and Russian radar in Crimea - “Prymary” of GUR hit targets
🔥 Sevastopol, remains of petroleum products in the tank have been burning for the third day.
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⚡️'It's disrespectful to come to Moscow and not Kyiv' — Zelensky voices doubts as meeting with Witkoff, Kushner expected.
A rather menacing tweet from Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna.
An interesting assessment of insights for #Taiwan from the war in Iran, from @SethGJones and @dbyman
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“Ukraine is acting & performing like it has the strategic momentum in this war; there is a fair argument that maybe now it does.” My latest. mickryan.substack.com/p/turning-th...
Escalation without a theory of victory isn't strategy. It's a managed failure playing out in real time.
⚡️Two police officers under suspicion of negligence for Kyiv mass shooting response.
Two police officers in Kyiv have been formally notified of suspicion over their actions during the mass shooting in the city on April 18, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.
3/ Ukraine continues to expand its cooperation with Gulf States.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Borova direction and western Zaporizhia Oblast.
Russian forces recently advanced in northern Sumy Oblast and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka and Dobropillya tactical areas.
2/ Russian forces continue to struggle to defend Russian infrastructure against repeated Ukrainian strikes.
Russian forces attempted to use long-range one-way strike drones to assassinate Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, a Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) advisor on defense technology.
#Ukraine situation report Apr 20, 2026
⚡️Russian drone attack on Sumy injures at least 6, damages medical facility.
Numerous explosions were heard across the city, and damage was reported to residential buildings, cars, and a medical facility.
Hundreds of antifascists took to the streets of Manchester this weekend to challenge the fascist organisation Britain First.
Trump ordered Texas to redraw its maps mid-cycle — not because the census required it, but because they know they can't win a fair fight in 2026.
Virginia votes tomorrow. Matching the GOP isn't enough —
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Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding
Seriously,
I didn’t blow a 20 odd point lead in the last election or get trounced in my own riding.
And nobody’s crossed the floor out of my caucus.
And my vote didn’t collapse in each of three by-elections last week.
And nobody likes Mark Carney.
Everybody likes me!
I’m actually nice!
🤷🏼🥰🤷🏼
Allegedly tRump tried to grab the nuclear codes in a White House meltdown—only for the Joint Chiefs chairman to stand up and say “No.” Apparently, even the military knows this unhinged man is too dangerous for the football. How much longer can America risk it?
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We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.
Imagine a California where families and workers don't just survive, they flourish. That’s the roadmap.
Better schools, housing that’s affordable, cleaner air, and a health care system that sees you as a human being first.
Let’s make it happen.
Don't let the door .....
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It doesn't appear to be working. If anything, Donald's mental health seems to have gotten worse, if even possible.
Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Let’s keep reading.
