🇺🇦🇵🇱"Integration of Ukraine into NATO and the EU will be the best investment in stability" - Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak

🗣"Ukraine must win this war. And then it must succeed in the post-war period when russia will aggressively try to destabilize Ukraine and the wider region <...>. Comprehensive integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic community will be the best investment in stability and prosperity for all of us," Błaszczak stated during an online discussion regarding the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.

✍️The minister also noted that while Muscowy is not ready to accept a political solution to the conflict that guarantees Ukraine's security, the West must continue to provide comprehensive support to allow Ukrainian forces to expel all occupiers from Ukrainian territory.

🫡"There is simply no room for discussing the cessation of war; the only way to end it is to defeat russia on the battlefield and hold it accountable for the crimes it has committed. Any other issues or discussions beyond this settlement will lead to the weakening of the democratic world, to the weakening of all of us (...) and open the door for other regimes, signaling the legitimacy of aggression and all these crimes," the Deputy Prime Minister expressed.

🔥 Yesterday, two katsap BMPs with a landing force headed from Pisky to the bridge, but the guys from the 59th Motorized Brigade had other plans. The landing force fled, and one of the BMPs went with its crew to meet stalin

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🐝 Guys from the special aerial reconnaissance unit "Wild Bees" of the 518th Separate Battalion of the 1st Special Purpose Brigade shared footage of enemy destruction near Chervonopopivka.

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Situation on the frontlines as of April 20, 2023

▶️ On the Belarusian and Siverskyi direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Svatove direction — local battles continue along the contact line, and artillery shelling occurs from both sides.

▶️ On the Bakhmut direction — katsaps are trying to improve their tactical position southwest of the railway station. The enemy has taken positions in the eastern parts of Geologiv and Skovoroda lanes. The enemy continues to press near the "Alley of Roses" and Khromove.

▶️ On the Avdiivka direction — the enemy's unsuccessful offensive actions continue near Nevelske and in Mariinka.

▶️ On the Zaporizhzhia direction — the situation near Dorozhianka has been clarified.

▶️ On the Tavria direction — no changes.

🗂 Analytical note. No significant changes in the line of contact have been recorded in the last 24 hours. The enemy continues to pressure the western part of Bakhmut. As one of the fighters said, the enemy is experiencing a "groundhog year" near Nevelske.

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🇷🇺 Russia's big winter-spring offensive has failed

💬 The map shows in pink the plans of the Katsaps for the end of spring 2023: to stand on the Vuhledar-Marinka line, capture Avdiivka and Bakhmut, go to the rear in Siversk, capture the forests of Kreminna and Lyman, and improve the strategic position near Kupiansk.

✒️ The gray area is the territory that records at least some significant enemy advances in the area. Of course, there is a significant success in Bakhmut and the surrounding area, and noticeable changes near Kreminna and Avdiivka. In other areas, there are only continuous failures.

🇺🇦Everyone is well aware that the initiative is now entirely on the enemy's side, but this failure did not happen for nothing. To prevent the enemy's plans from being realized, the Defense Forces have made titanic efforts, paying with blood and iron. The katsaps want to go to Kurakhove, Avdiivka, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk - they do, but they cannot. Over the year of war, their army has gained experience, but it is still the same Soviet "red-branded" army. Over the year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have become a large and strong military unit that is undergoing modernization and receiving technically superior weapons from Western partners.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Armed Forces fight near the road through Khromove

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Situation on the frontlines as of April 21, 2023

▶️ On the Belarusian and Siverskyi direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Svatove direction — ongoing local battles along the contact line and artillery shelling from both sides. The enemy's artillery is particularly active in the Serebryansky forestry.

▶️ On the Bakhmut direction — the enemy continues to assault trenches near the highway through Kromove. Battles are ongoing near the "Alley of Roses" and the railway station: the outcome is unknown.

▶️ On the Avdiivka direction — situation clarified in Neskuchne. Yesterday, adjustments were made north of Novomykhailivka.A video of the enemy capturing one of the windbreaks near Nevelske appeared: more on this tomorrow. In addition, a video with 7 captured fighters from the 110th Mechanized Brigade appeared; based on the circumstances of the recording, this could be a staged video with captives who were captured earlier.

▶️ On the Zaporizhzhia direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Tavria direction — no changes.

🗂 Analytical note. Clashes have been recorded in many locations along the contact line throughout the day. Although the enemy is globally exhausted, they are trying to restore their offensive potential by introducing new reserves. The Bakhmut defensive operation continues despite numerous enemy attacks and the destruction of the city.

🔄 Updates to the map will come tomorrow, as a lot of information still needs clarification.

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🇺🇦If you want Ukrainian citizenship, pass the exam.

🖋Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a draft law on amendments to the Laws of Ukraine "On Citizenship of Ukraine" and "On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language" regarding the conditions for admission to Ukrainian citizenship.

📚Now, in order to obtain citizenship, one must pass exams on the Ukrainian language, history and the Constitution of Ukraine.

🛤🇷🇺 Katsap war correspondent
near the railway station in Bakhmut

🧭 Pay attention to the position of the cardinal points.

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🇷🇺 A video of the unfortunately successful assault on our positions south of Nevelske was released

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🗡️ 79th Air Assault Brigade is one of the best at using FGM-148 Javelin. The paratroopers shot down a Katsap T-90 tank which had a mine trawl that was about to clear a minefield for a potential attack on our positions

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🔥 Biowaste disposal near height 181.0, south of Orikhovo-Vasylivka

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⚔ 92nd Mechanized Brigade, shelling katsaps in a field near the road through Khromove

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Situation on the frontlines as of April 22, 2023

▶️ On the Belarusian and Siverskyi direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Svatove direction — localized fighting along the contact line and shelling from both sides continue.

▶️ On the Bakhmut direction — the fighting continues near the road through Khromove, the enemy continues to throw meat on the road. Over the past few days, the f***ers have advanced in several places in Bakhmut. First, they occupied the square formed by the Kraynya-Levanevskogo streets. Secondly, the enemy managed to push the defenders out of the area of the school #3 and the adjacent private sector. Thirdly, they managed to drive our troops out of the high-rise buildings west of the railway station. The latter is especially unpleasant in the context of the configuration of the further defense of the city. The katsaps lost their positions in Bilohorivka (L).

▶️ On the Avdiivka direction — the area of Krasnohorivka has been clarified. No other changes were recorded on the map over the last day.

▶️ On the Zaporizhzhia direction — enemy fortifications are increasing in number.

▶️ On the Tavria direction — no changes.

🗂 Analytical note. In recent days, the situation in Bakhmut has significantly worsened: both near the "Alley of Roses" and west of the train station. Heavy fighting continues near Khromove, and all recent attempts of the enemy to reach the boulevard section of Tchaikovsky Street have failed. However, the dynamics of the battles indicate that this street is becoming a front from its northern part. Unfortunately, the enemy has enough artillery to destroy the remnants of the private sector.

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🇨🇳The Chinese Ambassador to France said on LCI television channel that the issue of Crimea's belonging is "not a simple problem," calling the peninsula "initially russian."

🤕The Chinese ambassador also seems to have significant issues with international law and geography, referring to countries of the "former soviet union" that freed themselves from the "red plague" as having an undefined status.

💭"In international law, the countries of the former soviet union do not have a valid status because there is no international agreement that would materialize their status as a sovereign country," said Lu Shaye.

🇺🇦The Ukrainian ambassador to France responded to these statements on his Twitter page:

💭"Either there are clear problems with geography or such statements contradict Beijing's position 'on efforts to restore peace in Ukraine based on international law and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,'" wrote Vadym Omelchenko.

👋We would like to send greetings to Lu Shaye from Taiwan and wish him to get the pro-Russian crap out of his mouth, which he has filled his head with, and to coordinate his position with the leadership, which is slightly different in his previous statements on Ukraine. Although it is clear that the Chinese are deceiving everyone for their own benefit.

🇷🇺"russia should simply disintegrate into various small countries," says Estonian Defense Forces Commander General Martin Herem

🇪🇪In an interview with local television Eesti Rahvusringhääling ERR the Estonian Defense Forces Commander shared his thoughts on the desired future development of russia in the context of the russian-Ukrainian war.

💭"I don't see an end to this conflict until russia completely changes. It should no longer be russia. It shouldn't be a large and powerful country that thinks it has the right to do everything. russia should be broken up into small states that will not have so much power and ambition," said Martin Herem.

🧐He also noted that muscovy perceives large losses of human resources as its strength, showing that they have resources and that they can attack and attack. Therefore, there will be no end to the conflict until muscovy changes. And he sees the change of russia in its disintegration.

💭 "The military power of russia is probably greater than we want to believe, its warehouses are full of weapons, and then there is the sheer human mass, which is seemingly endless. One thing is how many of these resources are in various warehouses, towns, and villages all the way to Vladivostok. Another is the standard of losses, which someone considers a tragedy and perceives as a tragedy. We in the West live in the era of post-heroic warfare, where the loss of one person is a tragedy, and then we all discuss it. It seems to me that russia perceives the loss of 500-600 soldiers per day as a sign of strength, that 'we can.' 'We can afford to lose tomorrow; you can't, I can, and I'm going, I'll take what's there anyway.' If this standard remains, it will be very difficult for Ukrainians to stop until the last occupier is destroyed on their territory" <...> "I don't see an end to this conflict until russia completely changes," emphasized the commander.

🐐 Ahmat tea units occupied a compressor station near Spirne

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Situation on the frontlines as of April 23, 2023

▶️ On the Belarusian and Siverskyi direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Svatove direction — ongoing local battles along the contact line and artillery shelling from both sides. The enemy has intensified artillery pressure.

▶️ On the Bakhmut direction — ongoing battles near the highway through Khromove and in Bakhmut itself. The enemy has captured a compressor station near Spirne.

▶️ On the Avdiivka direction — the enemy has resumed assault actions near Novobakhmutivka.

▶️ On the Zaporizhzhia direction — no changes.

▶️ On the Tavria direction — based on several visual confirmations that there are no enemy defensive lines between Konka and the Dnipro, the territory is moving into a gray zone.

🗂 Analytical note. No global changes have been recorded in the past day. Katsaps continue to put pressure on Bakhmut and Avdiivka.

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🇨🇳Nearly 80 European parliamentarians call for declaring China's ambassador to France persona non grata

👥In a joint statement, the parliamentarians appealed to the French Foreign Minister to respond to the ambassador's attacks:

✍️«As Members of Parliament, we are writing to draw your attention to our call on the French government to take action in response to the aggressive statements made on Friday, April 21 at LCI by the Chinese Ambassador to France, Mr.Lu Shaye; statements that clearly violate international law and should be considered a threat to the security of France's European partner countries,» the statement reads.

🫡«At a time when war is raging in Europe, caused by russia's aggression against the territorial integrity of its neighbor Ukraine, it is crucial that the democratic world sends an unequivocal message to authoritarian countries to defend the sovereignty of our allies.»

👤EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell wrote on Twitter that Lu Shaye's remarks were "unacceptable."

🕊«Unacceptable remarks of the Chinese Ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of the countries which became independent with the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. The EU can only suppose these declarations do not represent China’s official policy.»