🇺🇦☦️⚡️ - A Russian Orthodox bishop has been assaulted by ultranationalist militants in Ivano-Frankovsk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- PMC Wagner captured the Metallurg Stadium in Artyomovsk, a significant Ukrainian stronghold within the city

🇵🇱 - Opinion polls in Poland showed a marked gain in support for the right-wing, Catholic nationalist Freedom and Independence Confederation. The party is polling at 12%, twice what it received in the last Sejm elections.
Poland's governing national-conservative Law and Justice Party also pulled further ahead, leading the Citizens' Platform by 10 points. Support for the anti-Catholic United Left and minor right-wing parties remains constant.

🇮🇱 The Jewish people always believed in the supremacy of its ethnic collective over other nations.

But throughout history, this was a supremacy that lacked an apparatus for wielding control over non-Jews | Opinion

📎 Haaretz

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️All administrative buildings in Artemovsk are under the control of Russian units - Pushilin .

🏳️‍🌈⚡️ - Several admins of the pro-Ukraine "Eternal Muscovite" channel have admitted their support for sexual degeneracy, in messages leaked to various channels reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.

🇮🇷🇦🇿 - Iranian recon drones are patrolling the Iran-Azerbaijan border.

“Russians! I now appeal to all Russians, residents of Ukraine and Belarus in the Balkans are considered Russians too. Look at us and remember - they will do the same to you if you disunite and give up. The West is a chain rabid dog that will cling to your throat. Brothers, remember the fate of Yugoslavia! Don't let them do the same to you!”

-Slobodan Milosevic

🇨🇭🇷🇺⚡️- Switzerland has refused Western demands to freeze additional Russian assets.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump called the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea the “smartest people in the world” and stated that “Russia did not blow up their own pipeline.”

🇲🇩 - Moldova's pro-EU president Maia Sandu has called for a "people's assembly" on April 20th to call for Moldova's integration into the EU.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️- China has imposed a no-fly zone over northern Taiwan for April 16th to April 18th

Settlements in the Artemovsk region transferred to the zone of responsibility of the RF Armed Forces from PMC "Wagner".

🇺🇸⚡️- FOX News will be hosting the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- According to Seymour Hersch, the NYT investigative journalist who uncovered the Nord Stream bombing conspiracy, the US is drafting a peace proposal for an end to the conflict in Ukraine

🇫🇷 For the first time in France's history, the number of practicing Muslims has exceeded that of practicing Catholics among 18-59 year olds.

🌍 @European_Insider | 🕊 Retweet

🇺🇸⚡️ - A truck has crashed on the highway, spilling 20 tons of contaminated soil from East Palestine - the site of the train derailment earlier this year.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- US Special Forces have been deployed to the US Embassy in Kiev