📰 Russian drone attacks on Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv oblasts kill 3, injure 18
📰 Russian drone attacks on Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv oblasts kill 3, injure 18
📰 Ukraine second only to Moldova in reform speed, top EU official says
🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-second-only-to-moldova-in-reform-speed-says-eu-membership-chief/

Marta Kos, the European Union's commissioner for enlargement, on April 20 praised the speed of Ukraine’s reforms to align with European standards and called for stronger safeguards to prevent future backsliding. Kos’ assessment comes despite criticism that Ukrainian authorities are dragging their feet on the rule-of-law and economic reforms needed for European integration. In recent months, Ukraine’s parliament has passed some bills required for EU accession but has struggled with others. Kos
📰 Ukraine to resume oil supplies to Hungary through Druzhba on April 21, Bloomberg says
🔗 https://censor.net/en/news/3611498/ukraine-to-test-druzhba-pipeline-before-eu-loan-decision
📰 Russian designer tells host to ‘suck it’ on popular internet show, sparking backlash

A new episode of Natalnaya Karta — one of the most popular entertainment shows on the Russian internet — aired last Friday, April 17. The show’s hosts, comedians Olesya Ivanchenko and Dmitry Zhuravlev, analyze a guest’s natal chart and ask them questions. The guest on the new episode was designer and pro-Kremlin propagandist Artemy Lebedev.
📰 They are just Shaheds!

A few days into the U.S.-Iran war, after Iran attacked many of its neighbors, my friend in Kyiv asked her 11-year-old son if he had heard about what was happening. Unworried, he replied they were firing "just Shaheds," and continued playing his game. Ukrainians by now have seen thousands of such attacks. Russia had been pounding Ukraine's energy infrastructure particularly hard lately, leaving precious little time for electricity to charge devices or for kids to play their video games. Iranian
📰 Moscow court fines Russian rapper Morgenshtern on ‘foreign agent’ charges

A Moscow court has sentenced rapper Alisher Morgenshtern in absentia to a seven-million-ruble fine on criminal charges of failing to comply with his obligations as a designated foreign agent, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.
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📰 Russia attacks Ukraine with strike drones (updated)
🔗 https://censor.net/en/news/3611490/russia-launches-drones-and-missiles-across-ukraine
📰 Russia’s Interior Ministry proposes banning extradition of all foreigners granted asylum in the country
📰 139 combat engagements took place since start of day: 25 of them in Pokrovsk direction – General Staff
🔗 https://censor.net/en/news/3611508/139-combat-clashes-reported-heavy-fighting-near-pokrovsk