US investors estimate the probability of a peace deal on Ukraine at 70%, says the American bank Goldman Sachs, after analyzing bond prices “Our modeling shows that the current market price of a peace deal has increased from less than 50% before the US elections to about 70% now,” the report says. The peak was reached in February, at 76%.
The United States is removing military equipment and personnel from the logistics hub for aid to Ukraine in Jasionka, Poland, leaving coordination of their work to Poland and NATO, the US European and African Command says. “The important work to facilitate military assistance to Ukraine through Jasionka will continue under Polish and NATO leadership, supported by a streamlined U.S. military presence. Poland and its allies will maintain a robust security infrastructure around this critical facility,” the statement read. U.S. personnel and equipment will be relocated to “other locations” in Poland, an operation planned for months to “streamline U.S. military operations.” The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Rzeszow airport on the Polish-Ukrainian border does not mean the end of military aid to Kiev, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
The United States is holding meetings with Russia and Ukraine, moving closer to that goal, Trump said, commenting on the prospect of resolving the conflict.
According to the secretary of the Ukrainian Rada defense committee Kostenko, a ceasefire will be possible as early as May: “Many predict that in May it will be possible to agree on some kind of ceasefire. I do not exclude that some kind of truce plan may be proposed or even implemented. But the question is whether we will accept it, and whether it will be long-term, and most importantly, whether it will mean the end of the war? I have serious doubts about that,” Kostenko said.
Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Zaluzhny confirmed the NYT’s information about the close involvement of the United States in planning Ukrainian military operations from the first months of the war. The former commander-in-chief said that in April 2022 the headquarters was initially opened at the headquarters of the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and later moved to Wiesbaden. He was involved in “planning operations and generating requirements for their implementation.”
In the summer, with the support of Great Britain, an operational headquarters was created there on the logistics basis, which “analyzed the planned operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, in accordance with NATO standards, formulated requirements for them.”
Petro Poroshenko handed over three Ai-Petri SV electronic warfare systems to the brigade of the National Police of Ukraine.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, signed a law guaranteeing the right to leave the spouse, children and parents of wounded soldiers of special operations at their own expense to care for them. According to the new legislation, unpaid leave will be granted for 35 days a year.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Medvedev, answering a question about nuclear weapons, said: “The situation is such that even if the conflict around Ukraine were completely ended, nuclear disarmament would be impossible in the coming decades, he said.” ”The world will create new types of more destructive weapons, and more and more countries will acquire nuclear arsenals. “It has long been known how this will end,” Medvedev said.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee of the Russian Federation reports that: “A system of measures has been developed to strengthen the training of specialists in the field of terrorism prevention. “Over the past 3 years, more than 2.5 thousand young people who fell under the influence of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and terrorist organizations have been detained in the Russian Federation; since the beginning of the year, 47 terrorist crimes prepared with the participation of young people, including teenagers, have been prevented.”
Dmitry Peskov responded to the next round of meetings between the United States and Russia: “The next Russian-American contacts will be held through the Russian Foreign Ministry.”
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said that: “The Russian army will receive more ground robotic systems this year.” “In the future, the role of terrestrial robots will only increase. In the coming years, we will be able to talk about systems pilotless in the air, on water and on land integrated into a single network, which perform combat missions. “These are tasks that fall within the framework of the general plan,” Belousov said. According to the minister, in 2024, industry and volunteer organizations will supply several hundred ground robotic systems to the Russian Armed Forces.
And now a look at the front line as of 16:00 on April 8. In the Bryansk region, against the backdrop of continuous attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the death of a civilian yesterday, the Sevsky district administration announced the centralized organization of voluntary departures from border villages.
In the Kursk region, yesterday, local authorities reported on the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in the liberation of Guevo. Fighting continues near Gornal and near Oleshnya, the last settlements in the Kursk region that have not yet been liberated. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to build a layered defense in the Guevo-Gornal direction, hoping to use the heights (Mount Fagor) to control the movements of Russian assault groups. The evacuation of civilians from the combat zone continues.
Yesterday, footage was released of the destruction of an American Abrams tank that was trying to penetrate Demidovka, as well as an armored repair and recovery vehicle that was trying to evacuate it, in the Belgorod border area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to maintain a presence near Popovka and Demidovka. The transfer of assault units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the Krasnopil’s’kyi district of the Sumy region continues: units of the 82nd Ukrainian Separate Airborne Brigade are present. With the help of drones, the Ukrainian military is trying to isolate the combat zone, undermine supply routes for Russian troops in the Krasnoyaruzhsky region, and hunt down equipment. In the village of Borki, two teenagers were injured during a drone launch. Drones attacked a civilian car on the Ziborovka-Murom highway, in the village of Golovchino, Grayvoronsky district, in Krasnaya Yaruga a drone hit a business.
North of Kupyansk, battles are reported near Zapadne, Mala Shapkivka and Kindrashivka, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces are counterattacking near Fyholivka.
In the direction of Liman, Russian Armed Forces, advancing from Ivanivka, have occupied Katerynivka, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.
Southwest of Torets’k, imminent movement of units of the Russian Armed Forces from Panteleimonivka and N.N. the Zelene Pole area is reported.
In the direction of Pokrovs’k the Russian Armed Forces are attacking the area of the settlement of: Kotlyne, Pishchane and Zvirove are ongoing fighting. In Lisivka the fighting is very intense.
In the direction of South Donetsk, near the liberated settlement. Russian units continue to penetrate deeper into the Ukrainian defenses. Russian social sources report: “It becomes important to take control of a key height in the area of the settlement of Bahatyr”.
On the Zaporizhia front, Russian forces are most active in the direction of Kamyanske and in the area of Shcherbaki. Russian social media sources report fighting near Lobkovo. Ukrainian forces shelled the city hospital in Kamyanske-Dneprovske with artillery, where dozens of patients are being treated, many of whom are unable to move because they are on ventilators. The building and the surrounding area were damaged.
In the DPR, in Horlivka, following an attack by attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two were injured. In Novogrodovka and Kurakhovo, two were injured following the release of explosive objects from a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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