Shmyhal talked about the results of his visit to the USA and Canada
The Prime Minister reported on:
📌 First visit to Canada, meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Free Trade Agreement, another package of military support;
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📌 New package of sanctions against Russia from Canada;
📌 Meetings with the ministers of defense, finance, trade, transport of the USA;
📌 Agreements with the World Bank, USAID and DFC, 200 million dollars from the World Bank for the restoration of the energy sector, -
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also Boeing company releases Ukrainian companies from the obligation of 200 million dollars;
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📌 Ministerial-level round table at Spring Meetings with the online participation of the President of Ukraine; additional support from the G7 for more than 5 billion dollars, etc.;
📌 Meetings with the Prime Minister of Poland, the finance ministers of Great Britain, -
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Germany, France, the heads of the IMF, etc. high officials
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"During this visit, we were once again convinced that Ukraine has reliable friends and partners we can count on. We continue to strengthen the pro-Ukrainian coalition in the world and attract even more participants to the restoration of Ukraine," concluded Shmyhal.
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Putin's visit to the occupied Kherson and Lugansk regions was aimed at publicly identifying "scapegoats" before the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - ISW understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
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Putin’s visit likely also intended to publicly identify potential scapegoats ahead of the planned Ukrainian counteroffensives. Putin received briefings from Commander of Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, Commander of the Dnepr Group of Forces… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces repulsed more than 50 attacks, the occupiers transferred 200 "mobs" to Donetsk region, who are looking for reasons to avoid hostilities. Evening assembly of the General Staff
In the Marinka direction, our defenders repelled numerous enemy attacks in the area of Marinka settlement of Donetsk region. At the same time, the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pobyeda, and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.
The enemy continues to conduct defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions . During the day, he shelled populated areas. Among them are Vremivka, Novopil of the Donetsk region; Malynivka, Chervone, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Orihiv of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
💛 On this day, April 16, 1710, a document was adopted, which is called the first Ukrainian Constitution.
On April 16, in Bendery, between Hetman Pylyp Orlyk, an associate of Ivan Mazepa, and the Zaporizhzhya Army, -
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“Treaties and resolutions of the rights and liberties of the military” were concluded. The document became one of the most significant for Ukrainian history. Traditionally, it is called the Pylyp Orlyk Constitution.
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There are two versions of this document: in Latin and in the Old Ukrainian language. Currently, copies of the first Ukrainian Constitution are presented at the exhibition “European Ukraine. Days of Mazepa”, -
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Operational information as of the evening of 04/16/2023 from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
▪️The probability of launching missile and air strikes across the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
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▪️Russian troops launched 25 missile strikes from S-300 air defense systems on peaceful cities: Zaporozhye, Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region and Snegirevka, Mykolaiv region; as well as 28 air strikes.
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Made 4 shelling from the MLRS on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the civilian infrastructure of settlements. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population.
▪️In the Limansky direction, the Russian Armed Forces fired artillery at Stelmakhivka, -
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The occupiers are preparing the kidnapping of children from Energodar
In schools and kindergartens of the evacuated Energodar, "evacuation" of children to the Crimea began, Energoatom reports. Local educational institutions disseminate information about the forced "
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evacuation", which will last until April 20.
It is noted that the children are planned to be taken out on station buses, thus formally legalizing the theft of ZNPP vehicles, which the station staff use to get to work
Source: t.me/Pravda_Gerashc… #RussianWarCrimes
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Also, the export of furniture, mattresses and other things from the city's kindergartens has already been recorded. Earlier, in October, it was reported that the Russians did not return the children who were taken from the captured Energodar to "summer camps" -
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The situation in Bakhmut is decided by the railway and the railway station. The battles wave back and forth here.
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During the last 3 days, the railway station itself has been 2 times in our hands and 2 times in the hands of the tourists.
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Right now, you don't know who is the master of the road there. We did drive them to the east side of the railway line but they came back AND NOW again we have driven them in a larger area back again.
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