Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the Ukrainian war on April 14. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for a whole year.
21:05. At the meeting of international organizations, a conceptual agreement has been reached on the sources of funds for the majority of the 14 billion US dollars (12.7 billion euros) needed for the urgent reconstruction of Ukraine, the Vice President of the European Commission (EC) Valdis Dombrovskis (JV) said.
One billion of this amount will be allocated by the European Union (EU), several G7 countries and European financial institutions have also decided to allocate funds, explained Dombrovskis. The EU politician emphasized that this money is needed to restore the infrastructure destroyed by Russia’s targeted attacks in Ukraine.
20:27. At least six people were killed and 18 injured in a Russian missile strike in Slovyansk, Donetsk region on Friday, the head of the regional administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, said.
“There are probably seven people under the rubble,” the district manager said on Facebook.
S-300 missiles were used in the strike.
Damage was caused to five multi-storey buildings and five private houses.
Destroyed shop, business center and club. Three cars were destroyed.
Explosives experts, paramedics, rescuers and police are working at the scene of the attack, Kirilenko said.
19:25. The Russian diplomats, whose expulsion was announced by the Norwegian government on Thursday, are spies, Ingere Heuglanne, head of the Norwegian Police Security Service’s (PST) counter-intelligence department, confirmed on Friday.
“The Russian intelligence threat has not disappeared, but it has shrunk significantly,” an official said after the expulsion of 15 Russian diplomats accused of espionage.
“We are sure that these are agents of the intelligence services. We believe that the step taken yesterday was a good and correct step,” said Heuglanne.
Of the group of 15 expelled diplomats, most were curators of espionage or worked on intercepting telephone conversations and data, the official explained.
They are collaborators of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) or the military intelligence service (GRU).
18:06. Belarusian Air Force crews have completed training for working with tactical nuclear weapons in Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday.
The training took place within the framework of Russia’s plan, which provides for the deployment of these weapons on the territory of Belarus.
According to a video released by the ministry, a Belarusian pilot claims that during a training course in Russia, the crews of the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Belarusian Air Force are trained in the skills necessary to work with these weapons.
17:00. France is ready to provide Ukraine with 2 billion euros in financial aid, reports pravda.com.ua.
16:16. The special task forces of the Russian armed forces are running out of strength in the war in Ukraine, the newspaper “Washington Post” reports, referring to leaked US materials on the Internet. Russia’s special task forces, set up for covert operations in the rear, have been used as foot soldiers, with many dead and wounded, the newspaper said.
15:33. On Friday, the bodies of 82 fallen soldiers were returned to Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, reports pravda.com.ua.
14:14. Chinese Defense Minister General Li Shanfu will visit Russia next week to meet with the aggressor country’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other military officials, China’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Defense, said that the military relations between the two countries are developing by strengthening “strategic communication, joint exercises and practical cooperation” at the military level.
13:10. The volume of Russian oil exports in March reached the highest level in the last year or three years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced on Friday.
11:35. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has admitted that the war in Ukraine could last for a few more years. “None of us are thinking about the exact date when the war will end, but we are following what is happening on the front. The main thing is to work together with partners from the West, because support for Ukraine is necessary,” reports pravda.com.ua.
09:40. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 181,090 soldiers by Friday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 500 invaders were destroyed during the day.
09:18. The Russian occupier tank “T-72B”, destroyed by the Ukrainian armed forces, which was previously stationed in Riga in front of the Russian embassy in Latvia, will be on display in Bauska, Parka street, from today until April 27, the Press Department of the Ministry of Defense informed LETA agency. Since the beginning of the war, Latvia has assured that it will provide unwavering support to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, providing additional military support to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, as needed, the Ministry of Defense emphasizes.
08:02. After Russia’s repeated invasion of Ukraine, Poland has decided to significantly expand its army. It is planned that the number of professional soldiers will increase from 164,000 to 250,000, and the number of national guardsmen – from 36,000 to 50,000.
07:04. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Thursday that his country has not sold weapons to Ukraine and has no plans to do so, Serbian news agency “Beta” reported. The British news agency “Reuters” was the first to report on Wednesday the secret Pentagon document, which claims that Serbia “has agreed to supply weapons to Kyiv or has already sent them.” He added that Serbia, which is a traditional ally of Russia, has not sent and will not send ammunition either to Ukraine or to Russia. “There is no document to show that,” Vucic said.
00:10. “Barbaric act”: this is how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moldova reacted to the video showing the execution of a captured Ukrainian by the occupiers, reports pravda.comu.ua.
