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.
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.
