We Continue to Work with Countries that Are Currently Under Attack by the Iranian Regime: New Arrangements Have Been Reached – Address by the President

2 April 2026 – 20:44

I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!

I held a coordination call today at the level of the Government and all our regions on the situation in the energy sector. We are already preparing for the next winter and gradually restoring what Russian strikes destroyed this past winter. Resilience plans have been approved across the country – for every region. Implementation has already begun. Road repairs are also underway after the winter. It is important – at the community level, at the level of regional authorities – not to lose time. Every important facility must be protected. There are clear tasks for the regions and major cities regarding alternative generation and the restoration of facilities. Government officials have now ensured the necessary resources and decisions to add cogeneration units to the system. All of this matters – it sustains life. 245 facilities across the country are already in progress. We started this work despite a real problem – a lack of funding. The European support package of €90 billion for Ukraine remains blocked. This is a problem that Europeans cannot find a solution and deliver on what was promised. €5 billion from this package was supposed to go specifically toward preparing Ukraine for the winter and for rapid recovery. We expect that a solution will still be found. For now, we are working with the resources we have, and I am grateful to the Government for this work – to everyone in regions, in regional authorities and cities who is helping us. Protecting the energy sector and our critical infrastructure is an absolute priority.

Today, I received a report from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko – he reported on many issues. First of all, I want to thank the units of the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service, and the National Police of Ukraine, who, together with all our Defense and Security Forces, are defending the state. We discussed the logistical needs of the respective units today. Special attention was also given to work with veterans, including through the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine – this concerns veterans’ rehabilitation, medical care, and genuine, day-to-day support – this is very important. Thank you.

One more point.

Ukraine is participating in all formats of engagement with our partners for more security and shared strength. We continue to work with countries that are currently under attack by the Iranian regime. New arrangements have been reached, and Ukraine will have an even greater presence in the new security formats. This will certainly strengthen Ukraine’s export potential and defense capabilities. Rustem Umerov will report in detail tomorrow on the work carried out this week – country by country: from the Gulf to Türkiye. And Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha took part today in a joint format with Europeans and other partners regarding the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and the issues affecting freedom of navigation. This is important for the overall global situation – and for global security. Ukraine has relevant expertise in maritime routes – in their protection and the restoration of navigation. If partners are ready to act, we will consider how we can strengthen them, how we can contribute our expertise, knowledge, and technological potential. It is now impossible to imagine real security without Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who understands this. Thank you to everyone we are already working with. And only together.

Glory to Ukraine!

Georgia:

In a country where rigid gender roles remain, many Georgian women must juggle childcare, housework, and fighting for their children’s future.

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— OC Media (@ocmedia.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM

From OC Media:

Tatia Melikishvili knows the rhythm of protest almost as well as she knows her son’s school schedule. At 33, she has spent the last seven years standing shoulder to shoulder with strangers on Rustaveli Avenue, demanding accountability from governments that rarely listen.

She admits the hardest part is missing time with her child — at the same time, however, she believes she is investing in his future. Whenever she looks at him, or at other people’s children, she reminds herself that she is trying to build a future where these children won’t have to fight like she has had to.

On 28 November 2024, the day Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced the halting of Georgia’s EU accession bid, Tatia says she left her son home alone for the first time.

‘I didn’t take him to the rally. I used to bring him to peaceful demonstrations, but that day I knew it might not end calmly. There was too much tension, too much risk from the system against its own citizens’, she says.

Taking a deep breath, she continues, noting that it took nine months from that day to understand that her son had grown up in the intervening time.

‘He learned to live on his own, to wait for me, to care for himself. During those days, when the police would disperse us, I would sometimes come home bruised, hit by riot [police] officers. My son started treating me with a kind of protective care — as if he had suddenly become the one watching over me’.

She pauses again, as if weighing every memory she is about to put into words.

‘Before leaving home for a protest, I used to write my lawyer’s number and my full name on my arm’, she recalls. ‘My son would write my blood type on my back’.

‘When I think about it now, I ask myself what we were sending him into — and how all of this will settle in his mind. Back then, I couldn’t process it this way; I was inside the process, completely absorbed in it […] Now I find myself asking: where was my child sending me, when he wrote my blood type on my back?’, she continues.

‘Passing that reality on to a teenage boy — that his mother might come back injured or not at all — is something you probably shouldn’t do unless you see no other choice. But then and now, I believed that even one person showing up matters’, Tatia explains.

‘I was that one person […] I went out, no matter the conditions, even when there was no one to leave my son with. He was no longer so small that he might harm himself at home, but he wasn’t old enough to be writing his mother’s blood type on her back, fully understanding that she could be beaten or stabbed. I always tried to shield him from images of physical violence against me, but sadly, even then, my friends were injured’, she says.

Sometimes, the clearest answer to what her son thought of her would be waiting quietly at the front door. When Tatia would return late at night in December 2024, after hours on the streets, she would find a small ritual laid out on the floor.

‘When Toma went to sleep alone, I would come home and my slippers would always be waiting for me by the door. As soon as I opened it, they were there, and on top of them he would leave little notes. I have so many photos of those moments’, she recalls.

‘Most of them were thank-you notes — telling me he knew why I was out there, that he was grateful for it’, she adds.

Tatia has spent countless evenings talking with him about their country, trying to make sense of politics and fear in a language a child could comprehend and carry.

‘Toma is part of Generation Alpha’, she says. ‘My generation, Millenials, Gen Z, had to go out into the streets. I keep hoping that maybe his generation won’t have to’.

More at the link.

Hungary:

“That is the biggest warning Hungary carries for Europe: When democratic institutions decay for long enough, elections cease to be contests between programs and become desperate referendums on whether political change is possible at all.”

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM

From The Carnegie Endowment:

If Hungary were a normal European democracy, the conclusion would be straightforward: A government that has trailed its main challenger in the polls for months would be heading toward defeat in the April 12 parliamentary elections.

Tisza, the insurgent party led by Péter Magyar, has for some time enjoyed a meaningful lead over the ruling party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Fidesz. In a democratic political system, such a gap would ordinarily suggest an imminent transfer of power.

But this is no longer an ordinary political system. Orbán’s real achievement over his sixteen years in power in Budapest has not simply been to win elections; it has been total state capture by his party. The separation of powers has been hollowed out, institutional neutrality has disappeared, and the machinery of the state is deployed to partisan ends.

That is why polling alone cannot tell the full story. A lead in public opinion matters less when the electoral battlefield is structurally tilted. State institutions, public money, regulatory authority, and government-affiliated media no longer function as neutral arbiters; they operate as instruments of Fidesz’s political survival. Despite leading the only credible challenge to Orbán in years, Péter Magyar has been denied even a token appearance on public television, while state media has worked relentlessly to amplify government messaging.

Nevertheless, something has shifted in Hungary—in a way that even Orbán’s stranglehold may no longer fully control. The most important development is not only that Tisza is ahead, but that a social and psychological barrier seems to have broken. Fidesz’s aura and the fear it has traded on have weakened. The change is visible not just in Budapest, but across the country, including in smaller towns and villages. Though a Tisza win won’t be the silver bullet many hope it will be.

The party’s rallies have undoubtedly drawn large crowds well beyond the liberal capital, suggesting that its momentum is no longer geographically confined. Even more striking, whistleblowers have begun to emerge, sharing allegations of shocking corruption and the partisan use of intelligence services.

This is why—whatever the electoral result—Hungarian politics will not return to business as usual. Even if Fidesz wins again, it may no longer be able to rule with the same confidence or authority, because it no longer appears to command the active consent of a majority. In that sense, the election is not only about a change of government; it is about the erosion of the regime’s social legitimacy.

Orbán’s system requires enemies—preferably external ones. Over time, those enemies have changed shape—from communists, to George Soros, to migration, and insecurity—but the political method has remained constant. The government, as captured by Fidesz in particular, presents itself as the nation’s sole shield against foreign threats, moral contamination, and geopolitical danger.

In the current campaign, the designated enemy is—by and large—Ukraine and specifically its accession to the EU. The message is brutally simple: Ukraine is cast not as a victim of war, but as a source of danger. Those in Brussels who support Kyiv are portrayed as hostile to Hungary, and the Fidesz government positions itself as the protector of Hungarian lives against foreign adventurism.

In this vein, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen become convenient symbols in a morality play about peace, war, and national survival. The point is not coherence but fearmongering, reducing politics to the existential.

There has also been mounting state-backed manipulation. AI-generated propaganda, targeted social media operations, fake profiles, conspiracy narratives involving Ukraine, and even the possible importation of Russian propaganda expertise, have been mainstays of this election campaign. It also alludes to intelligence activity and police-linked interference aimed at discrediting Tisza. What is clearer than ever is that Orbán’s party now treats an election not as a fair contest, but as a domain of information warfare, institutional sabotage, and managed disorder.

More at the link.

This is also a warning for the US. Right now at the state level. Half the states have Republican trifectas, North Carolina functions as a trifecta because of the Republican legislative supermajority and the Republican weakening of the governorship right before the Democrats retook it. The same forms of institutional degradation and remaking that Orban has done in Hungary has occurred. In some of these states it only goes back about fifteen years and is the result of the astroturfed 2010 tea party wave that allowed Republicans and their donors to remake these state governments. In others, such as Florida, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama they go back even further. In all of these states the same dynamics in Orban’s Hungary exist. It is this project that is now being pursued nationally in Trump’s second term.

It’s obvious that for Ukraine, it’s not going to be easy with Hungary after the elections in any case. But with Magyar at least there could be a chance. www.politico.eu/article/eu-w…

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— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM

From Politico Europe:

BUDAPEST — Péter Magyar, the front-runner in Hungary’s upcoming election, shows little sign of being the pro-Ukraine alternative many in Brussels are hoping for.

EU leaders, increasingly frustrated with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s obstruction of support for Kyiv, are quietly betting a Magyar victory on April 12 could reset relations — or at least ease tensions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

But on substance, Magyar often sounds strikingly similar to the man he’s trying to replace. He has opposed fast-tracking Ukraine’s EU membership, rejected sending weapons to Kyiv, and signaled he would put EU accession to a referendum — which could derail the process entirely.

His Tisza party also voted against a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine in the European Parliament, even though Hungary wasn’t required to contribute financially.

A nationalist who stresses putting Budapest’s interests first, Magyar has also previously criticized what he calls the erosion of Hungarian minority rights in Ukraine. “No one wants a pro-Ukrainian government,” he said March 28.

When Zelenskyy publicly clashed with Orbán over the Ukraine loan, Magyar even sided with the prime minister: “No foreign leader can threaten any Hungarian.”

Orbán, for his part, has tried to paint Magyar as a traitor aligned with Brussels and Kyiv — an attack that has struggled to land given the opposition leader’s own positioning.

That leaves Brussels in an awkward spot: hoping for change, but bracing for continuity.

“It’s making him a black box,” said Greens MEP Tineke Strik, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Hungary, at an event hosted in Budapest. “What would he prioritize if he would win the elections? That’s also for the EU actually a bit of a puzzle.”

Some diplomats and Ukrainian officials believe Magyar could soften his stance if he wins, particularly since unlocking billions in frozen EU funds is his priority.

“Following his public speeches, yes, he’s a bit more flexible — and we expect that,” said an adviser to the Ukrainian government. But there are few guarantees. Asked whether a Magyar-led Hungary would drop its veto on the €90 billion EU loan, a person familiar with Tisza’s thinking said it would ultimately depend on public sentiment.

More at the link.

Finland:

🇫🇮 By the end of 2027, Finland plans to launch an air threat warning system developed with consideration of Ukraine’s experience.

The SMS system will send emergency warnings, while the app will provide additional information in situations that require clarification.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM

The EU:

KALLAS: Whoever says “just give your territory away” needs to understand that it’s not only territory — it’s people.

This is what happens to the people in the occupied territories: they are killed, they are tortured, their culture is suppressed. We have to keep this in mind.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM

The US:

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The White House announced the return of 7 more Ukrainian children from Russia with the assistance of Melania Trump.

6 Ukrainian minors who were in Russia are being returned home to Ukraine. Another child is expected to be released to their relatives later this month.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM

Back to Ukraine.

BROWDER: Putin is losing 1,000 to 1,500 men a day in Ukraine. Ukrainians have figured it out — they now have a drone wall. Anyone who tries to penetrate it dies. Simple as that. Russians are making zero progress. In fact, in some parts of the front, Ukraine is pushing them back.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM

🇺🇦❗️Syrskyi gave an interview dedicated to the defense of Kyiv in Feb-March 2022

🔘 Syrskyi asked that Zaluzhnyi appoint him responsible for the defense of Kyiv 12 days before the start of the full-scale invasion. Then the defense lines, sectors, appointed officers, and consolidated units were formed.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 4:24 PM

🔘 AFU considered possibility of defending airports, so everything was prepared for defense there – Hostomel, Boryspil and Zhulyany were no exception. All these areas, including Hostomel, were under dense artillery fire. This made it possible to inflict significant losses on the airborne troops.

— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 4:24 PM

The Kyiv Independent published an investigation stating that vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet are using Starlink for communication and coordination. This helps Russia circumvent sanctions and continue its oil shipments.

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM

From The Kyiv Independent:

Vessels of Russia’s shadow fleet are using Starlink to communicate and coordinate, a Kyiv Independent investigation has revealed.

The investigation — which can be read in full here — spoke to two Ukrainian sailors who claim they unwittingly became part of the Kremlin’s global, sanctions-busting oil shipping operation which it uses to fund its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

They — as well as two other sources who worked aboard Russian shadow fleet vessels — confirmed that communication between tankers and their owners is often maintained using Western technology, including satellite phones and Starlink terminals.

“It could be purchased through a proxy company. As far as I know, it is difficult to buy a Starlink in Ukraine now. Elsewhere in the world, you can simply order it and have it delivered by mail. It is not a weapon, everybody can buy it,” one of the crew members said.

Responding to the findings of the investigation, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian president’s representative on sanctions policy, said SpaceX — the company overseeing Starlink — needs to  take action to stop it.

“Any activity by Russia’s shadow fleet effectively finances the war against Ukraine. If Starlink is being used to evade sanctions or bypass maritime safety rules, this is unacceptable,” he told the Kyiv Independent.

“Russia deliberately uses GPS spoofing to hide its vessels, disrupting navigation systems and putting other ships at risk. Against this backdrop, relying on Starlink for its own operations is deeply hypocritical.

“We expect SpaceX to review this issue carefully and take steps to prevent the use of Starlink by shadow fleets of any country, including Russia, Venezuela, or Iran.”

It has been previously reported Russian forces have long been using unauthorized access to operate drones and other military equipment in occupied areas of Ukraine during the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine.

This was effectively switched off last month after the Ukrainian government, in cooperation with SpaceX, introduced a mandatory registration and “whitelist system” — but its use aboard Russian shadow fleet vessels has not previously been reported.

– Just look at what he’s doing.
– Yes, he’s turned toward us. They already know us.
From the ground to the sky—one flag and one heart 💙💛
🌻 She raised a garden. She raised children. She hoisted the flag! 🇺🇦
#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWar #Ukraine

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— Vitalis Viva (@vitalisviva.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM

Kharkiv:

Head of the Emergency Situations Department Bohdan Hladkykh stated that there have already been 20 strikes in Kharkiv over the past 24 hours. A hotel is on fire in the city center.

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM

❗️Right now, russia is attacking Kharkiv with Shahed drones. Multiple explosions reported in the city!

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— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:07 AM

The horrific moment a russian drone struck an apartment building in Kharkiv today‼️

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:25 AM

Kharkiv was under russian drone attacks all night, all morning, and now in the afternoon there was an explosion too.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:18 AM

Since the start of the day, 11 russian drones have struck Kharkiv. Some of them were jet-powered — used by russia against the city for the first time.

The video captures the moment one of the drones deliberately hits a residential building.

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— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM

Since the start of the day, Russians struck Kharkiv 11 times‼️

Most of the drones used were jet‑powered, and this is the first time the enemy deployed them against our city.

11 times guys! it’s only 16:15. And we are all out and working, with no possibility to hide.

— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:16 AM

Kharkiv has been under russian attacks all day.

Russia keeps sending drones at the city, again and again, filling the sky above people’s heads with their constant hum, while explosions move from one district to another.

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— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM

Kharkiv right now‼️ Russian drone struck an apartment building directly.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM

Kharkiv right now ‼️

Russian drone struck an apartment building directly.

Terrorist bastards!

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 10:28 AM

The moment russian Shahed drone was downed over Kharkiv today.

Air defense people are amazing 💛💙

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM

It’s cloudy in Kharkiv and raining russian Shahed drones debris 😐

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM

Hell on earth. Kharkiv right now.

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— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM

Kharkiv right now after russian drone attack ‼️

Yes, that is a church.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM

Kharkiv has been under russian drone attack for more than a day, with 21 strikes recorded in the city‼️

Stores, hotel, several apartment buildings, and now a church are among russia’s targets. It’s terrorism in its purest form.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Kharkiv tonight‼️

Russian attack set a monastery on fire.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 7:09 PM

📍Consequences of the attack by an enemy UAV on the Osnovyanskyi district of Kharkiv on April 2

Flames and destruction – rescuers are working at the scene.

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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM

A train car in which six passengers were killed by a Shahed strike in the Kharkiv region at the end of January.

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast:

During the night, the city of Synelnykove in Dnipro region came under a massive russian attack. A man was killed, a woman and a 12‑year‑old boy were injured.

Fires broke out in a shopping complex and an administrative building. Private homes, farm structures, and vehicles were also damaged.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Russian occupied Crimea:

Huge! Ukrainian FP-2 kamikaze drones obliterated a Russian An-72P maritime patrol aircraft at Kirovske airfield in occupied Crimea.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:16 AM

⚡️❗️According to the “Dosye Shpiona,” among the 29 people killed (23 passengers and 6 crew) in the An-26 crash on March 31, 2026 were:

▪️ Lieutenant General Oleksandr Otroshchenko, commander of the Northern Fleet’s mixed aviation corps;
▪️ Six officers from the Northern Fleet headquarters

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 9:26 AM

🔥🚨 Tonight, Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine drones struck Kirovske airbase in Crimea. Destroyed targets include:

• Four Orion heavy UAVs along with their base and pre-flight facility;
• An An-72P transport aircraft;
• P-37 “Mech” radar station.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

/2. Russian Orion drone base aft the Kirovske airbase in Crimea. ~230km from the frontline. (45.1729250, 35.1773151)

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

/3. The Orion UAV base at Kirovske airbase had been targeted multiple times before with lighter munitions, causing limited damage.

Only after heavy FP-2 strike drones reached the site the base is finally, at minimum, significantly damaged.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM

Russian occupied Mariupol:

It’s heartbreaking to watch how beautiful and vibrant Mariupol was before russian occupiers turned it into a graveyard. His hometown, seen through the lens of photographer Viktor Diedov, who was murdered there in March 2022.

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— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Russian occupied Luhansk Oblast:

BAVOVNA in Luhansk region 🔥🔥🔥

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM

Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast:

💥 Pokrovsk. Russian checkpoint towards Selydove. Attack by drones of 25th Sicheslav DShV

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM

Russia:

🛢️ A reduction in Russian oil production is inevitable: Ukraine’s attacks on refineries and infrastructure led to a decrease in export opportunities by 1 million b/s — Reuters

At least 20% of the total export capacity of Russia is out of order. In March, this indicator reached 40%.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM

The Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia:

🔥🛢️This morning, Russian Novoil oil refinery in Bashkortostan, ~7.1 million tons/year. 1,400 km from the frontline was struck by drones.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 5:53 AM

💥 A satellite image confirms that the Ukrainian drone strike on the Bashneft-Novoil refinery damaged the AVT-5 crude oil distillation unit, – Radio Svoboda

This refinery was previously attacked on September 15, 2025, when the complex and expensive AVT-6 crude oil distillation unit was also damaged.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM

Kursk Oblast, Russia:

🏃 Running, acceleration, and sharp maneuvers.

A Ukrainian FPV operator is motivating Chechen soldiers to increase their physical activity in the Kursk border region.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM

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Терміново розшукуються сміливі діти для спільних пригод зі мною 😍 Ні, це не жарт! Я абсолютно серйозно. Я зі своєю командою створив персоналізовані комікси. Кольорові, цікаві, аж духоперехоплюючі! Мультик мій бачили? То там такі ж пригоди, багато цікавинок і є навіть Том (куди я без нього🤭) І в одну з моїх пригод може потрапити саме ваша племінниця або син, онучка або похресник. З іменем, з деталями, з вашим побажанням на першій сторінці. З моїм лизем теж 👅 Цей комікс створювала та сама команда, що і мій мультсеріал. Ручна робота (😀), себто без штучного інтелекту. Я все перевірив особисто, все супер. Щоб подарувати таку пригоду комусь із вашої малечі — ходіть на okibook.com.ua, відповідайте на кілька питань — і комікс летить друкуватись і надсилатись. Ось така магія. А якщо поруч немає дітей — на сайті є форма, щоб подарувати комікс дитині в лікарні чи з різноманітних центрів, куди я або мої помічники частенько зазираємо. Можете залишити маленьке побажання для цієї дитини. Тільки уявіть собі її реакцію ❤️ Ну то що, закріпляю лінк у хайлатсах, у сторіз теж зараз буде. Або просто вводьте okibook.com.ua, то там вже все зразу знайдете. Всім фарбований лизь!👅 Бо звучить він як «Фарбований лис». А значить щось на літерному😌

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Urgently wanted brave children for joint adventures with me 😍 No, it’s not a joke! I’m totally serious. My team and I created personalized comics. Colored, interesting, even spirit-catching! Have you seen my cartoon? So there are the same adventures, many interesting things and there is even Tom (where am I without him 🤭) And your niece or son, granddaughter or goddaughter can get into one of my adventures. With the name, with the details, with your wish on the front page. With my lick too 👅 This comic was created by the same team as my animated series. Handmade (😀), that is, without artificial intelligence. I checked everything personally, everything is great. To give such an adventure to someone from your child – go to the okibook.com.ua, answer a few questions – and the comic flies to print and send. That’s the magic. And if there are no children nearby, there is a form on the site to present a comic to a child in a hospital or from various centers, where I or my assistants often visit. You can leave a small wish for this child. Just imagine her reaction ❤️ Well, I’m fixing the link in the highlights, the stories will also have it now. Or just enter okibook.com.ua, then you will find everything there immediately. Lick painted for everyone! 👅 Because it sounds like “Painted Fox.” So something on the letter😌

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