Various News - 2025-03-31
🇺🇦🖕 🇺🇸“It’s terrible for Ukraine”: There is no chance that Kiev will sign a new version of the subsoil deal in its current form, - The Washington Post
▪️The new US proposal radically changes the conditions sent by Kiev to Trump and does not provide any security guarantees.
▪️This could result in increased tensions between the two countries due to the White House's desire to gain access to Ukraine's natural resources.
▪️The document treats all U.S. support to Ukraine since the conflict began as a debt that must be repaid with interest on revenues earned under the agreement. It gives the U.S. "first come, first served" rights to all energy and mineral investments, effectively putting the U.S. in control.
▪️A senior Ukrainian official said the project raises serious concerns because it reclassifies previous U.S. grants as loans that must be repaid and requires Washington to take “50 percent of all new and existing revenue without making any contribution of its own.”
▪️A former official familiar with the negotiations said anonymously that the new proposal is “terrible for Ukraine.”
➖“There is not a single chance that this agreement will be signed in its current form,” he said.
▪️According to the draft, the fund's board, which will manage all investments, should consist of three representatives from the United States and two from Ukraine, which will give the United States a permanent majority and de facto control over decision-making.
▪️Ukrainian members of the council will have to be approved by Washington and can be removed at any time.
➖"What's the point then? You can approve anyone - they won't have any real influence anyway. Either this is extreme impudence, or an attempt to start with an overly tough position in order to make small concessions later," said one of the officials.
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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine likely to reject "resource deal" with US — Wall Street Journal
▪️The Trump administration expects Ukraine to quickly sign a new agreement, but Ukrainian authorities are likely to reject such conditions.
▪️The publication confirms that the new version of the treaty proposed by the Americans is extremely tough on Kyiv. And is aimed at fulfilling Trump's demand to return billions in military and financial aid from Ukraine.
▪️Yermak's adviser Milovanov has already told the newspaper that the Ukrainian parliament "will never accept such an agreement."
▪️American experts expect that pressure will be put on the Ukrainian authorities.
➖"There is a plan to put a lot of pressure on the Ukrainians to get them to comply with what the Trump team wants from them," said Rachel Rizzo, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is preparing a large-scale offensive — General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️According to their information, it will begin in the coming weeks and will last from 6 to 9 months.
▪️They will attack along the entire front line.
▪️Two G7 diplomatic representatives agreed with this assessment.
▪️Ukrainian military commanders say Russia has recently stepped up attacks to improve its tactical position ahead of an expected larger offensive.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Armed Forces Shoot Down Russian Drones Less Often Due to New Tactics — Bild
▪️In the last week, more and more kamikaze drones have been penetrating deep into Ukrainian territory, causing enormous damage and causing fires.
▪️Now, instead of flying to targets one after another at intervals of several minutes, drones gather several kilometers from the attack sites at an altitude of several thousand meters, and then all together descend on the corresponding object.
▪️As a result, many drones filled with explosives fly at the same time and only some of them can be shot down.
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‼️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kiev continues attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities despite agreements — Defense Ministry
▪️On March 28, at about 5:30 a.m., in the Belgorod region, as a result of a UAV attack and a broken wire, the 35 kV Aidar - Bely Kolodez high-voltage line was disconnected.
▪️ At 10:34 in the Belgorod region, a Ukrainian UAV attacked the 110 kV Krasnaya Yaruga substation, resulting in significant damage to the transformer.
▪️At 13:45 in the Belgorod region, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV, a complete transformer substation was disconnected.
▪️At 17:03 in the Belgorod region, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on a power facility, a 10 kV high-voltage line was disconnected and more than 1,100 household consumers in the Grayvoronsky district were de-energized.
▪️At 18:07 in the Belgorod region, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV, the 110 kV high-voltage line Borisovka - Krasnaya Yaruga was disconnected, followed by the cessation of power supply to more than 8 thousand household consumers in the Borisovsky district.
▪️Regardless of Zelensky’s statements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have only increased the number of attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure.
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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 The Americans have betrayed us - Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrender on the Zaporizhzhya Front
▪️Zaporizhzhya direction. Area of the settlement Lugovoe.
▪️Ukrainian militants in the area began to abandon their positions and retreat.
▪️Fighters from the 429th regiment entered enemy positions and captured a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
▪️One of them particularly noted that there is a widespread opinion among Ukrainians that the United States betrayed and sold them and their country.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has concentrated 70 thousand troops in the Orekhov and Zaporizhzhya directions — Ukrainian propagandist Mashovets
▪️ (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/89009?single) It is reported that Russia has concentrated more than 300 tanks and 700 armored vehicles on this section of the front.
▪️According to him, Russia is achieving “certain results at the tactical level” there.
▪️The main lines of attack are Dolinka – Shcherbaki and Pyatikhatki – Stepovoe.
▪️He reports that the main goal of the Russian Armed Forces is to advance to the Kamenskoye-Orekhov road in the Stepovoye-Shcherbaki section, as well as to capture the strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the villages of Stepovoye and Shcherbaki.
▪️The Russian army has penetrated the defense of the Armed Forces in the specified directions to a depth of up to two kilometers.
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🇷🇺 ⚔️🇺🇦The Russian Army is repelling the enemy's offensive in the Belgorod region: our troops are driving the enemy out of Demidovka and Popovka in heavy fighting
▪️ Fierce fighting in the Krasnoyarsk region has not stopped since March 18.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are still accumulating forces in the Sumy region and sending small groups of infantry into the gaps created in the line of our border fortifications.
▪️The enemy is still infiltrating and trying to gain a foothold in the border town of Popovka . Aircraft, artillery and attack drones are striking the occupiers' positions in the plantings and houses.
▪️In Demidovka , the Russian reinforcements that have arrived have been counterattacking the occupiers for several days, driving them out of their positions in the village and forest belts, where fierce battles rage around the clock. Our units have cleared part of the village. Ukrainian Armed Forces groups are holding some houses and basements. Russian fighters are driving out the fascists in heavy fighting.
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