Russian forces have been bombing front-line cities in eastern Ukraine, and Kyiv says the Pentagon leak does not change some plans for a counteroffensive in the near future. The Russians are using “scorched earth” tactics in Bakhmut, a senior Ukrainian military commander said Monday, as the Ukrainian city in Donetsk region and other cities came under heavy shelling.

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 412, LIVETEXT:

07:51Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz said on Monday that a group of investors rejected its debt restructuring proposal after failing to pull the company out of a months-long default, Reuters reported.

07:36The Gorky Automobile Plant, part of Russia’s GAZ Group, which has a contract to assemble Volkswagen vehicles, has filed a lawsuit to recover 28.4 billion rubles ($348 million) from the German automaker, according to the documents.

07:31The US State Department says that Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Hershkovich, detained in Russia, was unjustly deprived of his liberty, CNN reports.

A brief summary of recent events:

• A Russian fighter jet nearly shot down a British spy plane last year, according to a brief US military document online, a more significant incident than previously shown and one that could draw the United States and its NATO allies directly into the war in Ukraine. the Washington Post reports.
• Ruslan Kravchenko has been appointed governor of Kyiv region, the Office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi reported on April 10, Kyiv Independent reports.
• Businessman Richard Branson met with Zelenskyi. The founder of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, met with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv on Monday. Branson became the new ambassador of UNITED24, the official fundraising platform in Ukraine, CNN reports.
• Russia may try to use the Orthodox Easter on April 16 to delay Ukrainian counteroffensives by calling for a ceasefire out of respect for religion, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has warned.
• Denmark will hand over Leopard-1 tanks and Caesar howitzers to Ukraine by the summer. Denmark plans to start supplying Ukraine with Leopard-1 tanks “by the summer,” Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Monday.
• A Russian court sentenced a former security officer and a former emergency services officer to 19 years in prison each for setting fire to a city administration building last fall, Russian media reported on Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
• Russian dissident Volodymyr Kara-Murza, who faces charges including treason and faces 25 years in prison, said Monday he was “proud” of his political affiliation in a statement during a trial that symbolized Russia’s all-out crackdown , reports AFP.
• The leak of classified US documents, particularly those related to Ukraine and which appear to be mostly authentic, poses a “very serious” risk to the national security of the United States, the Pentagon assessed on Monday, reports AFP.
• Bulgaria has declared its readiness to offer its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, consisting of a squadron of 16 aircraft, according to one of the secret US documents leaked on the Internet in recent days, EFE and Novinite agencies reported on Monday. to Agerpres.
• Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Japarova said on Monday that Kyiv wants New Delhi to take a more active role in resolving the conflict with Russia, and called for a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other high-ranking officials, Reuters reports.
• The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denys Pusilin, said on state television on Monday that Russian forces control 75 percent of the city of Bakhmut, Reuters reported.
• Shipments of Russian diesel to NATO member Turkey rose last month to their highest level in seven years, according to data from trader Vortexa Ltd. and analyzed by Bloomberg, after the embargo on the purchase of Russian petroleum products was introduced two months ago. Turkey’s domestic products can be sold in the EU at higher prices.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that there was a general tendency to always blame Russia for everything when asked about allegations that Moscow was behind the leaking of US intelligence documents on several countries, including Ukraine, Reuters reported.
• The scandal over the leak of classified documents from the Pentagon caused strong reactions in South Korea, considered a key US ally, after the leak revealed that the CIA spied on Seoul, which was concerned that missiles sold to Washington could end up in Ukraine. thereby violating the country’s policy.
• Top-secret military and intelligence documents that have surfaced online detailing everything from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the source of the leak, some Western security experts and U.S. officials say , who suspect that it could be someone from the United States, Reuters reports. One of the documents, dated February 23 and marked “Secretly”, talks about how the Ukrainian S-300 air defense systems will be exhausted by May 2 at the current rate of use.

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