The Kremlin has said that it is not considering a ceasefire for the Orthodox Easter in Ukraine, Russian state media reports. Egypt planned to secretly supply Russia with missiles and ammunition. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Péter Szijártó, announced new agreements with Russia to ensure access to cheap energy resources.

Summary of the last 24 hours of the war

• US documents leaked to the press indicate that Egypt secretly planned to supply Russia with missiles and ammunition. A February 17 document purporting to summarize conversations between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and senior Egyptian military officials said al-Sisi was ordering Egyptian officials to keep the production and transportation of the missiles secret “to avoid problems with the West.” In addition, it is about plans to supply Russia with artillery cartridges and gunpowder.

• Ukraine needs more long-range weapons and “less thinking about US intelligence leaks,” senior presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said, referring to the recent leak of the Pentagon Papers.

• Russia continues to advance towards Bakhmut, but suffers “significant” losses, the Institute for the Study of War reports. A spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces denied a statement by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner, who said that Russian forces now control more than 80 percent of the city of Bakhmut. Prigozhin also made premature claims about Russian control over Bakhmut.

• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó announced new agreements with Russia to provide access to cheap energy resources, a sign of the country’s continued diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow amid the war in Ukraine.

• Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has arrived in Canada on an official trip, during which he will try to obtain ammunition and armored vehicles for a counteroffensive against Russian forces.

• A UN-brokered deal that allows Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea is in a “critical state” because of Russia’s actions, a Ukrainian government minister told The Guardian on Tuesday.

• Russian state news agency TASS reports that a man has been arrested in Khabarovsk, one of the most remote cities in eastern Russia, on charges of treason and sending money to the Ukrainian armed forces.

• The Prime Minister of Poland flew to the USA for meetings aimed at strengthening economic and defense cooperation between the two countries. Mateusz Morawiecki is scheduled to meet with US Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House today. His three-day visit will also include meetings with representatives of American defense companies.

• The Kremlin said Tuesday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Hershkovich “violated Russian law” and was caught “in the act” after the US State Department said the journalist was “unjustly detained” by Russia. Russia has not provided any evidence to support its case against Hershkovich. Next week, the court will consider the appeal of Hershkovich’s lawyers for a preventive measure in Moscow’s Lefortovsky SIZO.

• Russia is planning to strengthen defenses on its northwestern border to counter Finland’s entry into NATO, said Lieutenant General Andriy Dyomin, deputy commander of the Air and Space Forces.

• According to the local governor, only 1,800 civilians still live in the “ruins” of Avdiyivka, a conflict-torn city in eastern Ukraine that had a population of 32,000 before the war. “The Russians have turned Avdiivka into a complete ruin,” declared the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

• A Russian court sentenced two men to 19 years in prison for setting fire to a government building during a demonstration against the war in Ukraine. Roman Nasrev, a former driver of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, and Oleksiy Nuriev, an officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, throw a Molotov cocktail at an administrative building in the city of Bakal, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia, on October 11, 2022, as a sign of protest against the war in “partial” mobilization of Ukraine and Russia.

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 413, LIVETEXT:

06:27Russia has begun exporting fuel to Iran by rail for the first time after traditional buyers avoided trade with Moscow, according to three industry sources and export data.

06:02The young Crimean Tatar woman Lenia Umerova, who tried to reach the occupied Crimea from Kyiv to visit her sick father, has been detained by the Russian authorities for more than four months. The reason for the detention was given by brother Lenije to the refusal of his Russian passport.

05:50The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine brought criminal charges against Oksana Marchenko, the wife of pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. In February 2023, a Ukrainian court seized assets belonging to Oksana Marchenko, with a total value of more than 154 million US dollars.

00:54The combat operations of Wagner’s mercenaries in Bakhmut will continue for another two months, if their tactics do not change, Serhiy Tserevaty, the spokesman of the Eastern Operational Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on April 11, Kyiv Independent reports. The Ukrainian’s statement was made on the same day when Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Wagner conquered 80% of Bakhmut.

00:39Trudeau confirms cyber attack on Canadian infrastructure first revealed in Pentagon Papers.

Canada’s energy infrastructure was not physically damaged by a cyber attack, which is described in classified US documents, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, Reuters reported.

23:41The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on Tuesday approved the appointment of new heads of Luhansk and Sumy regions, Ukrainian Pravda reports.