Pavlo Bashynskyi

The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution that sets a profit margin of up to 25% of the cost price for domestic ammunition producers, allowing them to expand and modernize their production lines.

This year, Ukraine expects to receive 16 billion euros from the EU under the Ukraine Facility program, 4. 5 billion dollars from the IMF, and almost 8 billion dollars from the United States.

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a draft law to improve the situation in the electricity market and settle debts in the balancing market by creating special accounts for different entities to ensure an acceptable level of payments, reduce debts to Ukrenergo and increase the stability of the power system.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has raised more than $85 billion in external financing and over UAH 1 trillion through military and other bonds to fully fund key budget expenditures.

The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution obliging regional power distribution companies to ensure a uniform and fair sequence of power outages, giving priority to critical infrastructure, hospitals, military enterprises and enterprises performing mobilization tasks.

More than 3,500 families in Kherson region received UAH 1. 15 billion in compensation under the e-Restoration program.

Only 40 out of 228 settlements in the de-occupied Kherson region are currently without electricity, and 9 settlements are without gas supply.

Over the past day, the enemy shelled 13 settlements on the right bank of Kherson region, including Kherson, damaging 11 residential buildings and a cultural institution, and one 83-year-old woman was slightly wounded.

Defense forces are launching counterattacks in an attempt to repel the enemy and stabilize the situation in Kharkiv region, where fighting continues in such areas as Liptsy, Vovchansk, and Hlyboke.

According to the spokesperson for the Southern Operational Command, no significant changes in the enemy's state and positions in the area of responsibility of the Southern Operational Command have been observed.

The situation in the Kherson sector remains under control, with Ukrainian marines holding their positions and advancing despite Russian attacks that were repelled with significant enemy losses.

The schedules of hourly power outages in Ukraine are affected by weather conditions, consumption volumes and levels, and the ability to distribute electricity due to the ongoing risk and shelling of energy infrastructure, with outages on weekends depending on weather conditions.

Over the past day, 113 combat engagements took place between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian occupiers in various parts of the frontline, during which Ukrainian troops successfully repelled numerous Russian attacks and inflicted significant losses on the enemy.

The first group of Ukrainian pilots has completed training on F-16s at a U. S. military base in Arizona, but the training process is not over yet as they return to Europe to continue preparations for their arrival in Ukraine and to continue their missions.

As long as the Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, we should expect and be prepared for the situation to develop in any direction, including in Sumy region, although Russian troops do not currently have sufficient strength to achieve strategic goals in this area.

Russian troops were shelling Zaporizhzhia region 400-450 times a day, increasingly using UAVs instead of artillery, resulting in civilian casualties and destruction of residential buildings.

The Verkhovna Rada passed a draft law that would remove from public access court decisions in cases against persons suspected of committing crimes against national security, state secrets, the procedure for conscription, mobilization or military service under martial law for security reasons.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis a draft law on transfer of pending cases from the liquidated Kyiv District Administrative Court to other administrative courts of Ukraine, except for some cases on appealing against regulatory acts, referendums, decisions in the field of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and regulation of media activities, which will be considered by the Kyiv District Administrative Court.

The Verkhovna Rada passed a draft law that allows courts to impose fines of UAH 60,000 to 121,000 on debtors for failure to comply with court decisions.

Attack drones reached strategically important industrial facilities in Kazan and Nizhnekamsk (Russia), causing explosions and evacuating people.

In two years, the UNITED24 platform has implemented more than 100 projects in support of Ukraine, including the creation of the world's first fleet of maritime drones, raising funds for drones for the army, rebuilding infrastructure, and achieving many other important results that have strengthened the country and saved lives.

Since the end of 2023, Sumy region has remained the most active area where enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been trying to infiltrate Ukraine.

Last week, there was a slight increase in passenger traffic leaving Ukraine due to the end of the Easter holidays, but now the passenger traffic has stabilized at around 80-85 thousand people per day.

In recent days, border guards have been refusing to cross the border to approximately 200-250 men of military age every day, compared to 150-200 refusals previously, due to the lack of proper military registration documents.

According to Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, changes to the rules for crossing the border for Ukrainian citizens can be expected in the near future, which will regulate the conditions for crossing the border for certain categories.

Demchenko said who can cross the border after the mobilization law comes into force, adding that border guards check paper military registration documents, not electronic ones.

Military cooperation between North Korea and Russia continues: North Korea supplies Russia with large volumes of shells, but there is no evidence that Russia asks for military equipment from North Korea, as it has sufficient stocks of old Soviet equipment.

Ukrainian intelligence is well informed about the situation in Sumy region, the enemy's plans and resources, but does not record sufficient enemy forces for an offensive, although minor actions are not excluded.

The Russians, who sent 50,000 troops to the northern border of Kharkiv region, did not even come close to achieving their goals thanks to the actions of the Ukrainian security and defense forces.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine knows the location and number of bunkers of russian dictator Putin, and this information is constantly updated.