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Eduard Sirenko, a former high-ranking officer of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), former head of the Directorate of the Special Operations Center for Combating Terrorism, who coordinated and led the mission of Ukrainian ''Alpha'' officers in Iraq during the Iraq War, was killed yesterday in a Russian missile strike on the arms exhibition in the Kiev region.

168,778 live births were recorded in the Ukrainian government-controlled areas of Ukraine last year, the lowest number on record. For comparison, 100 years ago in 1925, with a similar population of roughly 29 million, 1,246,000 births were recorded in Soviet Ukraine. Only 366 births have been recorded in the Ukrainian-controlled areas of the Kherson region. Dnepropetrovsk, Zelensky’s home region, recorded the highest number of deaths in the entire Ukraine in 2025, at over 52,000. This figure excludes a significant number of soldiers officially listed as missing in action, many of whom are presumed dead.

In just four weeks, the US has fired more Tomahawk missiles at Iran than during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Over 850 missiles—roughly 20% of the total US inventory—have been used in the attacks. Only 57 new Tomahawk missiles were requested in the 2026 budget.

According to Volodymyr Zelensky, between February 4, 2025 and February 4, 2026 Ukraine lost 9,900 KIA soldiers in 365 days. Losing approximately 27 soldiers per day. On the other hand, Russian casualties are around 1,000 soldiers every single day, according to Ukrainian MOD.

From Epstein Library. Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein: ''By the way the Ukrainian and the Moldavian arrived. Big disappointment the Moldavian is not as attractive as the picture while the Ukrainian is very beautiful.''

Ukrainian demographics of 2025. 168,778 live births (lowest ever in 1000 years) 485,296 deaths (many KIA & MIA presumed KIA soldiers not included) Overall -316,518.

Ukrainians blew up pylons transmitting power to Crimea, leaving about 75% of population without electricity in November, 2015. Ukrainian brewery in Lviv celebrated naming their beer ''Crimea by night'' brewed specifically to celebrate the energy blockade of the peninsula. Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOr_lFnITA is the report about that beer from 2015 by Ukrainian Espreso TV.

Ukraine cut off the fresh water supply to Crimea in 2014. Later that year Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky made fun of people in Crimea suffering from water shortages. Today, people in Kryvyi Rih, his place of birth are melting snow to use the water.

Tanker ATA VOYAGER under the Panamanian flag was hit by a Russian drone today. BLUE BEAD, cargo ship under the flag of San Marino was also struck.

Oreshnik strike in Lviv region of Ukraine tonight

Prime minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen in an interview with TV 2 today: ''...if the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything will end. Including our NATO...''

The entire governmental and military apparatus of Venezuela remains intact other than Nicolás Maduro himself. The US like the rest of the world willl have to work with those people on the ground in Venezuela.

The US could annex Denmark with Greenland today and Europe would do nothing beyond statements from Kaja Kallas and Ursula von der Leyen expressing concern on social media.

Can't wait for Volodymyr Zelensky to release the statement that he supports the US operation in Venezuela in the name of global democracy.

Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush and Yevgeny Prigozhin in the background, 2006.

Is Ukraine in a better negotiating position today than it was during the peace talks in Turkey in 2022 after 5 weeks of fighting? Keep in mind, at the time Russia also still hasn't annexed Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. What exactly did Ukraine gain in over 3 years after Zelensky's decision to continue? Russia would have pulled out from Kharkov region, was already in the process of withdrawing from Kiev, Sumy and Chernigov regions. Russia wasn't going to annex Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

BREAKING: Vladimir Putin declares Easter truce. The Russian Armed Forces will cease all military operations today from 18:00 on April 19 until 00:00 on April 21. Putin: ''I order that all military actions be stopped for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops must be prepared to repel possible violations of the ceasefire and provocations from the enemy, any of its aggressive actions.''

''65.1% of Latvian residents experience daily stress due to the war in Ukraine, according to the results of a survey on the resilience of Latvian society in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine commissioned by the State Chancellery.'' ''61.7% of Latvian residents agree that it is necessary to support Ukraine until it wins the war with Russia. At the end of 2024, 51.5% of respondents believed in Ukraine’s ability to win.'' Source: Delfi Latvia.