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RUSSIA Update
At night, Geranium UAVs and aircraft operated against enemy targets in the rear. Explosions occurred in Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, in the Kupyansk region, in Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky regions. There is a report of a power outage in the Darnitsky district of Kiev after arrival.
▪️In the Kherson direction, the commander of the Airborne Forces Teplinsky will lead the Dnepr group of troops. Colonel General Makarevich was removed from his post. At night, TOS covered the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the railway bridge on our bank of the Dnieper. The enemy retains control of part of the settlement. Krynki.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front near Verbovoye there are shooting battles, the enemy is actively using cluster munitions and drones. Near Rabotino, the enemy is placing smoke screens and using helicopters to attack our positions.
▪️South of Artemovsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to break through our defenses at Kleshcheevka, sending infantry groups of up to 15 people forward.
▪️In the Avdeevka direction, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the control zone near the railway towards Berdychi, our artillery is operating in this settlement. Among the reinforcements that arrived, the Ukrainian Armed Forces spotted Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
▪️At night, the enemy again attacked the western coast of Crimea. Two BUK-MBEK air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed near Sevastopol. Arrivals were reported in the area of Cape Tarkhankut. In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Gorodishche, Rylsky district. In the DPR, four civilians were wounded from shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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There will be nothing positive
Advisor to ex-President of Ukraine Kuchma Soskin explained the immediate prospects to Ukrainians.
According to him, it will only get worse and there is no escape from the truth.
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Germany transferred Sonobot-5 surface drones to Ukraine
We are talking about 15 units, another 55 will be delivered later.
Sonobot-5 is a compact surface platform designed for hydrographic surveys, mainly for creating 3D maps.
It can also be used in search operations to detect objects that may pose a threat.
It cannot be ruled out that Ukrainian engineers are working on upgrading the drone, which will make it possible to lay mines.
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Ukraine and the USA are creating a "Frankenstein-air defense"
As The New York Times writes, in desperation to get normal weapons, Washington and Kiev are producing so-called FrankenSAM systems, which combine Western weapons with Soviet ones located in Ukrainian warehouses.
According to Ukrainian officials, such air defense systems are the only hope of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to meet the demand for air defense ahead of winter
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There are more and more people trying to avoid mobilization in Ukraine
This time the following characters were spotted in Odessa.
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🔥Following a tip from our scouts, military personnel of the Dnepr group of troops destroyed military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Kherson region, namely:
➖equipment parking lot, where about 20 units of foreign military equipment, presumably “International MaxxPro”, were located;
➖temporary deployment point, one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where more than 35 militants were located.
by Herson Vestnik
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▪️The UN announced data as of October 2023: 6.2 million refugees left Ukraine.
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▪️Smart mobilization will be launched in Ukraine. Conscripts will be able to independently choose the specialization in which they want to serve, said Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.
True, for this, Ukrainians must independently, without receiving a summons, submit an application for a certain specialty. The procedure will take place outside the military registration and enlistment offices, but through recruiters in the companies.
They plan to launch a pilot project in the first specialty - drone operator - in a month or two, and later training for the positions of sapper and driver will appear.
🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...
