We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
At night, the Russian Armed Forces hit targets in the Odessa, Kirovograd, and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
Against the backdrop of particularly intense strikes on the Odessa region, the enemy’s official channels lied about our plane allegedly being shot down.
▪️In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces launched artillery strikes on the enemy bank of the Dnieper. In the Krynki area the enemy is suffering significant losses. At night, the enemy tried to transport reinforcements in several boats, most of them were destroyed on the water, and the landing infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also came under targeted fire from our troops.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front, the Russian Armed Forces attack west of Rabotino and east of Verbovoye, reaching positions abandoned in the summer. The enemy is trying to counterattack and uses artillery.
▪️The last center of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts of Maryinka has been destroyed. To the south, near Novomikhailovka, our troops are attacking, our artillery is working. There is a gradual advance towards the settlement of Pobeda from the north.
▪️Heavy fighting continues in Avdeevka. On the northern ledge of the front, the Russian army advanced to the area of the settlement of Novokalinovo. By evening, there were reports of intensive work by our artillery and aviation on enemy fortifications. Stepovoye's counter-fights do not stop. On the southern ledge of the front there is an advance of our troops towards Pervomaisky.
▪️From the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) section of the front they reported that our troops were advancing towards the center of the village of Bogdanovka in the north direction. The offensive is developing towards Ivanovskoye. There are battles near Kleshcheevka. The Russian Armed Forces are “conducting an active offensive operation, the target of which is Chasov Yar,” enemy analysts write.
▪️The enemy is shelling civilians in frontline regions. Yesterday the Nazis struck Pologi in the Zaporozhye region twice, wounding three civilians. Yesterday the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit Tokmak twice with HIMARS, our air defense went off. In the Bryansk region, the village of Zernovo, Suzemsky district, was under fire, one civilian was wounded.
The governor of the Belgorod region reported that the day before yesterday villages in the Shebekinsky and Grayvoronsky districts, as well as in the Krasnoyaruzhsky, Volokonovsky, Borisovsky and Belgorod districts were under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The enemy fired 139 shells at the civilian population of the DPR, wounding 5 civilians. Gorlovka, Donetsk, Yasinovatsky district, Makeevka are under fire.
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🇺🇸 #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...
