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All the latest updates and news from Ukraine today.
Good day. Here are the latest stories from the Kyiv Post newsroom...
Ukrainian hackers hoodwinked a group of Russian military wives into posing for a risqué spouse calendar, in the process outing their husbands’ identities by accident and exposing twelve combat pilots in an elite Kremlin air force squadron to possible war crimes charges, reports published by a pair of leading Kyiv-associated civilian activist groups said.
Read the full report here.
📈British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace estimated Russian losses at 220,000 dead and wounded soldiers in the war against #Ukraine.
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 30, 2023
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 172 900 Russian soldiers have already died in Ukraine, as of March 30, 2023. pic.twitter.com/agnd8qTJbr
The vicar of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, responded to demands by the government to abide by the legal eviction notice issued weeks ago with a tirade of threats against President Zelensky and the head of the Ministry of Culture, Oleksander Tkachenko.
Read the ful story here.
"First the tickets, then the movie,” said Russian oligarch Magomed Gadzhiev, a former member of the Russian Duma, who strongly supported his country’s invasion of Ukraine and is now looking for a quid pro quo: information about Russian operatives in exchange for European citizenship.
In a video interview with Romanian journalists, he claims he is ready to say everything he knows if they would just give him an Italian passport, or French if need be, and he insists he has always been against the war.
Read the full story here.
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been detained in Russia and accused of espionage, according to Russian state-run agencies.
Read the full story here.
Russian UN Security Council presidency on April 1 is a bad joke. Russia has usurped its seat; it’s waging a colonial war; its leader is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for kidnapping children. The world can’t be a safe place with Russia at UNSC #BadRussianJoke #InsecurityCouncil
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 30, 2023
Good morning from Kyiv.
It’s been a relatively quiet few days in the capital in terms of air raids and sirens, but on the ground, tensions have been bubbling at the site of the Pechersk-Lavra monastery complex.
You can read the full memo here.
