Russia sends drones to Odessa and digs trenches in Crimea

• According to the American newspaper washington post, Moscow ordered the construction of several kilometers of trenches around the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014. The daily tells us that many job offers have been published, they were intended for construction workers with an attractive salary, rare in this region, of 90 dollars a day. That would have allowed Moscow to put those trenches in place within days, according to satellite images.
• Russia carried out attacks in Ukraine overnight Monday-Tuesday with 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones, the command of the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement, indicating that the air defense systems destroyed 14 of these drones. Yury Krouk, head of the regional military administration of the port city of Odessa, reported on his administration’s Facebook page that” There is[vait] damages “.
• Celso Amorim, adviser to Brazilian President Lula, met on March 25 with Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss Ukraine, a source from the presidency in Brasilia told AFP on Monday, April 3. Mr. Amorim also had lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is expected in Brazil on April 17, according to the same source.
• Finland will today become the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), announced the secretary general of the latter, Jens Stoltenberg. For its part, Russia has declared that it will strengthen its military capabilities near Finland after NATO enlargement.
• The Russian paramilitary group Wagner claimed responsibility for the capture of Bakhmout town hall on Monday morning, in eastern Ukraine, claiming that this conquest meant that he now legally controlled the city. The Ukrainian army claimed, for its part, to have “repelled more than twenty enemy attacks”and hold “courageously the city”.
• The suspect Daria Trepova said to have brought the statuette which exploded in Saint Petersburg Sunday, killing Russian ultranationalist blogger Vladlen Tatarski. She spoke in a video published Monday, after her arrest by the Russian Interior Ministry.
• Ukrainian President pays tribute to the courage of nearly 400 residents of Yahidne, a village in northern Ukraine, who were detained in the basement of a school under Russian occupation for almost a month a year ago. During this trip, Volodymyr Zelensky was accompanied by the German Vice-Chancellor, Robert Habeck, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic Buric.
• The Ukrainian president will make an official visit to Warsaw on Wednesday. During his visit, Volodymyr Zelensky will meet his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, to discuss issues related to security and economic and agricultural cooperation.
• Poland delivered Mig-29 fighters to Ukraine. “They are indeed useful for Ukraine to defend [la] security [de] all “, said Marcin Przydacz, an adviser to the Polish presidency. Slovakia had made a similar announcement at the end of March.
• The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi will travel to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesdayin Russia, to continue discussions regarding the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

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