1011 days ago the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The North Korean authorities have provided Russia with over 100 artillery systems and 100 short-range ballistic missiles of the Kn-23/24 type, Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) reported. According to Kiev, the regime in Pyongyang has been donating military equipment to Moscow since October. Here's what happened in and around Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
> The head of the British intelligence service MI6, Richard Moore, assessed that if Vladimir Putin will vassalize Ukrainethen it won't stop there. Then – he added – the security of all Europe will be at risk.
> North Korean authorities delivered Russia over 100 artillery systems and 100 short-range ballistic missiles of the Kn-23/24 type, reported Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR). According to Kiev, the regime in Pyongyang has been donating military equipment to Moscow since October.
> – Nobody offered us membership in NATO for one or another part of Ukraine. The fact is that this is the solution that will end the hot stage of the warbecause we can simply grant NATO membership to the part of Ukraine that is under our control – said the Ukrainian president in an interview with Sky News Volodymyr Zelensky. He noted that “this proposal has never been considered by Ukraine because no one has ever officially proposed it to us.”
> Former chancellor German Angela Merkel called for diplomatic solutions to be considered to end war in Ukraine. – You always have to think about diplomatic solutions in parallel – she said in an interview for ZDF television.
> The Kremlin press service removes it metadata from videos and photos published on the official website, on the basis of which it was possible to determine the date and exact time of their execution – the Moscow Times website reported on Friday. Now analysts will not be able to determine whether the materials presented by the Kremlin actually constitute a record of current events.
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> North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un stated during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov that Ukraine's use of Western long-range missiles “is the result of direct U.S. intervention and Moscow has the right to self-defense,” the North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Saturday.
> General Mykhailo Drapaty stayed new commander land forces of Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday after a meeting of the high command. He added that he appointed Colonel Oleh Apostol as the deputy supreme commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
> Special envoy USA for Russia and Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg has a plan to end the war in Ukraine, which may appeal to Vladimir Putin – CNN said, citing Kellogg's April text for his think tank America First Policy Initiative.
> Ukraine recovered 485 bodies fallen from sections of the front in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporozhye regions, and the bodies of 17 fallen were brought from mortuaries in Russia.
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