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3/30/19
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I just migrated a website from jedrenje11.joker007.net to www.jedrenjegrckaostrva.com.
It's a WordPress website.
Sitemaps are created using Yoast plugin. They load fine. However, when submitting the sitemaps to google, I get an error: "Couldn't fetch". Submitted them yesterday. For some reason, Google won't load the sitemaps.

Made all the pages from the old address 301 redirect to the new domain matching pages.

Trying to do "URL inspection" of a sitemap link (which loads fine in browser):
https://www.jedrenjegrckaostrva.com/page-sitemap.xml

I get the option to "TEST LIVE URL". Clicking it shows:

"No: 'noindex' detected in 'X-Robots-Tag' http header"

So I checked robots.txt in website's root. There was none! :) 
Made one and uploaded it:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin-directory/

Sitemap: https://www.jedrenjegrckaostrva.com/page-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.jedrenjegrckaostrva.com/bwg_gallery-sitemap.xml
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3/30/19
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Don't worry, currently it seems that it shows that error until Google has had time to process the sitemap. Give it a day or two and things should look fine. The confusing error has been reported.
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3/30/19
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The New Search Console is reporting based on old data (e.g. robots.txt, noindex meta tags, etc), even older than the Old Search Console. It will catch up over time. Patience.
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4/7/19
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It's a travesty. A week of couldn't fetch. Why break what worked? Is this an improvement?
They get paid (and very well) to do stuff like this and leave it broken for who knows how long. 
Ridiculous company.
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4/11/19
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I faced same problem! how to fix that?
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Yes so this clearly means Google is using the site map submission step as part of the ranking criteria. Otherwise, as you know, they were just organically chart and Mac and then perhaps tell you what pages were not indexed.
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