🇺🇸👀 U.S. trade court has ruled against Trump’s 10% global tariff policy, - Reuters

4/ Russian occupation officials continue efforts to militarize Ukrainian schoolchildren by facilitating municipal stages of the Zarnitsa 2.0 military-patriotic competition.

🙏 In Kramatorsk, rescuers rescued a woman from the rubble of a building after a Russian airstrike on a residential area in the city

❗️🇺🇦 There will be NO truce because the Russians did not want peace, — Sternenko

🤬 Russian drone exploded in one of the districts of Zaporizhzhia. Four people were injured, including a 15-year-old boy. All are receiving the necessary medical care, — Ivan Fedorov.

Kramatorsk. A mom and her child are hiding under a tree while Russian FPV drones and KAB bombs fly over their town. Heartbreaking. 📹: Yan Dobronosov/Telegraf

🇦🇲 Armenia does not support Russia in the war against Ukraine, - Pashinyan "I have already made statements on this topic. We sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and I said that we are not allies of Russia on the issue of Ukraine," - Pashinyan emphasized.

‼️The Kremlin believes continuing trilateral negotiations between the US, Ukraine&Russia has no point until Kyiv takes its army out of the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbas. Comment from me:Russia can not take Donbas militarily. #Ukraine won't concede territory. Russia intends to continue the war

🇩🇪"We are in close contact with other embassies. We will not allow ourselves to be intimidated by this. We know the Russians and the methods they use." German FM commented on the issue of Putin's threats and his call for foreign countries to evacuate their embassies from Kyiv.

The International Olympic Committee no longer recommends restrictions on Belarusian athletes’ participation in the Olympics. According to them, the National Olympic Committee is "in good standing and complies with the Olympic Charter."

Ukraine advises foreign delegations not to visit Moscow on 9 May, says Zelenskyy.

🥴 IOC has lifted restrictions on the participation of athletes from Belarus in competitions Thus, Belarusians will be able to compete in international competitions under the national flag.

💔 In Kramatorsk, a mother and child hide under a tree while enemy FPV drones fly over the city. And at the end, three more KABs fly right over their heads… Video by Yan Dobronosov

Belarus has once again been allowed to compete in the upcoming Olympics without restrictions. Belarus is a major supporter of Nazi Russia! Shame on the IOC!

✈️❗️Moscow residents are crying because Moscow airports have been paralyzed all day due to the threat of drones. Some Russians have been waiting for their flights for 16 hours and complain that they are not being given food or drink. Authorities report that 50 drones have already been shot down.

In other words, Trump and Hegseth have been lying to the American people.

Good news 🇺🇦✅

EU has no plans to evacuate diplomats despite Russian threats to attack #Kyiv on May 9. European Commission Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Anouar El-Anouni: "Russia's public threats to attack Kyiv are part of its reckless escalatory tactics.

But Trump’s economic advisers and Republicans in Congress will go on CNBC with big smiles and insist everything is great.

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🇪🇺✅ EU will not evacuate its diplomats from Kyiv after Moscow's warnings, says European Commission spokesman.

Top-level officials are beginning to flee Russia. And that is a good sign. As the economy deteriorates, stealing becomes harder, competition inside the system grows more brutal, and the risk of ending up in prison - or dead - gets closer. When things go badly in Russia, Putin is never blamed⤵️

🇦🇲 We are not Russia's allies on the issue of Ukraine, - Pashinyan.

More bad news for the Russian banking sector, as the number of unprofitable banks has doubled, now at 20%.

❗️❗️AP: Western intelligence officials say Russia has intensified assassination plots across Europe since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, targeting activists, defectors, military figures, and supporters of Ukraine.

"The Russian army is launching attacks on Ukraine by all available means, and the response will be just in the coming days." - Zelensky.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Ukraine wants to receive data on its citizens in the EU to prepare for their return, — Ministry of Social Policy. "We want Ukrainians to return home, but it must be a voluntary and informed decision."

2/“We proposed a silence starting from midnight on May 6. Yesterday and today, this regime has been violated by Russia. But if Russia is ready to shift to diplomacy — we will follow the path of diplomacy,” the President added.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

UN: “At least 70 civilians have been killed & more than 500 injured across UKR since May 1st” Ruzzian barbarity is evident & cannot persuade anyone of its willingness to make peace; nor even a ceasefire which RUS would want to use to display its Nazi symbols! www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

All this indicates that Russia is not seriously considering the possibility of a ceasefire and the only thing that continues to worry the Russian leadership is the short-term silence on Red Square. Ukraine will act fairly - from day to day. We have proposed silence since midnight on May 6.

🙏🇺🇦 Already 9 injured in Kharkiv, three of them children, — Terekhov 38 private houses damaged.

May 5 was the most illustrative example of the current nature of Russia’s war against #Ukraine: ◾️Ukraine carried out a combined missile and drone strike on the Russian “VNIIR” plant in Cheboksary (Chuvashia). The plant produces a wide range of electronics for the Russian army⤵️

❗️❗️On the border with Russia in the Chernihiv region, 2,400 hectares of forest are burning due to shelling.

✈️ Moscow airports paralyzed again More than 100 flights have already been canceled or delayed due to the attack of Ukrainian drones. Others in the air have to circle around the city.

Russia attacked five districts of Dnipropetrovsk region nearly 30 times with artillery and drones. ▪️ Dnipro: A 21-year-old pregnant woman and a 45-year-old man among the injured. Apartment buildings, garages, and vehicles damaged.

A humanitarian catastrophe is currently unfolding in the Russian occupied areas of Ukraine's Kherson region, as Russians brutalize the remainder of the civilian population.

Sloviansk, Donetsk region. Just 14 kilometers from the grey zone. Russian missiles, KABs, and drones attack the city almost every day. Yet residents still clean their courtyards, paint the curbs, plant flowers, and hold on to ordinary life. 📹: kovalution / Threads

Putin’s ratings are falling. Even official pro-Kremlin reports make that obvious. So what is Putin going to do about it? Let’s break it down⤵️

🇱🇻 Claimed as several drones flew into Latvia from the territory of the Russian Federation: an empty tank at an oil depot in the city of Rezekne was damaged.

Russian historian Yuri Pivovarov, April 2026: "I know nothing in Russia’s military history more disgraceful or more shameful than the current war. This is a Great Patriotic War of the Ukrainian people against an invader. Unfortunately, the invaders are our [Russian] people."

❗️🇺🇸 The US State Department has demanded that diplomats not use classified information for betting purposes, - WSJ

🥺🇺🇦 Five people were killed and eleven others were injured as a result of Russian strikes on the Sumy region over the past day.

❗️Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “On every dollar we invest in Ukraine, Europeans and others contribute one and a half dollars. So the claim that they ‘rode for free’ is simply not true.

Dear GOP, Can we please have Trump do a rally for Susan Collins? If Trump is “unavailable” for this important race can you sent Vance? If Vance is also “too busy” can you send Stephen Miller? Or Mike Johnson? Maybe Tom Homan? With much love and sincerity, Maine Democrats

🇺🇦🇳🇴 Fedorov: Working visit to Norway. The main goal is to discuss increasing military assistance to Ukraine and synchronize on priorities: air defense, long-range ammunition, Ukrainian drones. Today, Norway allocated $300 million for a new PURL package, missiles for the PATRIOT systems.

This does not appear to be someone concerned about the price of gas and groceries.

❗️👀 Putin is losing control of Russia. Every step he takes accelerates its decline, —The Economist "A bleak view from Moscow" from a former senior Russian government official: ▪️"Putin has led Russia into a dead end, and no one knows what will happen next";

❗️“Russia has violated the silence regime. Ukraine will respond in a mirror manner. Depending on the situation tonight and tomorrow, we will also decide on our responses,” — Zelenskyy. “Russia has fought itself to the point that even their main parade now depends on us.”

🇺🇦❗️Ukraine will create its own military companies to support the post-war capabilities of our soldiers. "Our security exports will become a new business opportunity for veterans," — Zelensky