🇪🇺🇺🇦 "Ukraine has the best army in Europe and perhaps in the world. It will be difficult to understand if we in Europe do not perceive the integration of the best military force into our European security system as a vital interest," — European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius.

🇸🇪 POLITICO: NATO is turning Sweden’s Gotland island into a military stronghold because it is strategically important and seen as vulnerable to Russian aggression. Sweden is increasing troop numbers, air defenses, and military infrastructure, while NATO is conducting large-scale exercises there.

One year ago, Ukraine’s SBU launched Operation Spiderweb under Vasyl Maliuk’s direction, smuggling FPV drones into Russia inside modular houses before remotely opening the roofs for launch. The drones hit Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya airfields, damaging or destroying 41 strategic aircraft.

“The 3rd Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has officially declared that key towns and logistical routes across occupied Luhansk are now under the operational control of Ukrainian drones.” Ukraine’s mid-range strike campaign accelerates. www.kyivpost.com/post/77237

🤬❗️Video of Shahed strike on Nova Poshta in Dnipro

😢 More photos of the aftermath of the Russian strike on Dnipro

❗️❗️Ballistics threat — in Kyiv and regions where the alert has been declared

🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Senator Kelly: "I want to see not only a victory for Ukraine. I want to live to see the day when Putin is imprisoned… Putin has countless crimes against Ukraine on his account, and he must answer for each of them.” @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Read 👀 theukrainianreview.info/black-sea-se...

🇺🇦👀 Zelensky: Our new long-range sanctions, and this is 500 km from our state border. Russia could have ended its aggression long ago, but it chose to delay and continue. So another object of the Russian oil industry has been reached: Armavir, Krasnodar Krai.

💥 Russia: Ukraine destroyed two $70 million Tu-142 long-range bombers at the Taganrog Airbase in Rostov region.

🇨🇳🇳🇱 China's PLA intercepted Dutch frigate HNLMS De Ruyter in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, deploying warships, corvettes, and J-16 fighters — and applying electronic jamming — to force the ship and its helicopter to leave waters Beijing claims as territorial.

🗣🇺🇦 Zaluzhnyi said that NATO did nothing to protect the Black Sea. Because of this, the Russians were able to create new centers of instability. 🛳️ The lack of a clear NATO strategy may lead to the opening of the Bosphorus Strait for the passage of Russian ships after the end of the war.

🇷🇴 Romania summoned the Russian ambassador and convened a meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defense after a Russian attack drone crashed into a residential apartment building in the city of Galați. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/nato-and-eu-...

❗️❗️WSJ: Putin has launched a $26 billion state-backed longevity initiative, driven by his personal obsession with aging. It includes organ bioprinting, growing human organs inside mini-pigs, gene therapy, and cryotherapy.

❗️🇺🇦 According to intelligence information, the Russian Armed Forces are planning to shell on the eve of Kyiv Day, - Ukraine Context Residents of the Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiivskyi, Svyatoshynskyi and Podilskyi districts of the capital should be especially attentive.

❗️ Sections of the route between the temporarily occupied cities of Berdyansk, Melitopol, and Dzhankoy are under the fire control of Ukrainian drones - GUR of the Ministry of Defense.

1/ Russian businesses are to be allowed to purchase their own heavy air defence systems, including guns, radars, and electronic warfare systems. However, as a Russian warblogger points out, this is effectively merely a way of subsidising the Russian military. ⬇️

🛳️ Russia purposefully struck a Turkish ship heading from a port in the Odesa region: there are injuries, - Ukrainian Navy.

🚨 BREAKING: Russia attacked NATO member Romania with a drone. The drone strike on an apartment building caused a massive explosion in Galati.

🇺🇸🇺🇳 Russia's latest massive strikes on 🇺🇦Kyiv over the weekend, including Oreshnik, are an unjustified, dangerous and barbaric escalation, — US statement to UN

F0CK vance

🤡🤡🤡 "Ukraine donates its children to America and Europe for organ donations: they are also taken away for adoption by gays and lesbians," — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US is not leaving Ukraine, and its diplomats, despite Russian intimidation, remain in Kyiv. We will not be intimidated by Russian threats or bullying, we are not afraid, and the people of Ukraine should not be intimidated in any way, — said US Senator Blumenthal at a briefing in Kyiv.

‼️ A large-scale air alert was declared in Ukraine due to the takeoff of a MiG-31K

PETRAEUS: Last year, Ukraine produced 3.5 million drones. The U.S. produced 300,000. Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff said to me, “What do you mean we’re not innovating? We gave 500 drones to tank brigade.” I told him to scrap tank brigade. Tank no longer survive on battlefield.

Succes ermee, stelletje naïevelingen. We zien jullie uitspraken als "We hadden Poetins woorden niet moeten geloven" over een jaar of 5 tegemoet als hij in de Baltics zit. nos.nl/artikel/2616...

and nobody would do anything about it. That's how Cold War and post-Cold War era functioned. Every American president, every Republican and every Democrat, took very strong line with Russia, and any nasty thing they did was met with most severe and aggressive reprimand.

That would have been red line under any other U.S. government, any political party, at any other time in history. I’m old enough to remember that if Russia made any kind of threat against U.S. interests, the U.S. would respond with most blistering, dangerous threats against Russian interests,

BROWDER: Lavrov called Rubio and threatened U.S. interests in Ukraine. Russia supplied information to Iran to target U.S. interests in Middle East. Truly astounding to watch how Trump administration dealing with Russia right now.

The stunning growth in the issuance of Russian government bonds continues to get worse, as the Kremlin forces banks to pay for the war. Before the war, 30% of russian bonds were purchased by foreign entities, now 0%. Snake eats tail.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today in Kyiv, American congressmen Richard Blumenthal and Jim Himes are in Kyiv. An important visit in these difficult days after the massive attack. We discussed strengthening air defense. We have a significant need for anti-ballistic missiles due to constant Russian shelling. 1/3

Occupied Melitopol is reportedly experiencing fuel shortages, likely a knock-on effect of strikes targeting Russia's logistics routes.

Russia can no longer supply occupied Crimea with sufficient gasoline. Some gas stations even in Sevastopol are empty.

💥 There is also a heavy safari for equipment in the Zaporizhzhia direction, - Exilenova

MiG-31K takeoff - missile danger ⚠️🇺🇦

🇺🇦❗️The next 6 months are a critical turning point. Russia is exhausted and incapable of breakthroughs, so Ukraine must seize the initiative. Donbas is a key issue, and in negotiations we must act exclusively from a position of strength, — General Andriy Biletsky.

🚀❗️Kinzhal flies along the Hostomel-Zhytomyr-Starokostiantyniv vector.

The United States was not among the signatories.

Former UK PM Tony Blair: Every day in April, Putin lost more forces in Ukraine than UK did in both Iraq and Afghanistan. We're talking about different mentality. I don't think UK government is foolish saying we have got to be prepared for possible conflict with Russia in future.

No foreign embassies in Kyiv have decided to evacuate staff following Russian threats of new attacks on the Ukrainian capital, the Kyiv Independent has learned.

French Minister for EU Affairs, Haddad: Russia's criminal escalation against Ukrainian civilians is clear sign of utter failure of Russia's war of aggression. Russia losing on battlefield, losing diplomatically, tried to divide Europeans. We've stepped up our support to Ukraine.

🤬 In Kherson, Russians fired MLRS at a playground. A man was killed. His wife and two daughters, ages 3 and 6, were injured. One of the girls is in serious condition.

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Straightforward example of Russia, backed by China, challenging West is in Ukraine. This is most blatant challenge to international order since World War II. We need to ensure Putin doesn’t succeed. And without China, Russia would've already lost.

🚨 In response to mass destruction of Russian military transport by Ukraine, Russian Defence Ministry issued an illegal order to commit perfidy by disguising military vehicles: "Apply designs and advertising emblems of various civilian organizations to awning, doors, and sides."

❗️🤡 State Duma calls for the complete destruction of not only Kyiv, but also airports and railway bridges across Dnipro in order to “completely paralyze (!) the railways of Ukraine”, – head of the international affairs committee, Slutsky, stated that in Russia “there are no restrictive lines"

A Russian strike hit a playground in Kherson‼️ A mother and her two little girls, ages 3 and 6, were injured. The father is reported to have been killed‼️

⚡️ Update: The Kyiv Independent publishes full Zelensky letter to Trump warning of critical missile defense shortages. President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump warning about Ukraine's worsening shortage of air defense systems.

❗️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky sent an urgent letter to Trump warning of a critical shortage of Ukraine's missile defense, – The Kyiv Independent.