Last night, Russia attacked the northern suburbs of Kryvyi Rih with at least 5 Geran-2 drones.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- The U.S. has begun preparing plans for a potential military operation in Cuba, two U.S. officials tell CBS News.

"The U.S. intelligence community has been exploring how Cuba might respond to an American military action. Earlier this month, as the U.S. intelligence community tracked the Universal, a sanctioned Russian-flagged oil tanker bound for Cuba, analysts at the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military's intelligence arm, started to analyze what the Cuban response would be to an American attack on the Caribbean country.

These types of intelligence forecasts attempt not only to show the immediate consequences of an American action, but the chain of reactions that may follow," - CBS News.

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Reuters claims that operations at "virtually all" oil refineries in central Russia have been temporarily suspended due to repeated Ukrainian drone attacks.

According to them, the refineries that have suspended operations account for around one-quarter of Russia's total refining capacity, including over 30% for gasoline and approximately 25% for diesel.

Among those reportedly closed is the Kirishi Oil Refinery in Leningrad Oblast, which Reuters claims has been shut for over two weeks after Ukrainian drone attacks on May 5.

Ukrainian F-16s over northern Sumy Oblast. Russia might try to shoot them down shortly.

Update: They launched glide-bombs towards Rylsk, Kursk Oblast.

In addition to the strikes on Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, Russia has intensified attacks on cities closer to the frontline, including Druzhkivka and Mykolaivka.

The attached image shows the aftermath of a Russian strike on Druzhkivka.

Notice how its gone from "it will take Russia 1,000 years to reach Kyiv at the current rate of advance" to 140 years?

The linear warfare narrative is debunking itself once again. Propaganda like this wont help Ukraine win.

Ukrainian forces have recaptured the town of Vilcha, Bilyi Kolodyaz direction, Kharkiv Oblast (Chuhuiv District).

Pre-war population: ~1,639.
Total land area: ~3.20 km².

The second battle for Vilcha lasted approximately 23 months.

The Ukrainian units redeployed from the Kupyansk direction to the Vovchansk direction that I reported on a month ago are now taking part in a coordinated series of counterattacks.

These counterattacks are aimed at pushing the Russians back from their positions on the eastern bank of the Siverskyi-Donets River to the western part of Vovahnsk, limiting their bridgehead over the Vovcha River in a similar manner to the localised counteroffensive in the Stepnohirsk area of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Keep in mind, the scale of the assault forces involved is not nearly large enough for this to be considered a "counteroffensive".

Currently, these forces are carrying out assault operations in the area of Lyman, Vilcha, Synelnykove, and the southern outskirts of Vovchansk, achieving tactical advances which threaten Russian formations stationed in the Prylipka-Lyman-Symynivka-Verkhnya Pysarivka-Hrafske area with encirclement.

Ukrainian forces stationed in the Starystya area are counterattacking too, following last month's targeted raids into Russian strongpoints in the large forests north of the village. Although, it is important to mention that these forces were not redeployed from anywhere else, and have been operating in this area for a long time. As such, the scale of the counterattacks in the Starytsya area will be much more limited, and likely completely separate to the larger effort east of the Siverskyi Donets River.

The other part of the forces redeployed to this sector are attempting to stabilise the situation east of Vovchansk, where Russia recently broke through the international border towards the Vovcha River. The fact that some Russian soldiers have managed to cross the Vovcha River and infiltrate additional settlements highlights the critical situation for Ukraine there.

However, these redeployments from Kupyansk occurred due to a lack of available reserves. This means that as a result of these redeployments, the Ukrainian defence in the Kupyansk direction has been weakened, which has allowed Russia to make new tactical advances east of the Oskil River, and significantly increase the presence of their infiltrators in the western and central parts of Kupyansk city.

Russia will likely try to further intensify their assault operations in the Kupyansk direction in the near future in order to take advantage of the fact that the Ukrainian position there is the weakest its been since September 2025.

KAB glide-bombs launched by a Su-34 are flying towards Kherson City.

They will impact in 2-3 minutes.