🇲🇩🗳🟦⬜️🟥 The Central Electoral Commission in Comrat validated the elections for governor of Gagauzia.

Eugenia Guțul won the elections with 52% of the vote.

Grigorii Uzun lost the elections with 47% of the vote.

The results have to be confirmed again by the Comrat Court of Appeals. No appeals were made in regards with the elections.

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🇲🇩🗳🟦⬜️🟥 The CNA handed out notices to all members of the Central Electoral Commission to present themselves before the court on May 18th as witnesses in a case regarding alleged voter fraud on behalf of Eugenia Guțul.

The General Assembly of Gagauzia called for an urgent meeting tonight. The Gagauzian MPs are not happy with Chisinau's interference in the local affairs of the autonomous unit.

Yesterday, prime-minister Dorin Recean stated that the Gagauzian elections had a number of irregularities in them while not providing any concrete evidence to back up his claims only saying that "the police will convince the electoral commission of the irregularities that took place during the elections".

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 PLA reveals US-China military encounter off Hong Kong

China and the US became locked in an intense military confrontation as close as 150km from Hong Kong in early 2021, prompting the US to destroy its own floating sonars. This has been revealed for the first time since the incident.

On January 5th three US military aircraft launched a submarine hunt unusually close to China’s shoreline. China's People Liberation Army, which was conducting a naval exercise in the area, responded swiftly by sending out a counter force, the size and nature of which remains classified.

The two forces were so close that the US military self-destroyed its floating sonars to prevent the sensitive devices from falling into China’s hands.

#China #USA

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Time lapse of Russian advance through Bakhmut from 01 March to 17 May 2023.

📎 Tim Archer

#Russia / #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: "#Russian Volunteer Corps" (affiliated with #Ukrainian Forces) released a new video of their Partisan unit.

Members appear to be armed with AK-12 rifle, AK-74 rifle, AKMS rifle, RShG-2 thermobaric rocket launcher, 12G shotgun and RPG-26 anti-tank weapon.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1658816290318954498

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Extensive destruction in Bakhmut is visible in new satellite imagery from Maxar.

These images show what areas of the city looked a year ago, and how they appear today. This area is in the western part of the city (48.592, 37.965).

📎 Brady Africk

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Bakhmut SitRep - May 17, 2023:

▶️ RUS captured Cherema district and controls 97% of Bakhmut
▶️ RUS attack last Novyi district and Chaikovskoho Av

Interactive Map With Timeline:

https://newsmap.pl/2022-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-interactive-map

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