Outgoing U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John Aquilino:

“In the three years since I've been in command, China has built more than 400 aircraft, 20 major warships, and doubled its missile inventory.”

NATO’s “red lines” for direct intervention in Ukraine:

“NATO may intervene in the war in Ukraine if Belarus is involved in the war on Russia’s side, or if Russia attacks the Baltic countries, Poland or Moldova,” Italy’s Repubblica reports.

Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn.

European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.

Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.

Source: FT

Russian soldiers marching on Red Square during the dress rehearsal of the Victory Day parade in Moscow, May 5, 2024.

Russian boat packed with troops blows up on a river mine.

“Russia and China in Africa behave better than the West. They don't pretend to lecture us.”

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, criticizes Western positions.

Macron calls on the West not to “set limits” on military support for Ukraine.

“The security of Europeans is at stake in Ukraine, since it is located 1,500 kilometers from our borders. If Russia wins, in the next second there will be no security in Romania, Poland, Lithuania or our country. The power and range of Russian ballistic missiles puts us all in danger.”

#BREAKING Israel bans Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel.

Trump salutes North Korean general during a summit in Singapore in 2018.

Decommissioned Russian Su-25 with a camouflage net placed on one of the Russian airbases as a false target.

Thousands of links to Bundeswehr video meetings were publicly available for months, Die Zeit reports.

— The cause of this data leak was a security breach in the Bundeswehr's own version of the Webex program.

— The investigation revealed data on more than 6 thousand conferences, including data on their schedule, duration, meeting topics and names of organizers.

— Bundeswehr learned about the shortcomings only after it was contacted for comments.

Iranian Air Force F-14A Tomcat with Winnie The Pooh.

#BREAKING Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, two Israeli officials told Axios.

— It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that the U.S. has stopped a weapons shipment intended for the Israeli military.

China’s Type 003 aircraft carrier, also known as the Fujian, is the largest warship ever built by an Asian country; surpassing even the Yamato-class battleships.

— With its displacement of 80,000 tonnes, Fujian is China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, comparable in size to the U.S. Navy's Nimitz and Ford classes.

— Fujian is currently conducting sea trials.

Russian Turtle Tank design strikes again. Here’s the 2.0 version.

Prototypes of 155mm artillery shells with a range of 100 km will be handed over to Ukraine, German Rheinmetall boss says.

Rheinmetall will provide Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of ammunition, including long-range prototypes.

Footage shows Hamas rocket attack on gathering of IDF troops at Kerem Shalom Crossing with the Gaza Strip today.

At least 10 projectiles were fired.

Several IDF soldiers were wounded, some seriously.

FPV footage from Russian Turtle Tank 2.0.

IDF says 3 of its soldiers were killed in the attack today at Kerem Shalom Crossing.

#BREAKING Israel began evacuating the Palestinians from Rafah, likely readying for invasion.

Disregarding cover and employing outdated tactics, Ukrainian forces attempted a failed withdrawal during daylight hours, suffering significant losses due to a lack of armored support and accurate Russian artillery fire.