Putin appoints Nikolai Patrushev as his assistant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to China on May 16-17.

British MoD asks: “Where is Russia’s T-14 Armata tank?”

“It’s been confirmed that the Armata Main Battle Tank has entered service with the Russian Military but will not deploy to Ukraine.”

Israel continues to destroy buildings in Rafah.

Kraken Regiment of Ukrainian Army successfully runs a gauntlet of Russian artillery fire in Chasiv Yar with Turkish Cobra-II 4x4 Tactical Wheeled Armored Vehicle.

Ukrainian FPV drones attack Russian T-72B3 turtle tank which ran over an anti-tank mine.

New Hamas clash footage from northern Gaza, targeting IDF armor & forces.

Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Güler met with Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov in Ankara today.

Umerov was appointed in September 2023.

He's a Muslim of Crimean Tatar origin.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

— Israel is an occupying power. This war is not a war that came out of nowhere.

— There is an occupation, and this occupation has continued day by day in different forms with thieves called settlers stealing Palestinian lands.

— It is not possible to describe a resistance movement that fights against the occupation and protects its own land as a terrorist organization.

— Hamas is a resistance movement.

New Russian Defence Minister Belousov promises that he would make every effort to solve the assigned tasks, “and if necessary, even his life.”

IDF observation balloon crashed and fell in Lebanese territory.

Georgian Parliament adopted the law “on foreign agents”.

This is how the protesters reacted.

'Foreign agents' bill would require organizations receiving over 20% of their funding from abroad to register as 'agents of foreign influence.

Security forces began to harshly detain protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Red security level has been introduced in the Georgian Parliament.

Special forces began to push protesters away from Rustaveli Avenue.

Russian soldiers and Nepalese mercenaries at the front:

"Ukrainians are in the north, fire there. Russia is in the south, don't shoot there."

Exhausted & likely wounded Russian soldier was killed by a Ukrainian FPV drone as he wanted to rest.

Igor Konashenkov, Chief Spokesperson for the Russian MoD, reportedly resigned.

He's been holding the position since August 30, 2011.

Russian General Surovikin was reportedly seen in Kremlin today.

Surovikin is a veteran of the Soviet–Afghan War, Second Chechen War, and Russian military intervention in Syria, briefly commanded Russian forces in Ukraine in late 2022 before being replaced in January 2023.

Ukrainian “Dragon’s Teeth” are just lying around on the outskirts of Liptsy, Kharkiv region.

"These barriers have been lying idle since the summer of 2023," Ukrainian soldiers said.

Normally, these pyramid-shaped concrete obstacles, also known as "devil's teeth", are placed in layered, zig-zagging lines between anti-tank ditches and troop-manned trenches.

Vovchansk, Kharkiv region today.

The city is under constant Russian shelling.

Israeli government hired expert(s) to set up voting communities across dozens of countries aimed at pumping up the popular votes for Israel’s song at Eurovision, Israeli journalist Yonatan Touval reveals.

“The effort was successful as the song won 2nd place in the popular vote.”

Ukrainian forces fire British Brimstone missiles from a mobile launcher.

— The ground-launched Brimstone missile has a range of 5-12 miles (8-20 km).