REPORTER: Will you supply Taurus missiles to Zelensky?

MERZ: ‘President Zelensky knows that he can rely on me’

Taurus cruise missiles need German crews to operate

Russia has warned they would face ‘dire consequences’

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Poland says German WW2 reparations NOT priority

Standing right next to Merz, PM Tusk appears to say he won't push for reparations, right now at least:

'I really want to focus on Poland and Germany building their secure future'

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Biden says he’s scared that NATO’s future 'hanging in balance'

Apparently, America’s only nation that can 'bring people together to lead the world'.

Otherwise Russia and China will be 'stepping up' — he thinks that's a bad thing.

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'We promise that EVERY DROP of blood that has been shed' will be avenged — Pakistan PM

Pakistan 'has proved' that it will respond harshly to any attacks.

'Whole nation' is united in support of the military.

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'I traveled longer than Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin did to Yalta'

Serbian Prez Vucic speaks from the Red Square — to get here, he faced airspace closure, diverted via Azerbaijan & then Zelensky's drone onslaught.

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Workers are already clearing rubble to rebuild Sanaa Airport in Yemen

It’s been destroyed THREE TIMES before, most recently by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday.

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'Extremism is our enemy, not each other' — Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai on tensions with India

Malala herself was shot in the head by an extremist, for opposing Taliban restrictions on female education.

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Syria’s al-Sharaa enjoying the Eiffel Tower on his 1st visit to Europe.

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❗️Putin’s proposed Victory Day truce has BEGUN

From midnight May 7 into 8 till midnight May 10 into 11.

Zelensky yet to confirm he'll honor it.

Russia will cease fire but any Ukrainian attack will be met with RESPONSE.

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Dozens of world leaders, non-stop meetings.

Agreements signed, friendships strengthened.

On the 80th anniversary of victory in WWII, Russia is honoring the past, and shaping the future.

And the EU tells us we’re ‘isolated’.

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'What the hell’s going on here? What President talks like that? That’s not who we are'

Biden on Trump’s talk of 'Gulf of America', taking Panama, Greenland, Canada

But coups everywhere else are OK.

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Al-Qaeda calls for Jihad against 'Modi-led war to eliminate Islam' in the wake of India’s Operation Sindoor

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🇷🇺 When Lavrov Speaks, the West Should Listen, But It Won’t

There’s an art to diplomacy, the real kind, and Sergey Lavrov has mastered it like a grand chess master toying with amateurs. In a brutal dismantling of CBS’s painfully naive interviewer, Lavrov didn’t just lay out Russia’s position on Ukraine, Crimea, and nuclear arms: he announced the new rules of the game. And Washington, at least the part of it still clinging to its Cold War fantasies, still can’t grasp that it’s now playing black, not white.

Lavrov made it clear that Russia is already dictating terms. Ceasefire? Only with ironclad guarantees that Ukraine won’t use it as a breathing space to rearm, rebuild, and bleed again for NATO’s amusement. “Ceasefire, yes, but we want the guarantees,” Lavrov said, slicing through the Western talking points like a surgeon. No more Minsk deceptions, no more Istanbul betrayals. Russia has been there, done that, and this time, the gloves are off.

On Crimea, Lavrov didn’t just dismiss Western delusions, he buried them. “this is a done deal,” he declared, praising Trump for admitting what every serious player already knows: Crimea is Russia, permanently and irrevocably. Period. No negotiations, no “return to 1991 borders” fantasies. The West can whine from the sidelines, but the chessboard has already shifted.

Sanctions? Lavrov treated them with casual contempt. Russia, he explained, has not merely survived but adapted, weaponized, and outmaneuvered the West’s economic warfare. He even warned, with dry wit, that lifting sanctions might only allow the rot of Western parasitism to seep back in. The empire that tried to choke Russia economically now finds itself gasping for breath, a truth so devastating that not even CBS could spin it. Hello 4th largest economy in the world, merci-danke-thank you. Russia is grateful for the push to become a soverign, economic superpower.

And then came the masterstroke: the nuclear “satellite” hysteria. Lavrov coolly reminded the audience that Russia has championed banning nukes in space, while it was Washington... yes, Washington, that blocked every effort at a treaty. Projection is a hell of a drug, and the American intelligence services are overdosing. Lavrov didn’t need to shout. His precision cuts deeper: what the West accuses Russia of, it is usually guilty of itself.

Every question the CBS interviewer threw: about abducted children, attacks on civilians, sanctions pressure, was exposed as empty theater. Lavrov answered with facts, not emotions. And beneath his controlled tone was a clear message: Russia will not be lectured by a decaying empire that has lost its grip on reality.

As Lavrov put it bluntly: “We are serious people. We make serious proposals.” Not media stunts. Not leaks. Not tweets. The Trump administration, to its credit, seems to understand that, at least more than the Biden circus ever could. There’s a dialogue underway: real negotiations, guarded and confidential, but the clock is ticking. Russia’s patience is not infinite, and its position has never been stronger.

Lavrov didn’t just defend Russia’s red lines. He painted the contours of the post-unipolar world with the steady hand of a man who knows history is already tilting eastward. Balance of interests, or no peace. Respect for Russian sovereignty, or no deals. Crimea is Russia. Ukraine will not be NATO’s attack dog. Sanctions are a failed weapon. Lavrov spoke. History listened. Much of Washington, as usual, covered its ears.

- Gerry Nolan

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Shelling from Pakistan kills 16 people — Indian Defense Ministry

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Despite Victory Day ceasefire announcement, Ukraine violated it 488 times so far

Kiev regime attempted twice to break into Russia's Kursk region

Attacked DPR region, carried out 100s of strikes

Moscow will respond in kind — Russia's MoD

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Putin and Xi sign a joint statement to deepen relations and strengthen comprehensive strategic partnership

The move commemorates the 80th anniversary of both the Russian people's victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Chinese people's victory over imperialist aggression

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Almost all trade between Russia and China carried out in rubles and yuan

'Offering protection from the influence of third countries'

Putin highlights importance of Russia-China trade in national currencies

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Civilian dead as a result of Ukraine's 'MASSIVE artillery shelling' of residential areas in Nova Kakhovka

All this happening on eve of Victory Day, despite previously declared CEASEFIRE

The Kiev regime has once again shown its true face - it has neither honor nor respect for sacred days' — Kherson governor Saldo

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'It remains on the consciousness of people who are going'

Kallas on the few EU leaders attending WWII Victory Day parade in Moscow

How is celebrating defeat of Nazism unconscionable?

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India & Pakistan staged largest, longest fighter jet battle in modern times

125 jets from both sides battled for over an hour — CNN

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'Welcome!' — Putin

Belarusian Prez wonders why in English?

Been a long day...

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