🇮🇱🇵🇸The city of Rafah in Gaza before and after the Israeli military operation.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️US President Donald Trump may impose new sanctions against Russia as early as this week, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing informed sources.

According to one of the publication's sources, the restrictions will probably not include new banking sanctions. Other possible measures are being discussed.

The source also said that Trump is "tired of peace talks" and is considering abandoning them.

🇦🇷🇬🇧❗️Argentine authorities have called on the UK to resume negotiations on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands after London handed over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius.

🇺🇸🇷🇺Young Americans are converting to Orthodoxy in search of "manliness," BBC News reports.

Recently, the number of parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in some US states has been growing rapidly, mainly due to the conversion of believers from other faiths.

Mostly men. Pew Research data shows that 64% of Orthodox Christians in the United States are men, although in the early 2000s this figure was 46%.

Founded by priests who fled Russia's 1917 revolution (it reunited with the Russian Orthodox Church in 2007, becoming a self-governing church within the Moscow Patriarchate), the ROCOR is considered by many to be the most conservative Orthodox jurisdiction in the United States. Yet the small religious community is highly active — "and what's unfolding within it reflects the larger political shifts underway in the United States, especially since Donald Trump's sharp turn toward Moscow."

It is noted that the growth of its parishioners began after the coronavirus pandemic, when the churches of the ROCOR, unlike all other denominations, remained open.

American professor Scott Kenworthy, who studies Eastern Christianity, says his parish in Cincinnati is "bursting at the seams" with people wanting to join.

"This is not just a phenomenon in my parish or a few other churches in Texas. It's definitely something larger," the professor says.

One of the reasons cited in the article is Russia's policy of supporting Christianity.

"Images and photographs of Putin quoting the Bible, holding candles during services at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, and stripping to his underwear to plunge into icy water on Epiphany seem to have struck a chord with Americans. Some of them - in America and elsewhere - see Russia as the last bastion of true Christianity," the BBC writes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to The Economist, Russia is now producing so many attack drones that what once took a month 300 Shahed drones now takes less than three days. Documents suggest plans to ramp up to 500 drones per day.

That means swarms of 1,000 drones could become a reality, overwhelming Ukraine’s air defences already struggling with interceptor shortages and limited Western support.

Already 300 drones in one wave is a lot it's overwhelming as it is. Hitting 500 a day might sound ambitious, but at this rate, we could very well see it within the next 6 to 12 months.

This isn’t just a warning for Ukraine. NATO should be paying close attention too if a future conflict ever breaks out, these swarm tactics could be used far beyond Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦2,331 Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defense forces from May 20 to the morning of May 27, of which 1,465 were outside the SMO zone, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Staraya Nikolaevka in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.

🇪🇺❗️The EU Council has approved the creation of a €150 billion EU militarization fund, Reuters reported.

🇨🇳⚡️ An explosion occurred at a chemical plant in eastern China, the South China Morning Post reports.

The number of victims is unknown, rescue operations are ongoing. The cause of the incident has not been established. The plant belongs to Shandong Youdao Chemical, which is the world's largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, producing about 11 thousand tons of the substance per year.

🇷🇴Inauguration of the new President of Romania.

First he greeted the Jewish rabbi, then the Catholic cardinal, but he refused to greet the Orthodox patriarch. In a country where 90 percent are Orthodox. Why is that?

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️The presence of the Russian Armed Forces is recorded along the border of the Chernihiv region, but the greatest concentration of the enemy in terms of shelling and manpower is near the Sumy region — khokhloSMI

Russian troops are keeping the combat units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on edge and tying them down so that they do not redeploy their forces to hotter sections of the front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces Command states.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces also stated that they are expecting an attack from the territory of Belarus.

🇺🇦🇷🇺Zelensky stated that Kyiv could soon begin to launch massive strikes deep into Russian territory:

"We cannot publicly talk about our plans, our capabilities, but the prospect is clear: to respond in kind to all Russian threats and challenges. They, in Russia, must clearly feel the consequences of what they are doing against Ukraine. This will happen. Attack drones, interceptors, cruise missiles, Ukrainian ballistics are the key elements."

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️ Putin doesn't understand that if it weren't for me, a lot of really bad things would have happened to Russia by now, and I mean REALLY BAD. He's playing with fire - Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump has not decided whether he will impose new sanctions against Russia, Politico reports.

The US President fears that Moscow will refuse to negotiate a ceasefire if Washington threatens new economic sanctions.

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️In early May, Israel notified the Trump administration that it was preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, the New York Times writes.

The newspaper clarifies that Netanyahu may give the order to strike Iran even if Washington makes a deal with Tehran.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Zelensky proposed holding a trilateral meeting with Putin and Trump

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Russian Ministry of Defense reports the liberation of the border settlement of Konstantinovka in the north of Sumy Oblast.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The moment the Ukrainian drone was shot down over the Moscow region.