🇸🇦🇷🇺 OPEC+ adds 188,000 bpd to June quota after UAE withdrawal

Seven OPEC+ members — Algeria, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Oman, Russia and Saudi Arabia — agreed on 3 May to raise their collective oil output quota by 188,000 barrels per day for June, following the United Arab Emirates' departure from the group on 2 May. The UAE, which announced its withdrawal on 28 April citing dissatisfaction with production quotas, was not mentioned in the post-meeting statement. The June increase is comparable to the 206,000-barrel daily additions announced in both March and April, minus the UAE's former share.

Analysts note the quota rise may have limited effect on actual supply, as untapped Gulf reserves remain constrained by Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in place since the start of the US-Israeli war on 28 February.

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‼️Russia attacked five Naftogaz facilities in Sumy and Kharkiv regions in a day

Equipment was damaged, fires broke out, production processes were temporarily stopped.

Specialists from the State Emergency Service and Naftogaz Group are working on the ground.

Сбиты еще два БПЛА, летевшие на Москву

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💔🤬 Russia tortured 375 Ukrainians in captivity. Their bodies were returned with signs of torture, exhaustion and lack of medical care, — Coordination Headquarters for Treatment of Prisoners of War

146 were confirmed by the ICRC as prisoners of war, and the captivity of 229 people was confirmed by other sources, including testimonies of those released from captivity that they were alive.

Ukraine’s National Guard says its fighters struck Russian positions, equipment and logistics across the front in April, destroying 395 artillery equipment, 906 vehicles, 70 armored vehicles, 21 tanks, 52 electronic warfare systems and 107 ammo and fuel depots.

"What’s up there?" – A Russian occupier filmed the moment an FPV drone struck another soldier in the Donetsk region.

❗️Russian State Duma defense committee member Andrey Kolesnik threatened retaliation if Ukrainian forces stage provocations during the May 9 Victory Parade in Moscow. He said the response would be inevitable, serious and multiplied.

Премьер-министр Польши Дональд Туск заявил, что не допустит переброски в страну американских военнослужащих из Германии.

"Я не позволю использовать Польшу для подрыва солидарности или сотрудничества на европейском уровне", - сказал Туск, отвечая на вопрос о том, будут ли переброшены на восточный фланг НАТО американские военнослужащие, которых США намерены вывести из Германии, премьера цитируют польские СМИ.

"Мы, как страна, не должны подбирать (этот контингент), не знаю, понимаете ли вы, что я имею в виду", - подчеркнул глава правительства Польши.

Туск добавил, что "нам необходимо американское присутствие не только в Польше, но и в других местах, потому что оно так или иначе служит польской безопасности".

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: President of the European Council António Costa and I discussed our European integration. We are counting on the opening of all six negotiation clusters over the course of this and next month. Technically, Ukraine is fully ready.

I am grateful to António for his support and for his personal efforts in unlocking the €90 billion financial support package. It is important that the funds begin to arrive as soon as possible and help Ukraine prepare for winter.

— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: Iran has expanded the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to also include the UAE’s eastern ports of Khor Fakkan and Fujairah

Any ship departing from these ports and attempting to head into the Gulf of Oman will be targeted if they do not obtain permission from Iran.

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—❗️🇮🇷 IRGC Navy in a VHF radio broadcast to mariners:

‘Attention all vessels, attention all vessels. If you cross into the Strait of Hormuz without permission from the Islamic Republic of Iran, you will be targeted and destroyed’

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