92/102 drones shot down 🇺🇦

🔥 In Naro-Fominsk, an attack was reported on the Nara military logistics complex.

In the Moscow Region, local residents reported overflights, explosions, and air defense activity in many parts of the region.

Explosions were also reported in the Bryansk Region.

🇺🇸🇰🇷 USFK Pushes 'East-Up' Strategic Map for Indo-Pacific

USFK Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson reiterated at the U.S. Army War College the need to replace conventional north-up mapping with an east-up perspective, arguing it reveals the Pacific as a coherent strategic geometry anchored by U.S. positions in South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. The concept, first introduced by Brunson in November 2024, visually de-emphasizes the Korean Peninsula's northern axis and foregrounds Taiwan and the Philippines.

The remarks align with Washington's push to modernize the U.S.-South Korea alliance — expanding USFK's role beyond peninsula defense while pressing Seoul for greater burden-sharing. Brunson also stressed land power over air power for its precision and persistence, framing the 28,500-strong USFK presence as a structural alliance asset rather than a force-projection tool.

The framing recasts the Indo-Pacific arc from Seoul to Manila as a unified strategic front, with direct implications for how alliance obligations and threat geometries are defined across the region.

#SouthKorea #USA #Philippines

@asianomics

🇪🇹 TPLF elects Debretsion Gebremichael to head Tigray parliament, stoking fears of renewed conflict

TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael was elected to lead the restored Tigray regional parliament on May 6, a move that Ethiopian political parties and analysts have condemned as illegal. The Tigray parliament had been dissolved under the peace agreement between the TPLF and the federal government in Addis Ababa. Kinfe Hadush, Chairman of the Salsay Weyane Tigray opposition party, said the appointment could worsen the political and security situation in the region.

The TPLF, which ruled Ethiopia for three decades, was banned as a political party last year. The federal government has not yet formally responded to the appointment, while analysts warn the move signals a drift away from the existing peace agreement.

#Ethiopia

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🔥 Defense forces hit oil pumping station near Perm again.

At the local oil refinery, the system is being depressurized in an emergency.

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Fantastic view from Perm 🔥🤩

Подборка наиболее интересных наших новостей и материалов за вчерашний день, которые вы могли пропустить:

— США приостанавливают сопровождение коммерческих судов в Ормузском проливе ради возможного подписания соглашения с Ираном, заявил Трамп.

— Зеленский обвинил Россию в срыве объявленного Украиной перемирия, согласие на которое Москва официально не подтверждала.

— Карта линий укреплений ВСУ на линии фронта, в том числе с учетом рельефа.

— В результате иранских авиаударов были повреждены или уничтожены по меньшей мере 217 строений на 15 военных объектах США на Ближнем Востоке.

— МИД России призвал страны эвакуировать свои посольства из Киева в связи с неотвратимость удара ВС РФ по Киеву и центрам принятия решений, если Украина нанесет удар по Москве 9 мая.

— Спутниковый снимок последствий ударов по ТЦСК «Базилевщина» компании «Нафтогаз» в селе Селещина Полтавской области 5 мая.

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