🇨🇳🇺🇸🇺🇦 China and USA are ready to maintain dialogue on the "Ukrainian crisis" and play a constructive role in working towards its political settlement, — statement of the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry

Head of the Presidential office Budanov said he does not need to trust anyone in talks with Russia and must achieve results instead. He said Ukraine has dealt with Russia for many years, knows how to speak with Moscow, and believes in the negotiation process to end the war. He added that future warfare will be shaped by smart drones and artificial intelligence already used for data processing and guidance systems.

🇺🇦 “I must not trust anyone at all. I must achieve a result,” — Budanov

✔️ “We have been dealing with them for many years. So believe me, I know how to talk to them,” Budanov replied to a question about negotiations with Russia;
✔️ Budanov said that he believes in the negotiation process to end the war;
✔️ According to him, Ukraine is ready to share with partners the experience of waging war, protecting infrastructure and the work of the state in war conditions;
✔️ When asked about the war of the future, Budanov replied that “smart drones” and AI will play a key role in it;
✔️ He also added that AI is already actively used to process large data sets and in guidance and re-guidance systems.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲: People's Defense Forces (#PDF) ambushed Burmese soldiers in #Pakokku.

Fightere were armed with Wa-81 rifles, MA-2 light machine guns, Type 56 rifles and Colt M16A1 (Model 603) rifles.

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🦅🇺🇦 Zelensky: Our long-range sanctions this week. And most of the operations are still ongoing, so the video does not show all of our results.

There is the destruction of Be-200 amphibious aircraft, Ka-27 helicopter, a dry cargo ship with ammunition, Pantsir-S1, Tor complex, Redut-2US communications complex, drones, and much more.

Our long-range sanctions also hit Russian oil facilities and ships. The distances are almost 1,000 kilometers from the line of combat contact.

These are quite fair responses to what the Russians are doing. We will increase the distance and number of sanctions.

Russia’s military-driven economy has entered negative territory for the first time since 2023, according to Bloomberg.

Citing Rosstat data, Russia’s GDP declined by 0.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026 — the first contraction since early 2023.

Bloomberg notes that the economy is increasingly slowing under pressure from high interest rates, rising taxes, and heavy military spending. The Ministry of Economic Development has already lowered its 2026 growth forecast from 1.3% to 0.4%.

Despite higher oil revenues amid the war in the Middle East, Russia’s budget deficit in the first four months of the year has already exceeded the planned level for all of 2026.

At the same time, the key interest rate remains elevated at 14.5%, continuing to constrain business activity and consumer demand.

Приняли как родных, даже отбой дали 😎

Ukraine’s Spartan Brigade National Guardsmen launched a series of drone strikes on Russian logistics near occupied Donetsk. The city has served as Russia’s main logistics hub across the occupied territories throughout the full-scale invasion.

💥 The consequences of strike on Russian ammunition depot!

⚡️Spartan drones over Donetsk

​Destruction of Russian logistics in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region is part of the planned work that leads us to the goal: to return our land.

Ukraine’s 77th Airmobile Brigade repelled another Russian motorcycle assault.