🔥 Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai, - Falcon Insight

A fire monitoring satellite records an open fire on the territory of the Slavyansk Eco refinery, which lasted approximately one hour.

The plant is used to supply fuel to the Russian armed forces.

The enterprise is engaged in oil refining and the production of various types of liquid fuels (including fuel oil, diesel fuel, straight-run gasoline, etc.)

Ukraine’s middle-strike drone campaign is turning into a battlefield isolation operation across Russia’s southern logistics network. Occupation authorities banned civilian truck traffic on the P-280/M-14 corridor linking Russia to occupied Crimea, effectively acknowledging that Ukrainian forces are controlling the land route by fire. Fuel shortages are already visible in Crimea, with limits at gas stations.

💥 In the North-Slobozhansk direction, the RUBpAK "Prime" border guards struck enemy targets: a field depot of ammunition, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, D-30 transport gun, a platoon strongpoint, a dugout and an enemy shelter were hit.

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳 Trump Signals Mixed Taiwan Line

US President Donald Trump said after his summit with Xi Jinping that he was not looking to have “somebody go independent”, while also offering to discuss a US$14 billion arms package with Taiwan’s leader. The proposed call and arms package would involve Taiwan and risk angering Beijing.

The combination of a warning against independence and an outreach tied to new arms sales has reopened debate over the consistency of Washington’s Taiwan policy. The issue is sensitive because US contacts with Taiwan’s top leadership and large-scale weapons transfers sit at the centre of US-China strategic friction.

Any move to proceed with the call or package would likely sharpen cross-strait tensions and add pressure on the US position toward Taiwan.

#US #Taiwan #China

@asianomics

Hope the TikTok views were worth it bro

Russian voenkor Romanov 😂😂😂

🇹🇿🇺🇸 US sanctions senior Tanzanian police officer over alleged torture of activists

The United States on 21 May sanctioned Tanzanian Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Faustine Jackson Mafwele, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office saying there was credible information linking him to gross violations of human rights. Washington said Tanzanian police detained Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire in Dar es Salaam in May 2025, when they had travelled to observe opposition leader Tundu Lissu’s treason trial, and that the two were tortured and sexually assaulted before being left near their respective borders. Mafwele has been barred from entering the US.

The move adds to pressure on President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration amid scrutiny over Tanzania’s democratic backsliding, the disappearance of former ambassador Humphrey Polepole, and violence linked to the October 2025 elections. On 28 April, US ambassadorial nominee William Trachman told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that relations with Tanzania faced undeniable challenges.

#Tanzania

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@africaintel

В Латвии в субботу утром в озеро Дридзис в Краславском крае на востоке страны упал и сдетонировал дрон, сообщила Государственная полиция.

Информация о падении поступила около 8 утра от местных жителей. По данным полиции, результате происшествия никто не пострадал.

Полиция при обследовании местности нашла обломки БПЛА.

@interfaxonline

Another Iron Dome launcher was targeted in Branit Barracks

I hope they can find the radar or control unie and hit. That would be a fruitful expensive hit.

🐴🤡 Lavrov: "War is already in full swing in Eurasia following Ukraine's aggression against Russia, orchestrated by the West."

A second Iron Dome Launcher in Branit barracks was attacked 30 min later

For anyone wondering, the Iron Dome was deeper inside Israel and only brought closer to defend Israeli forces inside Lebanon

Thank you habibi

https://t.me/LebUpdate/61232?comment=296405

Francis Fukuyama on the U.S. as a declining power:

American decline is a direct product of Trump's rise since 2016.

It is as if Trump had decided to do everything in his power to weaken the United States vis-à-vis China.

He has polarized an already polarized country, cut funding for basic scientific research, and attacked American universities which are the best in the world.

He and his colleagues have openly stated that their domestic opponents — the Democrats — are a far greater threat to the future of the United States than either China or Russia.

There is agreement among America's friends and rivals that the United States has become something of a rogue state that is contributing to global instability and disorder — as well as something of a laughingstock.