🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- England's local election results as of 124 of 136 declared authorities:

Reform: 1,416,
Labour: 922,
Tories: 740,
Liberal Democrats: 734,
Green: 468,
Independent: 154.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky says he gives Russia permission to "hold a military parade in Moscow" tomorrow. He orders his military to not strike the Red Square specifically, by providing the exact coordinates of all four points of the square.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia does not require anyone’s permission to hold the Victory Day parade in Moscow," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸⚡️- For the record; the current restored Virginia map is quite fair to Democrats, as they are expected to win 2 more Congressional seats from the state come November.

🇬🇧⚡️- An interesting frame of the current state of British society.

🇺🇸⚡️- DNC officials and national Democrats are preparing for a final push on redistricting this year in response to the Virginia map failing. Democrats plan to pressure New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Colorado to advance new maps.

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚡- Scotland parliamentary election final results (seats, 65 for majority):

SNP: 58,
Labour: 17,
Reform: 17,
Green: 15,
Tories: 12,
Liberal Democrats: 10.

🇬🇧⚡- Ed Miliband has broken his silence on what he calls a "devastating election," but reiterates his support for Prime Minister Starmer, urging unity within Labour.

🇬🇧⚡- "Starmer appoints Labour veterans Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisers after election losses," - BBC.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US CENTCOM confirms its naval blockade remains in full force.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released footage of an FPV drone strike targeting an IDF soldier fleeing a Merkava tank in Aalma ash-Shaab, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Trump pledged to Netanyahu that he will not compromise on the Iranian uranium." - Israeli Channel 13.

🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡- Israel had established a forward operating military base in western Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reports. The base housed special forces, and acted as a logistical hub for the Israeli Air Force in its campaign against Iran.

The base was used by IDF to deploy to possible emergencies, which may have included downed aircraft to rescue pilots. Galei Tzahal indicates the base may have been located in Najaf desert, where an unknown helicopter landing operation took place during the war.

The Wall Street Journal report also states Iraqi troops were close to locating the base, but were struck by Israeli airstrikes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The IRGC Navy has announced that any attack on Iranian oil tankers will result in direct attacks on U.S. bases throughout the region.

"Warning!

Any exposure to the oil tankers and commercial vessels of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be met with a heavy attack against one of America’s centers in the region and the enemy’s ships in return."

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡- England's local election final results, all 136 local authorities:

Reform: 1,453,
Labour: 1,068,
Liberal Democrats: 844,
Tories: 801,
Green: 587,
Independent: 212.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- The US State Department sanctioned The Earth Eye, a Chinese company which had sold a high resolution satellite to Iran last month, which Tehran used to target US assets in the Middle East, the Financial Times reveals.

🇮🇶🇮🇱 - Israeli military sources report that the forward operating base in the Najaf desert, Iraq, was established before the war with Iran even began, and with US knowledge.

The sources report that the entire operation nearly collapsed when an Iraqi shepherd noticed unusual military activity in early March, at the height of the war. The activity was reported to the Iraqi military which dispatched Iraq's Karbala Ops unit to investigate. Israel, to keep the base a secret, engaged with airstrikes and struck the convoy, killing one, and injuring multiple others, including the regiment commander Haider al-Khazai (who's still recovering from his injuries at Karbala al-Kafeel Hospital).

The Iraqi counter terrorism unit however did identify a foreign military base operating in the desert. Local Iraqis reported unidentified military activity during the war at 31.6673207, 42.4396675 (shown in the media).

Interestingly, the Israeli Air Force Commander Tomer Bar, in a letter dated to the 4th of March - the exact same date as the incident involving Iraq's Karbala Ops, wrote the following: "The fighters of the Air Force's special units are currently carrying out extraordinary missions that can ignite the imagination."