🇨🇳⚡- 2 killed and 21 injured in a stabbing at a hotel in Zanzhong, Yunnan region of China.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡- The British Government claims China has hacked the Defense Ministry's servers.

An emergency meeting has been arranged to discuss the scale of breach and response.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the outskirts of Novopokrovsky (Avdiivka direction).

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- US serviceman, Sgt. Gordon Black, has been arrested in Vladivostok (East Coast Russia). His girlfriend had called the police after Black became violent and stole her cash.

Black visited Russia together with his Russian girlfriend, entering from South Korea, where they initially met. Black was found drunk, and reportedly under the influence of substances too.

🇷🇺⚡- The inauguration ceremony has begun.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ivan Syrskyi, the stepson of the Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, led a car rally in Sydney in honor of Victory Day – with the displaying of Russian flags.

The Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief's stepson previously asked President Putin personally for Russian citizenship to vote in the elections.

🇷🇺⚡- President Putin has arrived at the hall, where he will take the 'Oath of Office' and 'Oath of Presidency', and where he'll give his inauguration speech.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- "If Russian TV channels disrespect the internal life of Armenia, their broadcasting will be banned," – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

Pashinyan also confirmed he will not be attending Victory Day, in Moscow, on the 9th of May.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "This month we need to take the nearest territory, definitely Odessa and Kharkov, then force Zelenskyi to sign the necessary papers." – Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "After 9th May, there will be good and pleasant changes," - Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "As long as we have a leader like Putin, we have nothing to worry about. It’s a pleasure to follow such a leader," – Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov, on Putin's inauguration.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- The Ukrainian Security Service, SBU, foiled an assassination attempt on Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Two have been arrested, SBU alleged they were acting on Kremlin orders.

🇺🇦⚡- "The church will never bless same-sex marriages. This is contrary to Christian teaching," – Primate of the pro-Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Epiphanius I.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian counterattack forced Russian forces to completely withdraw from Urozhayne.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Fire in east Rafah as a result of Israeli airstrikes

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters says the US has been "holding several shipments of weapons to Israel" for at least two weeks

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Unconfirmed reports claim that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn completely from Novoaleskandrovka (Avdiivka direction). The reports claim Ukrainian forces lacked a defensive line, as none had been built, therefore retreating further back.

Earlier today as Russian forces advanced towards Novopokrovsky (just South of Novoaleskandrovka), Russian forces witnessed a similar situation – a lack of Ukrainian defensive lines.

🇬🇧⚡- UK Border Agency servers are down. Chaos at several of UK's airports.

It's alleged that the Border Agency has also been hacked.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Judge Cannon of Miami has indefinitely postponed President Trump's classified documents trial.

🇺🇦⚡- "There were no defensive fortifications to the west of Avdiivka. I have no objective explanation for the lack of fortifications behind Avdiivka in the third year of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and in the eleventh year of the war. Neither Muzhenko, nor Khomchak, nor Zaluzhnyi, nor Syrskyi built fortifications behind Avdiivka." – People’s Deputy of Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), Mariana Bezuglaya.

Mariana has become the first high profile figure to criticize the lack of Ukrainian defenses beyond Avdiivka.

🇱🇹🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- The Parliament of Lithuania has given their Prime Minister the go-ahead to send troops to Ukraine.

The Prime Minister of Lithuania is awaiting Ukraine's permission.