โผ๏ธ๐ Russian special forces soldier fires a hand grenade launcher while practicing storming a building and accidentally catches a ricochet right in his face
๐ซ๐ทโ๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ Marine Le Pen promises to stop financial aid to Ukraine within six months if she becomes French president, โ FT
๐She opposes Ukraine's accession to the EU and is skeptical of sanctions against Russia.
๐Le Pen says that France can no longer afford financial aid to Ukraine.
โก๏ธ BREAKING: A Ukrainian FPV interceptor drone struck a Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter in midair.
The drone was operated by the Ukraineโs 115th Mechanized Brigade reports that its โPrybultsiโ air defense unit
๐ซ๐ฎ๐ Neue Zรผrcher Zeitung:
Over the past year, Finnish parliamentarians have repeatedly found traces of someone else's presence in their apartments: open doors, lights on, and in some cases, urine and feces in the toilets.
๐ฅ๐ข๏ธOne of the most incredible sequences from todayโs attack on Moscow: a Ukrainian MICH-2000 long-range strike drone pushes through a wall of Russian air-defense fire and successfully reaches the Moscow Oil Refinery grounds.
๐ช๐บโ๏ธ Russian attacks in Europe are becoming increasingly audacious: the appearance of victims is only a matter of time, โ Bloomberg
In recent months, Russian hybrid attacks have been penetrating deeper into Europe. Drones have been spotted near energy facilities and airports, arsons, cyberattacksโฆ
Penza, Russia. While Putin is repairing the remaining 10 percent of oil refineries, a man tried to pour gasoline into canisters hidden inside his car's cabin. But something went wrong.
A Russian in Sochi is asking himself if his country lives in some alternate reality, where "everything is fine," while ignoring the actual consequences of its terrorist actions.
Ukrainian drones hit Sochi overnight, striking the Adler oil depot owned by Rosneft and an air defense unit. The depot caught fire. In nearby Sirius, drones may have hit an S-300 or S-400 battery. Russian authorities told locals not to post photos or videos of the damage.
Ukrainian border guards broke through to the front line to evacuate wounded comrades and captured two Russian occupiers. The POWs then helped move the injured men 25 km to the rear, carrying them on foot and wheeling one on an old bicycle found along the way.
๐บ๐ฆ๐ Censor. NET publishes footage of the end of the conflict between SBU and GUR
The video shows how the parties switch to raised tones, then a shot is heard and the Alpha specialists begin fire. It was not possible to identify who fired first from this video.
3 GUR employees were injured.
/3. A better view of the damaged tanker M/T GOLDEN SAPLING, IMO 9185841, after it drifted to the Turkish coast near Samsun following the August 26 drone strike in the Black Sea.
Ukraine is moving energy infrastructure underground to protect against Russian strikes. Zaporizhzhia is building underground structures at two transformer substations, the first such project in the country. Over half of key transformers are already covered with protective structures.
Russia is now producing more jet-powered Geran-4/5 attack drones than Geran-2s, Ukraineโs HUR told Militarnyi. Monthly production is estimated at around 3,000 Geran-4/5s versus 2,800 Geran-2s, reflecting Russiaโs shift toward faster turbojet-powered Shahed-type drones. #Ukraine
๐บ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ท Rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine returned from France, where they helped contain large-scale forest fires for almost two weeks
The combined unit included 70 rescuers and 15 units of special equipment.
๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ "Ukraine has been and remains one of the main support spaces of Europe. However, there is no place for the weak or passive in geopolitics. If we do not build our own subjectivity and do not exert our own influence, we fall under the influence of others," โ head of OP Budanov
According to data published by the Financial Times, the Volgograd refinery was operating at around half capacity before todayโs attack.
Hopefully, the overnight strikes have brought that figure down to zero.
โ๏ธ๐ช425th Assault Regiment "Skelya" will temporarily not be replenished with new recruits
The unit confirmed that the General Staff has suspended recruitment and has begun a check on the fairness of the distribution of personnel between military units.
Russians are complaining about fuel shortages at gas stations. They can't fill up their tanks and have no clue what's going on. Well, what is happening, indeed?
โ ๏ธ Mediazona: Alisher Svirin, born in 2008, has become the first confirmed Russian soldier of his generation killed in Ukraine, dead at 18 on May 1, 2026.
At least 200 eighteen-year-olds have now died in the war since Russia's full-scale invasion began.
Russia increased reactive strike drone use eight-fold, launching 1400 units since the start of the year compared to just 180 in 2025, Militarnyi says. Mostly Geran-3, Geran-4 and Geran-5.
An extraordinary incident: a Russian soldier approached a downed Ukrainian FPV drone, gathered some of its debris, tossed it back into the fire and knelt down right next to it to watch it burn.
It operates separately from the nearly 300,000 cameras that monitor Moscow residents.
FSB Director Bortnikov said that Russiaโs vast surveillance apparatus has become a vulnerability. Regimeโs tools for monitoring its own citizens have become a weak point that enemies can now exploit.
๐ธ New AI spying capabilities have scared Putin: Moscow turned off surveillance cameras after the assassination of Khamenei in Tehran, โ FT.
The system that protects the dictator and his inner circle was turned back on only after engineers carefully tested it, trying to isolate it from the internet.
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Ukraineโs Unmanned Systems Forces hit a Be-200 Altair aircraft, Ka-27 helicopter, Tor-M2, Pantsir-S1 and a Berdyansk cargo ship carrying ammunition. The strikes targeted Russian aviation, air defenses, logistics and troop sites in coordinated deep-strike operations. #Ukraine
Ukrainian forces launched naval drones to strike Russian positions on the Kinburn Peninsula. Footage shows one of two naval drones used today, fitted with three Shmel launcher mounts and a compartment designed to release 6 to 8 FPV drones during an attack. #Ukraine