🇺🇦 Zelensky: Conducted the Headquarters. The first question was a detailed report by our military on the defensive operation that took place these days, from the massive and virtually continuous Russian strike, which lasted almost two days.
This is a special terrorist tactic of the Russians, who accumulated drones and missiles over a certain period of time and deliberately calculated the strike in such a way that its scale was significant and the complications for our air defense were the greatest.
In total, in the waves of massive attacks on May 13 and 14, the Russians used 1,567 drones and 56 missiles of various types. Our drone downing rate was 94%. The missile downing rate was 73%. The key challenge is ballistics and covering thousands of rear infrastructure facilities and our cities.
Together with military commanders, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Energy and other involved officials, we discussed in detail the current needs of our air defense forces and the increase in the supply of necessary equipment, in particular radars.
🇺🇦Ukraine’s Minister of Social Policy Denys Uliutin provided a grim estimate of the current population in the de facto-controlled territories of the country: 22-25 million.
Ukraine had 48 million people in 1991.
The country is currently shedding a number of about 1 million inhabitants per year due to the war-related emigration and demographic crisis. Ukraine has Europe’s lowest birthrate, with only 6 newborns for every 1,000 women.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family to dig up their father's body hours after burial, threatening to bulldoze the grave if they refused.
Hussein Asasa, 80, was buried Friday with full Israeli military permits at his village cemetery near Jenin. Settlers showed up anyway.
The UN called it "appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians. it spares no one, dead or alive."
Sa-Nur settlement was re-established by Netanyahu's government last year. This is what that policy looks like on the ground.
Source: Reuters
Russia is already cutting mobile internet in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities during "Victory Day parades". City centers are blocked and residents report connection problems.
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U.S. jets shot 2 Iranian tankers in their smokestacks today. Trump called the broader exchange of fire a "love tap." Iran's FM called it a "reckless military adventure." The ceasefire is technically still in effect.
Iran's advisor to the Supreme Leader said the quiet part very loudly: Hormuz rivals the atomic bomb. He's not wrong. 20% of global oil runs through 34 kilometers of water Iran refuses to give up. That's the whole war in one sentence.
Trump is reportedly bored with the Iran war. He wants to move on to China trade deals and domestic politics. He started the war with "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER," now negotiating endlessly through Pakistan.
On a completely different note: the government dropped 61 years of classified UFO files today. Spheres, squares, objects making 90-degree turns at speed, a thermal signature that split into two, astronaut audio from 1965. The former head of the Pentagon's UAP office called it a distraction from the Iran war. He's probably not entirely wrong either.
S&P 500 closed at an all-time record high. 10 trillion dollars in 29 trading days. Gas is up 52% for everyone else.
Pope Leo XIV turned one year old. Iran's FM recommended Dr. Strangelove. Russia's top economic diplomat posted an alien meme.
Keep watching; Rubio's waiting on Tehran, and at some point they'll have to stop shooting long enough to sign something.