🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — Trump stated that after his negotiations with Putin, Russia will release the American citizen Gilman, who is currently serving a sentence.

According to the U.S. President, Moscow will do this on a humanitarian basis – without exchanging him for a Russian prisoner.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Russia for its cooperation in the case of Witkoff and for the release of Gilman, the American who attacked a police officer.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡️ — Turkey may propose the creation of two security corridors in the Black Sea for ships traveling to Russia and Ukraine, according to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak.

If the corridors are established, both sides of the conflict could commit to not attacking them. Ankara has not yet commented on this publication.

It is noteworthy that there have been a number of similar publications recently, especially from Turkish sources.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — "I am fighting for my country. Russia has always been in my heart."

A Ukrainian teenager, whom Kiev considered to have been kidnapped by the Russians, is fighting in the Russian Armed Forces.

Alexander Mustyats, from the village of Krynky in the Kherson region, who was previously listed by Ukrainian authorities as missing, joined the Russian Army at the age of 19, according to The Times.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage shows a series of airstrikes carried out by the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), as follows:

• Five FAB-500 bombs against a Ukrainian Armed Forces strongpoint in the area of Novouzhvinovka, Kharkiv Oblast;
• Four FAB-500 bombs against an earthen crossing in the area of Mayaky, Donetsk Oblast;
• Five FAB-500 bombs against a National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) temporary deployment point in Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — As of May 1, 2026, more than 2 million people (2,014,623) in Ukraine have veteran status.

Of these:
combatants – 1,471,193 people;

persons with disabilities resulting from the war – 159,132 people.

The majority of Ukrainian veterans are currently continuing their service in the Defense Forces.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Americans continue to reduce the number of refueling aircraft based at Ben Gurion Airport.

The number of refueling aircraft is already close to the numbers that existed during the ceasefire, when only about 20 refuelers operated at the airport.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Pentagon plans to significantly increase purchases of anti-aircraft guided missiles for the PAC-3 MSE and THAAD air defense systems in fiscal year 2027, aiming to acquire approximately 10 times more missiles than in 2026

- Fox News.


The Army plans to acquire 3,655 missiles, as the US seeks to rapidly expand its missile defense stockpiles and production capacity after years of relatively limited purchases.

PAC-3 MSE missile purchases fell from 328 units in 2022 to 214 in 2025, before rising to 320 in the 2026 request.

THAAD purchases were even lower, with just 11 interceptors acquired in 2024 and 12 in 2025, with plans to acquire 37 units in 2026.

The Army also more than quadrupled its total procurement objective for PAC-3 MSE missiles, increasing it from 3,376 to 13,773 units.

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🇨🇴🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Our land and it will remain ours forever.

Benjamin Netanyahu thanks Colombian President Abelardo De la Espriella after his announcement recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Settlers attack the village of Taybeh, located east of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, targeting local residents and their property amid strict military measures.

This comes concurrently with the occupation’s declaration of the area as a closed military zone and the barring of observers and journalists from reaching it, in order to shield ongoing settler assaults against the village residents.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Reports of powerful explosions in the city of Sevastopol in Russian Crimea.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — of "division members" from the 14th SS Division on August 1, 2026, in Lviv, at the Lychakiv Cemetery.

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he is confident Cuba will be on an irreversible path towards a much different future by the end of US President Donald Trump's term in January 2029, citing Poland as an example of political transformation.

He said it is in the US national interest to have a Cuba safe and stable and aligned with the US.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — A number of contractor companies developing the US Golden Dome missile defense system, including SpaceX and Northrop Grumman, have completed their first key tests

- Bloomberg.

The program included testing sensor-to-interceptor data transmission and propulsion systems, with the next phase focusing on demonstrating the technologies' ability to function in space.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Combat footage shows a Russian Lancet loitering munition, equipped with the IRRA automated target recognition and guidance system, striking a moving Ukrainian military pickup truck near the village of Verovka in the Dobropillia direction.

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🇷🇴🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Romania has destroyed drones that were drifting near a major offshore gas project in the Black Sea, Reuters reports.

Romanian military divers destroyed two "Gerbera" type drones that were drifting within Romania's exclusive economic zone near the "Neptun Deep" offshore gas project, according to the Romanian Minister of Defense.

The minister said that the drones were discovered by a civilian ship operating near the offshore gas project.

The minister did not specify the origin of the drones, but stated that Ukraine confirmed that they did not belong to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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