🇹🇷 Poll closed in Türkiye. Erdogan has arrived in Ankara to watch the election results

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🇹🇷 According to local media, a record of 93,6% electoral turnout was registered in Türkiye.

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🇺🇦 Bakhmut front: Ukrainian troops takes controll of all forest in south of Ivanivske.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine has just received SAMP-T air defence system promised to Kyiv by Italy and France.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 According to CNN an American MIM-104 “Patriot” Air Defense Battery in Kyiv was damaged, but not destroyed, by a russian missile strike

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📉 The demographic impact on Russia of the war in Ukraine is starkly revealed by the statistic that in 2022, the war likely caused the death of every second Russian who died between the ages of 20 and 24.

🇷🇺 'People of Baikal' reports that according to Russia's national statistics agency, Rosstat, 1,905,778 people died in Russia in 2022. Independent sociologists have found that young men had a much higher mortality rate than in 2021.

🦠 The data in categories older than the 18-29 group are not taken into account, as they are distorted because of excess mortality caused by COVID-19.

🗣️ 'People of Baikal' comments that "the share of war deaths in the category of 20-24 years old is half of all the deaths of young men of this age. That is, every second man of that age who died in Russia last year died in a combat zone."

🇺🇦 Notes that these figures do not contradict the figures for Russian war dead in Ukraine which have been collected from open sources, such as relatives (the Russian government keeps its own figures secret). As of 5 May, 6,698 young men are confirmed to have died in the war.

⚰️ However, this figure is known to be greatly less than the actual number, as coverage is patchy – many deaths have not been publicly reported – and the bodies of many of those killed in the war have not been recovered, or are still listed as missing in action.

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🇺🇦 Bakhmut front: Ukrainian counterattacks in Orikhovo-Vasylivka area

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Bakhmut front: PMC Wagner continues to advance into city, Ukrainian forces control less than 5% of the urban territory.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Bakhmut front: extensive destruction in the city is visible from new Maxar's satellite imagery. These gif shows how city looked a year ago, and how it appears today.

📍 48°35'31.2"N 37°57'54.0"E (maps)

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🔹 NATO is about to approve, after decades, thousands of pages of military defense plans detailing how to respond to a Russian attack, marking a turnaround for the Organization, which did not deem it necessary to draft such plans after the end of the Cold War.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The conflict in Ukraine has prompted the Alliance to believe that detailed defense plans should be developed against an existential threat. Comprehensive plan tells each NATO nation how to upgrade its forces and defense logistics, but fails to highlight need for coastal troop surge.

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