Russian-controlled cities in Donbas will not be holding Victory Day parades or Immortal Regiment memorial walks this May 9th, says Kremlin’s First Deputy Chief of Staff Sergey Kiriyenko.

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❗️Washington is helping Kiev target and kill Russian generals, say senior U.S. officials.

From The New York Times:

The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.

The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.

The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.

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Sen. Rand Paul grills DHS Secretary Mayorkas over newly established Disinformation Board:

"I think you've got no idea what disinformation is ... Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government."

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❗️Pentagon: Russian missile strikes have not disrupted U.S. ability to transfer weapons into Ukraine on a daily basis.

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Winner of GOP Ohio Senate Primary: It’s ridiculous that we’re focused on Ukraine, I don’t really care about what happens to Ukraine.

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U.S. believes Russia's top general Valery Gerasimov visited Ukraine on a fact-finding and oversight mission over the weekend.

Some reports claimed Gerasimov was wounded in a Ukrainian strike during the visit, but the U.S. has not confirmed that report.

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❗️Lukashenko expresses doubt that Russia’s operation in Ukraine is going according to the Kremlin’s plan.

“I didn’t think that this operation would drag on like this. But I’m not immersed enough in this issue to say whether it’s going according to plan, as they claim, or according to how I feel it’s going.”

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❗️Putin personally apologizes to Israeli PM Bennett over Lavrov’s comments on antisemitism.

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Apology accepted 🇷🇺🤝🇮🇱

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❗️There will be no mobilization in Russia, says State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

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❗️U.S. helped Ukraine sink Russian flagship Moskva, officials tell NBС News.

The revelation about the Moskva comes on the heels of reporting by The New York Times that intelligence shared by the U.S. had also helped Ukraine kill Russian generals.

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❗️State Dept: Russian threats of targeting foreign supply lines in Ukraine are merely bluster and propaganda. Weapons are continuing to flow into the country unimpeded.

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“Most countries in proxy wars deny the extent of their involvement whereas American officials are bragging about it.”

— Max Abrahms,
International Security Scholar
(Northeastern University)

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Russia’s economy rebounds from unprecedented sanctions, defying predictions of collapse.

From The Economist:

The rouble is now as valuable as it was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, and Russia appears to be keeping up with payments of its foreign-currency bonds.

The real economy is surprisingly resilient too. Total electricity consumption has fallen only a smidge. After a lull in March, Russians seem to be spending fairly freely on cafés, bars and restaurants.

The biggest reason for the economy’s resilience relates to fossil fuels. Since the invasion Russia has exported at least $65bn-worth of fossil fuels via shipments and pipelines. In the first quarter of 2022 the government’s revenues from hydrocarbons rose by over 80% year on year.

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❗️Biden set to revive historic Lend-Lease Act for Ukraine on May 9th.

An unprecedented World War II program that once enabled the U.S. to rapidly supply the Soviet Union with 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 12,000 armored vehicles, 11,400 aircraft, and 1.75 million tons of food to help defeat Nazi Germany is now being reinvented to assist Ukraine in the war with Russia.

According to the White House, President Biden will sign the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act on Monday, May 9th, the same day Russia celebrates its victory over the Nazis in World War II.

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Trump: Millions of people could die because of Biden’s handling of Russia.

“They don’t know how to deal with Vladimir Putin. They don’t. They’re saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time. They know nothing about psychology and what it takes to end this madness. Millions of people will end up being killed because we don’t know what the hell we’re doing.”

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Biden tells officials to stop leaks about U.S. intel sharing with Ukraine.

NBC News reported Thursday that U.S. intelligence helped Ukraine sink the Russian flagship Moskva last month. That story followed one in the New York Times on Wednesday about the U.S. providing Ukraine with intelligence that helped the Ukrainian military kill Russian generals. 

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Russia’s military operation in Ukraine won’t end until the country is “completely denazified and demilitarized, so that it no longer poses a threat to the Russian Federation and cannot be transformed into an anti-Russia, as the West has tried to do in the past 30 years,” says deputy speaker of Russian parliament Pyotr Tolstoy.

“I think we will stop once we reach the border with Poland,” added the lawmaker, who is also the great-great-grandson of acclaimed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

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Canadian fighting in Ukraine describes his harrowing experience and speaks of daily casualties being sustained by Ukrainian and foreign fighters, including Americans.

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A restaurant in Dallas, Texas, charges customers an extra $1 “for Ukraine” without asking.

“You ever took a dollar in the name of Haiti? Why owe Ukraine a dollar? I didn’t agree to this!,” comments the customer.

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US Army veteran Manus McCaffery loses vision after being savaged by shrapnel in Ukraine.

"Artillery is the name of the game right now, it's the main deciding factor in how the war is playing out,” said the wounded American. Despite his injuries, McCaffery says he wants to return to the frontline if his vision recovers.

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