🇺🇸🇺🇦 - Key points from the 'Minerals Deal':

- Ukraine has full ownership and control of all resources, and chooses what to extract and when to extract.

- The US-Ukraine will add to the Investment Fund equally - a 50/50 investment.

- The US will contribute via financially and through additional resources - including air defenses!

- The US to invest in Ukraine's natural resources industry, the projects will be determined equally by both partners.

- Past US assistance, including military aid, is not included in the deal. No US debt is mentioned.

- The first 10 years, ALL profits will go back into Ukraine as reinvestments, Ukraine chooses entirely what to invest in. That includes post-war reconstruction, defense spending, or new projects.

A major win for Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Today's agreement signals clearly to the Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, prosperous Ukraine over the long term.

It's time for this cruel and senseless war to end. The killing must stop and both the United States and the government of Ukraine looks forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership, for both the Ukrainian and the American people," - Scott Bessent, US Secretary of Treasury.

🇺🇸⚡️- Initial reports of widespread outages among payment processors and banks across the United States.

🇺🇸⚡️- DownDetector shows a massive spike in outages reported among all major payment processors, banks, and card companies, including Visa, Wells Fargo, First National Bank, Discover, CashApp, and more.

🇺🇸⚡️- Map from DownDetector of reported outages among Visa users. DownDetector also reports over 85% of outages are reported among debit card readers.

🇺🇸⚡️- An anonymous source from Texas has told RN: "I work HR at Walmart. Phones are going crazy about it. I tried getting lunch and had to pay with cash."

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- An unknown Indian surveillance aircraft has been patrolling up and down the India-Pakistan border for the past few hours.

🇺🇸⚡️- DownDetector seems to indicate the issue is starting to subside- less outages are being reported.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- "Message to Iran: We see your lethal support to the Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing.

You know very well what the U.S. military is capable of, and you were warned. You will pay the consequence at the time and place of our choosing," - Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense.

🇷🇺🇨🇳 - Chinese troops rehearsal in Moscow, Russia, for the Victory Day parade on May 9.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- US Secretary of State Rubio held individual phone calls with Pakistan's Prime Minister Sharif and India's External Affairs Minister Jaishankar.

🇱🇧⚡- "Lebanese army says it dismantled over 90% of Hezbollah’s military infrastructure south of the Litani River under post-ceasefire agreement," - Asharq al-Awsat, Saudi outlet.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷⚡- "Trump has shifted his rhetoric regarding Putin following several months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts by UK Prime Minister Starmer and French President Macron.

Zelensky had clearly managed to affect Trump's thinking in Rome, according to a former UK Ambassador.

UK and France repeatedly stressed to Trump that Putin was disrespecting [Trump] by consistently breaking the ceasefire he claimed to be implementing," - Politico.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Following the US-Ukraine signing of the 'Minerals Deal', the White House has approved the direct sale of more than $50 million of defense-related products for Ukraine.

🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli government has asked France not to send planes to help fight fires in the Jerusalem mountains," - Ynet.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan closes parts of Karachi and Lahore airspaces on the border with Indian NOTAM was issued.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan has installed 50 air raid sirens in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region. According to Pakistan's Kashmiri-based outlet Azaad Urdu the sirens will alert the local population 'in view of the Pakistan-India tensions'.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "U.S. Secretary of State Rubio or another high-ranking official from Washington may attend the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow," - Zvezda, Russian outlet.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Druze spiritual leader declares lack of confidence in Syrian government, calls for international protection.

🇮🇷 - The large unidentified warehouse (shown as a green/white flag on the map) at Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, south Iran, has been identified to belong to Bonyad Mostazafan.

Bonyad Mostazafan has been sanctioned by the US and had direct ties to Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Coordinates of the warehouse: 27.12213, 56.06253. See previous post for further details.