🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russian flag raised in Ocheretnye. Reported that Ukrainian units retreated against orders.

🇺🇸✝️ - Our special congratulations to Candace Owens for her confirmation into the Catholic Church!

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Video confirmation showing Russian troops at the center of Ocheretyne.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Ukrainian sources confirm battles in the outskirts of Novobakhmutivka, Soloviove and Novokalynove – three towns surrounding Ocheretyne.

This also confirms rapid Russian advancements after the fall of the strategic position of Ocheretyne, as within hours assault operations began on surrounding areas.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Ukraine has opened an investigation against the 115th Mechanized Brigade, for abandoning positions in Ocheretyne against orders, which Ukraine claims "allowed Russian forces to break through" – Ukrainian media.

🇲🇾⚡- 10 killed in Malaysia, as two helicopters crashed during a naval military parade.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- The IDF has claimed the death of two senior Hezbollah officials in southern Lebanon

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The Northern Grouping of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border has been given the designation "N"

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "A difficult situation awaits us from mid-May," – Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukrainian Military Defense Intelligence (HUR).

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has no plans for a new offensive on Kyiv," – Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukrainian Military Defense Intelligence (HUR).

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡- The United States is considering to deploy further military advisors to the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, as the US believes Russia are in the final stages of preparation for a major offensive.

🇰🇿🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in Kazakhstan.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡- "We cannot sit idly by while France, India, and Greece arm Armenia against us. They are doing this openly and demonstratively, obviously trying to prove something to us in this way. We cannot just sit back with our arms folded." – President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡- "The sides which are trying to take care of Armenia. If we see a serious threat to us, we will have to take serious measures." – President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, warning France, India and Greece against arming Armenia.

🇷🇺⚡️- Timur Ivanov, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, has been arrested on charges of corruption and accepting bribes as large as 1 million rubles. He faces upwards of 15 years in prison, if convicted.

🇺🇸⚖️- Federal Trade Commission voted on a rule today banning Noncompete agreements nationwide.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- Türkiye has finally decided to deploy the S-400 air defense system, on its southern border with Iraq. It received the system in controversial manner from Russia in 2019.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces have captured Novobakhmutivka, in just a day after taking neighbouring Ocheretyne – Ukrainian sources confirm the loss.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- The new "North Group" announced themselves with this video.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Missile strikes in Kharkov

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces have captured Semyonovka.