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The Ukrainian military is trying to withdraw officers from Konstantinovka, a source in Russian defense circles said

According to the US leader, the campaign against Iran is proceeding very well

Andrey Belousov thanked the personnel for remaining faithful to the Motherland and their oath

The change in the destination of Pin Shun appears to be payment-related, Sumit Ritolia, Lead Research Analyst at Kpler, noted

Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, May 4th

It is noted that the membership will take effect from January 1, 2024

The Russian head of state approved the candidacy of Shchukin for the post of the head of Dagestan at a meeting with Dagestani officials on April 30

According to the authority, the plane landed safely

We expect that the president's address at the parade will be an important one, as always, he said

According to the ministry, "all necessary measures are being taken decisively and without hesitation against any threat directed at Turkey's territory and airspace"

According to the official, his key rival will be a candidate from the National Rally far-right party

Spokesperson Ted Goodman said Giuliani's condition was "critical but stable"

According to an ISRO live broadcast, the spacecraft has successfully completed a soft landing on the Moon’s surface

Moldova joined the Energy Charter Treaty in 1996

The EC assures that there is currently no risk to supplies, though markets are feeling the impact of rising Brent crude oil prices, which has led to higher gas and oil prices in Europe

According to the TV channel, all states are divided into three categories — "hostile," "neutral," and "friendly"

The US Senate unanimously voted to appoint Nelson to the post of NASA chief in late April

Maria Zakharova says Russia will demand from Washington "confirmation in each specific case that the newborn is not subject to US jurisdiction"

The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February 28

The ex-chief of EU diplomacy said the situation is similar with the approval of new sanctions against Russia

Iran also fired at two US UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters conducting a search and rescue operation

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian invited the world to judge which side engages in terrorism

Rodion Miroshnik emphasized that international corruption in the ‘Ukrainian military program’ remains hidden from the public view

US president’s special envoy commented on the state of negotiations

Russian forces are also engaged in battles in areas near the settlements of Stary Karavan and Brusovka on the way to the key waterway, Denis Pushilin said

A member of the Finnish national-conservative party Freedom Alliance called Finland's policy destructive

Four people were wounded

Denis Pushilin did not elaborate on the exact effects

According to TRT Haber, a technical malfunction was the cause of the incident

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that ZALA UAV operators quickly detected enemy equipment being transported to the line of contact behind enemy lines

According to the TV channel, the shooting occurred at a gathering of young people near Lake Arcadia

Trump said in his latest phone call with Putin on April 29 that a deal on resolving the Ukraine conflict was close

According to Leading Expert at the Fobos weather center Mikhail Leus, the city has broken cold weather records twice in the 21st century

Ilya Ivanov specified that it is not just a matter of quantitative but also qualitative superiority

No information on casualties or damage has been reported yet

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed that Iran respects the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and considers it a brotherly nation

Earlier on February 26, the US carried out airstrikes near the Syrian-Iraqi border

The US Central Command says that over 100 land and sea-based aircraft will also be used

"During combat operations, our military will not be clearing out whether or not each particular jet of this class is equipped to carry nuclear weapons," the minister added

"Ukrainian drones may also fly during this parade," Vladimir Zelensky said

Among European leaders, he sent greetings only to Viktor Orban and Aleksandar Vucic

According to the source, Donald Trump could take such steps to regain the support of his core electorate

Simultaneously, Israel will develop groundbreaking Israeli-made aircraft, Benjamin Netanyahu said

The European Conservative noted that Europe is divided over whether to allow the Slovak prime minister’s plane to pass through its airspace

Christian Moelling, director of the Berlin-based think-tank Edina, told The Financial Times that rotating out American troops stationed in Germany was "less of a problem" than the cancellation of the plan to deploy a long-range strike capability

Tehran’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe Amir Hossein Hosseini also expressed hope that the conflict would be resolved diplomatically

Other subjects to be raised at the summit will be the conflict in Ukraine, including the deployment of UK and French peacekeepers to Ukraine when the conflict there is resolved

The proposals also do not include the opening of the Strait of Hormuz before the sides reach the final peace deal

According to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European countries are taking steps to ensure that existing base agreements are upheld

The US president called the operation a "humanitarian gesture," pledged any interference "to be dealt with forcefully"

Correspondent Barak Ravid says, citing an official, that US Navy ships will be ‘in the vicinity’ to prevent a possible Iranian attack on commercial ships moving through the strait

According to CBS News national security analyst Aaron MacLean, the pilots of the downed fighter had sidearms

Drone Force Aero also noted that the drone is equipped with a fiber-optic communication line

Andrey Marochko said that five villages were retaken from Ukrainian forces by fighters from Russia’s Battlegroup North

Ukrainian armed formations suffered the heaviest casualties in the responsibility zone of the Battlegroup Center, Andrey Marochko said

Mohsen Rezaei has called the United States "the only pirate in the world that possesses aircraft carriers"

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 360 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

We should raise this topic each time we meet with the Ukrainian political leadership, Robert Fico said

Polish law enforcement agencies are preparing a special plan codenamed Trident, Adam Radon, head of the organized crime division at the Central Investigation Bureau of the Polish Police, said

Oil prices will be lower after the US-Israeli war against Iran is over than they were at the beginning of the year, including due to the United Arab Emirates’ decision to withdraw from OPEC, Scott Bessent said

The former presidential envoy for Ukraine noted that the military bloc, which originally consisted of 12 countries, now includes 32 states and is therefore a "very bloated architecture"

The Civil Aviation Organization of the Islamic Republic called on all international bodies to take appropriate measures in response to this incident

Custody of the vessel "is currently being transferred back to its original ownership," CENTCOM specified

A drone struck a building on Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, there are no casualties

Sahra Wagenknecht deemed as "intimidating" the idea that the decision on when to launch such missiles rests with someone like US President Donald Trump

Thus, whereas nine ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz in both directions on Saturday, on Sunday, according to Bloomberg, only two Iranian commercial vessels did this

Valentina Matviyenko emphasized that this intervention has destabilized the Middle East, triggering an energy crisis, yet it ultimately changes nothing

According to a source cited by the newspaper, Project Freedom will be a coordination mechanism for countries, insurance companies, and shipping organizations to move traffic through the Strait

"We always want to be ready", US president added

The office of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer also promised that new sanctions against Russian companies would be announced later this week

Maria Zakharova said that coercive actions against the personnel of Russian diplomatic missions contradict the norms of international law and bilateral agreements, which guarantee immunity from the jurisdiction of the host country

In particular, Ukraine lost over 175 troops in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Battlegroup North, up to 210 troops in the area of responsibility of Battlegroup West, up to 160 troops in the area of responsibility of Battlegroup South, up to 320 troops in the area of responsibility of Battlegroup Center

OAPEC thanked the UAE for the role it played during its membership

The Iranian military also advised "host countries of US military bases to force the Americans to leave their territory, if they want to avoid damage"

According to the statement, the Finnish Defense Ministry announced plans to conduct exercises in the waters of the Gulf of Finland and the coastal zone between the Virolahti, Hamina and Kotka settlements in the Kymenlaakso region

Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov says that Israel rejects the idea of joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but demands that other countries of the region fully comply with it

The worker was admitted to hospital

Alexey Pushkov noted that the question of whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use nuclear weapons in Iran has been actively discussed on American television in recent days

Iran has fired almost 1,200 ballistic missiles and 4,000 Shahed drones at the Gulf states since the start of the war

North Macedonia received gas from Azerbaijan "through the Trans-Anatolian and the Trans Adriatic pipelines, then from Greece via Bulgaria", Moscow’s Ambassador to the Balkan nation Dmitry Zykov said

US has blockaded the ships going into or out of Iranian ports, Scott Bessent said

Their assessments were similar. Basically, it’s hard to imagine different assessments of the Kiev regime’s behavior, he said

On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 52 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Smolensk, Tula and Moscow regions

The Finance Minister noted that "the levels of revenue and under-revenue over the past two months are the same"

It won’t save the day for the Ukrainian armed forces, Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said

According to the authority, all crew was reported safe, no environmental impact has been reported

Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, says that the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf management will not be based on "delusional posts" of the US president

Ilham Aliyev specified that the European Parliament passed 14 resolutions filled with offensive language against Azerbaijan

The French president said he is unaware of the details of the US initiative on the Strait of Hormuz

Ali Abdollahi warned that any foreign armed forces, especially the US army, would be targeted if they attempted to approach or enter the Strait of Hormuz

The United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran on February 28

In January 2024, there were some 12,121 nuclear warheads in the world, of which 9,585 were on alert

Alexander Stepanov added that Sweden will likely develop the satellite constellation as part of creating duplicate European military space capabilities

According to the report, these positions were located on the southwestern outskirts of Novopavlovka, an essential logistical node for Ukrainian forces near the border of the DPR and Dnepropetrovsk Region

First responders are working at the crash site

Andrey Marochko emphasized that this Russian tactic has caught the Ukrainian forces off guard

The European Union’s deepest desire is unlimited access to cheap Ukrainian labor and the complete bankruptcy of Ukraine’s economy, Leonid Ivlev said

ALBA appealed to the US government to engage in dialogue without threats and conditions

Russian President said he wished the Donbass problem could be settled through talks and the implementation of the Minsk agreements, but "regrettably, this is no longer relevant"