📹 "Immortal Regiment" march takes place in Berlin, where hundreds of people have gathered to commemorate the Great Victory

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The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a concentrated long-range, sea- and air-launched high-precision attack on temporary Ukrainian reserve areas and ammunition depots. The purpose of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged. As a result of the strikes, the movement of reserves as well as the delivery of ammunition to combat areas has been thwarted.

▪️ Russia’s aviation and artillery have engaged the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov region. Over the past 24 hours, up to 35 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system have been neutralised in this region.

▪️ The Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian manpower and hardware in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). The Ukrainians suffered losses of up to 75 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three pick-up trucks, one Grad MLRS, and two D-30 howitzers.

▪️ Russia’s Operational-Tactical and Army aviation inflicted fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. Russian aircraft have conducted five sorties in this area during the past 24 hours. The artillery have performed 73 fire tasks overnight. The Ukrainians have suffered losses of over 465 troops and mercenaries, two tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one Grad self-propelled artillery system, and two D-20 and D-30 howitzers in the past 24 hours.

▪️ Russian troops have neutralised up to 30 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems during the day in the Kherson region.

▪️ The Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Armed Forces have engaged 72 Ukrainian artillery units, manpower, and hardware in 94 areas during the day.

▪️ Some 419 airplanes and 230 helicopters, 4,052 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defence missile systems, 9,046 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,098 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,774 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 10,077 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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📹 Participants of the special military operation congratulated veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Victory Day from the front lines

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📹 Full video of the Victory Parade held this morning on Red Square.

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🗣️”Without a doubt, this is a big victory, but it has been years in the making. We had already seen individual countries making moves to normalize with Damascus, especially Qatar. Again, Qatar was once in that Gulf-NATO alliance to topple Assad and now has sort of come back hat in hand, realizing that US ideology is no longer tenable,” Brad Hoff, a former Marine, speaks about the readmission of Syria to the Arab League

🎧Listen to more of Hoff’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

1945 to 2023? World on the precipice of a new global realignment

The celebration of another anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe provides a fresh opportunity to reflect on the new international security architecture that has emerged from the war's ashes. As humanity rushes toward a new, multipolar world order, it’s worth recalling how the post-war system emerged, and how the West's hubris caused it to fail.

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'New era of cooperation': Xi Jinping to chair China-Central Asia summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping will chair the China-Central Asia summit on May 18-19, which will mark the first major diplomatic event hosted by China this year.

The summit will involve the six countries discussing burgeoning ties and a "new era of cooperation", with an "important political document" to be signed that will "draw a new blueprint for China-Central Asia relations". The Belt and Road Initiative is expected to be a major topic on the summit’s agenda.

China’s trade volume with Central Asian countries had grown by 22% in the first two months of 2023, and Beijing aims to deepen its economic ties with the region, which is rich in natural resources and lies in close proximity to China's western province of Xinjiang.

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🗣️ ”[The US government doesn't] like certain information that people put up. And so we need to put out our own information to counter the information that they basically put out,” Jamarl Thomas, co-host of Fault Lines, discusses the new Ministry of Truth

🎧 Listen to more of Thomas' analysis in our podcast The Final Countdown

US federal deficit reaches almost $1 trln as Biden braces for crunch debt ceiling talks

Washington has been running a deficit of almost $1 trillion for over seven months, according to CBO. Revenues were down 10% and outlays were up 8% compared to the same period last year.

Meanwhile, negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders over raising the debt ceiling continue to be contentious, with Republicans demanding steep spending cuts and Democrats calling for a clean raise without preconditions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that a failure to raise the debt ceiling could have dire consequences but acknowledged that there are no good options if Congress fails to meet its responsibility.

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Who defeated the Nazis in 1945?

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre believes these were "the United States and Allied forces".

🎖️🎇 Celebration of Victory Day ends with traditional fireworks in Moscow

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