🇷🇺🇨🇳 - 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.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "The Trump administration is unhappy with the approach of US Presidential Special Envoy Whitkoff to negotiations with Russia and Iran.

Witkoff violates established diplomatic practice by appearing at negotiations without the accompaniment of advisers, experts and military personnel. Witkoff also used Kremlin interpreters during his talks with Putin, which is a violation of diplomatic procedure," - The New York Post.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "There is also dissatisfaction in Israel with Wittkoff's involvement in the Iran talks.

The Iranian problem is so complex that he must bring more people to his team. At the moment the Iranians may have an advantage given their extensive knowledge of negotiations," - The New York Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- US Secretary of Defense Hegseth spoke with India's Defense Minister Singh over the phone.

🇷🇺🇸🇦⚡- "Saudi Arabia is ready to live with low oil prices, which in turn will harm Russia.

Saudi Arabia is telling its allies and industry experts that it does not want to support the oil market with further supply cuts and can withstand a prolonged period of low prices.

Riyadh was outraged that Kazakhstan and Iraq were producing more than OPEC+ targets. The group sets targets to maintain a balance of supply and demand in oil markets.

Russia is reportedly aware of Riyadh's plans to increase production faster and would prefer the OPEC+ group to stick to a slower rate of production growth. Moscow could face a further drop in revenues as its oil prices could fall below $50 a barrel as a result of OPEC+ production increases," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will not win the war. In the last 1.5 years, Russia hasn’t achieved serious victories, no capture of Kiev, no progress west of the Dnepr, and no capture of Odessa. They’ve lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers with minimal progress," - Keith Kellogg, Trump's Special Envoy to Ukraine.

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Transgender women banned from women's soccer in England, starting June 1

FA change of policy follows UK Supreme Court’s ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex

🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡- "America shouldn’t have to pay for a [Suez] canal that we defend," - Mike Waltz, US National Security Advisor.

🇮🇷⚡- "4th round of US-Iran talks scheduled for Saturday in Rome have been postponed to next week.

E3-Iran talks scheduled for Friday may also be delayed," - Axios.

E3 - the UK, France and Germany.