🇮🇹🇦🇱⚡- Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama kneeled to welcome Italy's Giorgia Meloni to the European Political Community Summit in Tirana.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul are over - lasting less than 2 hours.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Russia-Ukraine talks to resume next week Friday. Both sides cite some positivity.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Ukraine's Defense Minister and Head of delegation Umerov says the talks have opened a way for a possible Putin-Zelensky meeting. Umerov has also said both sides have agreed to a large 1,000-1,000 prisoners of war exchange.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- "We will continue talks. We are satisfied with the result," - Vladimir Medinsky, Head of Russia's delegation.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Zelensky, Starmer, Tusk, Macron and Merz called US President Trump after the Russia-Ukraine talks ended.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Reports of Israeli Air Force fighter jets buzzing Eilat flying south, possible strikes against Yemen occurring soon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Reuters says the Russian delegation demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainians from Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson, including territory not under Russian control.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Economist says the Russian delegation threatened to seize areas in Kharkov and Sumy to create buffer zones.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Reports of Russia 'walking out' from the talks are false, and spread by strongly anti-Russian outlets such as The Economist and Axios. Russia's Head of delegation Medinsky has said the talks were 'positive' and the Russian side were 'satisfied'.

The talks were conducted behind closed-doors, so the media can only speculate as to what was said. Ukraine's Defense Minister and Head of Ukraine's delegation Umerov will brief the press in an hour.

The Russian delegation is planned to head back to Moscow this evening, when Putin's security cabinet is set to also meet. Therefore a press briefing by Kremlin Spokesman Dmitri Peskov can be expected later tonight or tomorrow morning.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Hudaydah, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- "The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack against three Yemeni ports." - Galei Tzahal, official IDF military outlet.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Salif Port, Ansarullah-controlled western Yemen. The ports of al-Hodeidah and Ras Isa were also struck.

— 🇮🇳 India has issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) near the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, indicating a possible missile test planned between May 23 and 24, 2025.

🇨🇿 | @czaktuality

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Andrei Belousov arrived in Belarus to hold talks with the country's military-political leadership, the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- The Russian delegation has left Istanbul, Turkey.

🇸🇦🇶🇦🇸🇾⚡️- The World Bank says that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off the remainder of Syria's outstanding debt.

🇺🇸🇱🇾🇵🇸⚡️- "The United States is working on a plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya." - NBC News.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - In other words, Operation "Gideon's Chariots" may begin within the next 2 days.

🇵🇸🇱🇾🇮🇱 - Note, Saddam Haftar, the Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces of the Libyan National Army, LNA, has strong ties to Israel.

Saddam is the son of Khalifa Haftar, the Commander-In-Chief of the Tobruk-based LNA.