⚡⚡🇵🇸 Massive infrastructure damage in Rafah. Many buildings are being destroyed and have been destroyed.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- An IDF armored brigade have captured the Rafah crossing, raising an Israeli flag.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- An Israeli Merkava IV from the 401st Armored Brigade driving into Palestinian flags on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- IDF airdrops leaflets in the middle of Rafah

🇷🇺🇫🇷⚡️- Russian forces show dead French soldiers on video near Belgorovka.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 - IDF tanks at the Rafah crossing

🇷🇺⚡- Putin will officially be sworn in as President today, during his inauguration.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Heavy-caliber mortar shells are targeting the invading Israeli forces east of the Rafah crossing.

🇨🇳⚡- 2 killed and 21 injured in a stabbing at a hotel in Zanzhong, Yunnan region of China.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡- The British Government claims China has hacked the Defense Ministry's servers.

An emergency meeting has been arranged to discuss the scale of breach and response.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the outskirts of Novopokrovsky (Avdiivka direction).

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- US serviceman, Sgt. Gordon Black, has been arrested in Vladivostok (East Coast Russia). His girlfriend had called the police after Black became violent and stole her cash.

Black visited Russia together with his Russian girlfriend, entering from South Korea, where they initially met. Black was found drunk, and reportedly under the influence of substances too.

🇷🇺⚡- The inauguration ceremony has begun.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ivan Syrskyi, the stepson of the Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, led a car rally in Sydney in honor of Victory Day – with the displaying of Russian flags.

The Ukrainian Commander-In-Chief's stepson previously asked President Putin personally for Russian citizenship to vote in the elections.

🇷🇺⚡- President Putin has arrived at the hall, where he will take the 'Oath of Office' and 'Oath of Presidency', and where he'll give his inauguration speech.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- "If Russian TV channels disrespect the internal life of Armenia, their broadcasting will be banned," – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

Pashinyan also confirmed he will not be attending Victory Day, in Moscow, on the 9th of May.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "This month we need to take the nearest territory, definitely Odessa and Kharkov, then force Zelenskyi to sign the necessary papers." – Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "After 9th May, there will be good and pleasant changes," - Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "As long as we have a leader like Putin, we have nothing to worry about. It’s a pleasure to follow such a leader," – Governor of the Chechen region, Ramzan Kadyrov, on Putin's inauguration.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- The Ukrainian Security Service, SBU, foiled an assassination attempt on Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Two have been arrested, SBU alleged they were acting on Kremlin orders.

🇺🇦⚡- "The church will never bless same-sex marriages. This is contrary to Christian teaching," – Primate of the pro-Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Epiphanius I.