🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 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.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian counterattack forced Russian forces to completely withdraw from Urozhayne.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Fire in east Rafah as a result of Israeli airstrikes

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters says the US has been "holding several shipments of weapons to Israel" for at least two weeks

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Unconfirmed reports claim that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn completely from Novoaleskandrovka (Avdiivka direction). The reports claim Ukrainian forces lacked a defensive line, as none had been built, therefore retreating further back.

Earlier today as Russian forces advanced towards Novopokrovsky (just South of Novoaleskandrovka), Russian forces witnessed a similar situation – a lack of Ukrainian defensive lines.

🇬🇧⚡- UK Border Agency servers are down. Chaos at several of UK's airports.

It's alleged that the Border Agency has also been hacked.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Judge Cannon of Miami has indefinitely postponed President Trump's classified documents trial.

🇺🇦⚡- "There were no defensive fortifications to the west of Avdiivka. I have no objective explanation for the lack of fortifications behind Avdiivka in the third year of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation and in the eleventh year of the war. Neither Muzhenko, nor Khomchak, nor Zaluzhnyi, nor Syrskyi built fortifications behind Avdiivka." – People’s Deputy of Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), Mariana Bezuglaya.

Mariana has become the first high profile figure to criticize the lack of Ukrainian defenses beyond Avdiivka.

🇱🇹🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- The Parliament of Lithuania has given their Prime Minister the go-ahead to send troops to Ukraine.

The Prime Minister of Lithuania is awaiting Ukraine's permission.

🇺🇦⚡- Pro-Russian Ukrainian partisans caused a cargo train in Ukrainian region of Odessa to derail.

The train was carrying military aid provided by NATO. Significant damage reported.

The partisans are allegedly part of the railtrack workers.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Ukrainian Intelligence Service, SBU, reports 30,000 Ukrainian refugees, who fled to Europe and Russia, are wanted for their 'pro-Russia stance'.

🇬🇷⚡- Mob in Greece are hunting for Israeli tourists staying at a hotel. Riot police have been deployed to the scene.