🇨🇳 Fly accordingly... A #China Eastern Airbus 350 impacted (multiple times...) the jet bridge at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport earlier this week. It looks like a toy.“The flight crew immediately handled it according to established procedures ... The cause of this incident is currently under investigation,” China Eastern said, adding that passengers disembarked in an orderly manner.Follow...
Zelensky said there was unusual activity from the Belarusian side along sections of the Ukraine-Belarus border. He warned that Ukraine is ready to defend its people and sovereignty and that anyone being drawn into aggression against Ukraine should understand that.
Ukraine’s 28th Mechanized Brigade has converted a Soviet-era BTM-3 engineering vehicle into a machine for laying lines of barbed tape. Originally built to dig trenches on a chassis with T-54 elements, the vehicle was repurposed through welding and battlefield improvisation.
Ukraine’s Lasar’s Group of the National Guard destroyed a rare Russian R-330Zh Zhitel electronic warfare station and a command vehicle in Kharkiv region. The strike followed fixed-wing drone reconnaissance that located the target area deep behind Russian lines.
❗️Czechia said it approved Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s overflight to Moscow without delay, rejecting Russian media claims that Prague had banned use of its airspace. The route remains complicated because other European states have refused access.
Russian Iskander-M launch activity from occupied Crimea has dropped after repeated Ukrainian strikes on missile positions, with at least 10 OTRK sites hit over 75 days.
Ukraine’s General Staff will add ground robotic systems to its daily Russian loss statistics starting May 3. As of the start of May 2, Russian forces had already lost 1,294 ground robotic systems, Kyiv said.
Ukraine is starting development of active protection systems for multiple classes of weapons and military equipment, including unguided rocket systems, Brigadier General Andrii Lebedenko said. He said the critical drone threat requires a shift from simply adding armor to intelligent protection systems.
Ukraine’s General Staff said forces struck a tactical group of Iskander missile systems in occupied Crimea overnight, along with the Mys-M1 coastal radar, Podlyot radar, three UAV command posts, and a drone depot in occupied Donetsk region.
🇺🇸 PRESIDENT TRUMP - "When this war ends, gasoline and oil and everything, it's going to come tumbling down ... Other prices are way down, but gasoline's high. But when this is over, you'll have a world without a nuclear weapon with Iran. If you allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, the world would be in great jeopardy. So it's not going to happen." "They want to make a deal, but I don't. I'm not s...
🇨🇳 #China. During the evening rush hour, a young man boarded a crowded train heading toward Tiyu Xilu Station. He was reportedly confronted by passengers, possibly for secretly filming a woman or for other suspicious behavior. He then pulled out pepper spray and indiscriminately sprayed it across the confined space of the carriage.People panicked, covered their faces, and rushed toward doors/exits...
There is a Mall in China that offers "husband storage" where wives can leave their husband while they shop.Did you know? 🎓
Ukraine’s 210th Assault Regiment performed a night evacuation of two wounded soldiers under targeted Russian fire, with both brought out alive.
❗️The Financial Times says Zelensky’s push to lock in 2027 as Ukraine’s EU accession target is straining ties with European allies, many of whom see that timeline as unrealistic given the scale of reforms and the bloc’s enlargement rules.
Ukrainian deep strikes hit Russian logistics 65 to 100 km behind the front, including a successful hit on a UAZ van and an attempted strike on a truck column. The targets were moving on key rear roads linking Crimea to Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol to Donetsk.