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Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., is currently leading the Philippine presidential polls ahead of a historic election this May 9 against leading opposition bet Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo. Here’s what it means for the US-Philippine relations:
Huge celebrations are set in the streets of Russia for their annual May 9 Victory Day Parade. There’s a catch, though. Reports claim that the parade’s military participants will be down by almost 35%, inadvertently revealing their losses in Ukraine.
Ukraine is claiming that a Russian Navy frigate has been struck by a Neptune cruiser missile of the type that hit the cruiser Moskva last month off the Crimean coast. Unlike the aged Moskva, the Admiral Makarov is the latest design of Russian warship and has only been in service for a few years.
A New York Times piece claims intel sources revealed that US intelligence was used to kill a number of Russian Generals in Ukraine, only to see the National Security Council walk it back almost instantly. You will be surprised at the reason and escalation that we are inviting by doing this.
The holder of the highest seat in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, said that the West is partly to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hungary has expressed its intentions to veto the 6th European Union sanction package targeting Russian energy imports into the bloc.
When the chaos of bombings, death, uncertainties, and nonstop fighting wore the soldiers of Britain down, one thing that cheered them up was the homey taste of their beloved meal.
According to recent Washington Post – ABC News polling, Americans stand strong in their support of Ukraine more than two months after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the sovereign country. In addition, a large, bipartisan majority is backing humanitarian and military aid to help the people survive and fight to push back Russian aggression.
Before the war with Russia, Anastasiia Minchukova, age 20, was an English teacher in Ukraine. Now she is learning the deadly art and science of identifying and defusing explosives.
Due to the high number of casualties in Ukraine, Russia is planning to ramp up its recruitment campaign of military “volunteers” to be done outside the Russian capital of Moscow.
On Sunday, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield near the Black Sea Port city of Odesa.
Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and claims it will be entirely independent of Russian crude oil imports by late summer.
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