🇺🇸 🇺🇦 - Trump blasts Zelensky “You do not start a war against somebody that is 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles”

🇺🇸 🇷🇺- Trump says that “Putin is no angel “

🇭🇺- Hungary passes constitutional amendment allowing the government to ban LGBTQ+ public events

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺- Trump says that “Biden, Putin, and Zelenskyy started the war, and I'm trying to stop it”

🇩🇪🇺🇦 The future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that his government is interested in transferring Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv.

Admin note: Germany's Taurus missile stockpile is around 600 units, with only 150 reported operational. A new generation, the Taurus Neo, is planned to be purchased in a quantity of 600 units, with deliveries starting in 2029.

🇬🇷🇫🇷 Greece, which has a long-standing conflict with Turkey in the Mediterranean, will purchase French anti-ship missiles.

The corresponding agreement was signed by the defense ministers of the two countries.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China says it has found salmonella in American poultry imports.

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 - Ukrainian MP Mariana Bezugla calls for severing diplomatic ties with the US over Trump’s comments

🇺🇦 🇺🇸- Ukrainian Parliament Foreign Affairs committee head Oleksander Merezkho accuses Trump of parroting Russian propaganda, demands FBI investigate source of said propaganda, compares Trump calling Sumy strike a “mistake” to referring to Al Qaeda on 9/11 as having made “a mistake”

Another Iskander strike on Sumy

🇨🇳🇪🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷 China is working on forming a coalition with Europe, Japan, and South Korea against the United States, Reuters reports. Chinese diplomats have effectively been put on alert — their vacations have been canceled and they have been ordered to keep their phones on 24 hours a day.

🇵🇱- At a Presidential debate in Poland, MEP Grzegorz Braun asks Karol Nawrocki why the Nawrocki-led IPN wouldn’t conduct exhumations of the Jedwabne massacre

🇵🇱- Szymon Hołownia accuses Sławomir Mentzen of being a Russian stooge, Mentzen retorts by showing a photo of PM Donald Tusk being all friendly with Vladimir Putin in Sopot in 2009 and asks Hołownia why he agrees to be a lackey for the pro-Russian Tusk

🇵🇱- Admin note: In Poland, accusing your political opponent of being either a German or Russian stooge is commonplace

🇵🇱- Grzegorz Braun causes a stir at the Presidential debate saying “down with communism, down with Eurocommunism, down with Jewish communism”

🇵🇱- Sławomir Mentzen calls for an end to migration to Poland

🇵🇱- Mentzen accuses Tusk government of prioritizing German interests, calls for arresting of German police on Polish soil

🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇲🇰🇬🇹🇷🇨🇾 — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan have supported UN Security Council Resolutions 541 and 550, which officially condemn the "illegal Turkish authority in Northern Cyprus."

They took this step after the EU announced a €12 billion investment package for Central Asia.

🇹🇷🇮🇱 Reports have emerged indicating that some of the munitions used by Israeli forces in recent operations in Gaza are of Turkish origin, marked with labels such as “Made in Turkey - 2024."

This comes despite Turkey’s nominal condemnation of the Israeli offensive and its repeated expressions of solidarity with the people of Gaza.

🇩🇪- Friedrich Merz to become German Chancellor on May 6th