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New Lines Magazine: Russian intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian civilians -- including children and teenagers -- to act as suicide bombers at military recruitment centers. It's a horrific new tactic reminiscent of ISIS and al-Qaeda and comes at a time when the GRU is escalating sabotage, assassination and cyberattacks in the West.

Reuters: Trump and Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.

The War Zone: Non-operational F-16s are being pulled from the boneyard and sent to Ukraine to support the growing fleet of European-donated fighters that the country is now using in combat against Russia.

CNN: Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador, after widespread reports that Trump planned to oust him, in the first major staff shakeup since the president took office in January. The president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio would replace Waltz in the prior role on an interim basis.

Fox News: Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe James Gilmore is urging the Trump administration to repurpose funds cut from USAID to counter the growing global influence of China and Russia.

Reuters: Many young Romanians are again scrolling through video-sharing platform TikTok for guidance on how to vote in Sunday's rerun of a presidential election annulled over allegations of Russian meddling via suspicious TikTok accounts.

Ukrainska Pravda: Russian forces have ramped up their operations in the southern part of the Dnipro River island system in Kherson Oblast, aiming to land on Buhaz Island, establish a bridgehead and cross the Dnipro River.

The Moscow Times: Work on North Korea's newly unveiled warship may have involved assistance from Russia, South Korea's military said on Thursday.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones struck and destroyed more than 83,000 Russian targets in April, an 8% increase from March, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on May 1.

United24 Media: Luxembourg will allocate an additional €20 million for Ukraine’s defense and energy support, with €10 million directed to the Ukrainian Energy Support Fund. The funds will be used for infrastructure, equipment, and fuel.

Bloomberg: A key US Senate ally of Trump said he has the commitment of 72 colleagues for a bill that would enact “bone-crushing” new sanctions on Russia and tariffs on countries that buy its oil, gas and other key products if Putin doesn’t engage in serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine (archive).

The Moscow Times: Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities, with activists describing them as part of a broader crackdown that intensified ahead of the country’s spring military draft.

WSJ: The U.S. Army is embarking on its largest overhaul since the end of the Cold War, with plans to equip each of its combat divisions with around 1,000 drones and to shed outmoded weapons and other equipment. The plan, the product of more than a year of experimentation at this huge training range in Bavaria and other U.S. bases, draws heavily on lessons from the war in Ukraine (archive).

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