🔥 Russia: Novocheboksarsk Chemical Plant on fire. Over 600km east of Moscow.

Okay, so building a house is tough. But when you get to see some of the things you've been imagining for so long, it's exciting! Behold my main fireplace & my dining room accent wall!

Sara Hess, Condal’s main writing partner on House of the Dragon, tempers expectations for what plays out on the show. “Expect very little,” she says of Sara Snow. SARA SNOW IS CANCELLED

🧵 Information from Osechkin's sources on the collapse of Russian Defence Ministry: 1) Deputy Defence Ministers Tsalikov and Krivoruchko backdated their resignation letters to before May 9th, despite signing the letters on May 13th.

Reality check: None of the purges at the top of Russia's Defence Ministry are the result of Navalny team's corruption investigations. Corruption is just a public excuse in some instances. Putin was the ultimate and knowing benefactor of all this corruption.

Purges in Russia: Lt Gen Yuriy Kuznetsov, Chief of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defence was dragged out of bed from his own house in the middle of the night by military counterintelligence officers wearing balaclavas. Sounds like something special is brewing.

💥 Russia: Fire at an oil depot near Staryi Oskol in Belgorod region and the corresponding electrical substation which powered it after Ukrainian drone strikes.