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For more information about this notable development, swipe left on this image at @kyivindependent_official. 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . One of the most elite Ukrainian units accepting foreign volunteers received “a massive spike” of applications, according to an international serviceman involved in recruiting.

The source, who spoke anonymously due to his unit’s regulations, said that a few thousand applications came in after the Oval Office meeting, with “a significant amount of guys expressing outrage and shock over what has been happening with the shift in American policy.”

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Photos: Paula Bronstein; Sergei Supinsky; Wojciech Grzedzinski; Charly Triballeau; Genya Savilov / AFP via Getty Images

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The month of May began with several notable developments in the war in Ukraine, including those described in this post below. 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦 #Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost . . . Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s Land Forces, said that Ukraine launched counterattacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, forcing Russian troops to abandon some positions. Russian officials reported explosions on May 1 on the power lines in Russia's Leningrad region and a railway in the Bryansk region that borders Ukraine. Russian extensive military defensive setup suggests “deep concern” over a major Ukrainian breakthrough, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update on May 1. Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said he is ‘confident’ that Ukraine would receive modern fighter jets, which Kyiv has long been campaigning for. Read about the day's latest developments at the link in bio. 8h