Russia's unilateral ceasefire in the war against Ukraine took effect at midnight on May 8. The Russian Defense Ministry had announced the halt in fighting would last until May 10.

Networks of land grabbers, with contact in ministries and registry offices, have appropriated at least 700 hectares of strategic properties of the Nation in the municipalities of Melgar (Tolima) and Nilo (Cundinamarca) during the last decades. This was announced by Noticias Caracol in a journalistic investigation that revealed this holiday Monday, in addition, that these are tax assets in the custody of the National Army. A silent and multimillion-dollar dispossession that, according to an internal investigation of the Ministry of Defense known by the Investigative Unit of Noticias Caracol, was allegedly consolidated in the face of institutional passivity and with dozens of deceived victims.