🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The US State Department has implemented sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, citing "serious human rights violations."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 143 Russian drones in Ukrainian airspace.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Four Russian Tu-95MS bombers have just performed launch maneuvers. Kh-101 cruise missiles are expected to enter Ukrainian airspace in around 75 minutes.

🇸🇾🇦🇿⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives in Baku, Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇫🇮⚡- "Putin is a strategic fool and a military failure. He wanted to destroy Ukraine, but it will become a member of the EU, and eventually NATO," - Alexander Stubb, President of Finland.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump will force Ukraine to make territorial concessions if it signs a peace agreement with Russia," - The Daily Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The US and Ukraine have agreed to jointly produce gunpowder on both US and Ukrainian soil.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Overnight Russia used 26 cruise missiles and 597 drones in its attack on Ukraine.

Ukraine claims to have neutralized 25 of the 26 missiles, and 310 of the 597 drones.

🇫🇷⚡- "An investigation into foreign interference targeting X (formerly Twitter) has been opened in France, with the platform suspected of having manipulated its algorithm, according to the Paris prosecutor," - Little, French Think Tank.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran has now arrested more than 700 individuals across the country allegedly working for Mossad.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡- "Trump believes he was elected to be the world's policeman and that he can interfere in the internal affairs of countries," - Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, on President Trump's calls to end the 'witch hunt' of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡- "If Trump decides to impose taxes on Brazil, he is mistaken, and we will respond in kind," - Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, on President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Brazil.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is currently meeting Choe Son Hui, North Korea's Foreign Minister, in Wonsan, North Korea.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia's Foreign Minister, who also has a strategic partnership agreement with Iran, warns against the use of force against North Korea, saying Moscow would "not tolerate the abuse of their strategic alliances".

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Moscow does not take seriously the attempts to create a multinational force corps to defend Ukraine, they are fantasies," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, on the UK-France led plans to introduce a peacekeeping force to Ukraine once a ceasefire is introduced.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Moscow understands the reasons why the DPRK is developing its nuclear program and respects Pyongyang's position," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "No one is even considering using force against the DPRK, although the US, South Korea, and Japan are conducting military build-ups around it.

Moscow warns Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo against abusing the Russian and DPRK strategic alliance ties," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Moscow and Pyongyang consider attempts to create NATO infrastructure in Northeast Asia dangerous, and agree on the need to establish reliable mechanisms to ensure equal and indivisible security in the Asia-Pacific region," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Cooperation between Russia and the DPRK contributes to stabilizing the situation on the Korean Peninsula," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Russia and the DPRK plan to resume maritime communication," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇴⚡- Somalia is preparing for a large-scale counteroffensive against al-Shabaab.