🇻🇦🇭🇺🇪🇺 - "The European Union wants to standardize everything, instead they should respect Hungarian uniqueness," – the Pope, criticizing the EU on how it deals with Hungary.

🇳🇪🇮🇷🇺🇸 - WSJ says US accused Niger of preparing a deal with Iran to give uranium to Tehran.

🇷🇺⚡- "Then [WW2] they [Russian Corps] fought on the side of the Nazis [Germany]. Now they are the exact same people [Russian Voluntary Corps] who fight on the side of the neo-Nazis [Ukraine].

They took up arms against their country, their homeland. We do not have the death penalty, but we will treat these people now and in future as those who are in a combat zone," – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on the Russian Voluntary Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion.

🇵🇰🏳️ - Pakistan strikes Pakistani Taliban targets inside Afghanistan.

🇷🇺 - Amongst Russians abroad, only 15% voted for Putin, while Dovankov received 45%.

🇷🇺🇧🇦 - "The victory of Vladimir Putin in the Presidential elections in Russia pleased the Serbian people, who see him as their friend and support", – President of the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik.

🇷🇺 - Celebrations are underway across the Crimean peninsula, as today marks exactly 10 years since the reunification.

🇮🇶⚡️- Barzani-led KDP says will not run in upcoming Iraq Kurdish elections.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Taliban government announced strikes against Pakistani military positions along the border, as retaliation for the Pakistani airstrike on Afghan territory, killing 8.

🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡- Polish farmers have blocked two border crossings with Germany due to ongoing protests against the EU's agricultural policy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian forces have completely evacuated Tonenke and Orlivka.

🇺🇸✡️ - Candace Owens explicitly calls out "merchants" of smear.

🇺🇸⚡️- A federal judge out of Illinois has approved a motion to dismiss charges against an illegal immigrant for unlawful possession of a firearm, ruling that the Second Amendment protects the right for illegal aliens to bear arms.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡ - After the meeting with Nikol Pashinyan, residents of Voskepar and Baganis expressed their readiness to block roads and organize self-defense in the event of an attempt by the RA government to transfer the villages of the Tavush region to Azerbaijan, the “301” portal reports.

🇦🇪🇹🇩🇸🇩 - Chadian leader Mahamat Deby to fly to Abu Dhabi amid increasing Emirati pressure for a direct Chadian military intervention in Sudan after increasing RSF difficulties in Khartoum region - Chadian opposition media

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇶 - Turkish President Erdogan vows to fully secure Iraqi border by summer, complete unfinished work in Syria. - Anadolu

🇷🇺⚡- "Soon the railway through Donbass and Novorossiya will pass to Sevastopol. The road between Berdyansk and Mariupol has been restored; it will go to Crimea and become an alternative to the Crimean Bridge," – Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Putin has almost realized his goal of constructing a land-bridge to the Crimean peninsula, instead of the current Kerch Bridge route. This comes on the 10th anniversary of the Crimean reunification.

🇹🇷🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡️- Erdogan mentionning Syria and Iraq in "every speech", a sign he’s serious, Turkish OSINT observer says.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden and Netanyahu had a phone conversation today, and Netanyahu agreed to send an Israeli delegation to Washington to discuss the impending Rafah offensive.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- President Trump has jumped 3 points nationally in recent polling after his "bloodbath" comments.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- The White House has confirmed that Israel has assassinated Marwan Issa, Deputy Commander of the Qassams Brigades.