📹Combat work by the TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system during the special military operation in Ukraine (footage from Russia's Ministry of Defense)

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❗The New York Times: US spies coordinate arms supplies to Ukraine

🇺🇸US Army drops high school diploma requirement amid severe problems with recruitment

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⚡US 'continues to do its best' to ease Turkey's concerns over Finland and Sweden's NATO membership - Reuters cites White House as saying

❗The US is confident that NATO's new strategy document will include "strong" language on China - White House

US, Germany agree on need to reach diplomatic solution to Ukraine conflict - White House

Germany and US will work together to ensure the security of Ukraine - Scholz

🫡Joe Biden’s bitter irony while meeting Scholz: the US president gave a military salute to his assistant, who showed him where to stand for a photo

YOU take YOUR place.

"Don't worry, we're Russians": A video of how 35-year-old British mercenary Andrew Hill was taken prisoner in Ukraine has emerged online. The first thing he asked for was water

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This is how McDonald's has been "rebranded" in Russia's Belgorod. For almost two weeks now, restaurants called "Vkusno i Tochka" ("Tasty. Period.") have been operating in branches formerly occupied by the McDonald's chain since it closed in Russia.

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⚡️G7 launching global infrastructure and investment partnership to boost world economy, supply chains

Biden: G7 aiming for $600Bln funding for global infrastructure programs

😬The G7 leaders have been invoking the memory of Vladimir Putin at the summit in Germany and arguing whether they should undress.

"Jackets on? Jackets off?" Boris Johnson asked. "We all have to show that we're tougher than Putin," the beleaguered prime minister added, seemingly recalling the famous photos of the Russian president in Siberia.

"We're going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display," Canada's Justin Trudeau replied to the British prime minister.

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🇪🇸More than 2,000 people joined a rally against NATO in Madrid. The demonstrators chanted: "No NATO" and "NATO bases - out."

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Some of the protestors were singing the anti-NATO slogan to the tune of the Russian traditional song “Kalinka"

❗Blinken: US expects effect from Russia sanctions to build up over time

💭Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov demands that the rapid deployment of 'an effective air or missile defense systems' in Ukraine be envisaged in an updated NATO strategic concept, which will be adopted during the upcoming summit in Madrid

📹Air defense systems activated in Donetsk, at least three countermissiles have been launched, a Sputnik correspondent reports

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⚡Turkey not to join sanctions against Russia - Erdogan's spokesman

😥🔎Authorities are investigating after a body of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing Saturday evening was found in Everett, Washington early Sunday, police said.

Investigators have not publicly disclosed information about the case and whether foul play was involved in the death of the girl, who disappeared at Silver Lake. It was not clear if the girl was with someone when she went missing.

Several people assisted investigators during the search for the girl before her body was found, according to police.

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🇺🇸🛬The President of the United States, Joe Biden, arrived in Germany to participate in the G7 summit.

The former Pentagon assistant, and current person in charge of coordinating Washington's communications on strategic issues, John Kirby, declared last Thursday that the visit occurs at "a key moment for transatlantic solidarity."

The stated objectives of the White House with this visit are: to propose a partnership on the infrastructure of developing nations and to discuss proposals to face the increase in energy and food prices.

The first meeting of President Biden, who will be in German territory for three days, will be this Sunday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. According to John Kirby, Joe Biden's intervention will demonstrate "the president's intention to revitalize our alliances and partnerships."

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