💬 Europe is sabotaging itself by unjustifiably meddling in the Ukraine conflict and taking an anti-Russian stance, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik told Sputnik at SPIEF.

💬 What draws crowds to SPIEF is its host — Russia — a nation reshaping the global value game, Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, told Sputnik.

💬 "Pashinyan's war on the Apostolic Church isn't politics - it's civilizational suicide to please Western and Turkic overlords," Grant Melik-Shahnazaryan, Armenia's top strategic analyst, told Sputnik.

🔸 Israel struck a centrifuge production workshop in Isfahan, with the IAEA marking it down as the third Israeli attack on an Iranian nuclear facility. The facility reportedly contained no nuclear material.

🔸 Amid regular US threats to attack Iran, Yemen’s Houthis warned that they would immediately resume attacks on US warships and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb Strait if Washington joined the war.

🔸 Iranian President Pezeshkian told France’s Macron that Iran would “never renounce its stated rights to possess peaceful nuclear capabilities,” and warned that Tehran’s “response to the continued aggression by the Zionist regime will be more crushing and decisive.” He added, however, that Iran has always been and remains “ready to talk and cooperate to build trust in the field of peaceful nuclear activities.”

🔸 The IDF announced the assassination of a commander from the IRGC Quds Force in an air strike in western Iran.

🔸 Qatar reportedly held urgent talks with major energy companies after Israeli strikes on Iran’s portion of a massive shared gas field in the Persian Gulf.

🔸 Six US B-2 stealth bombers took off from a base in the US for Guam in the western Pacific as the US continues its naval and air buildup near Iran.

🔸 Iran launched a new wave of strike drones at Israel, targeting military positions.

💬 “I believe that there is a systemic targeting of some churches in the world, for reasons that cannot be justified or accepted in any way,” Theodosios (Hanna), Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told RT Arabic.

💬 “Any support, assistance, solidarity or sympathy for the Church, in Armenia and in Ukraine, where the legitimate and legal Orthodox Church is being targeted and persecuted for its relationship with the Russian Church, have become enough for an accusation,” he said.

💬 “We reject the persecution, targeting and attempts to besiege some churches in Europe, particularly in Ukraine, Armenia and other places, perpetrated by some governments at the behest of the West,” Hanna said.