🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian DRGs are crossing the Dnepr river, testing Kherson defenses – Ukrainian sources.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "At some stage, we should consider some kind of economic cost if China doesn't change their behaviour," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "We [NATO] must work closely with our Indo-Pacific partners," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "Russia is increasingly on the same side with authoritarian leaders North Korea, China and other authoritarian friends. This makes it even more important for this transatlantic alliance." – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "NATO is a nuclear alliance," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has just arrived in North Korea.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: US envoy Hochstein, as part of his diplomatic mission, has relayed an Israeli ultimatum to the Lebanese government, stating that if Hezbollah doesn't retreat behind the Litani River before June 24th, Israel will move forward with its invasion plans.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China's dangerous and reckless behavior in the West Philippine Sea [Second Thomas shoal] will be resisted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines," – Gilberto Teodoro, Philippines Defense Secretary.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports suggest that Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, has already issued a response to the Israeli ultimatum. Hochstein and Israeli PM Netanyahu have received the response.

Nasrallah, in all likelihood, refused the ultimatum.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israel should apologize for killing children in Gaza," – Yair Lapid, Leader of Opposition of the Israeli Knesset.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡️- President Putin arrives in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un.

North Korea has been a major supplier of artillery shells to the Russian war effort in Ukraine, improving relations dramatically between the two countries.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel Channel 24: "The IDF confirms that battle plans against Lebanon have been approved by top Israeli generals."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports suggest that a senior Hezbollah commander, Younes Aziz al-Din, was assassinated in an Israeli raid in Tyre some moments ago.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Lebanese media reporting no casualties, empty car struck by Israeli airstrike.

🇸🇴🏴⚡- "Islamic State in Somalia poses a growing threat," – US official.

This follows rumors of ISIS leader, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, has moved to Puntland, a breakaway region in northern Somalia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the southern outskirts of New York (Toretsk direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm.

Residents of Manhattan, fear not. Different New York!

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- An unnamed Israeli official said to Hebrew media regarding the Hochstein mediation talks: "We are in a dramatic day."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- We are back

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in southern Lebanon due to Israeli raids.