🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Russian source "Fighterbomber" reports that Russian aircraft shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea, which later crashed into the ocean. This shootdown was in retaliation to an ATACMS strike in Sevastopol, killing civilians.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Russian state journalist Vladimir Solovyov says the Russian Air Force likely shot down a US Army or NATO RQ-4 Globe Hawk drone.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The Russian Air Force allegedly shot down a UAV belonging to either NATO or the United States above the Black Sea.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- A Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor aircraft shot down the drone.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Some sources are beginning to claim that no drone was shot down, although a "major incident" is still being reported over the Black Sea.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- A US defense official told Reuters no incident has been reported over the Black Sea. Apparently, Russian channels hyped up a non-existent incident.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- WikiLeaks says that "Julian Assange is free," and has left the United Kingdom.

🇬🇧🇦🇺⚡️- Julian Assange was seen boarding a plane earlier and is headed home to his native Australia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Rozdolovka (Sivers'k-Soledar direction). Ukrainian sources admit withdrawing from the town.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- The Philippines will not announce publicly the next resupply mission to its stranded vessel in the Second Thomas shoal – Gilberto Teodoro, Philippines Defense Secretary.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the ultraorthodox can no longer be excluded from the national draft.

🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- Vietnamese Coast Guard claims its militia ship, 95209, is being "shadowed very closely" by the "Chinese Coast Guard in Vietnamese water-spaces", near the disputed Paracel Islands.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukrainian authorities have begun evacuation from Toretsk," – Vadim Filashkin, Ukrainian Head of Toretsk's Military Administration.

🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, has fired Commander of the Eastern Front, General Yuriy Sodol.

🇷🇺⚡- The International Criminal Court, ICC, has issued arrest warrants for Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Staff, and Sergei Shoygu, Security Council Secretary and former Defense Minister.

🇹🇷🇨🇾⚡- "We constantly see in Turkish intelligence reports that the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus is a base for certain countries in operations targeting Gaza. There is serious militarisation there. And now Southern Cyprus put itself in the way of becoming a target of Hezbollah." – Hakan Fiden, Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇹🇷🇬🇷⚡- "Cyprus, Greece should stay away from Middle East matters," – Hakan Fiden, Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇹🇷🇬🇷⚡- Greece responds to Hakan Fiden's "unacceptable comments", saying that "Greece will not allow its policies to be dictated by others".

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- China has tripled its supply of uranium from Russia.

🇰🇪⚡- Violent protests in Kenya over tax reforms.