🇹🇷⚡- "We do not view the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as an alternative to NATO, nor do we consider BRICS as a substitute for any other international alliance." – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish President.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "We deplore and strongly oppose the NATO-Summit declarations, which hypes up tensions in the Indo-Pacific region and is full of bellicose remarks with a 'Cold War' mentality. Its content are directed at China and are filled with bias, smearing and provocations." – Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇰🇪⚡- Protests in Kenya against Bomet Town's Governor Hillary Barchok have turned violent.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China firmly opposes the US spreading disinformation of China supporting Russia's defense industry, and will not accept the US blame-shifting or coercion." – Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇯⚡- Satellite images show China has been building a secret military base in Tajikistan.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia will build a new permanent naval base in Ochamchire, Abkhazia – Aslan Bzhania, President of Abkhazia.

🇺🇦🇲🇩⚡- Since February 2022, approximately 23,500 Ukrainian men have entered Moldova illegally, to avoid being drafted – Moldovan branch of 'Radio Liberty'.

🇮🇶🏴⚡- Iraqi court sentences Umm Hudayfa, the widow of former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to death.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Massive Russian counterattack over the past 24 hours in eastern Volchans'k (northern-Kharkov direction).

In eastern Volchans'k, Russian forces have advanced east of the cemetery, retaking most lost positions.

In the south, Russian troops expanded their control south of the Volchya river, capturing Kharkovsksa Street – both sides confirm.

Russian troops are now less than 1,200 meters from the southern borders of the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "In Krasnogorovka (Mariinka direction), it is time to withdraw our guys from the city. It is very difficult getting our guys into the city in the first place, Russian DRG units have broken our supply lines. A lot of guys refuse to fight in the city, they are not deserters, but the commanders label them as such." – Ukrainian 79th Brigade, 'Cyborgs'.

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- Greek Coast Guard vessel rammed into a Turkish fishing boat, which was illegally fishing well within Greece's water-spaces, 4km off the coast of Zurafa Island.

🇺🇸⚡️- AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Fires rage in the city of Energodar, Zaporozhye (left-bank Dnepr), home to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

Ukrainian forces continue to set fire to Russian controlled regions of the Dnepr river.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Further scenes from Energodar, Zaporozhye region.

🇨🇳🇭🇺⚡- "We will not support the transformation of NATO into an anti-Chinese bloc," – Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto.

🇺🇲🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- A trilateral meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Bayramov and Mirzoyan respectively, and US Secretary of State, Blinken, has concluded.

"Over the last year and a half, Armenia and Azerbaijan have done very important work toward negotiating and concluding a peace agreement. Throughout this process, the United States has sought to be helpful and supportive. Thanks to you both for being here." – Blinken.

🇮🇱⚡- G7 denounces Israel's expansionist ambitions in the West Bank as "counterproductive to the cause of peace".

🇷🇺🇷🇸⚡- Russian President, Vladimir Putin, gave a Serbian volunteer, Aleksandar Jokic, Russian citizenship. Jokic fought in Mariopul and Ugledar. He was also awarded the Cross of St. George.

🇸🇩⚡- "There is no forgiveness for these crimes. This battle will end with the crushing of the rebels [Rapid Support Forces]. We are not engaging in negotiations anywhere, neither in Jeddah nor in Switzerland." – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, President of Sudan, has rejected Ethiopia-led negotiations.