🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "The Oval Office disaster was an ambush and Europe will collectively try to pick itself up," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "It seems that Trump has made his decision to sell Ukraine," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Washington is likely to increase pressure on Kiev while avoiding dealing with Zelensky," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Trump is considering several retaliatory steps, including halting military aid to Ukraine," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- "US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened Mexico’s top military officials with US military action inside Mexico if Mexico fails to meet Trump’s border demands," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- "Mexico’s top brass who were on that call were shocked and angered, feeling he was suggesting U.S. military action inside Mexico," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "It’s Xi Jinping’s world, and Trump is just living in it. Trump’s 'America First' approach is pulling the U.S. back from global leadership, while Xi Jinping is expanding China’s influence worldwide," - Bloomberg.

🇰🇷⚡- Massive protests in Seoul, South Korea, in support of President Yoon against his impeachment.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The only winner in the Zelensky-Trump clash was Russia's Vladimir Putin," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦 - British outlets this morning.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We make no promise to renounce the use of force, which is targeted at the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces and external interference," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We warn the U.S. side: playing sneaky tricks on Taiwan would only backfire," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan, we will come and get you, sooner or later," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan announces it will greatly expand its annual live-fire drills, the Han Kuang exercises, this year.

🇨🇳⚡- China test launches a hypersonic missile over the Inner Mongolia region, northern China.

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- "China and Russia need to continue to strengthen coordination in international and regional affairs," - Xi Jinping, President of China, during a meeting with Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, in Beijing.

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- "China and Russia should maintain close communications at various levels," - Xi Jinping, President of China, during a meeting with Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, in Beijing.

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- "The spread of NATO into the Asia-Pacific region is unacceptable," - Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, during a meeting with Xi Jinping, President of China, in Beijing.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- A Russian source in the Toretsk region tells Rerum Novarum that Russia have moved reinforcements into Shcherbinovka and Toretsk to help stabilize the situation. The source tells us that fighting has significantly intensified Shcherbinovka. The reinforcements came from Pyatikhatki, Zaporozhye front.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, to attend UK's Ukraine Summit tomorrow in London.

🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- "If you support a group in another country to create discomfort there, another country will support another group in your country to create discomfort for you. Nothing can be hidden in the world anymore. What you have, someone else has. So if you don't want stones thrown at your window, you don't throw stones at someone else's window," - Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, in a strong message to Iran.