🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Trump's team hold secret talks with Zelensky’s Ukrainian opposition.

The talks were held with Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian political veteran, and Petro Poroshenko, former Ukrainian President.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine is a sovereign state and Zelensky is the President of Ukraine. Legitimate until another is elected. Only Ukrainians can decide when and under what conditions they should change their government," - Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Elections during wartime are impossible and immoral because our military will not be able to participate in them. And without them, elections will never be legitimate," - Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇹🇷⚡- Turkey criticizes Trump's actions against Zelensky at the Oval Office, and continues its pivot towards Europe.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇹🇷⚡- "US president’s actions are a wake-up call for us to unite and design our own centre of gravity.

Turkey would want to be part of any new European security architecture if Nato unravels," - Hakan Fidan Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We cannot allow the Syrian Democratic Forces to continue," - Hakan Fidan Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We will give Syria's President al-Sharaa time to deal with the SDF diplomatically," - Hakan Fidan Turkish Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister, says he hopes the US withdraws its support for the SDF and pulls out of northern Syria. Fidan proposes a new Turkish-led coalitions to "fight terrorism" instead of the current US-led.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China’s increasing aggression in the [disputed] waters is now considered the greatest threat to the national security of the Philippines," - Gilberto Teodoro, Defense Secretary of the Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The greatest external threat actually is Chinese aggression, Chinese expansionism and the attempt by China to change the international law through the use of force or acquiescence…or its attempt to reshape the world order to one that it controls," - Gilberto Teodoro, Defense Secretary of the Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "That [China's annexation of the Scarborough Shoal] is a very serious transgression of international law, which will demand our response," - Gilberto Teodoro, Defense Secretary of the Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The Philippines would take measures to counter any attempt by China to impose an air defense zone or restrict freedom of flights over the [disputed] South China Sea," - Gilberto Teodoro, Defense Secretary of the Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Chinese right-wing media on Douyin have begun claiming that Palawan Island (of the Philippines) is apart of China. The island is 1,500 km away from mainland China. Manila responded to the claims as 'delusional' and as part of China's 'propaganda push'.

🇨🇳⚡- China has begun building a massive military base on the Zhongshan coastline, Guangdong province, China. The base is located on the South China Sea.

🇦🇫🇵🇰⚡- Clashes have erupted again between Pakistani and Afghan border forces at the Torkham border crossing.

🇸🇩🇰🇪⚡- Kenyan authorities arrest Yasir Arman, Head of SPLM (a group currently fighting al-Burhan's government in Sudan), after his arrival at Nairobi's International Airport.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It is not just the axis of evil trying to revise the world order. The US is also destroying the world order," - Valeriy Zaluzhny, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, and former Commander-In-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The United States is getting closer to Russia, refuses to acknowledge Moscow's aggression, and does not care about its international reputation," - Valeriy Zaluzhny, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK, and former Commander-In-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will not agree to the deployment of European forces in Ukraine," - The Kremlin.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There is no room for sending European peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and we will consider it a NATO presence," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Deploying a European military force in Ukraine means direct war by European countries on Russia," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.