🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- 4 Chinese military vessels enter the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea, just off the coast of the Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Philippine Coast Guard vessel, BRP Cabra, monitors Chinese Coast Guard ship, CSG3501, at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Tsadkan Gebretensae, Vice President of the Ethiopian-backed President of the Interim Tigray Administration, says war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is now "inevitable, as both countries have reached the final stages of military preparations."

🇵🇰⚡- Baloch Liberation Army says all Pakistani military efforts to rescue to hostages have failed.

🇵🇰⚡- Baloch Liberation Army kills another 50 hostages, in response to 'Pakistani army's aggression'.

🇵🇰⚡- Total number of Pakistani military deaths rises to above 110.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Trump's call for negotiations is a deception of public opinion," - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- "The bullies of the world demands that everyone must obey them and prioritize their interests. Iran is the only country in the world to have rejected the bullies," - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani state-media claims they've carried out a successful operation rescuing all hostages, and killing 50 BLA members. Reports are unconfirmed, and unlikely.

🇵🇰⚡- Reports of Pakistani military successfully carrying out an operation to free all hostages are unlikely to be true, as there are protests ongoing right now in Quetta, Balochistan, demanding the authorities to act.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- We spent several years negotiating, reached a finalized agreement, and even signed it, yet this very person [Donald Trump] tore it up and discarded it. Why should we negotiate again when we know they won’t honor their commitments?" - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "When we know that they do not comply with talks, there is no need for such talks," - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani military takes control of all railway stations in the Quetta, Bolan and Sibi regions, Balochistan province.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian President Putin meets Chief of Staff Gerasimov at one of Kursk's Command Posts.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "86% of the territory of the Kursk region, which was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been liberated," - Valeriy Gerasimov, Russia's Chief of Staff.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Russian North Group has liberated 24 settlements [in Kursk] in the last five days alone," - Valeriy Gerasimov, Russia's Chief of Staff.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Ukrainian group in the Kursk region is isolated, its systematic destruction is underway," - Valeriy Gerasimov, Russia's Chief of Staff.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Our task is to defeat the enemy entrenched in the Kursk region in the near future, in the shortest possible time," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will treat Ukrainian soldiers captured in Kursk region as terrorists. However, foreign mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.