🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Now the world sees how Russia is deliberately putting forward conditions that only complicate and delay everything, because Russia is the only entity that wants the war not to end and diplomacy to break down," - Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.

🇵🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- Israeli negotiators have left Doha, Qatar, today to return to Israel after five days of talks.

🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: Iraqi Prime Minister, Shia al-Sudani, announces that Iraqi security forces have eliminated Abdullah Makki Muslah al-Rifai, known as Abu Khadija, the Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces say they've received an order to "not to attack the homosexuals [Ukrainian military] while they retreat from Sudzha [Kursk]."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus, begins addressing the Russian Federation Council.

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "The introduction of a single currency between Russia and Belarus is not necessary now."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "The location of the Oreshnik missile system in Belarus was discussed during negotiations with Putin."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "Oreshnik will soon enter service with the Belarusian army."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "Belarus will never allow its elder brother Russia to be stabbed in the back."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "I vehemently opposed the collapse of the Soviet Union."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "I suggested that the KGB arrest everyone who lobbied for the collapse of the Soviet Union in Belarus."

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- Lukashenko: "I also remembered how people in Russia were afraid that I would seize power."

🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- Lukashenko: "Someone from Ukraine called Vladimir Putin to negotiate."

🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- Lukashenko: "Zelensky was like a son to me, but he then began acting like a bastard."

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "President Trump has not expressed any position granting Russia any rights to Ukrainian territory," - Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Our priority is to free all hostages in Gaza, and releasing 3 hostages in exchange for 400 Palestinian prisoners is unjust," - Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- The US-Russia UN Security Council on Syria concludes.

🇸🇾🇺🇳⚡- The UN Security Council adopts a presidential statement drafted by the United States and Russia condemning the violence in Latakia and Tartus, Syria, against civilian infrastructure and sectarian tension.

🇸🇾🇺🇳⚡- "We strongly condemn attacks on civilian infrastructure, especially hospitals, in Syria," - United Nations Security Council.

🇸🇾🇺🇳⚡- "We express grave concern about the impact of the violence in Syria on escalating tensions between sects," - United Nations Security Council.

🇸🇾🇺🇳⚡- "We urge Syria to take decisive measures to address the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters," - United Nations Security Council.