🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Confirmation: Video footage shows Russian air defenses clearly firing against one of its own aircraft, an Il-62 passenger flight, not a Tu-160.

However, the Il-62 passenger plane was fortunately not shot down. How the Il-62 is being mistaken for a Ukrainian drone by Russian air defense operators is mind blowing.

The incident occured over Migalovo Air Base in Tver, while Ukraine heavily struck the base.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇹🇷⚡️- Twitch's largest political streamer, Hasan Piker, has been temporarily suspended following demands from Jewish advocacy groups, including ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt, to ban him and other leftist streamers after the recent DC shooting by a pro-Palestine activist.

Piker was banned for violating Twitch's guidelines on "Improper Handling of Terrorist Propaganda" after reading the DC shooter's manifesto live on stream.

This is the first time Piker has been penalized for this rule despite in the past showing unedited Houthi terrorist propaganda videos on stream and relaying Russian disinformation in the weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The final stage of the 1000 for 1000 pows exchange took place between Russia and Ukraine.

With 697-697 already exchanged, both sides swapped the remaining 303 for 303 today.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "US President Donald Trump had no role in the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan. Although Washington made some calls, the entire de-escalation process was driven solely by India and Pakistan," - Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Foreign Minister of India.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: A large Israeli military convoy of at least 20+ vehicles, including 4 Merkava tanks, has entered the al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇬⚡- US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirms he will attend the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025, SLD 2025, which kick-off next weekend.

🇨🇳🇸🇬⚡- China's Defense Minister Dong Jun is set to not appear at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue, citing 'regional tensions'.

China attended SLD 2024, after missing the event since 2022. The Chinese delegation last year publicly took issues with statements from most nations, leading to heated exchanges.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- According to the Turkish media, Turkey is preparing to establish a naval base on Syria's coast.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine has just launched a large number of drones into Russia - drone alerts across several regions of Russia.

🇪🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "All members of the international community must recognize the Palestinian state," - Jose Manuel Albares, Foreign Minister of Spain.

🇪🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We no longer allow arms sales to Israel, nor will ships carrying them dock in our ports," - Jose Manuel Albares, Foreign Minister of Spain.

🇪🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The last thing people in the Middle East need are weapons," - Jose Manuel Albares, Foreign Minister of Spain.

🇮🇱⚡- Israel's Foreign Ministry summons its own Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, for critizing the law enforcement in Israel.

The criticism was aimed at the law enforcement's charges against Israeli Prime Netanyahu, which he called "trumped up".

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan. Aliyev agreed to provide humanitarian and energy aid to Kiev.

🇪🇸🇮🇱⚡- Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces a meeting of 20+ delegations representing nations from around the world, in an effort to impose international sanctions on Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "The time and place for the next round of nuclear negotiations have not been set yet, and there will be no compromise on continuing uranium enrichment domestically," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies reports of the 6th round of US-Iran talks set for Wednesday in Muscat.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia introduces the 'Carpet' plan at three airports in the Moscow region, suspending operations temporarily.

Ukraine's large-scale drone attack on Russia is still ongoing.

🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu has once again become the most popular candidate in the legislative elections for the first time since October 7th 2023, and by a significant margin.

Israeli opinion polls (as per Channel 14):
- Netanyahu (Likud): 32%
- Golan (Democrats): 14%
- Bennett (Bennett 2026): 13%
- Deri (Shas): 10%
- Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu): 10%
- Goldknopf (Yahadut HaTora): 8%.

In a head-to-head between Naftali Bennett and Benjamin Netanyahu:
- Netanyahu: 53%
- Bennett: 35%.

🇹🇷🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's Prime Minister Sharif meets Turkey's President Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey.

🇲🇹🇵🇸⚡- BREAKING: Robert Abela, Malta's Prime Minister, says his country will officially recognize the State of Palestine on June 20th, next month.

🇮🇳⚡- An Indian carrier carrying hazardous chemicals sank off the coast of southern India. Indian rescue efforts to save the bulk carrier all failed, however the crew has been rescued.

Ship: MSC ELSA3, Liberian-flagged.