🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Putin's Envoy Medinsky and Ukraine's Defense Minister Umerov held a one-to-one meeting before the Russia-Ukraine talks, which lasted two and a half hours.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian strategic aviation communication lines have gone active.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian drones have been launched from Primorsk-Akhtarsk Air Base, Krasnodar region, southwest Russia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The nuclear deal proposal the US gave Iran will allow limited low-level uranium enrichment on Iranian soil for a to-be-determined period of time," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Under the proposal, Iran would not be allowed to build any new enrichment facilities and must dismantle critical infrastructure for conversion and processing of uranium.

The proposal also states that Iran would have to halt new research and development of centrifuges.

Iran won't be allowed to develop domestic enrichment capabilities beyond those necessary for civilian purposes.

After signing the agreement, Iran will have to temporarily reduce its enrichment concentration to 3%. This period will be agreed upon in negotiations," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Axios says Israeli Prime Minister will not accept the US proposal.

Israel demands the complete halt to Iran's nuclear enrichment program, and would not accept the reduction to a 3% concentration.

🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine has been invited to the NATO Summit in The Hague.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian launches a massive drone attack against Crimea, Rostov and Krasnodar regions of Russia. Ukrainian surface water drones, USVs, have also been deployed into the Black Sea.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian monitoring forces say the chances of a Russian missile attack against Ukraine tonight are 30%, making it unlikely.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian drones impact against Melitopol, Russian-controlled Zaporozhye.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Blackouts in the city of Melitopol, Russian-controlled Zaporozhye.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "For its own selfish interests, the US launches tariff wars and trade wars; forms 'small circles' and engages in bloc confrontation, causing deep concerns among countries; strengthens military deployments in the Asia-Pacific, rudely interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, and stirs up tensions," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Facts have repeatedly shown that the US, by going against the trend and acting willfully, will ultimately harm itself," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair, and the US has no right to make irresponsible remarks, let alone attempt to use it as a bargaining chip to contain China," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "The Chinese Army will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity and firmly crush any Taiwan independence separatist plots and any external interference," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The US, fearing no chaos in the South China Sea, forms cliques and stirs up trouble, posing the greatest threat to regional peace and stability," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China has always been a defender and builder of peace and development in the Asia-Pacific," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China will oppose hegemonism that harms the Asia-Pacific. China will prevent geopolitical conflicts from being introduced into the region. China will oppose any country or force that creates trouble here," - Zhang Xiaogang, China's Ministry of Defense Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇰🇷⚡- BREAKING: The Philippines Chief of Staff Romeo Brawner has invited South Korea to join the Indo-Pacific informal alliance 'Squad' - dubbed the NATO of Asia.

The security alliance currently involves the US, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: More than 100,000 residents across 150 settlements in the Russian-controlled Kherson region are without power, facing blackouts, after Ukrainian drones took out an electrical substation.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US extends suspension of tariffs on select Chinese imports until August 31.