🇨🇳⚡- After the arrival Russia's Belousov and Iran's Nasirzadeh, the Defense Ministers of Belarus, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have also arrived in Qingdao, China.

The 10-members Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO, Defense Ministry Summit will begin tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- NBC reports that Israel is running low on munitions, according to three undisclosed U.S. officials.

‼️🇮🇷🇺🇸 - Iran retains tactical ability to threaten US troops, CENTCOM admiral says

Iran retains the ability to threaten U.S. service members despite being in a weakened state following Israel’s military campaign against Tehran and American assaults on its nuclear program, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.

Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who is nominated to take command of U.S. forces in the Middle East in the summer, told senators at his confirmation hearing that the protection of troops is top of mind because Iran continues to possess “considerable tactical capability.”

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🇺🇸🇫🇮⚡️- President Trump announced during the NATO summit that the United States is negotiating the purchase of 15 icebreakers from Finland.

"You are the ‘King of Icebreakers’, you make ‘em good. So we negotiated for 15 icebreakers; one of them is available now," Trump said.

🇲🇽🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️- Mexico has been invited to participate in the 2025 BRICS summit.

🇷🇺🇧🇷⚡️- Putin will skip the July BRICS summit in Brazil due to an ICC arrest warrant over alleged war crimes. Russia fears Brazil, an ICC member, may be obligated to detain him. He'll join via video; Lavrov will attend in person. —Reuters

🇧🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡️- Xi Jinping will skip the BRICS summit in Brazil, marking his first absence since taking office. China cites a scheduling conflict, but reports suggest Beijing was unhappy with Brazil hosting a state dinner for India’s Modi, which could have made Xi appear like a “supporting actor” at the summit. Premier Li Qiang will attend instead.

🇺🇸🇦🇸⚡️- The Department of the Interior is fast-tracking offshore critical mineral projects by extending permits, cutting red tape, and speeding up reviews. This includes new seabed mapping and the first lease evaluation near American Samoa in decades, targeting rich polymetallic nodules despite environmental groups’ efforts to delay progress.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- Andrew Cuomo has officially dropped out of the Mayoral race as virtually all of his major donors have shifted support to Mayor Adams. At the same time major GOP donors and party activists are calling on Curtis Sliwa to drop out and endorse Adams in order to stop Mamdani from winning.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "The military-political situation in the world remains difficult and has the tendency to deteriorate," - Andrey Belousov, Russia's Defense Minister at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Global deterioration is a consequence of the destructive course of the collective West to maintain its global dominance," - Andrey Belousov, Russia's Defense Minister at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met with his Russian counterpart Belousov on the sidelines of the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China.

Belousov assured Singh of the timely delivery of the remaining two of the five S-400 air defense batteries.

🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- Russia's Defense Minister Belousov was also gifted by his Indian counterpart Singh at the SCO Defense Ministry Summit in Qingdao, China

🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh refused to sign the SCO joint statement in Qingdao, China, due to its omission of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Unlike NATO yesterday, the SCO will not be able to deliver a joint statement.

🇨🇳⚡- Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO, Defense Ministry Summit family photo in Qingdao, China.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's Lugansk authorities ban the use of all SpaceX equipment on its territory, including Star Link. The ban extends to the Russian military as well.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to address the nation soon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Shevchenko, which holds one of Europe's largest lithium reserves - Pokrovskoe direction.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime," - Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, on X.