🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin plays chess, and Trump plays monopoly.

50 days of Trump's ultimatum is child's play for a person who thinks in terms of decades, if not centuries, the Kremlin does not take such rhetoric seriously. Moscow is calmly watching another round of American politics," - Sky News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran says it intercepted US destroyer USS Fitzgerald in the Gulf of Oman as it approached Iranian waters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the first few houses of Plavni, north of Kamenakoe - Zaporozhye direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced towards the southern entrance of Mirnograd, Pokrovsk direction.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Knesset votes in favor of "applying Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank."

71 voted in favor.
13 voted against.

🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that an IAEA 'technical team' will visit Iran in the coming weeks to discuss cooperation between the organization and Tehran.

🇮🇷⚡- Explosion at the Abad Industrial Town, along Route 7, Qom region, Iran.

The highway and the industrial sector were also struck by Israel previously, during the 12-Day War.

🇺🇸🇪🇹 - Ethiopian official denies the country received American funding for the GERD project on the Blue Nile.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Biden Era congressional investigation shows that the Russian SVR had intel suggesting Hillary Clinton was in a "mental and physical health crisis" in 2016 but did not leak this info to the public during the election. The Russian intel agency gathered this from hacked DNC documents and other sources in the Democratic Party showing that President Obama and Democrat leadership found Clintons health to be "extremely alarming".

Putin saw these reports and made the decision to not leak the info.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- The third round of Russia-Ukraine talks have ended in Istanbul, Turkey, lasting less than 60 minutes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- During the third round of Russia-Ukraine talks, both sides agreed to exchange 1,200 for 1,200 prisoners of war.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- The Ukrainian delegation proposed holding a Putin-Zelensky meeting by the end of August.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: "The Department of Justice had told President Trump his name is in Epstein files all the way back in May.

When the DoJ officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials.

In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the President at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told.

They told the President at the meeting that the files contained what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump, who had socialized with Epstein in the past, some of the officials said. One of the officials familiar with the documents said they contain hundreds of other names," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi is scheduled to arrive in Paris, France.

He will be joined by Turkish officials, US Envoy Tom Barrack, and Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani for a high-level meeting to discuss the integration of the SDF into the Syrian government.