🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia is associated with a bear, there are no paper bears," - The Kremlin, responding to President Trump's comment calling the Russian army a paper tiger.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The 'Special Military Operation' is one thing, but what is happening around Russia is a war, and it must be won," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "A meeting between Putin and Zelensky without preparation is a PR stunt doomed to fail," - The Kremlin.

🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "European security cannot be dealt with at the expense of Russia's security," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸⚡- British tankers have gone airborne, likely to refuel two B-2 Bombers that departed from the US a few hours ago. The bombers are about to enter European airspace.

Aircraft callsigns and exact locations will not be shared for obvious reasons.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡- The French Air Force is carrying out a nuclear exercise called 'Poker'.

The deployment of the B-2 Bombers are likely in connection to the exercise.

🇺🇸 - Correction: The deployment of the two B-2 Bombers and the E-6 Mercury are to do with the SKYMASTER exercises that Washington conducts regularly.

🇮🇳⚡- BREAKING: Violent protests have erupted in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir region, northwest India.

The Kashmiri separatists are demanding the Sixth Schedule of the Indian constitution, which grants administrative autonomy for the region. Some of the protestors are fighting for an independent state.

🇮🇳⚡- The ruling BJP office in Ladakh has been stormed by Kashmiri separatists.

🇮🇳⚡- Reports of Kashmiri protestors clashing with Indian security forces in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir region.

Security forces have allegedly used tear gas and rubber bullets.

🇮🇳⚡- Scenes from Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir region - the ruling BJP office set on fire.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡- "Hungary has no intention of giving up Russian oil imports, even if Trump demands it," - Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇭⚡- Chinese shipping company Cosco has acquired minority stakes in two terminals at Thailand's largest commercial port Laem Chabang.

Cosco has taken a 12.5% stake in terminal TLT and 30% in HLT. Both terminals are the only two used by the US to park its military vessels while visiting / travelling through Thai waters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine is currently carrying out two large-scale UAV and USV attacks on Russia’s Novorossiysk Naval Base. Multiple impacts have been recorded, with the Caspian Pipeline Consortium office evacuated after it was directly struck.

There is no confirmation yet on whether Ukrainian projectiles successfully struck Russian naval vessels.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Footage shows the second wave of Ukrainian USVs approaching Russia’s Novorossiysk Naval Base.

The USVs also carry FPVs which are then launched from close proximity.