🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China has mads it clear the drills are a "punishment" for Taiwan electing Lai Ching-te, a pro-separatist.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- In response to the drills, which are played directly around the Taiwanese island, Taiwan has moved supersonic anti-ship missiles into positions.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- A map of the location of the Chinese "punishment" drills, dubbed the biggest ever.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We condemn the Chinese maneuvers around Taiwan and have deployed our forces," – Taiwanese Ministry of Defense.

🇫🇷🇳🇨⚡- "French security reinforcements will remain in New Caledonia for as long as necessary," – French President, Emmanuel Macron, while on a visit to New Caledonia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ballistic missile strikes in Dnipropetrovsk

🇷🇺⚡️- The Kremlin has denied allegations of "purging" top military brass with the recent firings and appointments in the Ministry of Defense

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Large salvo towards Kiryat Shmona

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian forces are well past the center of Paraskovievka (Mariinka direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Andriivka (Bakhmut direction), only a day after taking Klishchiivka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces confirm they have lost the road connecting Konstantinovka with Paraskovievka (Mariinka direction).

This was confirmed by the Ukrainian 79th brigade, "The road connecting Novomikhailovka (Paraskovievka) and Konstantinovka, unfortunately, is no longer under our control."

Konstantinovka is the only supply route for Ugledar, via the 00532-road.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China will invade Taiwan in early June – The Global Press.

I refuse to believe…

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan 'Independence Forces' will be left with their heads broken and blood flowing after colliding against the great undertaking of China achieving complete unification." – Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China demands that the United States refrain from organizing visits of members of Congress to Taiwan," – Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵⚡- "Japanese people would be dragged into a fiery hell," – Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Wu Jianghao, after Japan promised support for Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- Japanese Foreign Ministry has summoned the Chinese Ambassador over the "outrageous" comment.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️- People’s Liberation Army Naval vessels in a standoff with a Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel in the Taiwan Strait

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Türkiye poses an existential threat to us. We must be prepared. We need to reform the Greek Army due to geopolitical tensions in the region." – Greek Minister of Defense, Nikos Dendias.

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Greece's historical dominance of the sea has already come to an end." – Greek Minister of Defense, Nikos Dendias.