#BREAKING Crimean Bridge is temporarily closed, air raid alarm sounds heard.

Hungary opposes EU plan for €20bn military support for Ukraine.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary would object to the fund until Ukraine removed the Hungarian OTP Bank from the list of "war sponsors."

CIA chief Burns:

Putin is the ultimate apostle of payback. Prigozhin is likely to see retribution from Putin at some point.

If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn’t fire my food taster.

Former deputy head of the Pentagon Colin Kahl says Ukraine doesn’t need ATACMS missiles.

Kahl says Ukrainian military already has weapons capable of delivering strikes at a great distance now.

CNN, citing Emmanuel Bonne, an adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron:

China is supplying Russia with non-lethal military aid like helmets, armor, and dual-use technologies.

There are indications that they are doing things we would prefer them not to do.

Russian-Chinese military exercises continue in the Sea of Japan.

Pentagon says part of the Western weapons transferred to Ukraine was stolen.

CNN reports last year some of the Western weapons sent to Ukraine were stolen, and later they managed to return them.

Arms dealers are behind the kidnappings. The weapons were planned to be resold on the black market.

Ukrainian President Zelensky dismiss Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko.

White House/John Kirby:

We've had some feedback from the Ukrainians, and they're using cluster munitions quite effectively.

Germany allocates a new package of military aid to 🇺🇦

- 10 Leopard 1A5 tanks;
- 20 MG3 machine guns for tanks and armored vehicles;
- 1035 x 155mm artillery shells and 2064 x smoke rounds;
- bridge system and 12 trailers;
- 10 radars;
- 16 Zetros trucks;
– 100,000 first-aid kits

Kremlin on Ukrainian MoD's statement that Ukraine will consider all ships crossing the Black Sea in the direction of Russian seaports as military targets:

Kyiv regime is unpredictable and does not shun anything, it is dangerous.

German Rheinmetall will build a plant in Ukraine, despite threats from the Russia.

Rheinmetall COE Armin Papperger:

Rheinmetall will not abandon its plans and will protect the plant with the help of anti-aircraft systems of its own production.

Turkish President Erdogan:

I believe that we will ensure the continuation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative with Putin after contacts.

Putin:

Western curators of Kyiv are clearly disappointed with the results of the so-called counter-offensive. There are no results.

Formations of Ukrainian Army suffered huge losses, tens of thousands of people.

Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin:

Poland is considering establishing control over Western Ukraine through the deployment of its troops there.

Putin says Poland received a lot of western lands thanks to Stalin:

They forgot about it in Warsaw, we’ll remind them.

Putin:

Ukrainian cannon fodder is no longer enough for the West, they are thinking about Lithuanians and Poles.

Unleashing aggression against Belarus by Ukraine will mean aggression against Russia , all means will be used to protect.