Trump:

Smart people don’t like me.

The Israeli Army estimates that occupying Gaza City will take about six months, and completely "cleansing" the city will take even longer.

Source: Israeli Channel 12

NEW: Sinan Selen, currently deputy head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), is set to become the new president of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

The official announcement is expected soon, with formal approval likely within days.

Selen will be the first BfV president born outside Germany. He was born in Istanbul in 1972 and moved to Germany at age four, growing up in Cologne.

Source: WELT

DR Congo: ISCAP claimed two IED attacks on a Ugandan patrol between Bandulu and Mabunda, killing two soldiers and injuring others.

Trump:

The hatred between Zelensky and Putin is unfathomable. I think I will have to do all the talking.

Reporter: Maduro called the strike on the boat illegal.

Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs.

FBI Director Kash Patel is under mounting scrutiny after a series of public missteps, including botched communications during the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation and clashes with AG Pam Bondi.

White House denies plans to oust him, but insiders say allies of Trump and critics alike are floating potential replacements—especially incoming co-deputy Andrew Bailey, who becomes eligible to take over after 90 days.

Source: Fox News

Reporter: Do you think you will start with strikes on mainland Venezuela?

Trump: Well, we will see what happens.

Reporter: What is your message to Netanyahu about strikes on Qatar?

Trump: They have to be very careful. They have to do something about Hamas. But Qatar has been a great ally to the US.

JD Vance announces he will host The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday.

Finnish President Stubb:

In 1944, Finland kept its independence but lost 10% of territory and sovereignty to choose alliances. I’d never want that for Ukraine.

Finnish President Stubb:

Putin failed all his goals. He planned to take Ukraine in 4 days — it’s 4 years.

He sought to divide the West — it’s more united than ever. He wanted less NATO spending — Trump raised it to 5%.

Trump:

Europe is buying oil from Russia. I don’t want them buying oil — and the sanctions they impose are not tough enough.

I am willing to impose sanctions, but they must toughen theirs in line with what I’m doing.

Russia's Medvedev:

The idea pushed by Kyiv and others to create a “no-fly zone over ‘Ukraine’” and let NATO shoot down our drones would mean only one thing – war between NATO and Russia.

Trump's Ukraine envoy Kellogg:

Trump asked me if Russia was winning. I said no.

I told him to ask General Caine, and he said no as well.

Russia's UAC has delivered a new batch of Su-34 front-line bombers to the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Trump's Ukraine envoy Kellogg:

If Putin was winning, he’d be in Kyiv, west of the Dnipro, on Odesa, and he’d have changed the government. Russia is in fact losing this war.

Trump's Ukraine envoy Kellogg:

This is not the Russia, the Soviet Union, that I knew in the middle of the Cold War.

This is a different Russia. They talk a big game but I would be very worried if I was Putin.

Putin sometimes rattles about his nuclear weapons, the US, UK and France are nuclear powers too.

Trump's Ukraine envoy Kellogg:

We had a discussion in the Oval; they were talking about the "primacy" of the Russian military. I said, "we would kick their ass."

They are not as good as Putin says they are; for that, I give credit to the Ukrainian military.

I don't think anybody should be afraid of the Russian military. I don't believe they have the capacity to march to Berlin or anywhere else.

Marco Rubio holds a private meeting with Netanyahu.

Türkiye’s ammunition giant MKE signed a contract with Poland to deliver 100,000 rounds of 20×102 mm ammunition for the Polish Air Force’s FA-50GF fighter jets.

Deliveries will be completed in 2026.