U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Israel after meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu:

The U.S. will not allow Iran acquire nuclear weapons.

Hungarian PM Orban:

The past has never changed. Hungary has always been against Russia.

CIA Director Burns believes that "the next few months - four, five, six" will be critical for the conflict over Ukraine.

Israeli PM Netenyahu:

A “horrible nuclear war” will break out if the world does not stop Tehran from obtaining atomic weapons.

It will change the world.

FT:

Ukraine understood to have received one of two Patriot air defense systems promised by the U.S. and Germany, but it has not yet been put into operation.

Chinese deputies unanimously re-elected Xi Jinping as President of the People's Republic of China for a third term.

Xi has become the first ruler of China to be re-elected for a third five-year term.

Rare footage of Ukrainian forces using 300mm Vilkha MLRS.

CENTCOM has expressed its intention to open a military academy in northern Syria to train PKK/SDF terrorists on modern and heavy weapons, including 155mm M777 howitzer.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel.

Destroyed Ukrainian military equipment on one of the roads leading from Bakhmut.

Ukrainian Strela-10 mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile system on duty.

First Estonian volunteer killed in Ukraine.

Former officer of the Estonian Defense Forces Ivo Jurak fought in the International Legion near Bakhmut.

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Israel, Mukhtar Mammadov:

Azerbaijan will not provide Israel with its airfields as a refueling base during a possible aerial attack on Iran.

Azerbaijan, from the start, has declared that it will not interfere in the internal matters of other countries.

Russia Today (RT) editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan:

If August 2008 is repeated, no one will worry about Georgia and no one will send troops there.

Simply, direct strikes will be made on Tbilisi without any choice.

Because now is not the time for sentimentality.

Mikhail Podolyak, adviser of the Ukrainian President Zelensky:

Ukrainian forces will launch a counteroffensive after two months.

We will wear down the Russians in Bakhmut and then concentrate elsewhere.

We will reorganize over the next two months.

Kremlin:

Relations between Russia and Ukraine are inevitable in the future because we are neighbors.

Ukrainian 406th Separate Artillery Brigade artillery fire destroyed Russian Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system.