BREAKING: Germany and Ukraine sign defence cooperation agreement in Berlin.

German Chancellor Merz:

We elevate our bilateral relations with Ukraine to the level of a strategic partnership.

German Chancellor Merz:

The number of Ukrainian men who have taken refuge is something we will be working on with Ukraine to limit, because it is crucial that these men are there to help their country.

German Chancellor Merz on Hungary election results:

They didn’t just vote to get rid of one government, but rather to get rid of a regime. Since 1989, they have once again voted for freedom.

The Hungarians have chosen Europe and the world.

Impressively, there is no trend that cannot be stopped when it comes to right-wing populism and autocracy.

So the pendulum has swung back the other way, which is good news for Europe, good news for Germany, and also good news for Ukraine.

German Chancellor Merz:

We are going to step up our measures against Russia’s shadow fleet.

We will also be working together on the Middle East in order to increase defense capabilities and organize this better.

German Chancellor Merz:

Russia should end this war as quickly as possible.

It has no chance of winning it.

Zelensky:

We will be producing anti-ballistic missile systems to protect us against any kind of drones, any kinds of aerial attacks.

And we are working together to achieve this result.

Zelensky on drone deal with Germany:

This is going to be the largest deal of its kind in Europe.

German Chancellor Merz on Ukraine’s EU accession:

It’s not going to be second-class membership. It’s a process where we bring them closer, and there is homework that Ukraine has to do.

We have accession criteria.

Zelensky:

We’re talking about, in particular, air defense against ballistic missiles.

There are simply not enough production capacities in Europe.

We need to ensure that Ukraine works with the EU to produce these anti-ballistic missile defense systems.

Zelensky:

We don’t want “NATO light” or “EU light.”

We want proper membership in the EU.

Hillary Clinton:

It's shocking that Trump said nobody told him that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz.

Every war game I was ever involved in, that was the first thing we assumed Iran would do.

We're in a situation now where we are weak, where we essentially have lost the leverage and initiative that we had.

Hillary Clinton:

I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran.

I had many, many long, hours-long conversations with him and his war cabinet about this, and refusing to go along with a very inchoate desire to do something to Iran with no real end state that could be described sufficiently.

Mossad Director David Barnea:

Our mission will only be complete when the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.

We did not believe the mission would be finished immediately after the fighting subsided, but we did plan—indeed carefully—that our campaign would continue and be expressed even in the period following the strikes in Tehran.

Serbia plans to jointly produce combat drones with Israel, President Aleksandar Vucic said.

“We will be doing it together… 50-50… and we will have the best drones in this part of the world,” he stated, adding that Serbia alone “cannot make drones like Israel.”

Israeli MFA:

We do not have a ‘security agreement’ with them; this refers to a memorandum of understanding from many years ago that never had any real substance.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed al-Ansari:

The attacks on our country persisted and only stopped with the ceasefire.

There have been absolutely no money discussions on this.

Any talk of financially stopping these attacks is completely false and just aims to tarnish the reputation of my country.

NEW: Two ships from Iran are crossing the Strait of Hormuz despite the US blockade.

Source: Kpler intelligence