🇺🇸🇺🇿🇰🇿🇹🇯🇰🇬🇹🇲Trump held a historic meeting at the White House with the leaders of Central Asian countries, Bloomberg reports.

➡️The discussions focused on reducing U.S. dependence on China by diversifying the supply of rare-earth metals.

🇺🇸Washington aims to strengthen its strategic influence in the region.

🇺🇿Uzbekistan will invest more than $100 billion in the United States over the next decade.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan has joined the Abraham Accords, marking a significant diplomatic shift.

➡️Additionally, a U.S. company has acquired a stake in the region’s largest tungsten mining operation.

🇻🇪🇺🇸The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is reportedly willing to resign if the United States guarantees full amnesty, personal security, the removal of the bounty on his capture, and a comfortable exile, according to The Atlantic.

🇪🇺⚡️NATO countries in Europe do not have sufficient air defense capabilities, said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in an interview with Antena 3.

🇷🇺⚡️A helicopter carrying tourists has crashed in Dagestan, according to local media reports.

➡️Seven people were on board.
Four of them have been confirmed dead.

➡️The Ka-226 went down at a recreational base near the city of Izberbash.

🇷🇺⚡️New footage from the helicopter crash site in Dagestan has been released by local media.

➡️Three injured survivors are being urgently transported to the hospital in Izberbash, and their condition is reported as serious.

➡️The helicopter reportedly struck and destroyed a private house on the ground. Authorities say no one was inside the home at the time of the crash.

🇮🇷⚡️Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that Tehran will not abandon its nuclear program or its defensive missile development.

🇺🇸⚡️The ongoing government shutdown could inflict long-term damage on the United States and is already causing far more serious economic harm than previously expected, said White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.

🇺🇦✈️⚡️Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine is establishing domestic production of its own drones similar to the Chinese-made Mavic models.

🇭🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán intends to try to convince President Donald Trump to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin.

➡️Zelensky added that Ukraine would support such an initiative if the goal is to achieve peace in Ukraine.

🗯️Additional statements from Zelensky:

🔊The manufacturers of Tomahawk cruise missiles “would gladly sell them to Ukraine.”

🔊“We will find a way to ensure that Russian oil does not reach Europe.”

🔊Ukraine has prepared a plan to strengthen Kherson’s defense against Russian drone attacks.

🇭🇺🤝🇺🇸⁉️Bloomberg reports that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to offer President Donald Trump a business package worth approximately $600 million, centered on the purchase of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG).

➡️According to sources, the proposal would involve a five-year LNG supply agreement aimed at securing exemptions from U.S. sanctions targeting Russian oil — sanctions that Orbán argues are harming Hungary’s economy.

➡️The package also reportedly includes a separate $100 million deal with Westinghouse Electric Co. for the purchase of nuclear fuel, which Hungary currently imports from Russia.

🇺🇸The Pentagon will accelerate its weapons procurement process as part of reforms introduced by President Donald Trump, Reuters reports.

➡️According to the outlet, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce on Friday a comprehensive overhaul of the defense acquisition system to speed up the deployment of new military technologies in response to global security threats.

➡️Hegseth will present the reform plan during a speech at the National War College, outlining changes mandated by a decree signed by President Trump in April.

➡️The reforms aim to eliminate what officials describe as “unacceptably slow” procedures and bureaucratic overlap that hinder innovation and delay the introduction of advanced systems into U.S. military service.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡️US President Donald Trump discussed a possible meeting with Vladimir Putin during private talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House.

▶️#BREAKING:

🇻🇪⚡️Initial reports indicate strong power fluctuations across several areas of Venezuela.

▶️🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦💥A missile strike was carried out against Ukrainian targets in the Poltava region.

🇭🇺🗣🇷🇺 “Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán is a great peacemaker,” said Dmitriev, the Special Representative of the President of Russia.