🇮🇳 Two Indian Air Force planes crashed in Madhya Pradesh, NDTV reported.

According to him, Su-30 and Mirage 2000 fighters crashed during training flights. Both fighters took off from the air force base in Gwalior. The fate of the crews is not reported.

🏳️‍🌈🇷🇺 The G7 is proposing the EU to set a price ceiling for diesel fuel from the Russian Federation at $100-110, a Bloomberg source said.

The European Commission, according to the agency, previously proposed a $100 limit, but the G7 is in favor of a higher limit due to the risks of price spikes and supply problems.

“Historians will note that it was between 2020 and 2022 that the world changed completely. While the West hunkered down in our ‘bubbles’, China was busy building a rival economic bloc. Remarkable.”

- Philip Pilkington

🇨🇳🌐 Foreign Policy: China’s supply chain dominance has transformed powerful batteries—and the key metals they comprise of—into a thorny geopolitical flash point

⚡️🇨🇳🇺🇸 Commentary: I think it’s increasingly clear the U.S. did see what happened over the past five years in terms of its declining influence but was unable to prevent it by economic and diplomatic means. There’s been a sudden flurry of increasingly ominous reporting the past year which suggests that Washington is moving to resolve the issue via military force.

Seasoned political observers, and those just simply old enough to have been alive at the time and remember, can tell how much the current environment in D.C. increasingly resembles the lead up to the Iraq War.

⚡️🇨🇳🇺🇸 In a memo sent Friday and obtained by NBC News, Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, advised the officers he commands that he predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready to prep by firing "a clip" at a target, and "aim for the head."

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Daniel L Davis, 19FortyFive: “It will be far more challenging than many believe for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to translate these modern NATO tanks into an effective offensive force that is strong enough to drive Putin’s army out of Ukraine. Taking the emotion out of the equation, a cold, thorough military analysis of the factors at play leads to the conclusion that the odds are stacked against Ukraine to be able to field an effective force, possibly any time before this fall. There are very practical reasons for this conclusion.”

"If the Abrams come only by August, it will be too late." - Zelensky

🇷🇺🇺🇦 During the assault on Ukrainian positions in the area of Vuhledar, soldiers of the 40th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet captured a group of Ukrainian soldiers.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of the assault on Ukrainian positions near Vuhledar. Two BMP-3 Marines fire at the enemy with 30-mm and 100-mm guns, approach the enemy as close as possible and land troops.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces liquidated the commander of the Poltava battalion, Colonel Oleg Gromadsky.

🇸🇪⚡️Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said that against the backdrop of actions with the burning of the Qur'an, the process of the kingdom's entry into NATO has been suspended

🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦 British Ministry of Defense fears that Challenger tanks will fall into the hands of the Russian military on the battlefield - The Sun newspaper