🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia has signed a 'strategic cooperation agreement' with North Korea ahead of Vladimir Putin's visit to the country.

🇷🇺🇱🇾⚡- Russian warships have arrived at Tobruk port, Libya.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- According to the Ukrainian 3rd Separate Brigade (ex-Azov), Russia is preparing a major counteroffensive in the Kharkov-Kupyansk direction.

"The immediate task of the occupiers is to reach the settlement of Cherneshchyna - Pershotravneve, with the subsequent capture of the settlement of Borova."

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- 12 Chinese aircrafts currently in Taiwanese airspace. Taiwanese fishermen reported a Chinese submarine, Type 094, in the Taiwan Strait.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured a large, vital Ukrainian fortification, north of Sokol. Ukrainian sources confirm withdrawing to the western outskirts of Sokol.

The fortification played a pivotal role in Ukraine's defense and slowing the Russian advances in the Ocheretyne direction.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media report that Hezbollah "possess intelligence capabilities that constitute an Israeli security failure," after Hezbollah broadcasted important Israeli objectives to the Lebanese public

🇿🇼⚡️- Zimbabwe announces its intentions to join the BRICS alliance.

🇲🇦⚡- "The Polisario will turn the entire Western Sahara into a war zone, where the Royal Moroccan troops will be attacked everywhere," – Sidi Muhammad Ammar, representative of the Polisario Front.

Polisario Front (PF) is the separatist movement claiming Western Sahara. The announcement by Ammar comes a few days after a Moroccan raid killed 5 PF members.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🏴⚡- Islamic State in Syria targeted by Russian airstrikes for the third day in a row.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian DRGs are crossing the Dnepr river, testing Kherson defenses – Ukrainian sources.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "At some stage, we should consider some kind of economic cost if China doesn't change their behaviour," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "We [NATO] must work closely with our Indo-Pacific partners," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "Russia is increasingly on the same side with authoritarian leaders North Korea, China and other authoritarian friends. This makes it even more important for this transatlantic alliance." – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "NATO is a nuclear alliance," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has just arrived in North Korea.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: US envoy Hochstein, as part of his diplomatic mission, has relayed an Israeli ultimatum to the Lebanese government, stating that if Hezbollah doesn't retreat behind the Litani River before June 24th, Israel will move forward with its invasion plans.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China's dangerous and reckless behavior in the West Philippine Sea [Second Thomas shoal] will be resisted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines," – Gilberto Teodoro, Philippines Defense Secretary.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports suggest that Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, has already issued a response to the Israeli ultimatum. Hochstein and Israeli PM Netanyahu have received the response.

Nasrallah, in all likelihood, refused the ultimatum.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israel should apologize for killing children in Gaza," – Yair Lapid, Leader of Opposition of the Israeli Knesset.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡️- President Putin arrives in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un.

North Korea has been a major supplier of artillery shells to the Russian war effort in Ukraine, improving relations dramatically between the two countries.