🇵🇱🇷🇺 - The Polish government has announced that it will begin referring to Russia's Kaliningrad exclave by the Polish name "Królewiec".

🇫🇮🇷🇺 - Finland's Helsingin Sanomat newspaper has reported that the Russo-Finnish border has been closed to Finnish citizens, in a reciprocation of anti-Russian moves made by Helsinki last year.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- A Ukrainian ammunition depot was hit by a Russian missile last night in Khmelnitsky

🇺🇸⚡️ - The FBI sting operation known as "Patriot Front" is currently holding a rally in Washington, DC.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - We at Rerum Novarum doubt the veracity of these reports. Any attack on pre-2022 Russian territory, let alone pre-2014 Russian territory, would cross whatever red lines are yet uncrossed in the Kremlin and would legally enable Putin to declare war on Ukraine or use nuclear weapons. Both of these would, of course, be a severe escalation we believe Zelensky does not want to risk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - Another ammunition dump in Ternopol was bombed.

🇹🇷 - Presidential elections are being held in Turkey. The two most prominent candidates are Erdogan and his leftist challenger Kiliçdaroğlu.

🇹🇷⚡️- As of four hours ago, polls have opened for the 2023 Turkish presidential election.

🇹🇷⚡️- Liberal media outlets in Turkey, particularly those opposed to Erdogan, have begun alleging electoral fraud.

🇷🇸⚡️- Serbian President Alexander Vučić has announced he will be retiring from the country's ruling Progressive Party within the next few days. He also added that the next elections to the Serbian legislature will be held by or before September.

🇺🇸⚡️- 7 people shot at a gathering in Yuma, Arizona. Suspect is still at large.

🇹🇷⚡️ - Polls have closed in Turkey.

🇹🇷⚡️ - According to early results, Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party are on track to defeat his leftist opponent's Republican People's Party.

🇹🇷 - At this point in time, these are the Turkish election results by district.
Orange represents the ruling nationalist Justice and Development Party, red represents the left-wing secularist Republican People's Party, and purple represents the People's Democratic Party - a far-left party who garner support among Kurds due to their activism in favor of Kurdish autonomy.