🇺🇸⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to appear on CNN for an interview in 2 hours.

🇺🇸🇬🇷⚡- Greece's Foreign Minister Gerapetritis meets with US Secretary of State Rubio.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian counterattack in the Toretsk direction. Ukrainian forces have reportedly retaken the Toretsk coal mine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky leaves the US, and is heading back to Ukraine. Zelensky spent just 24 hours in the US.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- UK Prime Minister Starmer calls US President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky to ease tensions.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "The Oval Office disaster was an ambush and Europe will collectively try to pick itself up," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "It seems that Trump has made his decision to sell Ukraine," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Washington is likely to increase pressure on Kiev while avoiding dealing with Zelensky," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Trump is considering several retaliatory steps, including halting military aid to Ukraine," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- "US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened Mexico’s top military officials with US military action inside Mexico if Mexico fails to meet Trump’s border demands," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- "Mexico’s top brass who were on that call were shocked and angered, feeling he was suggesting U.S. military action inside Mexico," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "It’s Xi Jinping’s world, and Trump is just living in it. Trump’s 'America First' approach is pulling the U.S. back from global leadership, while Xi Jinping is expanding China’s influence worldwide," - Bloomberg.

🇰🇷⚡- Massive protests in Seoul, South Korea, in support of President Yoon against his impeachment.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The only winner in the Zelensky-Trump clash was Russia's Vladimir Putin," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦 - British outlets this morning.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We make no promise to renounce the use of force, which is targeted at the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces and external interference," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We warn the U.S. side: playing sneaky tricks on Taiwan would only backfire," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan, we will come and get you, sooner or later," - Wu Qian, China's Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan announces it will greatly expand its annual live-fire drills, the Han Kuang exercises, this year.

🇨🇳⚡- China test launches a hypersonic missile over the Inner Mongolia region, northern China.

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡- "China and Russia need to continue to strengthen coordination in international and regional affairs," - Xi Jinping, President of China, during a meeting with Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, in Beijing.