🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Europeans and Trump are united in their efforts to end the war in Ukraine," - Mark Rutte, NATO's Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We had a very constructive conversation with Trump and we wished him success," - Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We will not give up any lands in the Donbass and there is no discussion about the unity of Ukraine's territory," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We discussed the situation at the frontline. I told Trump that Putin is bluffing," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There should be security guarantees. Trump said that he supports this," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We hope that the ceasefire will be the main topic of the Alaska talks," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Druze in As Suwaida city, southern Syria, vandalized a mosque, and painted Israeli flags on its walls.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Diplomatic efforts and military support for Ukraine must be combined with pressure on Russia to reach an agreement," - Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Any issue related to Ukraine must be resolved with Ukraine's presence and international borders must not be changed by force," - Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Security guarantees must be provided for any agreement made between Russia and Ukraine," - Keir Starmer, UK's Prime Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "President Trump told me that his mission is to bring peace back to Europe," - Vice President JD Vance.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump told Zelensky and European leaders that he will seek at the Alaska summit to reach a ceasefire," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump told leaders that he cannot make final decisions regarding territories but their exchange will be necessary," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump said that Putin and Zelensky are the ones who should discuss the issue of territories," - Axios.

🇺🇸⚡- "Sylvester Stallone is a pillar of American pop culture, a Hollywood superstar like few others. One of the biggest names of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In fact, the only one that's a bigger name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame they say is a guy named Donald Trump. I'm on the Hollywood Walk of Fame too - if you can believe that one.

But Stallone is amazing. He's actually a great actor," - President Donald Trump, while announcing Sylvester Stallone, KISS, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, and Michael Crawford as Kennedy Center honorees.

🇻🇦🕊⚡️- Pope Leo XIV, in an overture, has included the SSPX in the Vatican's official 2025 Jubilee calendar. This means that SSPX clergy can conduct religious services in Rome during the Jubilee year.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have expanded the Russian breakthrough and have advanced to the outskirts of Gannovka, Pokrovsk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Russian forces have begun storming Kupyansk city from the north.

Russian progress is reported in the residential areas in the north of the city.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich will present his party Tkuma's E1 plan to the Knesset to 'combat' the idea of a Palestinian statehood.

The E1 plan involves building 3,400 homes in the existing Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, the West Bank. The homes will be built in Ma'ale Adumim, expanding the town northwards to cut Route 437.

Route 437 is one of the very few accessible roads for Palestinians to travel from Ramallah to Bethlehem. The expansion of the settlement will be approximately at 31.8064204, 35.2964779.

Note, there are existing Palestinian small villages on Route 437 that will likely be evicted.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said if the Knesset approves his E1 plan, it will 'bury' the 'idea of a Palestinian State'.