🇨🇺🇨🇳⚡- Cuban authorities have arrested Chinese national Zhi Dong Zhang, alias 'Brother Wang', one of the largest fentanyl traffickers. He worked with the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartels, trafficking more than 2 tons of fentanyl and cocaine to the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The [cancelled] Budapest summit was proposed by the American side, not the Russian side," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "This will cost the EU dearly," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, responding jokingly to EU's sanctions on toilet supplies to Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "New sanctions against Russia will not significantly affect the country's economic well-being," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "New US sanctions are an attempt to put pressure on Russia. No self-respecting country ever does anything under pressure," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Dialogue is always better than confrontation, disputes, or continuing the war," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The new US sanctions a hostile act that does not strengthen Russian-American relations," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The possible supplying of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev is an attempt at escalation. Russia's response in the case of Tomahawk strikes on Russian territory will be serious, if not staggering," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Russia's energy sector feels confident, although certain losses will occur over the new sanctions," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇳⚡- "US President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The US and Israel are studying a plan to divide the Gaza Strip into two separate areas, under Israeli and Hamas control, whereby the area controlled by Israel will be rebuilt only after Hamas is disarmed and leaves power," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Under the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu orders, the West Bank annexation law has been suspended until further notice.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The US has accepted Israel's position that Turkish soldiers will not be deployed in the Gaza Strip. Instead, Azerbaijani and Indonesian soldiers will form the bulk of the force in peacekeeping Gaza," - Israel Hayom.

🇱🇹🇪🇸🇷🇺⚡- A Russian jet and tanker violated Lithuanian airspace for 18 seconds while aerial refueling. Spanish fighters were scrambled to intercept the Russian aircraft.

🇺🇸🇨🇴🇻🇪⚡- "America carries out extrajudicial executions and violates international law by targeting those it describes as drug traffickers," - Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.

🇻🇪⚡- Reports of multiple private jets evacuating from Caracas International Airport, Venezuela, in the past 30 minutes.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- B-1 Bombers temporarily enter Venezuelan airspace.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- An Avianca aircraft out of Bogota, scheduled to land in Caracas a short time ago, suddenly departed north and began ascending.

It's currently flying away from Caracas despite its schedule to land over 15 minutes ago.

🇺🇸⚡- President Trump's round table meeting with his national and homeland security teams has begun.