🇺🇦⚡- "The most important advantage of the Russian Federation is the ability to strike Ukraine with any weapons, while we cannot attack the Russian territory with Western weapons," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇺🇦⚡- "The offensive actions in the Kharkov region may be the first wave of attacks by the Russian Federation. The situation in Kharkov is under control, but it is not stabilized," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇺🇦⚡- "They want to attack Kharkov city, but they understand it will be very difficult for them. The Russians do not yet have the strength for a large-scale attack on Kiev." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇳🇨🇫🇷⚡- "Azerbaijan, alongside China and Russia, is 'interfering' in New Caledonia. I regret that some of the Caledonian pro-independence leaders have made a deal with Azerbaijan." – French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin.

🇻🇦 - Happy Birthday to Pope Saint John Paul II!

🇳🇨🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Foreign Ministry Press Office called on the French authorities to refrain from using violence against protesters in New Caledonia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian paratroopers have entered the Chasov-Yar micro-district, 'Canal' (Bakhmut direction), both sides report fierce fighting, with heavy losses.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered Miasozharovka (Lugansk direction) overnight, advancing 1,500 meters.

A few days earlier, Russian troops were fighting just North, in Berestovoe, advancing over 2,000 meters. It seems the advances are part of a plan to launch a pincer attack on the strategically important heights of Stelmakhovka.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Palestinian Authority President, Mahmud Abbas, accused Hamas of giving Israel a pretext to invade Gaza.

Hamas responded, saying they "regret" Abbas' criticism: "We express our regret regarding the remarks made by the President of the Palestinian Authority, at the Arab summit held in Manama."

🇬🇪⚡- Georgia's President, Salome Zurabishvili, has vetoed the Law on Foreign Agents, which passed in all three Parliamentary hearings.

"This law, in its essence, in its spirit, is a Russian law that contradicts our Constitution, all European standards and is an obstacle on our European path." – President Zurabishvili.

🇬🇪⚡- Due to Parliamentary majority in favor of the law, it will now pass to the Parliament Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili, who can overturn the veto.

Papuashvili is a member of the Georgian Dream Party, which pushed for the law.

🇧🇾🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡- "I am glad to see the people of Azerbaijan victorious." – Belarusian President, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Lukashenko also promised to fund a settlement for Azerbaijani's on the captured Karabakh territory, so the "brotherly people of Azerbaijan can live in these lands forever and in peace."

🇸🇳🇫🇷⚡- "More than 60 years after our independence, we must question the reasons why the French army still benefits from several military bases in our country and the impact of this presence on our national sovereignty and strategic autonomy." – Prime Minister of Senegal, Ousmane Sonko.

🇸🇰⚡- Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has regained consciousness but remains in serious condition, Deputy Prime Minister, Robert Kalyniak, confirms.

🇮🇱⚡️- Large protests in Tel Aviv demanding Netanyahu's resignation and early elections in Israel.

🇫🇷🇳🇨⚡️- The first images of French militia on the streets of New Caledonia.

🇳🇨🇫🇷⚡- The death count in New Caledonia has risen to 6.

🇳🇨🇫🇷🇦🇿⚡- "It is heartbreaking to see French special forces open fire on innocent Kanak people in Noumea, New Caledonia.

French neocolonialism is revealing its cruel face against civilians who were living peacefully in their homes until France intervened with brutal force." – Tural Ganjali, Azerbaijani Member of Parliament, Representative of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Astrakh) region's Capital, Khankendi.