I refuse to believe…

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan 'Independence Forces' will be left with their heads broken and blood flowing after colliding against the great undertaking of China achieving complete unification." – Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China demands that the United States refrain from organizing visits of members of Congress to Taiwan," – Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵⚡- "Japanese people would be dragged into a fiery hell," – Chinese Ambassador to Japan, Wu Jianghao, after Japan promised support for Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- Japanese Foreign Ministry has summoned the Chinese Ambassador over the "outrageous" comment.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️- People’s Liberation Army Naval vessels in a standoff with a Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel in the Taiwan Strait

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Türkiye poses an existential threat to us. We must be prepared. We need to reform the Greek Army due to geopolitical tensions in the region." – Greek Minister of Defense, Nikos Dendias.

🇬🇷🇹🇷⚡- "Greece's historical dominance of the sea has already come to an end." – Greek Minister of Defense, Nikos Dendias.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "If the Taiwan 'Independence Separatist Forces' insist on going alone, or even taking risks, we will resolutely take action. Resolutely smash the Taiwan 'Independence" Separatist Plot', and firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity." – Chen Binhua, Member of the Communist Party of China and Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Unification is a historical trend and the right path," – Chen Binhua, Member of the Communist Party of China and Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Majority of Taiwan compatriots will firmly stand on the right side of history and be upright Chinese. They will distinguish right from wrong, act in righteousness and work with mainland compatriots. They will resolutely oppose this division." – Chen Binhua, Member of the Communist Party of China and Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.

🇾🇪🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- Houthi forces hit a Russian oil tanker that was heading to China.

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡- "Russian border guards removed light buoys from the Narva river, that were used to mark the border and shipping routes," – Estonian Border Police.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine has withdrawn from its Krynky bridgehead (left-bank Kherson), after holding it for several months successfully.

Reason being, the 36th brigade responsible for the bridgehead is being transferred to the Northern Kharkov direction.

🇬🇧 - Nigel Farage endorses Reform for the July 4 elections, but declines to take official leadership of the party at this time.

🇬🇪⚡- "Look, what happened to Fico [Slovakian Prime Minister], you should be very careful," – Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, claims he was told by a "European Commissioner during a telephone conversation".

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡- "On 23 May at 3 a.m., Russian Border Guard unilaterally removed the light buoys placed by Estonia to denarcate the border with Russia on the Narva River.

This action by Russia, carried out in the shadow of the night, fits well within the broader pattern of Russia's provocative behaviour, including on its borders with neighbours, most recently vis-à-vis Lithuania and Finland.

Estonia's response remains calm and clear-eyed. We treat this as a provocative border incident. We will communicate to the Russian Federation through our border representatives and diplomatic channels that such actions are unacceptable, demand an explanation about the removal of the buoys and their immediate return.

Estonia is in close contact with Allies and partners as we continue to counter Russia's malign activities across Europe." – Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Office.

🇺🇳⚡- The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, has voted in favor of adopting an 'International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica', in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

🇸🇰🇺🇦 The failed assassin of the Prime Minister of Slovakia admitted that he shot to renew military aid to Ukraine

A failed poet and member of the neoliberal party, Juraj Chintula, said during interrogation in court that he wanted to seriously wound Slovak Prime Minister Fico, reports the local publication Pravda.

Chintula said the motive was the desire to send the prime minister to a hospital bed for a long time. Allegedly, during recovery, other Slovak politicians would be able to resume military assistance to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russian airstrikes kills 40 militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (previously known as al-Nusra), in Northwest Syria.