🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China will allegedly launch "Joint Sword 2024B" exercises early next week. Joint Sword 2024B will be a follow-up to the recent Joint Sword 2024A exercises.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Sources within the Chinese government have claimed an invasion will occur in early June around the 20th – The Global Press.

🇨🇳⚡- The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) released the above video, and announced a "month-long training", involving "multiple exercises", in all the "seas bordering China".

🇺🇸⚡️- The governor of Louisiana is set to receive a bill to sign into law allowing for judges to punish rapists with surgical castration.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The moment Maxim Likhachev, a former high ranking officer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stole a Ukrainian T-64 tank and drove it across the frontline towards the Russians, to surrender and defect.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Russian Federation is preparing an offensive in the Zolochiv direction (North Kharkov), an evacuation is planned," – Oleh Syniehubov, Ukrainian Mayor of Kharkov.

🇺🇲🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Japan intercepts a Chinese WL-10 drone, for the first time ever. Japan claims the drone was heading in the direction of Kadena Air Base, a joint US-Japan airbase on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 10 Russian Tu-95MS airborne. Expected arrivals of missiles: 04:30-05:00 Kiev time.

🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage has hinted that he could be willing to make an election pact with the Tories “if he gets something back” for all the favors he’s done them.

Farage still believes that even working together with Reform’s support, the Conservatives will not win a majority this July.

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🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China’s recent military exercises surrounding Taiwan looked like a rehearsal for an invasion," – Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "We watched it. We took note. We learned from it. And they helped us prepare for it," – Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇲🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "If shooting did break out in the region, we are confident the U.S. and our allies and partners would prevail in the conflict." – Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇲🇯🇵⚡- "The U.S.-Japan alliance is the most important alliance on the planet. Japanese units are within the formation, and are nearly indistinguishable in how we share, track & our ability to operate tactically." – Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "The Chinese President in his recent visit to Moscow was overheard saying to Russian President, "Right now there are changes, the likes of which we haven't seen for a 100 years. And we are the ones driving those changes together."" – Samuel Paparo, Commander of the US. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡- "The lessons of the last five years have shown that we’re living in an increasingly chaotic and disordered world.

We are in the midst of a strategic competition to shape the future of the international order." – Samuel Paparo, Commander of the US. Indo-Pacific Command.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Manhattan jury has begun day two of deliberation in President Trump's hush money trial.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- The U.S. has authorized the usage of American-provided air defense systems on or over Russian territory.

🇧🇾🇵🇱⚡- Poland will ban approaching the border with Belarus for 90 days – Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia is open to negotiations on Ukraine," – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's naval drones sank two Russian KS-701 Tunets Class boats, of the Black Sea Fleat, overnight.