- The internationally recognized S&P Global agency revises the outlook for Armenia’s rating, making it ‘positive’.
- Presence of the armed forces of EU countries in the Persian Gulf will be viewed differently from now on: Baghaei.
- Putin has already started World War III: Zelensky.
- Belgorod is subjected to a massive air strike. Power, water and heating outages reported in the city.
- Drone attack on Tatarstan oil terminal.
- There are disagreements over the 20th package of EU sanctions against Russia.
- EU intends to postpone the ratification of the US-EU trade agreement due to Trump’s decision to impose global tariffs.
- Head of the largest Mexican drug cartel is killed: BBC:
- Leader of North Korea is re-elected: his family has ruled North Korea since the late 1940s.

Kremlin demanded withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbass for third time in past week
Russian officials have publicly repeated the same condition three times in the past seven days, demanding that Ukraine withdraw its forces from the entire Donbas

