- Andranik Simonyan appointed Director of the National Security Service.
- No nuclear fuel waste is being transported to Armenia: Ministry of Nature Protection.
- We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to US: US Embassy to Armenia.
- Earthquake 8 km north of Spitak town, with a depth of 10 km, magnitude 2.9. The intensity of the tremor in the epicenter zone was 4 points.
- We expect that Russia will conduct an investigation into the case of Azerbaijanis killed in Yekaterinburg: Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
- Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Embassy in Baku summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
- 455 families evacuated due to wildfires in Izmir, Turkey.
- Ukraine reports downing of Su-34 aircraft at Volgograd airport.
- US to demand external control over Iran’s nuclear program: Trump.
- US and China agree to develop trade relations: Trump.

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

