- Armenia’s Prime Minister to travel to Russia; a Pashinyan-Putin meeting is expected.
- Rubio and Kobakhidze discuss security in South Caucasus.
- All vessels must pass through Strait of Hormuz only with Iran’s permission, Araqchi said.
- Iran, Israel and USA continue strikes; military actions also taking place in Lebanon.
- Italy refuses US aircraft use of Sicily base for Middle East operations, source says.
- If peace is not reached as soon as possible, Kyiv will pay a higher price later, the Kremlin.
- Zelenskiy must take responsibility and make the appropriate decision so that we achieve peace, Peskov.
- Starmer and al-Sharaa discuss strengthening cooperation between Syria and UK.
- US formally reopens Caracas embassy as ties with Venezuela warm.

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

