- Armenia will continue reforms in accordance with its needs, including the purchase of weapons and military equipment: Suren Papikyan.
- Putin and Xi Jinping are strong leaders who cannot to be toyed with: Trump.
- We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times: Trump.
- US President instructs the military to prepare for operations in Nigeria.
- About 40 people are arrested in Belgrade due to riots near the Serbian Parliament building.
- Samia Suluhu Hassan assumed the post of president of the country for the second time amid protests in Tanzania.
- Tense situation in Mali: Jihadist militants linked to Al Qaeda are approaching the capital Bamako.
- Strong earthquake in Afghanistan: casualties and injuries reported, the world-famous Blue Mosque damaged.

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

