🇺🇸🇮🇳🇲🇾⚡- "I just met with Rajnath Singh [India's Defense Minister] to sign a 10-year U.S.-India Defense Framework.

This advances our defense partnership, a cornerstone for regional stability and deterrence.

We're enhancing our coordination, info sharing, and tech cooperation. Our defense ties have never been stronger," - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇲🇾⚡- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth met with Filipino Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro at the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The two agreed to build a deterrence in the South China Sea against Chinese gray zone tactics.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇲🇾⚡- The chiefs of the two most powerful militaries met on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun agreed to maintain a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific arena.

"Today, I met with China’s Minister of National Defense Admiral Dong Jun on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus. It was a good and constructive meeting.

I highlighted the importance of maintaining a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific and emphasized U.S. concerns about China’s activities in the South China Sea, around Taiwan, and towards U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific.

United States does not seek conflict, it will continue to stoutly defend its interests and ensure it has the capabilities in the region to do so," - Pete Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The US administration has given the green light to Israel to act against Hamas elements present inside the Yellow Line area – territory under the control of the Israeli army," - i24.

‼️🚨🇷🇺 Russian infantry has secured the center of Pokrvosk - they are comfortable enough to ‘sit around’ during the day (previously extremely dangerous, movements were only allowed after dusk).

The Ukraine’s major stronghold in the Donetsk Oblast is beginning to collapse.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: The USA has decided to strike military sites inside Venezuela.

The Miami Herald reports that airstrikes could begin within days or hours.

⚡️🇹🇷 Turkish Naval Forces Commander Admiral Ercüment Tatlıoğlu stated that Turkey is developing its own mine-sweeping ships, and after the Russia-Ukraine war ends, Turkey will take up the duty to "clear the Black Sea of all mines".

@wfwitness

🇻🇪🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- Venezuelan President Maduro has sent urgent messages to Moscow and Beijing begging for help.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: "Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawks missiles, leaving the final decision to Trump," - CNN.

🇹🇹⚡- BREAKING: "Trinidad and Tobago active duty soldiers have been ordered to report to duty and assemble at different military installations as part of a large-scale briefing on ongoing security assessments.

An order was issued just after 11 a.m. today to all senior officers as part of a heightened state of preparedness and ongoing regional security preparedness," - The Guardian.

🇺🇸⚡- B-52 Bombers have gone airborne.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Maduro is ending, and a free and prosperous Venezuela is dawning. Within days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense, and in history’s judgment," - A White House official tells The New York Times.

Marco Rubio, stated that the media reports, especially Miami Herald, are false.