European Central Bank executive member Schnabel: The European Central Bank can continue to take necessary measures.

EU Telecoms Regulators Group: Mandatory financial charges could lead big tech companies to pass on higher costs to customers, could affect EU net neutrality principles.

EU group of telecom regulators: has reservations about imposing mandatory financial charges on telcos from big tech firms, which could be detrimental to smaller telcos.

EUTRO: Care should be taken as to whether regulatory intervention is really necessary.

EUTRO: We are not aware of structural interconnection problems related to the growing traffic of big tech companies.

EU Telecoms Regulators Group: Mandate Big Tech to Pay Telecom Service Providers to Help EU Countries Meet Connectivity Targets Questionable.

EUTRO: We see a limited link between data growth and the level of investment to meet rising network costs.

The leaders of the Group of Seven urged Iran to stop its nuclear upgrade and called on Iran to immediately fulfill its non-proliferation obligations.

The G7 leaders called on Russia to return to full implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

US White House: Leaders of the Group of Seven countries issued a joint statement promising to achieve a "nuclear-free world".

The French CAC 40 index rose by 1.00% on the day.

German Chancellor Scholz: The main focus of the sanctions is to prevent Russia from bypassing the already imposed sanctions.

According to the TASS news agency: The Russian Ministry of the Interior issued an arrest warrant for the judge of the International Criminal Court who ordered the arrest of Putin.

From January to April this year, natural gas production in Uzbekistan fell by 9.5% year-on-year.

Indian official: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Japan.

Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federal Security Council: From January 1 to the present, more than 117,000 recruits have joined the Russian Armed Forces and Volunteer Forces.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: We will lead global trade negotiations, including digital trade.

[Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson: "Patriot" air defense system is currently everything is normal] According to Ukrainian media reports on the 19th, in response to previous media reports that the "Patriot" air defense system deployed in Ukraine has been damaged, the Ukrainian Armed Forces Air Force made a statement Ignat said on the same day that the "Patriot" air defense system is currently working normally and is already working. In addition, he said that Ukraine hopes to obtain more air defense systems. On the 16th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian army used the "Dagger" hypersonic missile to destroy a "Patriot" air defense system deployed in Kiev, Ukraine.