302: Hezbollah to Stop Attacks with Israel-Hamas Ceasefire + NATO: Ukraine Irreversible Path to Membership + Romania to Procure K9 155mm SP Howitzers + US & Germany Agree to Long-Range Fires Basing + More

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1. Hezbollah to cross-border Stop Attacks with Israel-Hamas Ceasefire.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday his Lebanese terror group would accept Palestinian ally Hamas’s decision on Gaza hostage negotiations and would stop cross-border attacks on Israel if a ceasefire were reached.
2. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the NATO Summit in Washington D.C:
The long-awaited first tranche of F-16 fighter jets are in the process of being transferred to Ukraine from their European owners. Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway have all agreed to supply around 80 F-16s under an air force capability coalition for Ukraine.
3. NATO: Ukraine Irreversible Path to Membership.
NATO alliance statement: “We fully support Ukraine’s right to choose its own security arrangements and decide its own future, free from outside interference. Ukraine’s future is in NATO.”
4. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban travels to China- meets with President Xi Jinping. During his meeting with Xi, Orban described China as a stabilizing force amid global turbulence and praised its “constructive and important” peace initiatives. China has been promoting its own six-point peace plan, which it issued with Brazil in May (2024).
5. Romania to Procure 54 x K9 155mm SP Howitzers & 36 x K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicles from Hanwha Aerospace (South Korea).
6. Canada working toward procurement of 12 x conventionally powered, under-ice capable submarines- in deal worth $44 billion.
Canadian Government Press Release: “Canada’s key submarine capability requirements will be stealth, lethality, persistence and Arctic deployability — meaning that the submarine must have extended range and endurance.”
7. US & Germany Agree to American Long-Range Fires Basing.
These systems will be assigned to the 2d Multi-Domain Task Force in Germany- and will include:
- HIMARS Battery: Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)- 500-kilometer range.

- Long Range Hypersonic Weapon Battery: Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon - 2,776-kilometers range.

- Mid-Range Capability Battery: Mid-Range Capability system with ground-based launcher for SM-6 & Tomahawk Missiles- between 500k & 2,776 k range.