Russian forces have reportedly advanced in the Pokrovsk direction, capturing around half of the village of Lysivka (including the school), and most of Sukhyi Yar.

A Russian S-300/400 system is currently active in the Tokmak area of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. There is a threat of missile launches, although the probability is currently low as it is currently in air defence mode.

Reports of at least 4 deaths and 2 injuries so far, as a result of the renewed extensive Israeli bombardment of Gaza City.

Renewed Turkish air strikes are reported on the town of Ain Issa, in Kurdish-controlled territory of northern Syria.

Turkey has been conducting near daily air strikes on SDF/PKK/YPG positions and locations ever since the renewal of hostilities between the SDF and the Turkish-backed SNA.

The bombardment has finished. We should get the final figures on casualties in the next 6-12 hours.

A Turkish Bayraktar drone is flying over Raqqa, in SDF (Kurdish) controlled northern Syria. Previously, Turkish air strikes were carried out to the north of the city at the town of Ain Issa.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that Washington began arming Kyiv well in advance of the war.

"We made sure that well before the Russian aggression happened, starting in September and then again December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed to defend themselves, things like Stingers, Javelins that were instrumental in preventing Russia from taking Kyiv." Blinken stated in an interview with The New York Times.

The high-rise buildings in the centre of Vovchansk no longer exist.

This is single-handedly the heaviest destruction to a high-rise block that I have seen since the beginning of the war. Nothing tops this. Not Avdiivka, not Marinka, not Bakhmut, not Popasna... nothing.

This is just pure hell for the soldiers there.

Do you guys remember the video of the Spetsnaz soldiers storming a high-rise building? Well I believe that same building is the rubble on the far right of the photo.

Radio activity on the strategic comms was observed earlier that could indicate that a Russian missile attack involving Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic aircraft is going to happen today.

The channel that published this info put the probability at 50%. I personally believe it’s less due to the lack of redeployments and equipments of missiles lately, but I’ll monitor the situation and inform you if any aircraft take off.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying that Russia has captured the largest Ukrainian Lithium deposit in Shevchenko (northwest of Velyka Novosilka). This is not true. It's still around 7km from the frontline in western Donetsk Oblast. I assume people are saying this because there are two other villages called Shevchenko which were recently captured. Please check your maps before making such statements.

Additionally, Lithium wasn't even mined in Ukraine in the first place, meaning that the proper infrastructure to mine it isn't present. However, as it isn't extracted from brine, but rather from rock, the solar-evaporation process (which can take up to a year) can be skipped when mining it. It also means that the large expanses of terrain required (see picture above) to evaporate the different types of salts, sulfates, as well as magnesium isn't required.

This does make the establishment of the required infrastructure to extract lithium in the future much easier once the deposits are eventually captured and are far enough behind the frontline, although obviously not as easy as if Russia just captured the pre-built infrastructure and fixed any damage to them from the fighting (unless of course Ukraine were to choose to blow it all up before retreating).

Alright, the map will be going under maintenance for the next hour or so to make this change. I'll edit this post once its finished.

Edit: All done

The IDF reported that over 100 airstrikes were carried out across the Gaza Strip over the weekend.

A Russian S-300 missile system is currently active near Rozdolne, Crimea, however it is in air defence mode. There is also a Russian S-300/400 missile system active near Belgorod, but it is also in air defence mode.

Missile launches are possible but unlikely at this moment.

Unconfirmed reports of a Ukrainian counteroffensive being launched in Kursk. More details to follow.

Ukrainian Su-24s are airborne once again. There is a threat of storm shadow cruise missile launches for Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Oryol, Kaluga and Rostov Oblasts, as well as Krasnodar Krai and Crimea.