🇷🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The only way to achieve peace in the region may be through a full-scale war," – Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council.

🇺🇲🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The assassination of Haniyeh makes our mission difficult in the ceasefire negotiations – American Official to Politico.

🇻🇪🏴⚡️- PMC Wagner patch spotted on a soldier with Venezuelan security forces at an election riot in Venezuela.

🇵🇸⚡- Khalid Meshaal is likely to replace Ismail Haniyeh as Head of Hamas – Reuters.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli right-wing media claim a huge build-up up pro-Iranian militants along the western bank of the Euphrates river.

🇮🇷🇵🇸⚡- Ismail Haniyeh's funeral has begun, with Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, leading the prayers.

🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- The entire video of what quite clearly looks like a Wagner personnel.

In 2019 Reuters claimed Wagner is present in Venezuela to train combat units and provide security for Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Timofeevka (Pokrovsk direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm.

Russian troops also advanced 1,200 meters east of Serheevka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There cannot and will not be any territorial concessions in Donbass and Novorossiya," – Valentina Matvienko, Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ilya Ponomarev, former Russian State Duma member, was targeted by Russia in a drone strike in Ukraine. Ponomarev survives but with injuries. Ponomarev is the leader of the National Republican Army, an anti-Putin, ethnic Russian group that was responsible for the killings of Darya Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "There is no doubt that sooner or later the southern neighbors of the United States will recover the territories that were stolen from them," – Nikolai Patrushev, Russian Presidential Aide.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "We should begin referring to Alaska as ours," – Larisa Shkhagosheva, Member of the Russian State Duma.

🇳🇬⚡- Large protests in Nigeria, mainly Lagos, against the Government.

🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡- Two Russian bombers flew within Japan's air defense zone, the Defense Ministry scrambled fighters in response – Japan's Ministry of Defense.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "Trying to introduce external forces to protect its own security will only lead to greater insecurity for the Philippines," – Lin Jian, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman.

🇻🇳🇵🇭⚡- Vietnam Coast Guard's vessel 8002 left for the Philippines to conduct joint maritime exercises.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- American officials have confirmed that there are a dozen American warships now deployed in the Middle East region, specifically the eastern Mediterranean. This is the largest deployment of ships since the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Israeli Defense Forces have announced, after weeks of speculation and uncertainty, that Mohammed Deif, the military head of Hamas, has been eliminated.

🇮🇱⚡- The Head of Shin Bet has instructed Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to not participate in any event without a shelter nearby. Shin Bet has also barred all Knesset Ministers, including Netanyahu, from attending any event or tour without Shin Bet's approval.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇱🇧⚡️- US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has asked Qatar to pass a message onto Lebanon and Hezbollah- a call for calm and to not respond to the killings of Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr.