🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There are no Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city, but there is constant shelling. Everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is ours." – Vitaly Slashchev, Mayor of Sudzha.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Air alerts in Kursk, Russia - two Ukrainian aircraft heading towards Sumy, Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Still image from a Ukrainian drone showing a mass surrender of Russian troops in Kursk, Russia.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian Foreign Minister at the OIC meeting in Jeddah: "Iran's response will happen at the right time and in the right way"

🇮🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Irish airliner Ryanair has cancelled all flights to Israel for the rest of this month, August.

🇫🇷🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I told the Iranian President that the cycle of revenge must be stopped," – French President, Emmanuel Macron.

🇮🇷⚡- "Tehran did everything it could to avoid confrontation in the region," – Bagheri Kani, Acting Foreign Minister of Iran, at the IOC in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Safed / Dalton direction.)

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine rejects explaining the Kursk situation to our reporters. They did not answer the phone – Bloomberg.

🇪🇬🇮🇷⚡️- Egypt has issued a NOTAMS for all Egyptian aircraft to avoid Iranian airspace in the early hours of August 8th.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine did not inform the United States in advance of its plan to invade Russia. The invasion and fighting on Russian soil involved weapons supplied by the United States and Western countries – Wall Street Journal.

🇪🇬🇮🇷⚡- Egypt has claimed the NOTAM issued is for pre-planned Iranian military exercises over Iran's airspace. The Egyptian authorities were notified of the exercises by the Iranian Government.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran has issued a warning to civilian airlines worldwide, advising them to avoid its airspace due to ongoing military exercises.

🇹🇷🇻🇪⚡- Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, congratulates Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro, on winning the Presidential elections.

🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The operation to raid the Kursk region of Russia was developed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and British intelligence services," – Adalbi Shkhagoshev, Member of the Russian State Duma.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Ansar Allah (Houthis) targeted three vessels in the Red Sea: Contship Ono, a commercial vessel, the USS Cole and USS Lassen, two guided missile destroyers.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It is strange that Russia is talking about a provocation in Kursk, given that it is Russia that violated Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. I leave it to Ukraine to talk about what operations it is conducting and what its goals are", – Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the US Department of State.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: The majority of Americans now oppose using U.S. troops to defend Israel against Iran. Support has declined to just 41%, with only 35% of Independents and Democrats favoring military intervention to defend Israel. — Report

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from Kursk, Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian forces have captured Sergeevka (Pokrovsk direction).

Ukrainian sources claim they are withdrawing from Zhelannoe, allowing Russian control over the town.

Russian forces in the past hour have also captured Ivanovka – both sides have confirmed, including Ukrainian source 'DeepState'.

Russian troops also advanced 1,000 meters along the Progres railway.