🇹🇷🇻🇪⚡- 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.

🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I told Netanyahu if war breaks out on the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel, its results will be devastating," – French President, Emmanuel Macron.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media report that Iran's western airspace is being cleared of civilian aircraft due to preparations for "military exercises."

🇮🇷⚡️- The IRGC has begun large "military maneuvers" in the west of the country.

🇮🇷 - Unfortunately, this probably isn't the long-awaited retaliation. We're going to continue to be tortured with anticipation until it happens.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Hebrew media: "We fear that the Iranians will deceive us and that the maneuvers they carried out this morning will turn into an attack targeting us."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Hezbollah may act without warning due to Lebanon's proximity to Israel, which does not apply to Iran." -CNN

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Hezbollah is moving faster than Iran in its plans and is looking forward to attacking Israel in the coming days." -CNN

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli Air Force is on high alert across the country, anticipating a possible Iranian strike.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran may be rethinking launching a multi-pronged attack on Israel. The U.S. does not expect an attack on Israel imminently – Politico.

🇬🇧🇱🇧⚡️- The United Kingdom has issued a NOTAMs for all British aircraft to avoid Lebanese airspace until November 4th, 2024 due to the potential for military activity.

🇮🇱⚡️- There are reports of an explosion in north Jerusalem.

🇺🇦⚡- Failed assassination attempt on Rustem Umerov, Ukraine's Defense Minister.

"An unknown explosive device went off in Kiev. The minister was immediately taken away. His condition is unknown," – Alexander Semenchinko, Ukrainian War Correspondent.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Armed Forces has moved several brigades to the Zaporozhye region.