🇲🇱🇸🇪⚡- "Mali cannot simultaneously support the Russian side in the conflict with Ukraine and receive several hundred million crowns every year in aid. The government has therefore decided to end Sweden's bilateral aid strategy for Mali in 2024," – Johan Forschell, Sweden's Minister of Trade.

🇺🇲🇲🇱🇳🇪⚡- "African countries should not sever diplomatic relations with Ukraine," – Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the US Department of State, after Mali and Niger cut all relations with Ukraine, while Senegal and Burkina Faso reduced relations.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Since 4am (Moscow time) Ukrainian forces attempted two landings at the Kinburn Spit, south Kherson. One was reportedly successful, and a battle is underway.

Russian sources claim the Ukrainians were trying to cross with artillery too.

Three days ago Ukrainian forces attempted three landings just south at Tendrovskaya Spit, which were all unsuccessful.

Russian sources say the attacks are all launched from Ochakov, Nikolaiv region, were another 200 Ukrainian soldiers remain.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Other Islamic countries are not openly backing military response by Tehran, Iran – The Guardian.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran may be rethinking the scale and format of its planned reprisal against Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh – The Guardian.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran may target those responsible for Haniyeh’s assassination without launching an attack on Israel – The Guardian.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia declares a 'Federal Emergency' in the Kursk region, raising it from 'State of Emergency'.

🇮🇱⚡- The Mayor of Haifa, Israel, calls on city residents to stock up on food and water for 6 days.

🇱🇾⚡- Libya's National Unity Government, NUG, claims the Libyan National Army, LNA, has begun amassing a second wave of troops.

LNA are reportedly building reserves at the Brak al-Shati military base, which is famous for being the main command post of the Wagner group.

NUG yesterday claimed LNA was assembling an army at the West of the country, in Gadamis.

🇱🇾⚡- The Libyan National Unity Government has declared mobilization in Misrata and Tripoli.

🇱🇾⚡- "According to the order of Commander-in-Chief Khalifa Haftar, the units have moved to the cities of Sabha, Ghat, Ubari, Murzuq, al-Qatrun and the Brak al-Shati region. We repeat once again - our actions are not directed against anyone. The purpose of the movement of forces is to strengthen security on the borders, taking into account that the situation in neighboring countries is unstable." – Spokesman of the Libyan National Army.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah is recalculating the nature of its response to Israel – 'Israel Hayom', pro-Likud paper.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia launches counterattack in the Kursk region – Russian and Ukrainian sources confirm.

Within just a few hours, the towns of Malaya-Loknya and Kazachya-Loknya are already in the grey-zone.

Both sides report heavy fighting in the city of Sudzha (which remains under Russian control) and the town of Kruglenkoe.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russia issues NOTAM, warning Russian aircraft to not land in Israel during the night for the next week.

🇵🇰🇧🇩⚡- "We believe that there were outside elements, extreme elements, perhaps even foreign intelligence elements. I strongly suspect Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, was feeding this," – Sajeeb Wazed, son of former Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Heavy Russian reinforcements heading towards Kursk region of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have recaptured Kruglenkoe, Malaya-Loknya and Kazachya-Loknya.

Russian forces entered the towns of Viktorovka, Leonidovo and Aleksandria, making all three grey-zones.

Russian forces also crossed the Reka river into south Zaoleshenka, making this area a grey-zone too.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces do not control Sudzha, Kursk region. South of Oleshnya river remains a grey-zone, while the northern half is under Russian control.

There is a lot of misinformation regarding the photo of the Ukrainian soldier at Pyaterochka store. The Pyaterochka store isn't the one north of Sudzha. The photo has been geolocated and flagged on the map at 51.200089, 35.247523, central Zaoleshenka.

The Pyaterochka store north of Sudzha is 51.19672, 35.28706.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, calls on all US citizens to "leave Lebanon immediately", and for those who decide to remain to “prepare an emergency plan and prepare to be in shelter for an extended period of time".