🇺🇸🇨🇳🇺🇦⚡- The US and Chinese embassies in Kiev, Ukraine, are urging their citizens to avoid traveling to Ukraine for fear of widespread Russian attacks on Ukrainian Independence Day on Saturday.

🇮🇱⚡- Heads of northern Israeli regions and councils were invited this morning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office for a meeting to be held at 2:30pm (Tel-Aviv time).

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "If we do not respond to the enemy’s evil in assassinating Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, this means that we have surrendered to Israel and accepted humiliation," – Mohammad Hamedani, Iran's Karaj Friday Prayer Imam, calls on the Iranian Government to retaliate against Israel.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Iran confirms the killed IRGC Advisor by an Israeli airstrike on August 15th in Syria was General Ahmad Reza Afshari, Head of the 'Missile and Drone Unit' of the IRGC.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian Neptune missiles struck Conro Trader ferry at the Russian port of Kavkaz, Krasnodar region.

Russia's Head of the Temryuk district confirms the strike and that there were "30 tanks with fuel on the ferry" at the time of impact.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Scenes from Kavkaz Port, Krasnodar region of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Air raid sirens at east Crimea, Russia. Russia has temporarily closed the Kerch Strait Bridge.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 5 Russians were on board the ferry, their fate is unknown at the moment – TASS.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Conro Trader ferry has sunk in the water due to the damage – Russia's Kuban Operational Headquarters.

🇻🇪⚡- Venezuela's Supreme Court has recognized Nicolas Maduro as President-Elect.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Russian FSB have placed all journalists who have visited Russia's Kursk territories occupied by Ukraine on its 'International Terrorist Wanted List'.

It includes CNN's Nick Peyton Walsh and Italian journalists Simone Traini and Stefani Battistin.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel's Air Control Base at Mount Meron in northern Israel was targeted by a Hezbollah projectile.

The base has been targeted numerous times since October 8th. Today's attack was not detected by sirens or Iron Dome.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov: "Putin has made a decision on how to respond to the attack on the Kursk region, those responsible will be severely punished"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Footage from the targeting of Mount Meron.

🇷🇺 - Today marks one year since the deaths of the founders of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny 'First' Prighozin and Dmitry 'Ninth' Utkin.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, has arrived in Kiev, Ukraine.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rockets impacted the area around Zarit, northern Israel without sirens or the activation of Iron Dome.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- A number of F-22 fighter jets have arrived at Al-Udeid in Qatar, as part of their deployment to threaten Iran.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced west of Artemovo (Zaliznoe) entering Toretsk from the south – Dzerzhinsk direction.

Ukrainian UAV footage shows Russian troops inside Toretsk's 'School No.2' on Gaidara Street at 48.37553, 37.85012 (marked on the map).

Further north, Russian forces captured Toretsk's 'Central City Hospital'.

Russian forces now control 1.7% of Dzerzhinsk.