🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There can be no lasting security in Europe without a strong, independent Ukraine," - Mark Rutte.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "He [Trump] was pushing us on China, and I think he was right there," - Mark Rutte.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- The massive 50+ vehicle column belonging to the Wagner forces heading to Tin Zautin, northern Mali.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Ugledar, ending a 31 months long battle.

A Russian flag was raised in the north-east building of the 'Citadel', which was Ukraine's last remaining position in the town.

Small pockets of Ukrainian forces are still hold up in the houses to the north of the town.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have reached the center of Izmailovka, Kurakhovo direction.

Some Russian sources say Russian troops have established full control over the town, however that hasn't yet been confirmed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian 79th Brigade has withdrawn from the Kurakhovo direction and left for the Pokrovskoe direction.

Note, not Pokrovsk in Donetsk but Pokrovskoe, the city in the Dnepropetrovsk region. This is likely because a Russian offensive in Zaporozhye is widely anticipated.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Towns and villages (marked in red) have been ordered to evacuate by the IDF.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel's Home Front Command has issued new instructions for central Israel, specifically the Gush Dan region, Jerusalem, and some parts of the occupied West Bank. Education can be held only near protected spaces, gatherings are limited to 30 people in an open area and 300 in a building, beaches are closed, and work is restricted to areas near shelters.

These measures are being taken for fear of a potential Hezbollah or Iranian strike.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "These are major changes on the home front." - Channel 12, center-left anti-Likud outlet

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- These measures will expire on October 5th, 2024.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The White House and the Pentagon realized that their influence on Israel’s decision regarding the war in Lebanon is limited." - Axios, citing American officials.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "We fear that Israel’s invasion of Lebanon will escalate into a broader and longer conflict than Israeli officials expected" - Axios, citing American officials.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Home Front Command has restricted prayers for tonight at the western wall in Jerusalem, in line with the new directives

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Spokesman Hagari to deliver a speech in 25 minutes.

🇷🇺🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Russia has called on Israel to immediately withdraw from Lebanon

🇳🇱🇮🇱⚡️- Dutch airliner KLM announces it will not resume flights to Israel until the end of 2024.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Shlomi and Betzet, north of Nahariyya along the border. Another staging area for IDF forces prepared to invade Lebanon.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli outlet Hadshot Hamot reports that a drone was intercepted above Tel Aviv without activating alarms or Iron Dome.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Spokesman Hagari on the recent operations in Southern Lebanon: “During these operations, IDF special forces entered into Hezbollah compounds in dozens of locations along the border with Israel collected intelligence and dismantled Hezbollah’s weapons and terrorist infrastructure. 

Our soldiers entered Hezbollah's underground infrastructure; exposed Hezbollah's hidden weapons caches and seized and destroyed the weapons including advanced, Iranian-made weapons. Overall, IDF soldiers exposed and dismantled over 700 Hezbollah terror assets during these operations and there's a lot more work to do.”

🇩🇿🇲🇦⚡- Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations at the General Assembly accused Algeria of being the "origin of the spread of terrorism, extremism and separatism in the Sahel".

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡- "Paris is involved in financing and arming terrorist groups, while offering logistical support to local allies, this is part of France's new recolonization strategy of the Sahel," - Bakary Sangare, Niger's Foreign Minister.