🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the Zabalka district in Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Nevelskoe pocket has finally closed – Kurakhovo direction.

Ukrainian forces have withdrawn west of the Volcha river.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Today's expected phone call between Biden and Netanyahu [on the Iran issue] will be decisive." - Barak Ravid, Axios correspondent.

🇵🇸🇪🇬⚡️- A meeting between Hamas and Fatah has started in Cairo, per AFP.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah rocket kills a couple in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, confirmed by the region's Police Department.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine wants to hold a second "Peace Summit" with Russia in December, after cancelling the one scheduled for November yesterday.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Rada has adopted a bill banning the mobilization of citizens aged 18 to 25.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- North Korea has closed all roads and railways with South Korea.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- North Korea's General Staff said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is "worsening" and requires "more decisive measures" to ensure the "country's security".

🇬🇪🇪🇺⚡- Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream Party, refuses to sanction Russia after calls from the EU Parliament.

🇬🇪🇪🇺⚡- "Georgia's democracy is at risk," - European Union Parliament.

🇻🇦🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyi to meet the Pope on Friday at the Vatican.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te to give a "key" speech ahead of its 'National Day' celebrations.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Lai's speech could trigger a military response," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "United States is adding fuel to the fire on the Taiwan issue by providing arms to Taipei, and pushing Taiwan step by step into a dangerous situation of war," - Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman, after it was confirmed 3 members of the US Congress will be in attendance for Lai Ching-te's speech tomorrow.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Lai has recycled the ‘Taiwan independence’ fallacy once again and exposed his malicious intent to escalate hostility and confrontation," - Zhu Fenglian, China's Spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affairs Ministry.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "It is impossible for China to be the motherland of Taiwan. On the contrary, it is Taiwan which is the motherland of China. China is only 75 years old," - Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China is likely to launch military drills this week near Taiwan, using Taiwan President Lai Ching-te's upcoming national day speech tomorrow as a pretext," - Reuters.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- More than 300 rockets were fired by Hezbollah towards the Israeli city of Safed, one of the largest single attacks by Hezbollah since the beginning of the war.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden and Netanyahu to speak via phone in roughly 30 minutes.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Multiple Hezbollah arrivals in Safed, northern Israel. There are reports of several casualties.