🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have closed the Novoukrainka pocket in the south Kurakhovo direction.

🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian sources claim British Intelligence passed information on to Kiev that Russia is preparing 8 new brigades for a large-scale offensive in the winter, on a scale similar to that of Russia's summer 2024 offensive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine has launched a large counter-offensive in the Kupyansk direction aiming to cut the Russians off at the Oskol river.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The US is warning Israel that Iran may retaliate as soon as this weekend.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Violent Israeli airstrikes against al-Qusayr, southwest of Homs, Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Sirens heard at the Green Village, US Conoco base. Initial reports that Iraqi Resistance groups may have launched drones.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah rocket attack on Metula, northern Israel, kills 4 with dozens of others wounded. Death toll likely to rise.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Since the beginning of Ukraine's Kursk offensive, Russian forces have captured 1,006 sqkm in just the Pokrovsk-Kurakhovo direction. That is twice as much as Ukraine's current control over Kursk - 537 sqkm.

(Russian forces have captured 1,652 sqkm of territory along the entire front in Ukraine since the start of Ukraine's Kursk invasion. This figure excludes the 540 sqkm of territory Russia has recaptured in Kursk as part of its ongoing counteroffensive.)

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵⚡- BREAKING: North Korean troops have entered battle.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵⚡- Russian front-line sources say the first unit of North Korean soldiers have joined Russia's Kursk counter offensive.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from al-Qusayr, Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu's government is divided on which US presidential candidate would be best for Israel," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡- Egyptian President al-Sisi received CIA Director William Burns in Cairo.

🇬🇪⚡- The Georgian Prosecutor's Office is investigating 47 criminal cases in connection with possible violations in the parliamentary elections. Among them are cases of "election fraud, influencing the will of the voter, bribery, obstruction of journalistic activity," as well as "violence" and "threats".

🇧🇾🇬🇪⚡- "Georgian men have been looking at women since they were babies. The Georgians were the coolest men in the Soviet Union. How can some kind of LGBT be imposed on them then?" - Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus.

🇮🇱⚡- Initial reports of a security incident in Jerusalem.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Death toll from Hezbollah strike on the Israeli town of Metula rises to 5.

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "What is happening in the northern Gaza Strip is a form of genocide. Normalization with Israel is not on the agenda - before finding a solution for the establishment of a Palestinian state," - Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi Foreign Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Shocking scenes of the complete destruction of the southern town of Kfar Kila by the Israeli army

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "The United States is conducting exercises in preparation for a potential war with China, using new maneuvers based on observations from the Russia-Ukraine conflict," - The New York Times.

🇸🇦🇵🇸⚡- A telephone conversation took place between the Foreign Ministries of Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, bin Farhan and Mustafa.