🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump announces former Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan will be part of the second Trump administration, with the responsibility of "border tsar."

Thomas Homan, as of February 2022, is affiliated with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered Stupochki, Chasov-Yar direction. Russian troops are now 5.6km from Kostiantinovka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia has captured Makarovka, Velikaya Novoselka direction.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman, denies Putin spoke with Trump. Peskov also says there are "no specific plans yet" for a call with Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian ballistics launched from mainland Russia, approaching Ukraine's Sumy border.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Explosion in Chuguiv, Kharkov region.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israel airstrikes a convoy near Homs, western Syria. The convoy was allegedly heading to Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Channel 11 confirms Israel will expand its military operation in Lebanon. Thousands of additional troops will be involved and they will enter much deeper into Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Russia is ready to help reach a settlement between Israel and Lebanon," - Channel 11.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Channel 11 claims Russia will exert "pressure on Assad to prevent the mass re-arming of Hezbollah from Iran via weapon smuggling through Syria".

The claims come after Netanyahu's top advisor and Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, visited Moscow last week.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: The Kurakhovo dam has been blown up.

Major flooding along the Volcha river downstream, hitting Ukrainian-controlled areas particularly hard. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the local population in several towns and cities.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The flooding has put Ukraine's only safe supply route into Kurakhovo out of use.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "Poland intends to create an alliance in Europe to help Ukraine in connection with Trump's rise to power in the United States," - The Times.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, says Georgia is "entering a deep political crisis," which can "only be resolved through new parliamentary elections".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran will take advantage of the period before Trump's inauguration to act against Israel," - Amir Bohbot, senior defense analyst for Walla.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Tehran clings to the foiled ground invasion plans, and is considering initiating an invasion through Jordan," - Amir Bohbot, senior defense analyst for Walla.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's vast network of fortifications around Kurakhovo have begun to crumble. Russian troops have reached the outskirts of Dalnoe.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Voznesenka and Yureevka in the Pokrovsk-Kurakhovo direction. Russian troops have also entered Sonstovka and Zorya.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- "The Republic of Sudan is interested in building a Russian naval base in the city of Port Sudan, located on the western coast of the Red Sea," - Hussein al-Hajjah, Sudan's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- "We have a lot of evidence that Chad offers Rapid Support Forces a military base near its borders with Sudan. Chad allows weapons to be transferred, provides logistical support and even allows mercenaries from different West African countries and other countries to pass through to join the militia," - Hussein al-Hajjah, Sudan's Deputy Foreign Minister.

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