🇺🇸⚡️- There are allegations that suggest the US State Department is hiring private military contractors and deploying them to the US-Mexico border.

🇷🇺 - Infighting among Russian oppositionists has broken out, as the race idolaters of the Russian Volunteer Corps declare that they have nothing to do with Ilya Ponomaryov and his Congress of People's Deputies or the liberal Civic Council (which Ponomaryov is also involved in).

🇷🇺 - In general, opposition to Putin consists of three groups which have always been ideologically divided:
• the "loyal opposition", consisting of groups like the Communist Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Homeland Party. While these movements have clashed with the Russian state on economic issues like pension reform, they agree with Putin's policies of civic nationalism and opposition to Western liberalism, meaning that they are permitted to run for the Duma and serve as a release valve for Russians' dissent.
• the liberals, whose most prominent representatives are the "Free Russia Legion". Liberals often call for the dissolution of modern Russia and the independence of regions like Chechnya and Buryatia, making them unpopular even among Russians dissatisfied with Putin.
• the nationalists (or wignats), such as the Russian Volunteer Corps. Some nationalists have been in conflict with the governing United Russia party since the early 2000s, but anti-Putin nationalism mainly emerged out of the 2014 Ukrainian war when some self-declared "white nationalists" went to fight for Azov, seeing Russia and Putin as anti-white. Generally speaking they support Hitler and Nazism, and oppose the Russian state for its refusal to distance itself from the Soviet Union. Again, these groups are unpopular within Russia - most Russians, regardless of ideology, see Hitler's name as a byword for anti-Russianness and it should be noted that nationalist groups like Rusich and Russian National Unity are fighting on Russia's side in the current conflict.

The distinctions between oppositionists are not always this clear-cut: Navalny, despite being framed as a liberal by Westerners, has embraced psuedo-nationalist groups. Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a unified anti-Putin opposition and clashes like these are proof of that.

🇻🇦🇺🇦 - The Pope has organized another peace mission to Ukraine with the purpose of reaching a settlement between both sides, which will be led by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, head of the Italian bishops' conference.
Zuppi will also pay a pastoral visit to Ukraine's Greek Catholic community, located mainly in the west of the country.

🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️- Russia has apparently intercepted two American fighter jets above the Baltic Sea.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Florida governor Ron DeSantis, widely known as "Meatball Ron", will announce his 2024 Presidential run tomorrow at 6pm EST on a Twitter space with Elon Musk.

🇺🇸⚡️- Senator Tim Scott has announced a bid for the 2024 presidential election.

🇸🇩 - Several nuns have been evacuated from the Sudanese city of Khartoum.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Montana has completely banned so-called "drag queen story hour" events.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Ron DeSantis has filed all the paperwork necessary for him to run for President with the FEC.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- PMC Wagner have begun withdrawing from their positions in liberated Artyomovsk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Reports that a terrorist bombing occurred at the Russian Ministry of Defense building a few hours ago.

🇺🇸⚡️- Target to cancel their homosexual line of clothing for children following massive nationwide boycotts.

🇷🇺☦️ Soldiers of the 🅾️ group are baptised in the front line under the explosion of artillery shells.

There are chaplains who work with the soldiers almost every day, and the soldiers turn to them for advice, prayer and confession. Repentance (correcting one's own sinful life) is a prerequisite for receiving baptism in a worthy manner, for the salvation of the soul. If a person is ready, military priests administer this sacred sacrament right at the positions.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in connection with January 6th.

🇧🇾⚡️ - Telegram has changed its representation of the Belarussian flag from the official flag to the 'white-red-white' flag used by Belarussian oppositionists.

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡️ - Clashes in Kosovo.

🇷🇸⚡️ - Alexander Vučić has resigned as leader of Serbia's ruling Progressive Party.

According to local media reports in Nimroz, an armed conflict has erupted this morning between Taliban forces and Iranian border guards at the Nimroz border.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted to Twitter that they have evidence that Department of Defense funded biological facilities in Ukraine were developing bioweapons using deadly pathogens.