🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- BREAKING: Another AZAL plane flying from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Mineralnye Vody, Russia, was forced to return due to airspace closures and safety concerns.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- AZAL is deciding on whether to cancel flights to Russian cities, RIA Novosti reports.

🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: German President dissolves Parliament.

🇩🇪 - Election date set for February 23rd 2025.

🇬🇪⚡- Outgoing President Salome Zourabichvili has threatened to 'overthrow the regime' if the ruling Georgian Dream party does not hold new parliamentary elections.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, responded saying he hopes that President Zourabichvili will not have to be 'forcibly evicted from her residence' after her term expires on December 29.

🇬🇪⚡- Prime Minister Kobakhidze says if Zourabichvili refuses to leave on the 29th, 'she would be subject to criminal prosecution'.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "The Houthis are trying to drive us crazy with the timing of their attacks," - Doron Hadar, Commander of the Israeli Defense Forces Crisis Management Unit.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "We are witnessing an escalation by the Houthis," - Uzi Rubin, Israeli Defense Engineer.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Our enemies [Houthis] have turned our alert system, sirens, into a form of psychological pressure against us," - Uzi Rubin, Israeli Defense Engineer.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- AZAL suspends flights to a number of Russian cities.

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡- "NATO will increase its military presence in the Baltic Sea due to possible sabotage of submarine cables," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵 - The photo circulating allegedly showing the capture of a North Korean by the Ukrainian forces is false.

The photo is from 2022 and the prisoner was a confirmed ethnic Russian minority.

Some media even add that he 'died today' - he died two years ago.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Initial reports, Ukrainian forces have retreated to the Dnepr border trench line from the Nadeevka-Novovasylovka front (Pokrovsk direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Everything is going to the point that we are gradually retreating to the main line of defense in front of the Dnieper. We must do everything possible to slow them down here, the battle for the Dnipropetrovsk region will happen, they will not stop, they were preparing for this," - Muchnoy, Ukrainian front-line military journalist.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡️- Syrian Observatory reports Russian helicopter activity off the shores of Latakia

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - The United States has a shipbuilding crisis. In 2022, the US produced only 5 large oceangoing vessels, compared to China's staggering 1,794.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Nir Am at the Gaza envelope in southern Israel.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russians equip their drones with AI, so they autonomously recognize targets and identify objects, even without network connection," - Politico, referencing Ukraine's Ambassador to the EU.

🇸🇾⚡- Situation in western Homs continues to deteriorate, clashes are still ongoing between the new Syrian government forces and remnants of the Syrian Arab Army 25th Division resistance cells.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- A large Turkish military convoy seen passing through Mare', northern Syria.