🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- 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.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russian helicopters continue patrolling the skies over coastal Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Scenes over Tartus, Syria. A large number of Russian helicopters active over western Syrian airspace - reasons unknown.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian military reinforcements arrive to fight the former Syrian Arab Army resistance cells in Homs.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- American airstrikes against Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Saudi Arabia announces a $500 million aid package to the Aden-based Yemeni government.

🇸🇴🇪🇹⚡- Somalia accuses Ethiopia of violating the ceasefire agreement which was reached just two weeks ago. Mogadishu accused Ethiopian forces of attacking Somali troops stationed at a border airbase in the town of Dulow in the Jubaland region.