⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 The Lebanese Armed Forces enter Maroun Al Ras.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Lebanese military entering Maroun al-Ras, southern Lebanon.

🇸🇾⚡- 3 FPV drone strikes and sounds of gunfire heard in Jableh, Latakia region, coastal Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: New reports say the explosions were at Russia's air base.

"The Russian Khmeimim airbase was attacked! The base was put on alert," - Oleg Blokhin, Russian military journalist in Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Scenes over Russia's Khmeimim air base, Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Sirens at Russia's Khmeimim air base, Syria.

🇦🇺⚡️- New South Wales government has created new laws to combat antisemitism, including:
- Giving law enforcement agencies the power to prosecute individual persons engaging in hate speech who incite their followers to hate.
- Increase the penalties for any crime motivated by antisemitism or hatred.
- End harassing, intimidating or threatening protests outside places of worship.
- New laws creating harsher penalties specifically for anyone displaying a Nazi symbol on or near a synagogue, the Jewish Museum, or a school.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇦⚡- Negotiations between the US and Russia on Ukraine have begun, with Saudi Arabia as the mediator - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces, FARDC, continue to collapse, with the M23 advancing several kilometers south of Bukavu - South Kivu direction, eastern DR Congo.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Kurakhovo direction update:

Russian forces have begun clearing the Kurakhovo pocket, however reports of the pocket being completely cleared are false. A source from the Russian 68th Tank Brigade tells Rerum Novarum that they are still waiting along the outskirts of Dachnoe, as small Ukrainian pockets remain in the trenches and tree-lines west of the town.

Front-line sources, from Ukraine and Russia, state that the trapped Ukrainian personnel in the Kurakhovo pocket, west of Dachnoe, might be the infamous and very well experienced Ukrainian 79th Brigade 'Cyborgs'. This report remains unconfirmed at the moment.

Reports of Russian forces capturing the entirety of Ulakly are pure fiction. A source from the Russian 38th Brigade, the very unit that's fighting there, tells Rerum Novarum that they just managed to position themselves in the southern outskirts of the town.

Russian forces stormed Konstantinopol from the south early morning, creating a landing platform in the southeast of the town. Russian forces have also successfully crossed the Volcha river and are pressuring the Ukrainian force in the town from the north too.

In Andreevka, battles continue in the west of the town. 80% of the large town is under Russian control, but sources tell Rerum Novarum that advancing here has become difficult as Ukrainian forces have destroyed most infrastructure, including the houses. Russian units are instead focusing on the large trench network north of the town.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Velikaya Novoselka direction update:

Russian sources claim the large number of Russian units that were involved in the fighting for Velikaya Novoselka, after freeing them up, were rotated out to other directions, hence the slow movement in this area.

Russian forces have been attempting to cross Mokri Yaly river, west of Noviy Komar. Russian troops have also begun advancing north of Vremovka. Early morning, Russian forces made a successful climb north, towards Ukraine's 1st line of Zaporizhian defenses. Reports of Russia capturing parts of this line are false.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Yampolovka, Limen direction.

A large Ukrainian force remains in the 'Black Forest' just east of the town, which is now at risk of being encircled.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺⚡- "Ukraine's possible accession to the European Union is Kiev's sovereign right, since it is not a military alliance," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇦 - Initial US-Russia negotiations on Ukraine have ended in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, lasting over 4 hours.

🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- "Turkey supports Ukraine's full territorial integrity," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- "We will never accept occupied territories as part of Russia," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Lebanon is contacting the US and France demanding a full withdrawal from Israel, including from the 5 'strategic points'.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Iranian President Pezeshkian and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Asadov discussed prospects for the development of bilateral relations between the two nations during a meeting in Tehran, Iran.

🇧🇮🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Burundi has begun withdrawing its military from eastern DR Congo, where for years they had been fighting the M23.

The withdrawal was confirmed by Burundi and UN sources, and likely came after taking high casualties.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: Initial reports of the Ugandan military moving into the Ituri region of eastern DR Congo.