🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Ivashkovsky, Mikhailovka, Mirnyi and Makhnovka - Kursk region, Russia.

Ukrainian forces have begun withdrawing from Yuzhnyy. Russian troops have entered Bondarevka and Zamostye, with fierce clashes inside the towns.

Russia is just 1,700 meters from Sudzha city.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- Russian and Chinese destroyers enter Iran's territorial waters. Russia, China and Iran will hold the joint naval exercises 'Security Belt-2025' near Iran's Chabahar Port.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇻🇳⚡- China's gray-zone warfare in the South China Sea have significantly increased since the start of the year, there is "a dramatic increase in the number of ships and the depth of the penetration," according to SeaLight, a US-funded Think Tank focused on the South China Sea.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's 141st Regiment (Akhmat) have captured Zazulevka, Kursk region, Russia.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Jihadis in suits are still jihadists. The massacre in Syria proves this," - Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇸🇾🇷🇺🇺🇳⚡- A team from the United Nations arrives at Russia's Khmeimim air base in Latakia, coastal Syria, to investigate crimes committed over the past 4 days in western Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Syria's Defense Ministry Spokesman, Hassan Abdul Ghani, says all pro-Assad cells have been "neutralized" along the coast of Syria.

🇧🇾⚡- Alexander Turchin appointed as the new Prime Minister of Belarus.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- China launches satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, XSLC, with the flight path over central Taiwan towards the Western Pacific.

🇨🇳🇻🇳⚡- An unprecedented 21 Chinese military vessels positioned at the Thitu Reefs, South China Sea. The move is likely to reinforce China's positions at the Subi Reef, located just south of the Thitu Reefs, where China and Vietnam have 'clashed' recently.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Tensions continue to escalate between the UAE-backed Ethiopia and the Saudi and Egyptian-backed Eritrea, especially after Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh's visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday.

Ethiopian right-wing media lay claim to the Eritrean Port City of Assab, which has been mostly funded by Ethiopia.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "The war-mongering psychosis that has apparently gripped certain political circles in Ethiopia these days is astounding indeed. Almost on a daily basis, we see an upsurge of blatant distortion and revisions of ancient, medieval and modern history of the region; brazen rejection of relevant provisions of international law; and irresponsible recycling of inflammatory propaganda. All these to justify and rationalize what is clearly illegal and that can only destabilize the region," - Yemane Meskel, Eritrean Minister of Information.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- "Unless Ethiopia's incompetent leader tones down his aggressive rhetoric toward Eritrea, a major geopolitical firestorm could soon engulf the region. This situation would draw in competing Middle Eastern powers, Saudi Arabia and Egypt versus the UAE, potentially reshaping both the political landscape and the future of Abiy Ahmed's leadership in Ethiopia," - Tesfa News, Eritrean outlet.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡️- Scenes from the North Sea, after the US-flagged tanker STENA IMMACULATE collided with Solong, a Panamanian cargo ship.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's Kursk operation continues to crumble. In just the past few hours Russian forces have captured Yuzhnyy, Zazulevka, Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, and Kolmakov - Kursk region of Russia.

Ukrainian forces now control just 202sqkm of the Kursk region, Russia.

🇺🇸🇵🇦⚡️- Photograph of the STENA IMMACULATE on fire, taken by British outlet Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇵🇹⚡️- CORRECTION: Vessel "Solong," which apparently crashed into the STENA IMMACULATE, is a Portuguese-flagged vessel, not a Panamanian vessel.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇵🇹⚡- UK's Royal Navy Search & Rescue helicopters are at the scene which occured off the coast of Hull.