🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli flares over Naqoura, southwest Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Not only Iran is preparing: A very large shipment of ammunition arrived in Israel early today," - ILTV.

🇮🇱⚡- Intense Israeli aerial activity in northern Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Two Israeli airstrikes against Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. The strikes are demolishing infrastructure ahead of the operation to occupy Gaza City.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu is not briefing even senior ministers this time on what is happening behind the scenes regarding the ceasefire-hostage negotiations," - Israel Hayom.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- IDF troops wired the Halima al-Saadiya School in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, with explosives. Moments ago, the school was detonated, destroying the infrastructure.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian strategic communication lines have been activated, indicating a large-scale Russian missile attack tonight against Ukraine is likely.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- UAE's FY4942 military cargo aircraft landed at Ramon Airport, Israel. Marking the first delivery of arms to Israel from the Emirati nation.

The aircraft had to avoid Jordan's airspace, indicating Amman did not give the UAE's Il-76 clearance.

🇨🇳🇲🇲⚡- A 17 year-old girl faces charges in China for selling her 19-year old boyfriend to an online scamming compound in Myanmar for $13,900. The boyfriend, Huang, was forced to work for the compound in online scams and was "beaten if he did not meet daily targets".

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President - ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!!" - Donald Trump, US President, via TRUTH Social.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Lavrov’s pushback on security guarantees [no US or European troops in Ukraine] has effectively fractured Russia’s peace talks with the US," - Bloomberg, citing a European official.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- US is considering implementing a no-fly zone with European partners in Ukraine as part of its security guarantees to Ukraine post-war, Reuters reports.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump steps back from Russia and Ukraine peace talks for now.

Donald Trump intends to leave Russia and Ukraine to organize a meeting between their leaders without directly playing a role for now, taking a step back from the negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The next stage in Trump’s eyes to end the war in Ukraine remains a bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President.

Trump has told advisers in recent days that he intends to host a trilateral meeting with the two leaders only after they have met first, although whether that initial conference takes place remains unclear and Trump does not intend to become involved in that effort," - The Guardian, citing a Trump administration official.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "President Donald Trump insinuated in a social media post that he’s open to Ukraine launching more attacks on Russia, as the White House looks to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a one-on-one meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump met Zelenskiy and European leaders at the White House on Monday. After that meeting, he directed administration officials to work with Ukraine and Russia to set up a meeting between the two leaders, followed by a summit that he would join.

The Kremlin so far has proved noncommittal and no date or location for the summit has been set.

Trump also asked US and European officials to work together on a package of security guarantees to entice Kyiv to agree to a deal that he has said would involve territorial exchanges," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump ramps up rhetoric on Russia-Ukraine conflict as peace talks momentum stalls.

President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to offer a rationale for Ukraine to go on offense against Russia, notable rhetoric as the momentum around peace talks has stalled.

Trump’s rhetoric may touch a nerve in Moscow, which regards any support of Ukrainian strikes on its soil as a red line. During the Biden administration, it was long-standing policy that Ukraine could not launch long-range American-made missiles into Russia.
Trump’s comments come as the Kremlin has openly contradicted the White House on plans for a bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting that leader-level talks are far from imminent and that Putin has yet to agree to such a meeting," - CNN.