🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- Reuters journalists in the Iraqi city of Basra have allegedly been told that the city is bracing for Iranian ballistic missiles to fly over the city

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "Very soon, the only topic for international meetings on Ukraine will be the unconditional surrender of the Kyiv regime. I advise you all to prepare for this in advance," – Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces advanced 700m towards the town of Vyimka, just south of Sivers'k. One of Russia's largest gains in a single day, in months.

🇸🇾⚡️- An earthquake occurred in northern Syria.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Washington has detected that Iran is moving military assets, including cruise missiles and drones – Two U.S. Sources to CNN

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Other American naval assets are being relocated to the Middle East during the showdown between Iran and Israel

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️- Air France has suspended flights to Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 | The Biden administration asked Israel to notify the U.S. and for the U.S. to have a say before decisions are made about any retaliation by Israel against Iran – Axios, according to U.S. officials

@MilitaryPOV

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon

🇦🇺⚡️- Reports of a stabbing attack in Sydney, Australia. Police are searching for the suspect.

🇳🇱🇮🇷⚡️- The Dutch Embassy in Tehran has been evacuated and closed until further notice

🇮🇷🇵🇹⚡️- Initial reports that the IRGC seized a Portuguese cargo vessel MCS Aries.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has confirmed the seizure

🇮🇷🇵🇹⚡️- The IRGC has redirected MCS ARIES to Iranian territory.

Associated Press is reporting that IRGC Marine Commandos rappelled from a helicopter and seized the vessel near the Emirati port city of Fujairah.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Associated Press reports that the MCS ARIES is partially owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- Saudi source Al-Hadath reporting that MCS AIRES was en route to India, manned by a crew of 20 Filipinos.

🇺🇦🇧🇾⚡- "Belarus is not going to war against Ukraine, the border is barricaded in such a way that we cannot get there.

Do we want trouble for ourselves? We don't! The border on the Ukrainian side is concreted, mined, barricaded, and there are 120,000 Ukrainian troops there." – President of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "The situation on the Eastern Front has worsened significantly since the Russian Presidential Elections." – Says the recently appointed Commander-In-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, who's overseen a disastrous start to the job so far.

Syrskyi claimed the front "is experiencing a few hotspots" where battles with the Russians "are fierce" and Ukraine "is losing ground", namely "Kupyansk, Lymen-Sivers'k, Bakhmut, West Avdiivka and Mariinka-Novomykhailivka".

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces have entered the town of Kalynivka, North-East Chasov-Yar.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces attacking Kalynivka, North of Chasov-Yar. Meanwhile advancing past Novyi, South of Chasov-Yar, over the past few days. These advances confirm Russian plans for a Double Envelope (Pincer) maneuver to capture Chasov-Yar.