🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- ByteDance says it would prefer to shut down TikTok rather than sell it, assuming all legal options have been attempted.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- "The Russian Armed Forces have created powerful reserves in the Northern Military District zone, under the North group. If there are no negotiations, Ukraine may lose its statehood and cease to exist." – President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The United States has banned Kyiv from using the remaining M1A1 Abrams tanks on the battlefield due to their vulnerability to Russian drones.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- Russian Defense Minister Shoigu met with his Iranian counterpart Ashtiani and announced his willingness to expand military cooperation

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Pro-Palestine protests have spread in the last 9 days, with some universities - most notably the University of Indiana - deploying armed officers to confront the protesters.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Two days ago, as a result of pro-Palestine protests, the University of Rochester announced a suspension of academic ties with Israel.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iran's parliament has passed two articles associated with SEPAND, Iran's advanced weapons research entity, responsible for the development of nuclear weapons. Two articles passed by the parliament approved the establishment of SEPAND and its placement as an "independent weapons research entity" under the Ministry of Defense.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - This means that Iran is likely preparing to go nuclear.

— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israel's Minister of National Security, Ben Gvir, was involved in a car crash, and was injured as a result

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🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Iraqi sources reporting an explosion due to a loitering munition at the Khor Mor gas facility in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced an emergency $6 billion aid package for Ukraine

🇺🇸⚡️- A black man out of Canton, Ohio, Frank Tyson, died in police custody after violently resisting arrest and shouting "I can't breathe" before dying.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Unconfirmed reports that Ukraine has abandoned Berdychi (Avdiivka direction).

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡️- Armenian soldiers have arrived at the border with Azerbaijan, where the Pashinyan government has agreed to transfer 4 border villages to Azerbaijan.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Missile strikes in Kharkov as the whole country is under air alert

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Reports that the Burshtynska Thermal Power Plant in western Ukraine was hit

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces have begun forward operations in the Kharkov region, over the past 12 hours.

Ukrainian media confirms Russian forces have captured Kislivka (Kupyansk-Kharkov direction).