🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Heavy Russian artillery strikes on Ukraine's Sumy and Chernigov regions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If the West wants to resolve the Ukrainian conflict on the battlefield, then we will resolve it on the battlefield," – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

🇺🇦⚡- Zelenskyi has fired Yuriy Galushkin, Head of Kharkov's Territorial Defense Forces.

🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's Security Service, SBU, detains 4 suspects in Kyiv for allegedly attempting terror acts, to blow a cafe and supermarket. Homemade devices were found with them.

SBU claims they were acting on Kremlin orders.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Unconfirmed reports: Russian forces have captured Glubokoe (Kharkov-Liptsy direction).

5km from Liptsy. 25km from Kharkov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian flag hoisted at the center of Glubokoe (Kharkov-Liptsy direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Pro-Ukrainian Russian group, Russian Voluntary Corps, (who are stationed in Volchans'k) engage in combat operations against the Russians forces. Confirming Russians are now well within the city limits.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- China has sent a huge naval force to completely blockade the Scarborough Shoal (just North of Sabina Shoal).

The Philippines were preparing a civilian Atin-Ito convoy to aid fishers in the area tomorrow. Atin-Ito speaker confirms "heavy Chinese presence will not stop the convoy".

🇬🇧⚡- "The world is closer to a nuclear escalation than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis," – Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak.

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes from Georgia today, as the 'Foreign Agent' bill is scheduled to a hearing for its third and final time this week.

🇺🇸⚡️- Short sellers on GameStop have lost over $1 billion in the first hour of trading after Andrew Tate promoted a squeeze of the stock on social media

🇹🇷⚡️- "Hamas is not a terrorist organization here, if you state it as a terror group in Turkiye, it would be upsetting. We are treating over 1,000 Hamas members in our hospitals." – Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Bugrovatka (Kharkov-Volchans'k direction) – Ukrainian sources claim.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian soldiers casually standing around in Bugrovatka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces are crossing into Ternovaya, Ukrainian sources claim, to unite the two fronts of Liptsy and Volchans'k directions - Northern Kharkov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We are recording hostile activity against Sumi Oblast and Chernigov Oblast," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israelis torched aid trucks attempting to enter Gaza

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated at a White House press conference today that there is "no genocide in Gaza."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Evacuation orders have been given for two villages of Sumy bordering Russia.

🇩🇰🇺🇦⚡️- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says that Ukraine will be given Danish F-16s in the next month.

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