Germany's Bundeswehr is faced with an acute shortage of military personnel due to the lack of “points of contact” with the army among the younger generation, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.

Bundeswehr's personnel has "drastically decreased" in recent years.

It has only 180,000 troops at its disposal and is thus “very far” from achieving its target of 203,000 troops by 2030.

Russian missile strike targeted the Park Hotel in Ukraine’s Kharkiv last night.

Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency war correspondents were staying at the hotel during the strike. Anadolu team escaped unhurt.

10 civilians were injured.

San Francisco voted 8-3 in support of a Gaza ceasefire resolution, becoming the largest city in the US to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

French-supplied Ukrainian VAB APC crossing river.

Nearly 30 rockets were launched on Israel's Kiryat Shmona in the last few minutes.

Most of the rockets hit the town.

Israel has previously ordered the evacuation of residents of Kiryat Shmona, a northern town close to the Lebanese border.

Russian Army contracted Somalian man captured by Ukrainian forces.

Yemen’s Houthis declared mobilization in most provinces of the country that are under the control of the Houthis.

#BREAKING UK PM Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet this evening.

UK cabinet ministers believe it’s about UK and US military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, The Times reports.

Ecuador will transfer Soviet-made military equipment to the United States in exchange for new equipment worth a total of $200 million, President Daniel Noboa says.

Noboa said that amid the mafia rebellion, he decided to get rid of the existing old Ukrainian and Russian equipment, which he called “scrap metal,” within a month, in exchange for which the American ambassador promised to provide an aid package to Ecuador worth $200 million.

Ecuadorian army is armed with several Mi-17 helicopters, Grad MLRS and Czechoslovak RM-70, Osa air defense systems, Igla and Strela-2 MANPADS, ZU-23-2 and ZPU-2 anti-aircraft guns.

Guess where they’ll be sent.

CENTCOM says Iranian-backed Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen into international shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden.

This is the 27th attack.

Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank in winter camouflage.

Imminent strikes on Yemen’s Houthis

Middle East Braces for U.S. Strikes on Houthis, WSJ reports.

Maritime executives have been told by Western diplomats that targets would likely include missile and drone launch sites, radars and weapons depots around the Yemeni cities of Hodeida and Hajjah.

An IDF battalion leaves Gaza.

Photos of artillery shells of the Russian army.

The first is Iranian-made, the second is Korean, and the third is Russian.

#BREAKING U.S. and UK to carry out airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen as early as tonight, The Times says.

Joe Biden, the US President, is expected to make a statement tonight in the wake of military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, The Times reports.

The strikes are expected shortly, with a series of carefully choreographed statements from the US, the UK and other international allies to follow.

USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint (SIGINT Platform) heading towards Yemen from Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar.

Before US and UK strikes on Yemen's Houthis tonight, Iranian spy ship BEHSHAD departed the southern sector of the Red Sea.

Iraqi Resistance Forces:

If Yemen is attacked, we will hit American military bases with full force.

Houthi Major General Abdul Salam Jahaf:

Remember what I said well. We will thunder and lighten.

We will not say words that some will consider an exaggeration. I have only two words.

We will burn the area.

Yemen's airspace emptied ahead of expected joint US and UK strikes against Houthis.