Via Come and See:

🇷🇺 Crews of T-80 tanks from the 68th Army Corps of the "East" military group destroyed positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry

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Israeli air defense attempting to stop Hezbollah rockets.

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Ali Larijani:

We do not welcome the expansion of the war, but if the Europeans intervene in it, we will respond accordingly.

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To be clear, I'm not saying that the Democrats are "better." I'm simply cheering on gridlock and never-ending subpoenas for the orange one.

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Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Larijani claims a number of American soldiers have been taken prisoner.

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The orange abomination continues to make an ass of himself. He treats the deaths of thousands and burning of billions of taxpayer dollars on a lie is some kind of joke. I guess he already knows he won't be going to heaven anyway. But he's speedrunning his way to the deepest levels of Hell. What goal has he accomplished yet to declare victory?

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Messa of EastCalling chat:

How would the UK send two carriers when they need one for spare parts for the other? Last time they left they merely made it outside the port before the shaft broke or froze 😁

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Orban on X:

I am not looking for trouble with the Ukrainians, but did President Zelensky expect us to sit quietly and twiddle our thumbs? Ukraine has blocked our oil from reaching Hungary. We cannot and will not accept this. Their plan is blackmail. My plan is resilience. Reopen the pipeline now❗️
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Victor Orban is potentially facing an election where the opposition could win in April. However, between Ukraine cutting off Russian gas to Hungary and threatening Orban not so subtly, Orban has retaken the lead in independent polls:

"The results, analysed by Hungarian outlet Index, show Fidesz–KDNP leading with 43 per cent, while the main opposition party Tisza trails at 37 per cent. According to McLaughlin’s data (a US based company), the socialist–progressive Democratic Coalition (DK) and the hard-right Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) would be the only other parties to pass the 5 per cent parliamentary threshold.

The poll also examined energy security, which has become a central issue in the campaign just weeks before the election, as Ukraine has halted transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline since 27 January. According to McLaughlin’s data, 69 per cent of respondents did not agree with Kyiv’s decision."

Even the Ukraine-sympathetic opposition leader had to denounce the threats against Orban publicly.

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The US does not want to involve the Kurds in the conflict with Iran in order not to complicate the situation, Donald Trump stated.

According to him, Washington is trying not to expand the circle of participants in the war and therefore does not plan to involve Kurdish forces.
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Earlier it was reported that the Kurds rejected Trump's request to start ground operations in Iran because they finally figured out they've been betrayed multiple times.

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Sabereen News reports a hit on the American base in Bahrain.

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Trump claims that Iran is allegedly responsible for the attack on a primary school for girls.

Source: TASS
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This contradicts claims from within Trump's own administration. Administration officials told members of congress in a closed door meeting that the US military was responsible, blaming the incident on outdated maps.

Independent investigations by the New York Times, CNN, and Reuters also blame the USA using satellite imagery.

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Tasnim reports this is current footage of the Haifa refinery in Israel.

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Via Military Chronicle:

In the Asian segment of TikTok, a video is going viral in which a Chinese sailor allegedly spotted the American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and quickly shared its coordinates on his social media accounts.
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Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

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Sabereen News:

"Chinese monitoring systems reveal that in yesterday's Iranian attacks on US bases in Bahrain, about 5 very important radar stations were damaged."
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It's unclear if they are mixing up earlier reports of strikes across the Gulf. Sabereen News, not the Chinese.

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More attacks on Sulaymaniyah in Northern Iraq. A Kurdish fighter attempts to shoot down incoming drones with an American assault rifle.

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Via IRNA:

🚨 🔥 The press secretary of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: we defeated the separatists in cooperation with the Iraqi resistance

Salar Naini:

🔻 The CIA intelligence service actively armed the opposition forces, and, according to reports, Trump himself contacted their leaders to urge them to take action.

🔻 The armed forces and intelligence of Iran, together with the Iraqi resistance, carried out dozens of missile and drone strikes on their bases in the region before the separatists began their activities.

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A building described as a "former UN headquarters" in Sulaymaniyah was hit by drones twice. However, the UN ceased operations in this facility in 1996 when the Kurdish Democratic Party took control during the Kurdish Civil War. Reports vary between the building being disused and used as a headquarters for US forces.

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