🇱🇧🇮🇱❗️ Israel's attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut will not go unanswered, Hezbollah Secretary General said.

🇩🇪🇱🇧⚡Germany urges citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible while Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promises 'strong response' after twin bombings in south

The European Union & the United States are diverging sharply demographically. The EU has the absolutely massive 1959-1969 cohort beginning to enter retirement now being replaced by the much smaller 2000-2010 cohort. In the US boomers being replaced in labor force by huge Gen Z.

Hard to see the EU having anywhere near the level of influence they have today into the 2030s. Many industries look set to move away & it is unclear if the EU will have the labor & resources for their massive planned “green transition” of the entire economy & energy grid.

🤡 US State Department sees no signs of genocide in Gaza - spokesman

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israel Defense Forces says it has completed the destruction of the Hamas tunnel network under Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

According to the IDF, the Shifa tunnel branches are approximately 250 meters long and reach several sites used by Hamas in the area.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 We start the day with footage of the use of our favorite Imperial cruisers in the Svatovo-Kremennaya direction.

🇺🇲 The US continues to expand into Africa

According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States wants to use the airfields of several African countries to deploy its reconnaissance drones. We are talking about those countries that are located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean - negotiations are currently underway with Ghana, Benin and Côte d'Ivoire.

The newspaper emphasizes that this is how the United States is trying to limit the spread of influence of Islamist militants in the region. Previously, the United States could control the region directly, through its own and French military contingents. However, after a series of military coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the US position in central Africa was undermined, and French troops were ordered to clear out altogether.

“We really have no choice but to retreat and operate from the coastal West African states,” said Mark Hicks, former commander of US special operations forces in Africa.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Air Force reports that the Russian Armed Forces have begun to use the tactic of opening air defense positions with the help of a “pair of suicide bombers.”

According to the Ukrainian military, two kamikaze UAVs "Geran-2" are lifted into the sky and begin to cruise around areas of interest, forcing air defense crews to expose their positions. Such flights occur simultaneously with the impacts of gliding bombs.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 An FPV drone strike from Beavers on a BMP-1, which arrived to rescue another BMP-1. As a result, there were two more pieces of scrap metal in the fields.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Explosions occurred in Kirovograd. There are reports of missiles arriving, and electricity has gone out in some areas of the city.

🇺🇲🇺🇦❗️The United States no longer has the funds to further support Ukraine, new aid packages will require approval of new funding from Congress, said White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby.

🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇷 The hunt for pro-Iranian leaders continues.

As a result of an American UAV strike on a car near the headquarters of the pro-Iranian Hashd al-Shaabi (“Popular Mobilization Forces”) in Baghdad, the commander of the 12th brigade of the group, Abu Taqwa, who was also the group’s deputy leader, was killed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 UAV operators of the 58th Regiment of the 1st Army Corps destroy the enemy by dropping ammunition from a copter. .

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces supply base in the Kherson region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that today 36 enemy UAVs were shot down while trying to attack Crimea. Another 1 was shot down in the Krasnodar region. Great job.

If the enemy planned to achieve significant military and media results with a massive strike on Crimea and Belgorod, then he failed.

🇮🇷🇺🇲 Iranian proxies fired at 2 American bases in Iraq in retaliation for the American killing of a prominent Hashd-Shaabi figure.

It is also worth noting that the Houthis announced that American ultimatums do not frighten them and they are ready for war. Attacks on ships in the Red Sea will continue.