🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Power outages reported in some parts of northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media, citing an Israeli political source, says that Israel is "not interested" in an escalation in the north.

Despite this statement, Israel's actions are contrary to this. It is likely that today's flare-up could snowball into more violent activity.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for today's strikes in northern Israel, stating they launched "dozens of Katyushka rockets" against an IDF Reserve Base as well as other locations in retaliation for Israel's assassination of Hezbollah military leaders.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Novopokrovsky (Avdiivka direction) – both sides confirm.

Just slightly south, over the past two days Russian forces advanced 2,500 meters north of Umanske, towards Novoselovskoye-Persha.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Over the past two days Russian forces advanced 2,500 meters towards the outskirts of Verkhnekamensky (Sivers'k direction). Russian troops successfully captured a major Ukrainian fortification along the way too.

Just slightly north, Russian forces have captured Belogorovka's chalk quarry (known as the 'White Mountain') – Ukrainian sources confirm the loss. The control of this quarry puts all of Belogorovka's supply routes within Russian fire range.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Within 24 hours after capturing Novoaleskandrovka, Russian forces advanced 1,000 meters west, capturing Vozdvizhenka's dam (Avdiivka direction).

🇦🇲🇷🇺⚡- "Armenia is to withdraw from the military bloc under Russian control, the CSTO," – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

12 hours ago Armenia signed a 'strategic partnership' deal with the US.

CSTO: Collective Security Treaty Organization, a bloc of former Soviet Union nations.

🇦🇲🇷🇺⚡- "Those responsible are those who formed this bubble-like bloc, whose members, it turns out, instead of fulfilling their obligations to protect bloc partners, were planning a war against Armenia together with Azerbaijan." – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

🇸🇴🏴⚡- The al-Shabaab group have captured the strategic town of el-Dheer, Somalia.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- 9 Chinese jets currently in Taiwanese airspace.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli raids on southern Lebanon

🇫🇷🇳🇨⚡- France suspends planned reforms in New Caledonia, which sparked major unrests last month.

🇦🇲⚡- Scenes from the Armenian parliament right now after Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, called called some government officials "cowards" and "traitors".

🇦🇲⚡- Scenes outside the Armenian parliament, as anti-Pashinyan protests turn violent. The police are reportedly using stun grenades to secure the perimeter.

🇦🇲⚡️- "For you, since 1998 the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) were used to maintain power. Today you brought them to Armenia as protest material, paying them ֏5,000 to bring them to protests against me. For you, the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have been, are, and will always be a tool to maintain power. You don't care about Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Armenia or the Armenian people!" – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, criticizing Robert Kocharyan-led opposition.

🇦🇲⚡️- Snipers are present in the Armenian National Assembly building in Yerevan.

🇦🇲⚡️- Tensions remain extraordinarily high outside the National Assembly in Yerevan, as police continue to fire crowd control devices onto protesters, including flashbangs, smoke bombs, and rubber bullets.

🇦🇲⚡- "I should have said in 2018 that Karabakh should be recognised as part of Azerbaijan," – Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

🇬🇧🇾🇪⚡️- UKMTO reports that a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, TUTOR, was struck by a Houthi aerial target and has begun taking on water in the Red Sea. The crew abandoned the vessel shortly after impact.

🇦🇲⚡- Yerevan's only synagogue was attacked today. Similar attacks occured last month and in October 2023, with red paint poured over the center and graffiti reading "Jews are the sworn enemies of the Armenian state".