🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China boarded Philippines' vessels, confiscating firearms and towing one boat away.

🇨🇳🇵🇭🇨🇦⚡- "Canada condemns actions taken by China near Second Thomas shoal, including the ramming and towing of Philippines' vessels. These dangerous and destabilizing actions caused injuries." – Canadian Ambassador to Philippines.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Philippines Coast Guard spokesman claims 4 of their sailors were taken hostage by the Chinese Coast Guard.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rocket barrage in northern Israel (Shlomi direction.)

Hezbollah maintained a cessation of hostilities due to a holiday, but has resumed attacks in northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reporting casualties and material damage to military assets in northern Israel, including the outbreak of fires due to Hezbollah rockets.

🇫🇷🇦🇲⚡- France has agreed to supply the Armenian Armed Forces with 'Caeser' howitzers.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- Russia has signed a 'strategic cooperation agreement' with North Korea ahead of Vladimir Putin's visit to the country.

🇷🇺🇱🇾⚡- Russian warships have arrived at Tobruk port, Libya.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- According to the Ukrainian 3rd Separate Brigade (ex-Azov), Russia is preparing a major counteroffensive in the Kharkov-Kupyansk direction.

"The immediate task of the occupiers is to reach the settlement of Cherneshchyna - Pershotravneve, with the subsequent capture of the settlement of Borova."

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- 12 Chinese aircrafts currently in Taiwanese airspace. Taiwanese fishermen reported a Chinese submarine, Type 094, in the Taiwan Strait.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured a large, vital Ukrainian fortification, north of Sokol. Ukrainian sources confirm withdrawing to the western outskirts of Sokol.

The fortification played a pivotal role in Ukraine's defense and slowing the Russian advances in the Ocheretyne direction.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media report that Hezbollah "possess intelligence capabilities that constitute an Israeli security failure," after Hezbollah broadcasted important Israeli objectives to the Lebanese public

🇿🇼⚡️- Zimbabwe announces its intentions to join the BRICS alliance.

🇲🇦⚡- "The Polisario will turn the entire Western Sahara into a war zone, where the Royal Moroccan troops will be attacked everywhere," – Sidi Muhammad Ammar, representative of the Polisario Front.

Polisario Front (PF) is the separatist movement claiming Western Sahara. The announcement by Ammar comes a few days after a Moroccan raid killed 5 PF members.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🏴⚡- Islamic State in Syria targeted by Russian airstrikes for the third day in a row.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian DRGs are crossing the Dnepr river, testing Kherson defenses – Ukrainian sources.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "At some stage, we should consider some kind of economic cost if China doesn't change their behaviour," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "We [NATO] must work closely with our Indo-Pacific partners," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "Russia is increasingly on the same side with authoritarian leaders North Korea, China and other authoritarian friends. This makes it even more important for this transatlantic alliance." – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China is fueling the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II," – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.