🇮🇷⚡- Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has met with President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation: Russian forces have captured Sporny (Spirne) – Sivers'k direction. A Russian flag was hoisted in the western outskirts today.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed control two weeks ago.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- A US volunteer unit fighting on behalf of Ukraine, 'Chosen Company', has been accused of several war crimes. Caspar Grosse, a German medic, who was part of the unit, has admitted the crimes.

Several leaked footage shows the killing of unarmed, prisoners and those who surrendered.

🇪🇺🇭🇺⚡️- Identity and Democracy (ID) to merge with Orban's Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament.

🇮🇱Riots in Tel Aviv

🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫⚡- Military junta leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso held an extraordinary meeting today, in Niamey, Niger.

The first joint meeting since the three came to power and the first summit of the new military alliance - Alliance of Sahel States.

🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫⚡- During the meeting the three junta leaders formed a new "Confederation of Sahel States", aiming for greater economic integration and cooperation.

🇲🇱🇩🇪⚡- German military will close its military base in Niger by August 31.

🇺🇲🇸🇾⚡- "The US has no plans to withdraw from Syria," – Ethan Goldrich, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇩🇪⚡- The bombing of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 were planned in 2014, even before Russia's annexation of Crimea – Welt am Sonntag, German media.

🇺🇸 Project 2025 aimed at staffing Trump's White House with America First loyalists.

🔶️ By disavowing it, Trump betrayed the only right wing thing happening in his movement. He embraced the vultures in his inner circle, and a media cycle that pressures him to submit - @NickJFuentes

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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Galilee.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have reached the center of Glubokoe (Kharkov-Liptsy direction) – both sides confirm.

Further Ukrainian counterattacks to take the remaining of the town failed and Ukrainian talk of a Russian withdrawal are false too. Russian sources say they've begun counterattacking to regain lost positions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian DRG units have captured the towns of Popovka and Oleksandrovka (Sumy direction) – Ukrainian side now confirms, Russia claimed control yesterday.

The towns lie on the Sumy-Belgorod border. In total, 3 towns along the Sumy border are now under Russian control.

🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, believes relations will improve with Iran, now that Masoud Pezeshkian won the Iranian elections.

🇲🇲⚡- Arakan Resistance Army have captured Thandwe Airport and a military base in the Rakhine region, Myanmar.

The situation for the Tadmadaw and ruling junta has become critical in the west of the country.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- 14 Chinese aircrafts within Taiwan's airspace. No military vessels detected.

🇵🇭🇯🇵⚡- Philippines Defense Secretary, Gibo Teodoro, to meet with Japanese Defense Minister, Minoru Kihara, to sign a new security pact amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Two Philippine military vessels have been passing 14 nautical miles east of the Second Thomas shoal for several hours. China has blocked the entrance with 2 defensive lines.

Six Chinese militia vessels are now closely shadowing the Philippine vessels.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu strongly attacked the Defense Minister, Gallant, during the ministerial meeting and accused him, along with the Opposition, of trying to overthrow the Government – Israel Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu paper.

🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡️- British PM Keir Starmer on his first call with Netanyahu called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza going further stating "Palestinian statehood is an undeniable right in the peace process".