🇬🇧🇨🇾⚡- Authorities in Cyprus "are ready to help" the British Police arrest Tommy Robinson. There are concerns he could flee to the Turkish Republic in the northern half of the Island.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have captured another 5 settlements in the Kursk region of Russia – Russian sources confirm.

Ukrainian forces have captured Obukhovka, Pokrovskiy, Tolstoy Lug and Liubimovka in the north.

Russian forces also claim Ukraine controls Zeleniy-Shlyakh and Aleksandria - Ukraine has not confirmed advancing this far.

In the center, Ukrainian troops have captured Lebedevka. Russian sources claim Ukrainian troops have reached Loknya - again, Ukraine has not confirmed advancing this far north.

The Ukrainian information side has been very quiet and has blocked comments on this "operation", indicating this may just be the start. Most of the information comes from the Russian side.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- All public events in Kursk, Russia, have been cancelled – Kursk Administration.

🇺🇲🇸🇾⚡- US forces are conducting large scale airstrikes on the Syrian forces to halt their offensive.

🇺🇲🇸🇾⚡- US helicopters are reported over Dhiban, which was recently captured by Syrian tribal forces.

🇵🇭⚡- The Philippines, Australia, Canada and the United States will hold joint naval exercises in the South China Sea tomorrow.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Chinese Navy Spokesman confirms China carried out "combat patrol" at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory with the Philippines.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Armed Forces do not have the resources to recapture the Kursk territory," – Russian Commander of the "Akhmat" Special Forces, General Apti Alaudinov.

Note, numerous Russian sources earlier claimed that 'Akhmat' abandoned and fled their positions at Rubanshchina, Kursk.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It is a major provocation," – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Ukraine's Kursk region operation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have entered Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- Putin: "We call on the authorities of the other Russian regions to join in providing assistance to the Kursk region".

🇺🇦⚡- "If we mobilize all people aged 18 and over, we will be able to fight until 2033," – Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will either have to stop all this or declare a large-scale mobilization if the war drags on until the summer of 2025," – Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If we talk about conditional rebellions of ethnic groups in Russia, then for this we need a leader on the spot. We have a good leader, he is with us, but is still gaining skills," – Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian forces have besieged SDF in the city of Hajin, Mayadin direction.

Syrian tribal forces have captured the southern and eastern outskirts of the city. There is only one road out via the north for the SDF.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Iranian-backed groups are brining reinforcements and artillery systems to the Mayadin sector to assist the Syrian tribal forces (Arab Tribal Army) in its offensive against US-backed SDF.

Pro-Iranian groups and the tribal forces haven't always been in agreement with numerous clashes, but also joint operations, between the two in the past.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from Sudzha, Kursk region of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The US intends to request clarification from Kiev regarding the events in the Kursk region, of Russia – The White House.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- There are growing signs of Russia's involvement in helping the "Iranian axis" militarily, not just diplomatically – Haaretz, left-wing, anti-Likud paper.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There are no Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city, but there is constant shelling. Everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is ours." – Vitaly Slashchev, Mayor of Sudzha.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Air alerts in Kursk, Russia - two Ukrainian aircraft heading towards Sumy, Ukraine.