🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia launches counterattack in the Kursk region – Russian and Ukrainian sources confirm.

Within just a few hours, the towns of Malaya-Loknya and Kazachya-Loknya are already in the grey-zone.

Both sides report heavy fighting in the city of Sudzha (which remains under Russian control) and the town of Kruglenkoe.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russia issues NOTAM, warning Russian aircraft to not land in Israel during the night for the next week.

🇵🇰🇧🇩⚡- "We believe that there were outside elements, extreme elements, perhaps even foreign intelligence elements. I strongly suspect Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, was feeding this," – Sajeeb Wazed, son of former Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Heavy Russian reinforcements heading towards Kursk region of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have recaptured Kruglenkoe, Malaya-Loknya and Kazachya-Loknya.

Russian forces entered the towns of Viktorovka, Leonidovo and Aleksandria, making all three grey-zones.

Russian forces also crossed the Reka river into south Zaoleshenka, making this area a grey-zone too.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces do not control Sudzha, Kursk region. South of Oleshnya river remains a grey-zone, while the northern half is under Russian control.

There is a lot of misinformation regarding the photo of the Ukrainian soldier at Pyaterochka store. The Pyaterochka store isn't the one north of Sudzha. The photo has been geolocated and flagged on the map at 51.200089, 35.247523, central Zaoleshenka.

The Pyaterochka store north of Sudzha is 51.19672, 35.28706.

🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡- US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, calls on all US citizens to "leave Lebanon immediately", and for those who decide to remain to “prepare an emergency plan and prepare to be in shelter for an extended period of time".

🇳🇬⚡- Nigeria arrests seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags at protests.

🇱🇾⚡- "We call on all parties to exercise restraint and not to create provocations that could take the situation out of control. The mission calls on the Libyan National Army forces to continue to coordinate their actions with the Libyan Armed Forces of the Western Region." – Stephanie Khoury, United Nations Mission to Libya.

🇺🇲🇸🇦⚡- Biden administration informs Congress it will lift embargo on offensive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia – Reuters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We promise good results in the Kursk region within two to three days," – Head of the Chechen region of Russia, Ramzan Kadyrov.

🇲🇱🇸🇪🇺🇦⚡- Mali expels the Swedish ambassador to the country.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There will be no mobilization in Russia, since we have enough forces, there are already successes in Kursk, our aviation is working," – Viktor Zavarzin, Member of Russian State Duma.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Dozens of Russian military personnel are being trained in Iran to use Iranian ballistic missiles – Reuters.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Iran to deliver hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia – Reuters.

🇧🇷⚡- A passenger plane in Brazil has crashed.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- The US base at Kharab al-Jir in northeastern Syria was targeted by Islamic Resistance of Iraq using drones.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The deployment of US forces in the region to defend Israel is unprecedented in size and scope," -ABC, quoting a senior Israeli official

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Multiple casualties have been reported.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- The US base at Kharab al-Jir is now reportedly on fire as a result of Islamic Resistance in Iraq's drone strikes.

🇺🇸⚡️- Multiple fire trucks and other emergency vehicles have arrived at the White House. ABC reports that multiple entrances have been blocked off, for reasons unknown.