🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drone flying over Tebnine-Harith calling on residents to leave the area.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A rocket launched from Lebanon impacted Kiryat Shmona, near to a school in the city. No casualties have been reported.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces today captured Krasnooktyabrskoe in the north of their Kursk invasion. Over the past few days Ukrainian forces in the north had also recaptured Snagost and Vishnevka. The pincer attack on Koronevo continues, with Ukraine's eastern flank capturing Olgovka, Zhuravli and Kalinov. Vetreno is now grey-zone as both sides claim control.

In the center the lines have almost stabilized. The Kositsa-Pravda-Kubatkin axis has been confirmed to be under Ukrainian control. Yesterday Russia's Arbat unit recaptured Nachayev. Some of the fiercest battles took place along the Martynovka-Mikhailovka sector which Ukrainian forces won but took heavy losses, capturing both towns. Russian sources claim Ukraine has already begun attacking Pushkarnoe.

In the south, the situation continues to deteriorate for the Ukrainian troops. A week ago Ukrainian forces were on the outskirts of Giri, however since then they have lost Kamyshnoe, Krupets and Spalnoe, with Borki now being contested by both sides.

In the far-west, Ukrainian attempts to take Tetkino have all failed. Ukrainian forces have destroyed two bridges over the Seym river, with just the Zvannoe bridge remaining. While Russia quickly builds pontoon crossings, Ukraine is destroying them just as fast. The objective seems to be to trap over 3,000 Russian troops south of the river.

Ukrainian forces control 850 sqkm in the Kursk region, excluding grey-zones and DRG operations - far shorter than Oleksandr Syrskyi's claim of 1,263 sqkm.

🇨🇳🇱🇧⚡️- China urges its citizens to leave Lebanon "as soon as possible"

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia preparing strikes on Ukrainian government facilities in the coming days – US Embassy in Ukraine.

🇧🇾🇨🇳⚡- Chinese State Council Premier, Li Qiang, has arrived in Minsk, Belarus, to meet Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

🇸🇩🇮🇷⚡- Iran represent the artery that feeds the war in Sudan and the shedding of more blood and victims of children, women and civilians – Qanaqar, Rapid Support Forces media.

🇸🇩🇮🇷⚡- Most of the Iranian Mohajer 6 drones have been destroyed and have not achieved any significant change on the battlefield – Qanaqar, Rapid Support Forces media.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇺🇦⚡- The US and Chinese embassies in Kiev, Ukraine, are urging their citizens to avoid traveling to Ukraine for fear of widespread Russian attacks on Ukrainian Independence Day on Saturday.

🇮🇱⚡- Heads of northern Israeli regions and councils were invited this morning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office for a meeting to be held at 2:30pm (Tel-Aviv time).

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "If we do not respond to the enemy’s evil in assassinating Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, this means that we have surrendered to Israel and accepted humiliation," – Mohammad Hamedani, Iran's Karaj Friday Prayer Imam, calls on the Iranian Government to retaliate against Israel.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Iran confirms the killed IRGC Advisor by an Israeli airstrike on August 15th in Syria was General Ahmad Reza Afshari, Head of the 'Missile and Drone Unit' of the IRGC.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian Neptune missiles struck Conro Trader ferry at the Russian port of Kavkaz, Krasnodar region.

Russia's Head of the Temryuk district confirms the strike and that there were "30 tanks with fuel on the ferry" at the time of impact.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Scenes from Kavkaz Port, Krasnodar region of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Air raid sirens at east Crimea, Russia. Russia has temporarily closed the Kerch Strait Bridge.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 5 Russians were on board the ferry, their fate is unknown at the moment – TASS.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Conro Trader ferry has sunk in the water due to the damage – Russia's Kuban Operational Headquarters.

🇻🇪⚡- Venezuela's Supreme Court has recognized Nicolas Maduro as President-Elect.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The Russian FSB have placed all journalists who have visited Russia's Kursk territories occupied by Ukraine on its 'International Terrorist Wanted List'.

It includes CNN's Nick Peyton Walsh and Italian journalists Simone Traini and Stefani Battistin.