🇧🇾🇨🇳⚡- 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.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel's Air Control Base at Mount Meron in northern Israel was targeted by a Hezbollah projectile.

The base has been targeted numerous times since October 8th. Today's attack was not detected by sirens or Iron Dome.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov: "Putin has made a decision on how to respond to the attack on the Kursk region, those responsible will be severely punished"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Footage from the targeting of Mount Meron.

🇷🇺 - Today marks one year since the deaths of the founders of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny 'First' Prighozin and Dmitry 'Ninth' Utkin.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, has arrived in Kiev, Ukraine.