🇷🇺⚡- Several prison guards have been reportedly killed by the prisoners, with up to 5 more taken as hostages.

🇷🇺⚡- Operation to free hostages is being carried out in the penal colony, IK-19, Volgograd – Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service.

🇷🇺⚡- Death toll of prison guards currently at 3, feared to be much higher – Baza, Russian media.

🇷🇺⚡- Radicals who took hostages demand $2 million and a helicopter – Readovka, Russian media.

🇷🇺⚡- Radicals are associated with the Islamic State – Sapa, Russian media.

🇷🇺⚡- Four taken to hospital, conditions unknown. State media reports death toll at 2.

🇷🇺⚡- The two confirmed to have been killed at IK-19 penal colony in Volgograd are the Head of the Colony and the Head of the Operational Unit – Mash, Russian media.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- "Historic day in India's and Ukraine's relations. I felt a deep sense of friendship for you from our first meeting in 2021," – Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is "ready to personally play any role" to help "achieve peace" and "India is ready to contribute".

🇷🇺⚡- "It is unclear why these negotiations with criminals are necessary at all? To persuade them with kind words? To admonish them? After what these bandits have killed and done today? I emphasize: we must speak with criminals from a position of strength!" – Bata Kifah Mohamad, Mufti of the Russian Volgograd Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims, rejects negotiating with the terrorists.

🇷🇺⚡- In a new video released by the terrorists at IK-19 penal colony, they reject the claims they were demanding $2 million and a helicopter – Baza, Russian media.

🇷🇺⚡- IK-19 terrorists claims their motives for today's attack: "Revenge for the killed [terrorists] who attacked Crocus in Moscow," – SHOT, Russian media.

🇺🇦🇮🇳⚡- "Together with the Prime Minister of India Modi, we commemorated the children whose lives were taken by Russian aggression. The children of every country deserve to be safe. We must make it possible," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇷🇺⚡- "We are doing all this for the sake of Allah, for the sake of establishing Sharia, for the sake of the Muslim brothers who are sitting in Syria. We are for those brothers to whom they did this when all this happened in Crocus. This is revenge for all the Muslim brothers," – In a video released by the terrorists holding up at IK-19 penal colony.

🇷🇺⚡- Russian Special Forces have stormed the IK-19 penal colony.

🇮🇱⚡- Since the beginning of the war: 695 soldiers have been killed, 4,357 soldiers have been injured of which 645 were seriously injured and 185 soldiers are still receiving treatment – Galei Tzahal, IDF-funded radio.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Broadcasting Corporation: "A number of settlements in the Western Galilee received instructions to reduce traffic and avoid gatherings"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli media claims the IDF has killed Muhammad Najm, Head of Hezbollah's 'Rocket and Drone Unit'.

🇷🇺⚡- Local residents report hearing intense gunfire.

🇷🇺⚡- All communications have been jammed in Surovikino, the town were IK-19 penal colony is located - 'Caution News', local Volgograd outlet.

🇷🇺⚡- The assault is over, all hostages have been freed, the terrorists have been neutralized – Readovka, Russian media.