🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine No. 3 – Ugledar direction.

After a week of fighting for the mine, Russian UAV footage shows Russian armored vehicles storming and securing the western half of the mine, at 47.82613, 37.28604.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "We need to conquer a strip of land in Southern Lebanon and set up a security zone," – Israeli Commander of Northern region.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli media speculates Benjamin Netanyahu may fire Yoav Gallant for opposing "military expansions in the north".

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "For many months I have been calling on Netanyahu to fire Galant, and the time has come to do so immediately. We need a decision in the north and Gallant is not the right person to lead it," – Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security.

🇮🇱⚡- Prime Minister Netanyahu has summoned Gallant to his office.

🇮🇱⚡- "The Prime Minister has not yet made a final decision to remove Gallant, but it is close," – Moriah Asraf, Israeli journalist.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office denies rumors of attempts to replace Yoav Gallant with Gideon Sa'ar.

Sa'ar is a former Likud member, staunch anti-Palestinian, opposes the '2-state solution' and strongly supports military operations against Hezbollah. Sa'ar has also supported the 'complete annexation of the West Bank', and supports a 'Palestinian state inside of Jordan'.

After the October 7 attacks, Sa'ar said "whoever attacks Israel, must lose territory" (on Channel 12).

🇮🇱⚡- "Efforts to dismiss Galant in wartime are unacceptable madness," – Meir Sheetrit, former Member of Knesset.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have reached the center of Maksimilianovka – Kurakhovo direction.

Russian forces advanced 1,200 meters inside the town, Ukrainian UAV footage shows Russian troops at 47.97183, 37.40211.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Major Russian advance in the Ugledar direction.

Russian forces have captured a large Ukrainian trench system north of Vodyanoe. capturing an area of 11 sqkm.

Russian UAV footage confirms the advance, as Russian positions were shelled by Ukrainian artillery at the northern tip of one of the trench lines, at 47.84182, 37.35404.

🇮🇱⚡- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin have arrived at Kirya.

🇮🇱⚡- The cabinet meeting has been postponed until 9pm (Tel-Aviv time).

🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- "We have hypersonic weapons and we have satellites, but there is no truth to sending missiles to the Houthis. The Houthis have their own technology and are able to produce advanced missiles," – Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- "We will seek to improve relations with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan," – Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇮🇱🏳‍🌈⚡- The Israeli LGBT Association demands a public apology from Danny Levy, Israeli Police Chief, after he said "I have nothing personal against gay people, but I can't stand to see two men walking together in the street, holding hands or kissing".

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Yair Lapid has arrived in the US and will meet Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State.

🇮🇱⚡- Appointing Sa'ar will be a death sentence for the kidnapped – Channel 12, anti-Likud media.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The occupying entity aimed, through the assassination of Commander Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, to drag us into a regional war. We have exercised self-restraint but also reserve the right to respond in the appropriate manner and time," – Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇷🇺🇰🇿🇩🇪⚡- "Russia is militarily invincible. Further escalation will lead to irreparable consequences," – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan's President, said at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Defense Minister Yoav Galant is now meeting with Amos Hochstein, US Special Envoy to Israel, in a last ditch attempt to prevent a significant escalation in the north. The assessment in Israel is that the chance of a settlement in Lebanon, without a ceasefire in Gaza, is slim – Channel 12, anti-Likud media.