🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Liubimovka and Zeleniy Shlakh - north of the Kursk region, Russia.

Russian troops have ended a three weeks battle for the town of Liubimovka and with that have also closed Olgovka's pocket. Russian forces have also entered the first few houses of Novoivanovka.

In the center of the Kursk region, Russian forces have captured Novaya Sorochina completely bypassing the larger town of Pogrebki. It seems Russia is trying to encircle Pogrebki instead of fighting it head-on.

Russia has captured an area of 54 sqkm, meanwhile Ukraine still holds 620 sqkm of territory in the Kursk region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - In comparison, since the beginning of Ukraine's Kursk offensive, Russia has captured 464 sqkm of heavily fortified area in just the Pokrovsk-Kurakhovo sector alone.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Ostrevskoe - Kurakhovo direction.

Russian troops have also captured the fields south of Ostrevskoe and there are initial reports of Russian DRGs crossing into western Maksimilianovka. If true, it would mean a massive Russian pincer assault is currently underway on Ukrainian positions in that large town.

Ostrevskoe was the last remaining town before the strategically vital city of Kurakhovo. One of the most important battles of Donetsk, the Battle of Kurakhovo, could begin in the next 48 hours.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have withdrawn from the dacha sector in northern Kamyanskoe – Zaporozhye direction.

Ukrainian forces have recaptured lost positions.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Jeremy Loffredo, an American journalist who writes for the publication The Grayzone, has been arrested in Israel on charges of "aiding the enemy" after reporting in detail on the Iranian strikes in Israel.

Loffredo was reportedly beaten in custody, alongside five other journalists who were arrested by the Israeli police. Loffredo is the only one who has not been released.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Large missile barrage towards northern Israel.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- North Korea has placed offensive weapons along the South Korean border at maximum alert.

This comes after Pyongyang blamed South Korea for violating its airspace by sending drones into the country.

🇸🇬🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The South China Sea is a live and immediate issue, with real risks of an accident spiraling into conflict," - Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister of Singapore, at the ASEAN Summit.

🇮🇳🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- India has condemned Israel's attacks on UNIFIL personnel in southern Lebanon.

🇸🇬🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "We continue to be subjected to harassment and intimidation by China’s actions which violate international law," - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, at the ASEAN Summit.

🇸🇬🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China will continue to crush foreign encroachment in our South China Sea," - Li Qiang, Chinese Premier, at the ASEAN Summit.

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- "The Lemkin Institute, which studies ethnic cleansing and genocide, accuses Israel of the latter, thus it covers up the crimes of Hezbollah and Hamas. The institute has made the same false accusations against Israel's strategic partner, Azerbaijan, in the past too," - The Jewish Press.

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Israel congratulated Israelis on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "We are actively working together in the international arena and our assessments of events taking place in the world are often very close" - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

🇸🇬🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China will say one thing but then do a different thing," - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, at the ASEAN Summit.

🇻🇦🇺🇦⚡- Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Zelenskyi have met at the Vatican.

🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡- "In principle, we do not want to start an energy war, but if one begins, the world will lose 12 million barrels of oil daily," - Abu Ali Al-Askari, Kata'ib Hezbollah Spokesman.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia will begin a strategic offensive along the entire front in the coming days," - Oleksiy Arestovych, former Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡- "In the event of a conflict with Russia, Poland and the Baltic countries should attack St. Petersburg directly in the first minutes," Rajmund Andrzejczak, Polish Chief of Staff.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- IRGC announced the body of Abbas Nilforoushan, Deputy Commander of the IRGC, has been found and will now be transported back to Iran.

🇳🇮🇮🇱⚡️- Nicaragua has severed all diplomatic ties with Israel.