🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has arrived in Kiev, Ukraine.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Beirut, Lebanon, this morning.

🇹🇷⚡- Fethullah Gulen, the individual behind the coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, has died in the US.

🇺🇸⚡- 4 killed in a helicopter crash in Houston, Texas.

🇷🇺🇰🇷⚡- "Cooperation between Russia and North Korea is not directed against the interests of South Korea's security," - Georgy Zinovyev, Russia's Ambassador to South Korea.

🇲🇩⚡- "There is clear evidence that criminal groups are working together with foreign forces hostile to Moldova's interests and have bought off 300,000 votes. This is fraud of unprecedented scale," - Maia Sandu, incumbent President of Moldova.

🇲🇩⚡- "The Central Election Commission of Moldova, CEC, will send data on violations in the Presidential elections and the referendum on EU accession to the Constitutional Court," - Angelica Caraman, CEC Chairwoman.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts across most of northern Israel, ballistic missile likely launched from Lebanon inbound.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- At least 1 ballistic missile was reportedly launched from Lebanon, possibly two. An interception has already taken place.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Violent explosions reported in Haifa, Acre, and Nahariyya.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- One interception was reported in Haifa.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Al Jazeera's live broadcast in southern Lebanon has confirmed the movement of an IDF armored column into the village of Ayta ash-Shab.

There appears to be Merkava IV tanks, as well as Nameer APCs and their combat engineering variants.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF Spokesman Hagari confirms a ballistic missile was fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon, but was intercepted. The event has ended.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Red alerts across Ukraine, Russian MiG-31s have taken off.

🇻🇳⚡- Vietnam has elected Luong Cuong, a military general, as its new President.

🇷🇺⚡- "The world will not last even a decade if geopolitical balance is not found. In this case, humanity will face a total war until complete extermination," - Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Gulf States support Israel's counterattack on Iran. They also expressed their appreciation and support for the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and Lebanon and praised the killings of senior IRGC and Hezbollah figures," - al-Hura, US-Government run pan-Arab media.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The leak of highly classified documents about Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran could negatively impact coordination between the US and the Jewish state," - ABC News.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The US Defense Department has agreed to send Israel $5.2 billion in aid to strengthen Israel's air defense.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- " The West has unleashed an information war against relations between Russia and Iran," - Iran's Ambassador to Moscow.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have stormed Gornyak from the north in the Kurakhovo direction.

Just south, Russian troops have successfully crossed the Volcha river and have captured 75% of Zoryanoe.