🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Assad forces have joined the SDF in shelling Turkish and Turkish-backed group positions around al-Bab, northern Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Scenes from al-Bab, northern Syria.

🇷🇺⚡- The BRICS 2024 Summit has ended.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia will cope with its problems on its own," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "We know which NATO country is present when naval drones are launched in the Black Sea," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "As for our relations with the DPRK, today the treaty was ratified, it contains Article 4 [mutual defense]," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Russian army is moving forward in all areas along the line of combat," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "There is no point in threatening Russia, because it only encourages us," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "I do not recall a conversation with threats from Trump," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, referring to Trump's previous statements on striking Moscow.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Is it fair to lie to our faces that there will be no NATO expansion, and then do it?" - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It is better to sit down at the negotiating table than to voice Ukraine's losses on the battlefield," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We are ready to consider any options for peace agreements, based on the realities that are developing on the ground," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Kiev authorities do not want negotiations because they would have to lift martial law and hold elections," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- "Russia recognizes the legitimacy of Maduro and wishes success to his government," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine's attack on the Kursk region is Kiev interference in the US elections. This is how Kiev tried to show Washington that its investments in the Ukrainian Armed Forces were not in vain," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- "We are ready for escalation, but are the countries that are involved also ready?" - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇵🇸⚡- "I hope Palestine will soon join the work and become a member or partner [of BRICS]," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish President Erdogan holds an emergency security council meeting on the Ankara attack.

🇷🇺🇾🇪⚡- "The Houthis have begun using Russian satellite data as they expand their strikes on global shipping," - Wall Street Journal.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Reports of heavy gunfights between the SDF and the Joint Forces backed by the Turkish military.