🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Zaporozhye region to become the new Ukrainian fortress," - Ivan Fedorov, Ukraine's Governor of the Zaporozhye region, commenting on Ukraine's construction of the three defensive lines in the region.

🇨🇳🇮🇩⚡- Tense stand-off between Chinese and Indonesian military vessels for over 12 hours now at the disputed Laut Natuna, in South East China Sea.

Indonesia finally launched its survey of the area after months of speculation, which China has strongly opposed. China reacted by sending military vessels and Indonesia has done likewise.

🇬🇧🦠⚡️- First case of monkeypox detected in the UK.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu expressed great skepticism about the value of agreements on paper, according to him what is really important is the ability to physically distance Hezbollah from the northern border," - Yino News, Israeli media.

🇪🇸⚡- Death toll in Valencia, Spain, rises to 92.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian President Zurabishvili said that she will not go to the Prosecutor General's Office for questioning over her statements about possible election fraud.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- CNN is reporting that Iran may respond to Israel's strikes before the US elections next week, quoting an unnamed source in the White House.

🇺🇸🇰🇵⚡️- The United States believes North Korea plans to conduct an ICBM test - possibly a nuclear test - in the coming days

🇰🇵⚡- North Korea has launched a ballistic missile.

🇦🇷🇨🇺⚡- Argentine President Javier Milei fired Argentina's Foreign Minister after he voted in favor of ending US embargo against Cuba.

🇦🇷⚡- Milei appoints Argentine Ambassador to the US, Gerardo Werthein, as new Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪⚡- "First Russia took a part of Georgia, then they changed their policy, changed the government and now there is a pro-Russian government with pro-Russian positions," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪⚡- "Russia won in Georgia, because the country chose friendship with them and not the path to the EU. Russia took away Georgia's freedom," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.