🇷🇺🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Channel 11 claims Russia will exert "pressure on Assad to prevent the mass re-arming of Hezbollah from Iran via weapon smuggling through Syria".

The claims come after Netanyahu's top advisor and Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, visited Moscow last week.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: The Kurakhovo dam has been blown up.

Major flooding along the Volcha river downstream, hitting Ukrainian-controlled areas particularly hard. Ukraine has ordered the evacuation of the local population in several towns and cities.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The flooding has put Ukraine's only safe supply route into Kurakhovo out of use.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "Poland intends to create an alliance in Europe to help Ukraine in connection with Trump's rise to power in the United States," - The Times.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, says Georgia is "entering a deep political crisis," which can "only be resolved through new parliamentary elections".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran will take advantage of the period before Trump's inauguration to act against Israel," - Amir Bohbot, senior defense analyst for Walla.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Tehran clings to the foiled ground invasion plans, and is considering initiating an invasion through Jordan," - Amir Bohbot, senior defense analyst for Walla.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's vast network of fortifications around Kurakhovo have begun to crumble. Russian troops have reached the outskirts of Dalnoe.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Voznesenka and Yureevka in the Pokrovsk-Kurakhovo direction. Russian troops have also entered Sonstovka and Zorya.

🇷🇺🇸🇩⚡- "The Republic of Sudan is interested in building a Russian naval base in the city of Port Sudan, located on the western coast of the Red Sea," - Hussein al-Hajjah, Sudan's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- "We have a lot of evidence that Chad offers Rapid Support Forces a military base near its borders with Sudan. Chad allows weapons to be transferred, provides logistical support and even allows mercenaries from different West African countries and other countries to pass through to join the militia," - Hussein al-Hajjah, Sudan's Deputy Foreign Minister.

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🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Attacks on Israelis similar to the 'Jewish pogroms' in Amsterdam may be repeated in Germany," - Bild, German media.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The number of Ukrainian troops involved in the operation in the Kursk region now surpasses those deployed in the Donbass. A sergeant from the 225th Assault Battalion noted that their mission in the Kursk region is to continue the offensive," - El Pais, Spanish media, citing a source in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- Turkish President Erdogan left the room when Syrian President Assad began speaking at the Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The situation for the Ukrainian forces in the Porovsk-Kurakhovo direction has become very critical.

Russian troops have approached the last line of defense in the Donetsk region (highlighted on the map). With fighting ongoing in the center of Zorya, Russian forces are less than 2.5km away from the final line before the Dnepr region. The distance to the Dnepr border is less than 19km.

As seen on the map, the number of fortifications beyond the final line are considerably less, which will make defending against a possible Russian offensive extremely difficult. A recent British Intelligence report states Russia is forming 8 new brigades to launch a massive winter offensive, on a scale similar to Russia's summer 2024 offensive.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡- "The U.S. and UK are preparing to blow up underwater fiber-optic cables that provide the entire world with internet," - Nikolai Patrushev, Russian Presidential Aide.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The image above which is being circulated claiming to show the destruction of the Kurakhovo dam is incorrect.

We have geolocated the photo to 50.74844, 30.36706, Kozarovitskaya Dam in Kiev. This dam was destroyed by Ukrainian forces in 2022 during the battle of Irpin.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Large-scale Hezbollah attack across northern Israel. Several injuries reported.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel claims Hezbollah launched over 90 rockets at northern Israel in the last attack.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel threatens to expand ground operations in Lebanon," - al-Akhbar, Lebanese media.