🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 2 Tu-23m Russian bombers have lifted off, heading in the northwest direction towards launch position (Yalta, Crimea). Sirens in Ukrainian-controlled Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa.

‼️🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇲 Israel has reportedly informed the US that a ground offensive into Lebanon is imminent

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwan to buy large batch of US weapons to improve relations with Trump. Including 60 F-35 fighters, 4 E-2D Hawkeye aircraft, 10 decommissioned ships equipped with the Aegis air defense system and 400 missiles for the Patriot air defense system. Totaling $15 billion," - Financial Times.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Numerous Ukrainian war journalists claim Russia's winter offensive is set to begin any day now. Russian forces will allegedly go on the offensive in Sumy and north Zaporozhye.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Rivnopol, Velikaya Novoselka direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Dalnoe and have advanced in Kurakhovo city itself, capturing 'School No.3'.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Massive wave of Israeli strikes across Beirut.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Moment the Kurakhovo dam was destroyed. From the footage, no projectile was seen striking the dam. Which means it was likely mined with explosives, proving the Ukrainians carried out the act.

🇨🇳⚡- Death toll rises to 35 from the Zhuhai incident in China.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Beirut.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the large and strategic town of Pogrebki, in the Kursk region.

Russia has also captured Maryevka and Orlovka. Russian troops have reentered Leonidovo, with fierce fighting reported at the center of the town.

Ukrainian forces now control 483 sqkm of territory in Kursk.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡- "Do not speak loudly in Japanese when outdoors, and pay attention to your surroundings, especially in crowded places like squares," - Japan's Consulate in Guangzhou, China, urges its citizens from speaking in Japanese in public after the Zhuhai incident.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Leading opposition figure and former deputy, Tengiz Agrba, has been released from custody in Abkhazia.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- "We are currently conducting negotiations with European countries, but the Zionist entity seeks to disrupt this path and complicate it," - Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇺🇿🇵🇸⚡- "Uzbekistan is ready to provide free medical treatment to Palestinian children and women who have suffered," - Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan.

🇮🇱⚡- "Arab countries to restrict arms exports to Israel," - al-Hadath, Saudi media.

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- "Arab countries have agreed they will also seek to freeze Israel's membership in the UN," - al-Hadath, Saudi media.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "One of the main tasks is Iran. Iran is more vulnerable than ever, it is much more possible to damage its nuclear facilities now than ever before. Now there is an opportunity to achieve the most important task - to eliminate the threat of destruction of the State of Israel by preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons," - Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister, in a conversation with Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsiya, bans all flights from Russia to Israel at night for the next month.

🇶🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Qatar makes unusual request of Israel - Qatar has asked Israel to refrain from killing Hamas leaders on its territory," - Channel 11.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Dermer met with US President-elect Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida," - Axios.