🇫🇷⚡- New reports, the restaurant owner, Albert Botbol, is holding 4 of his employees in his restaurant as hostages, threatening to kill himself and them.

🇫🇷⚡- Security have closed the area off.

🇫🇷⚡- Firefighters are at the scene, in Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France.

🇫🇷⚡- "The man who took hostages has announced his intention to commit suicide. Only the restaurant's employees are in the restaurant, there are no customers," - Le Figaro, French media.

🇫🇷⚡- Le Figaro claims it is the owner's son as well.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If Trump forces Kiev to sign peace on unfavorable terms, mass unrest could break out in the country, leading to its conquest by Russia," - Dmytro Kuleba, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister.

🇫🇷⚡- "The man who took hostages at a restaurant in a Paris suburb is armed with a knife," BFM TV, French media.

🇫🇷⚡- The Search and Response Brigade (BRI) arrives at the scene to enter the restaurant.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Bzhania's Press Office denies that he has asked for Abkhaz or Russian military assistance.

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ali Yusuf, says that if "talks fail between Ethiopia and Egypt" over the construction of the 'GER' Dam in Ethiopia, "Sudan may side with Egypt". Yusuf also claims "war is an option".

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇪🇬⚡- Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry summons the Sudanese Ambassador over the comments.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian Kh-59 cruise missiles have been launched. Sirens across Ukraine.

🇫🇷⚡- Law enforcements are negotiating with the man holding 4 hostages.

🇵🇰⚡- "Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law," - VoA.

🇹🇷⚡- Political figures in Turkey are collecting signatures of support from Government officials to withdraw from NATO.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia has fired another wave of Kh-59 cruise missiles, likely towards Chernigov again.

Sirens across Ukraine.

🇫🇷⚡- The four hostages have been released without any injuries. The suspect has also been detained.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Abkhaz Minister of Internal Affairs says he will not resign.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- The Abkhaz opposition demands the entire Government to dissolve.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Head of Abkhaz State Security says that his department reports only to the President.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Iran's Defense Minister arrives in Damascus, Syria, for an emergency security meeting.