🇸🇸⚡- A plane with 21 passengers and crew members on board, crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport in South Sudan, killing 18 people and injuring 3 others.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 have captured Sake, Goma direction, eastern DR Congo.

The situation in the Lake Kivu region has become critical for the DR Congo armed forces.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Uspenovka, and most of Novoaleksandrovka - Pokrovsk direction. From Novoaleksandrovka, Russian troops are now less than 3.5km from the Dnepr region border.

Russian forces have also captured the train station in the southwest of Udachnoe.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has stated that it will not withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon until the Lebanese army demonstrates its ability to control the territory. The Israeli military has stressed that it does not trust the Lebanese forces to ensure security on the border and will continue military operations in the region for the next three weeks, as stipulated by the extended truce," - Ynet.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Syria demands Russia take into account past mistakes and respect the will of the Syrian people. Russia must focus on restoring trust on the part of the Syrian people through specific measures such as compensation, restoration and rehabilitation," - Asharq al-Awsat, Saudi outlet.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman, refused to answer questions from the Syrian outlet, SANA. The outlet asked whether Russia will hand Bashar al-Assad over to Syria, as the Syrian government demands, and if Russia will pay compensation to Syria, as Syria requests.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukraine has launched Storm Shadow missiles at Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Traffic on the Crimean Bridge has been closed. Missile alerts raised in Crimea, Rostov, Krasnodar, Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's Storm Shadows enter the Lugansk region airspace.

🇮🇳🇰🇪⚡- India and Kenya are preparing to withdraw from the World Health Organization, WHO.

🇦🇺 ⚡️- Police in Sydney have found a van filled with explosives on a public street with notes including the address of a synagogue. The incident took place on Jan 19, but was only revealed after it was leaked to the media.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, capture two major districts in northern Khartoum, Sudan - al-Khatmiya and al-Waburat.

Rapid Support Forces, RSF, now hold only the Industrial Center and Kafouri districts in northern Khartoum.

SAF also advanced along Nile Street in Khartoum Central (3), capturing Sudan's Central Bank. The advance puts RSF on Tuti Island at risk of complete encirclement, as the SAF are now less than 850 meters from the Tuti Bridge.

🇸🇩🇺🇦⚡- Several Sudanese military journalists accuse Ukraine of providing drones to the Rapid Support Forces.

Note, Ukraine's GUR initially backed the Sudanese government against the Rapid Support Forces, which used to work with the Wagner Group (primarily through Idris Barkawi and the Chad-based FACT forces). After the Wagner Group's withdrawal from eastern Chad and Sudan, it provided Russia with an opportunity to work with Port Sudan. Which has been the case, Russia and Sudan, via Iran, have vastly improved relations, which has likely caused Ukraine to switch sides.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇷🇴⚡- 288 Romanian mercenaries arriving at Little Barrier, Gisenyi, Rwanda. The mercenaries were captured by M23 in Goma, eastern DR Congo, and have handed them over to the Rwandan authorities.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army established a landing pad for helicopters on Mount Hermon in Syria," - Israel's Channel 14.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Sirens across Ukraine, Russian Su-57 airborne. The jet is a carrier of Kh-59 Ovod missiles.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Sirens in Crimea, with the Crimean Bridge closing. Ukraine has launched Neptune missiles.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine's Neptune missiles enter Russian-controlled Kherson airspace. They seem to be heading straight towards Crimea.