🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 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.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Scenes from Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa's victory speech begins.

🇸🇾⚡- "The day of the regime’s fall, December 8, will be declared a national holiday in Syria," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, Leader of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "A few months ago, Damascus appeared to me like a devoted mother, looking at her children with the eyes of a person seeking help and reproach. While complaining of wounds, humiliation and disgrace, bleeding and stubbornly resisting the pain, almost collapsing as she said, Save your nation," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, Leader of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "We broke the chains, thanks to God, and the tortured were freed," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, Leader of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "We removed the dust of humiliation and disgrace from the shoulders of the Levant, and the sun of Syria shines once again," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, Leader of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "The people cheered and glorified, and it was a clear conquest and a great victory," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, Leader of Syria.