🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "I held two conversations with [South African] President Ramaphosa on the situation in Eastern DR Congo. What has been said about these conversations in the media by South African officials and President Ramaphosa himself contains a lot of distortion, deliberate attacks, and even lies," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "The Rwanda Defence Force is an army, not a militia," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "[South Africa-led] SADC Mission is not a peacekeeping force, and it has no place in this situation. It engages in offensive combat operations to help the DR Congo Government, working alongside genocidal armed groups, while also threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Every young Congolese ready to defend his country has a place within our armed forces, enlist massively in the army," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Be sure of one thing, the Democratic Republic of Congo will not let it be humiliated or crushed, we will fight and we will triumph," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "A vigorous and coordinated response against these terrorists [M23] and their sponsors is underway," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇶🇦🇸🇾⚡- Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad, arrives in Damascus, Syria. This marks the first visit by a foreign head of state to Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the Shevchenko district of Chasov Yar.

🇺🇸⚡- Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison.

🇬🇪🇦🇲⚡- Georgian Foreign Minister arrives in Yerevan, Armenia. Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, is also expected to visit Armenia today.

🇺🇸🇬🇪⚡- Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister of Georgia, is happy with the US freezing foreign aid, saying "frozen US foreign aid was used for revolutions in other countries, including Georgia."

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces destroy the Syrian government building in al-Qunaitrah, southern Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Confirmed Israeli presence in southern Syria.

Israel incursions in southern Syria have reached a total area of 652 sqkm. Israeli troops are 23 km from the major city of Daraa and 17 km from the capital Damascus.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 have launched a large-scale offensive south, with fighting ongoing in Kalungu, Lake Kivu direction, eastern DR Congo.

The offensive was confirmed by Steve Wembi, DR Congo armed forces, FARDC, military journalist. Wembi believes the objective of the new M23 offensive is the strategic city of Nyabibwe, which if captured, can then be used by M23 to launch an attack on Bukavu.

🇺🇸⚡- "Bodies of more than 30 victims recovered from Washington plane crash site," - NBC.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We have declared war on Arab terrorism in Judea and Samaria [West Bank]" - Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas releases 7 hostages, including one Israeli male and female hostage and five foreign nationals, which were handed over to the Red Cross.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: South Africa's Ministry of Defense warns Rwanda that continued hostilities against the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) in the DR Congo would be considered a declaration of war.