🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- After several videos went viral of the Russian army using donkeys on the front lines, the Russian State Duma declared that donkeys at the front line "are completely normal".

🇸🇾🇱🇧 - Footage from yesterday showing the clashes in Hawik, Homs region, between the Syrian government forces and the Lebanese Zaiter clan.

Video recorded by the Syrian side.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese army is sending further military reinforcements to the Hermel-Homs (Lebanese-Syrian) border.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Scenes from the Lebanese-Syrian border, with clashes between the Syrian government and Lebanese, pro-Hezbollah clans.

Footage recorded by Syrian forces.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Saudi outlet, al-Hadaath, reports from the front, confirming that the Syrian government forces have captured the towns of Akoum, Jarmish, Hawik and Wadi al-Hawrani from Lebanese clans - Homs region, along the Lebanese border.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Syrian forces claim to have killed 4 from the Lebanese Zaiter clan and captured dozens of others.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to discuss and control the situation on the Hermel-Homs border, and prevent the targeting of civilians.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Rerum Novarum's military source in the south Kursk region tells us that Ukrainian forces entered Cherkasskaya-Konopelka yesterday, with heavy fighting going on currently. Ukrainian troops have been trying to enter Fanaseevka, but have so far failed. A large number of Ukrainian forces are scattered around in the tree lines north of Fanaseevka.

Reports of Ukraine capturing Cherkasskaya-Konopelka or Fanaseevka are outright false. And Ukrainian forces have not entered Ulanok. Our source tells us that the situation is tense, with Ukraine building reserves in Dmitriukov for a second potential attack.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Less than 20% of Ukraine's mineral resources, including about half of its rare earth deposits, are under Russian control. We need to stop Putin and protect what we have, the very rich Dnipro region, central Ukraine," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Violent clashes have broken out again between Lebanese clans and the Syrian government along the Hermel-Homs border. Reinforcements have arrived on both sides.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Al-Maqdad claims to have killed 13 Syrian government soldiers along the Lebanese-Syrian border in the past few hours.

🇧🇮🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Burundi sends an additional 2,000 soldiers to eastern DR Congo to help fight M23, bringing its total to 12,000," - Radio France International.

🇺🇸⚡- "I have decided to revoke former President Joe Biden's security clearance that gives him the right to view classified information," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡- "There are countless government policies in South Africa aimed at dismantling equal opportunity," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇿🇦🇮🇱⚡- "South Africa accused Israel instead of Hamas of genocide before the International Criminal Court," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇿🇦🇮🇱⚡- "South Africa has taken aggressive positions towards the United States and its allies," - Donald Trump, US President.