🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "We warn the Iranian authorities that Moscow may sacrifice Iranian interests in exchange for concessions from Washington over the Ukraine conflict.

Iran will be drawn into this equation alongside Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine… and Russia will turn a blind eye to any actions the United States may take against Iran.

Russia has failed to support Iranian forces in Syria in the past when Israeli jets targeted their positions and has collaborated with the US and Israel against Iran’s ally, Bashar al-Assad. Russia has in the past prevented the transfer of arms to Hezbollah through Syria." - Jomhouri-e Eslami.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I believe that this year we will reach a ceasefire. How long and effective it will be is another question," - Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Believe me, neither the Russians nor we will be able to come up with anything radically new and large-scale. Everything has already been worked out [on the front-line]" - Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There will be attempts to destabilize Ukraine. But it’s okay, any action has a counteraction," - Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇫🇷⚡- "French President Macron to visit Washington next week to discuss Ukraine," - Le Figaro.

🇧🇾🇵🇱⚡- "Belarus views the militarization of its western borders as preparation for an attack on the Union State," - Valery Revenko, Chief of Belarus' International Military Co-operation Department.

🇬🇪🇺🇦⚡- " We were told that some train was coming, running, and if we did not get on it, our time would never come. Today, I think, we all see very well how disadvantageous it could be for Georgia to be on the train that the current Ukrainian government is on," - Maka Bochorishvili, Foreign Minister of Georgia.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- A number of Azerbaijani government sites and news agencies have been subjected to cyber attacks. The logo of Huseyniyyun appears on the sites, an IRGC-backed Azerbaijani Shiite group.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A Chinese helicopter came within 3 meters of distance to a Philippine aircraft over the disputed Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- The US government condemns the 'unsafe and irresponsible actions' by China over the Scarborough Shoal, saying Chinese behavior is a 'threat to navigation' in the area.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas releases four Israeli hostages that were killed in captivity. Their coffins were allegedly locked with keys that do not open them, therefore Israel had to deploy engineer teams to unlock them.

Israeli media reports that Israel is upset that the Palestinians 'humiliated' the four by playing music in the crowd and with people cheering.

Note, 5 days ago Israel dressed over 100 Palestinian prisoners of all ages in all white with the Star of David and the phrase 'We will not forget and we will not forgive', which was not seen as humiliating.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The coffins of the dead hostages are being examined by the engineering corps for fear that they may be booby-trapped," - Channel 12.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Uganda's military enters front-line city of Lubero, North Kivu direction, eastern DR Congo.

Fighting in the North Kivu direction has been fierce, with M23 recently capturing Kitsambiro, just 11km south of Lubero. Uganda and the DRC both claim that the Ugandan military is working jointly with the FARDC in the Ituri region to combat extremist groups. However, that wouldn't explain their presence so close to the front-line in the North Kivu region.

The M23 are likely to reach Lubero before the end of the week and will come into contact with Uganda's military, and only then will Uganda's military operation and its purposes become clear.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's 810th Brigade have in fact crossed into the Sumy region, Ukraine, from Kursk as Putin claimed.

Russian forces completely bypassed Novyenko, and have captured half of Basovka - south of Sverdlikovo. The Sumy-Sudzha supply route is less than 3km away.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡ - BREAKING: The Trump Administration considers "limiting" the amount of sanctions placed on the Russian Federation.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "There will be no second phase, Gaza will be opened up and liberated with unprecedented fire," - Channel 14.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "US President Trump told his consultants in his reaction to seeing the humiliating return of the bodies of Israeli hostages: I want to see Gaza destroyed, and I do not want to see even one existing building," - Channel 14.

🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We will not accept British forces on Ukrainian territory," - Russia's embassy in London.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "There will be no second phase of the exchange deal and we will try to extend the first phase for two weeks to recover the largest number of prisoners," - Channel 14.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have reached the southern outskirts Novyenko, Sumy region. Ukraine is bringing heavy reinforcements into the area.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish airstrikes against south of Ain al-Arab, SDF-controlled northern Syria.