🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- BREAKING: The US State Department has issued a statement condemning the massacre of Alawites and Christians in Syria at the hands of the new Syrian government.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States "stands with Syria's religious and ethnic minorities."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia captured the vital town of Malaya Loknya, north Kursk region, Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have begun withdrawing from Yuzhniy, Kursk region, Russia, where they are at risk of an encirclement.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's 141st Regiment, Akhmat, enters Mirnyi, just north of Sudzha city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Akhmat, using underground pipework, have entered and captured the small town of Kubatkin, Kursk region, Russia.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, visited the al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria, territory that has been captured by the IDF after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Current situation in the Kursk region, Russia.

Russian forces have captured Malaya Loknya, Kositsa, Kubatkin, Pravda, and Martynovka. Russian troops have entered Mirnyi and Zaoleshensky, north of Sudzha city.

Light purple indicates the areas that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from, these areas are currently empty, and will likely come under Russian control in the next few hours.

After 7 months, Ukraine control 218sqkm of area in Kursk, including the town of Otruba, Tetkino direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Initial reports: Russia's Akhmat Special Forces have captured Mirnyi, north of Sudzha city, Kursk region, Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Visual confirmation of Russia's Akhmat Special Forces in control of Martynovka, Kursk region, Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's 11th Brigade have just launched a large-scale offensive on Ukrainian positions in Sudzha from the east. The brigade enters Makhnovka, Kursk region, Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Mikhailovka, Kursk region, Russia.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, appoints Avi Dafrin as the new IDF Spokesman. Dafrin is a veteran of the second Israeli-Lebanon war.

🇺🇸⚡️- An F-16 just intercepted an aircraft over Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach using flares.

🇺🇸⚡️- NORAD reports that, since January 20th, they have "responded to over 20 tracks of interest" over Palm Beach, including at least 2 interceptions over the last 48 hours.

🇷🇴⚡- Calin Georgescu has been barred from running in the presidential elections by the Romanian Central Election Commission.

🇱🇧🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Sunnis were attacked in Aaqbiyeh, Lebanon, by local Lebanese.

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇶⚡- Ehtemlat, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham outlet, is urging Syrian Sunnis to leave Lebanon and Iraq immediately.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent street fights between pro-Assad cells and the Syrian government forces in the al-Datour district of Latakia city, coastal Syria.