🇷🇺 - Exactly two years ago Wagner co-founders Dmitri Utkin and Yevgeny Prigozhin were killed.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel reports a major security incident in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. One IDF soldier has been killed, multiple others injured.

🇨🇩⚡- A court in Kinshasa has sentenced former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila to death.

Kabila is currently in Goma, M23-controlled eastern DRC.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇱⚡- Russia's Wagner group spokesman Alexander Ivanov has accused Algeria and Mauritania of serving as "relays for Ukraine to deliver military arms" to Tuareg separatists in Mali and Niger.

Relations between Mali and Algeria soured last year, both are key Russian allies in the region.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- During an interview with Israeli Channel 12, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir says he does not know how much time the evacuation of Palestinian civilians from Gaza City will take, before the IDF begin ground maneuvers.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The war in Gaza has turned into an Israeli Afghanistan scenario.

The Americans fled from Afghanistan defeated, and we do not want this to happen to our soldiers. However, the current Israeli government will not succeed in defeating Hamas," - Yair Lapid, Knesset Opposition Leader.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Benny Gantz has returned from retirement.

Gantz has proposed to join the Likud-bloc in the Knesset to secure the coalition against possible resignations from Smotrich's Tkuma Party. Smotrich has threatened to resign if Likud agrees to a hostage-ceasefire deal.

Gantz also supports Yuli Edelstein's ultra-Orthodox conscription law, which is opposed by Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit Party.

Gantz, in return, expects Likud to hold a general election next spring, in 2026.

🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli security cabinet announces an emergency meeting for Tuesday at 6pm, in Jerusalem.

Its location in Jerusalem instead of the Kirya indicates it likely relates to the recent announcement by Benny Gantz.

🇮🇱⚡- "The difference between the cabinet with Gantz and the cabinet without him was seen in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Rafah.

Right-wing voters chose a right-wing policy - not Gantz's policy, not a centrist government, not surrender deals with Hamas, but yes to absolute victory," - Itamar Ben-Gvir Israeli Minister of National Security, on Gantz return to politics.

🇮🇱⚡- "The government's successes with Ben-Gvir were seen on October 7, in the war on organized crime and the abandonment of the servicemen.

It's time to push the extremists to the margins, return the captives, and allow Israel to unite," - Kahol Lavan Hosen, the party of Benny Gantz.

🇸🇪⚡- Major power outage on the island of Gotland, Sweden, after its primary connection to the mainland was disrupted. The cause of disruption is unknown.

🇲🇲⚡- Myanmar's junta announced general elections to be held on December 28th, with voting to take place in just 102 townships (30% of Myanmar's total townships).

🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: An Iraqi police officer has commited suicide, shooting himself inside Baghdad International Airport. No other casualties have been reported yet.

🇸🇪⚡- Gotland's energy distributer GEAB confirms the major power outage on the island, but reports power is slowly being restored. GEAB says an underwater power cable was cut, possible sabotage has not been ruled out.

🇺🇸🇬🇦⚡- Gabon has become the latest nation to endorse President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize award.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Pentagon has quietly barred Ukrainian long-range strikes in Russia with US missiles.

Ukraine has tried to use ATACMS on a target inside Russia at least once, but was rebuffed by the Pentagon. The ban on Kiev has been in effect since late spring of 2025, ever since the White House began talking with Moscow," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇻🇪 Maduro mobilizes 4.5 million militiamen amidst threats from Trump administration

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused Cambodia of violating the ceasefire by laying mines on Thai territory.

🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Strategic Minister Ron Darmer's secret visit to the UAE last week focused on attempting to repair relations between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, due to tensions between the two parties stemming from Israeli intentions to control Gaza City and the announcement of construction in the E1 area adjacent to Ma'ale Adumim. Since the outbreak of the war, the UAE has frozen its investments in Israel worth billions of dollars and halted the enhancement of relations between the two countries," - Israel Today.

🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- "The Egyptian army is reinforcing its forces on the border with Gaza due to concerns about Gaza City residents fleeing towards the southern part of the Strip and from there to Rafah," - Israel Hayom.