🇮🇱⚡- Avichay Adraee, IDF's Arabic spokesman and who became the face of the IDF in the entire Arab world after serving the role for 20 years, has retired.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ulyanovsk, Russia, has shut down all mobile network connections in the city. Ulyanovsk authorities say the internet blackout is to protect "special-purpose facilities" in the city against Ukrainian drone threats. Previously, internet went out only during drone threats, however Ulyanovsk authorities announced the new restriction will remain in place until the end of the war in Ukraine.

🇵🇰⚡- "We are in a state of war.

Anyone who thinks that the Pakistan Army is fighting this war in the Afghan-Pakistan border area and in the remote areas of Balochistan, should take today's suicide attack in the Islamabad District Court as a wake-up call that this is the war of the whole of Pakistan, in which the Pakistan Army is making sacrifices every day and is giving the people a sense of security.

In this environment, it would be futile to hope for more than successful negotiations with the Kabul rulers.
The Kabul rulers can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, which Pakistan, thank God, has the strength to respond fully," - Khawaja Asif, Defense Minister of Pakistan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Kremlin-run VCIOM poll finds that 56% of Russians want an end to the hostilities in Ukraine, with just 27% supporting the war. 83% of Russians say they feel the fatigue from the war, with most blaming the "stagnating wages, rising inflation and sharply declining living standards."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 61% of Russians are in favor of an immediate truce to the war in Ukraine, Kremlin-run VCIOM poll.

🇵🇰⚡- Heavy military movement observed in Pakistan.

Pakistanis were notorious for publishing any and every of their military movement online during the conflict with India earlier this year.

🇵🇰⚡- Tahreek-e-Taliban denies responsibility for the Islamabad car blast.

🇬🇪🇹🇷⚡️- The Republic of Georgia reports a Turkish Military cargo plane has crashed near the Georgian-Azerbaijani border.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran is prepared to launch three new satellites into space, Zafar, Paya, and Kowsar.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- For the second day in a row, both the Syrian and Lebanese militaries continue to build-up along the Baalbek-Damascus (Lebanese-Syrian) border.

A large number of Syrian troops entered the town of Flitah yesterday, and Ras Maara today. Whereas the Lebanese military has built-up in the Azouz area. Syria claims the border is occupied by pro-Hezbollah clans, similar to those the Damascus government fought in February and March of this year along the Hermel-Homs border.

🇬🇪🇹🇷⚡️- Turkish Ministry of Defence states there was 20 Turkish military personal on board the aircraft.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group have entered SOUTHCOM's area of responsibility.

🇺🇸⚡- "The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years and could acquire anywhere from a half million drones to millions of them annually in the years that follow," - Reuters.

🇮🇶⚡- Iraq's parliamentary elections have ended, with polling stations closing. Results are expected over the next 24 hours.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- UK will cease intelligence sharing with US over concerns about the Trump Admin's boat strikes.