🇺🇸⚡️- “Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems,” a Defense official confirmed to Axios.

🇰🇵⚡️- The Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea, has unanimously reelected Kim Jong Un as the party’s general secretary.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio will brief House and Senate leaders tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. at the White House.

The topic to be discussed is currently unknown.

🇺🇸⚡️- Over the last 14 days, U.S. military cargo flights have continued to increase as the deadline for Iran during negotiations approaches.

In the 15 days between February 9th and February 23rd, Rerum Novarum tracked 363 military cargo flights going to and from the Middle East and European regions across 110 unique aircraft, involving 96 C-17s and 14 C-5 Galaxies.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- ABC now confirms that Secretary Rubio will brief the “Gang of Eight” tomorrow afternoon on Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian military training helicopter crashed in Khomeini Shahr, Isfahan region, killing both the pilot and co-pilot.

Two civilians were also killed in the crash which occurred at a fruit market.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - On this day four years ago, Russia launched what was initially supposed to be a 'Special Military Operation', but has turned into a prolonged, deadly war of attrition.

With both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties, Russia has taken approximately 20-22% of Ukrainian territory.

In the course of the four years, Russia has captured only two cities (Melitopol and Mariupol), but several large towns (including Pokrovsk, Severodonetsk, Volchansk, Berdiansk and Bakhmut).

🇷🇺⚡- Russia's FSB has launched a criminal investigation into Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, under the charges of 'aiding terrorism' in Russia.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- "SM-2, SM-3 and SM-6 defense missiles have been rapidly consumed as the Navy had protected vessels in the Red Sea against Iranian-proxy forces in Yemen [Ansarullah] and defended Israel against ballistic missiles [early last year]," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- A batch of the 12 F-22s have begun departing RAF Lakenheath, UK, for the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- Iran is building a six-foot-tall wall spanning more than six miles along the border with the Penjwen district of Iraqi Kurdistan. This comes amid concerns about an attempted infiltration by Kurdish separatist groups or the possibility of a U.S. ground force intervention.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting military drills on the country’s southern shores.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's Foreign Intelligence, SVR, unironically believes Paris and London are attempting to arm Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡- "Three boats ran and now all three have been captured.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Bertha without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The vessel was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and attempted to evade.

From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, we tracked it and stopped it. No other nation has the global reach, endurance, or will to enforce sanctions at this distance.

International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned actors. By land, air, or sea, our forces will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain." - U.S. Department of War

🇳🇴⚡️- BREAKING: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, this comes shortly after Norwegian authorities opened a criminal investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- Bertha (IMO: 9292163) is a Chinese owned vessel that was loaded with oil from Venezuela before fleeing the US imposed blockade of Venezuela on the 3rd of January and has been on the run since.

It was sanctioned by the United States in 2019 for its involvement in transporting Iranian and Venezuela oil products.

Bertha was a stateless vessel not displaying a valid Flag or valid AIS Data which allows the US Government to board and detain the vessel.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 - Just moments ago, the final three of the twelve F-22s have departed RAF Lakenheath for the Middle East.

Footage credit: Tall Glenn.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Each day, the authorities fabricate new pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram as they seek to suppress the right to privacy and free speech. A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people," - Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram.

🇵🇦🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: Panama has liberated the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal from the Chinese CK Hutchison today.

The Hong Kong-based firm has complained that Panamanian authorities "made direct physical entry into the terminals at Balboa and Cristobal and assumed administrative and operational control."

Danish shipping giant Maersk and Swiss-based MSC are to take over the operations of the two key ports.