🇸🇩🇨🇫🇷🇺 - Note, Russia’s rapid response to the capture of Am Dafok by anti-CAR rebel groups—compared to its more muted reactions elsewhere in the country—suggests that Moscow continues to prioritize its interests linked to the Rapid Support Forces.

Note, Russia mostly withdrew from Sudan in 2021, and have stopped actively supporting the Rapid Support Forces.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "A preliminary agreement has been reached to release $3 billion of frozen assets for Iran.

Iran stipulated the release of $3 billion with every progress made in the U.S.-Iran negotiations," - al-Arabiya.

🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- Amid mounting fuel shortages caused by sustained Ukrainian strikes on its energy infrastructure striking a national emergency, Russia is turning to imports, with plans to bring in up to 400,000 tons of gasoline from abroad, including India, according to Reuters.

In other words, due to Western sanctions, Russia has redirected crude exports toward markets like India from the EU at prices discounted well below 40%. India refines the extremely cheap oil, and sells it back to Moscow.

🇸🇩🇨🇫🇷🇺⚡- Heavy clashes continue along route RN8, west of Am Dafok, Central African Republic.

FRPC are attempting to push towards the city of Birao. Russia's African Corps, Rapid Support Forces elements, the CAR Armed Forces, Chadian militants (RPJET), and pro-RSF Misseriya Arab forces are resisting the FPRC advances.

🇸🇩 - Footage circulating allegedly showing Sudanese military assets over the Darfur region and al-Genina is old.

The video is dated to February 2026, and from the Kordofan region.

🇪🇹⚡- "Currently, the Ethiopian government is mobilizing its forces from western to eastern Tigray in preparation for renewed war. The existential threat against the people of Tigray continues.

The federal government has previously violated the peace agreement [Pretoria Agreement] by drone striking the Tigray.

There are forces of which I shall not name [Tigray Peace Forces, TPF] that have committed national betrayal by working to trigger another war in Tigray.

The statements of the United States and the European Union are unjust, they are placing pressure on the TPLF while failing to hold the Ethiopian government accountable.

We will not negotiate on the fundamental interests of the people of Tigray," - Fetlework Gebregziabher, Member of the TPLF Executive Committee, and a member of the TPLF-separatist faction, TDF.

🇮🇷🇴🇲 - Contrary to circulating claims, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has remained stable and has not dropped to wartime levels.

The number of vessels crossing the strait on:
June 30: 34,
June 29: 42.

This is consistent, if not better, with traffic observed immediately following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding:
June 19: 22,
June 20: 42,
June 21: 28.

Traffic since the latest U.S.-Iran flare up has not declined, despite IRGC-propaganda. Traffic continues along BOTH established corridors: the IRGC-designated route and Oman’s IMO-recognized lane.

Source: Kpler.

Note, pre-escalation (February 28) traffic averaged significantly higher at approximately 130–140 vessels per day, with a mean of around 133.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris has been meeting with leftist activists and pro-Palestine voices within the left over the last few months to attempt repairing her relationship with activists in the lead up to 2028. The latest surrender of the Democrat establishment to the DSA.

🇺🇸⚽️⚡️- Echelon Insights survey shows Republicans are more engaged with the World Cup than Democrats. Young people also way more invested than the old.

🇺🇸⚡️- Melat Kiros says that DSA members of Congress should not support Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House if Democrats win the midterms.

Hakeem Jeffries has praised DSA members after their victories despite their nonstop threats against him.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- New York City Mayors office has released budget documents forecasting another $6.5 billion deficit next year. it is likely Mayor Mamdani will request another bailout from NY Governor Hochul.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Over the course of the four-year-long Russian invasion of Ukraine, over 1.4 million Russians have been killed or wounded in the attempt to seize Ukraine, with around 125,000 to 150,000 Ukrainians reported dead and around 525,000 to 625,000 casualties, per the NYT.

🇸🇩 - Insane footage: Amid a growing Rapid Support Forces build-up around El-Obeid in North Kordofan, Sudan, an RSF fighter recorded himself outside the city moments before a Sudanese drone strike hit his technical, very likely killing all those on board.

🇾🇪⚡- Yemeni media is speculating that Ansarullah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi may deliver a major and potentially unexpected address tomorrow, as tensions across the country continue to rise.

Both Ansarullah forces and Saudi-backed Yemeni factions are currently engaged in large-scale mobilization, with repeated clashes reported over the past two weeks across two fronts—Ad Dali and al-Hodeidah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel is carrying out demolition works in the town of Beit Yahoun, Bint Jbeil direction, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- University of Tennessee has awarded former Professor Tamar Shirinian a $1.9 million settlement after the University fired her for celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination.

She is the latest leftist to be awarded huge sums of money from a former employer for being fired in the wake of Kirk's killing.