🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- "Donald Trump has said he has not decided whether he will allow Ukraine to produce Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missiles, casting doubt on whether Washington will agree to one of Kyiv’s top priorities.

The US president said in a phone interview with the FT on Thursday that he was 'not sure' whether Washington would grant Ukraine a licence to produce Patriot missiles, adding that 'we’re looking at it'.

'It’s a very extraordinary weapon, and . . . we have to be a little bit careful of who we licence to. We don’t really licence equipment.'" - The Financial Times.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "Overnight, the Russians launched 35 missiles at Ukraine, including 27 ballistic missiles, as well as 185 attack drones of various types. Kyiv was the primary target, but strikes also hit the Dnipro, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions.

Only one ballistic missile was intercepted, simply because there are no interceptors for the Patriot systems." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡- "In 2023, the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham led an effort to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian attacks by supporting the transfer of Iron Dome air defense batteries from the United States to Ukraine. But he encountered an obstacle: Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli prime minister vetoed the transfer by invoking the terms of a joint-production agreement that gives Israel final say over the system’s use even though the missile batteries in question were paid for by the U.S. government," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media report an explosion in Kermanshah, western Iran approximately 40 minutes ago.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Around 1:00 PM today, a 120mm artillery shell, a remnant from the 8-year Iran-Iraq War, detonated due to the intense heat. Contrary to rumors, there was no attack on the bypass bridge, and the explosion of this ammunition left over from the war did not cause any damage to the bridge." - Iranian Governor of Islamabad-e-Gharby on the explosion in Kermanshah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- U.S. embassies across the Middle East have issued new security alerts today urging Americans to exercise heightened caution and urged citizens to depart the region.

The alerts were issued in the following countries: Oman, Iraq, the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

🇪🇹⚡- Loud explosions heard in the northwest Tigray region of Ethiopia, along Eritrea's border.

🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: TPLF-70 and TPLF-13 have launched an offensive on the town of Sheraro, along Eritrea's border. The Ethiopian air force is responding to the attacks.

Note, TPLF-70 is based in Sudan, while TPLF-13 is based along the Debre Damo Highlands. Both belong to the TPLF-D led separatist branch of the TPLF, the Tigray Defense Forces.

🇪🇹🇸🇩 - Unconfirmed reports: TPLF's Army 70 and Army 13 launched the offensive in response to an alleged Ethiopian military incursion into the al-Fashaga region of Sudan.

If the reports are true, it would represent a major escalation in the civil war, as it would be the first time Ethiopia's military crossed the international border into Sudan.

🇪🇹🇸🇩🇪🇷 - Sheraro, in the northwest of the Tigray region, Ethiopia.

Both Ethiopian and Sudanese media have confirmed TPLF-70 are leading the military operation in Sheraro, alongside TPLF's Army 13.

Army 70 is based in Sudan and has fought alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces against the Rapid Support Forces in the Sennar region.

Thus, how did TPLF-70 get from the Sennar - al-Qadarif area of eastern Sudan to Sheraro in the Tigray? Eritrea?

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopian drone strikes against convoys of the TPLF's Army 70 in the Sheraro countryside, northwest Tigray.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian missile attacks on Ukraine last night left nine civilians dead, and 30+ injured, the BBC reports.

🇳🇵⚡️- Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been confirmed dead after an avalanche swept him and his crew away on Broad Peak.

🇪🇸🇲🇦⚡️- The death toll among Moroccan immigrants in Ceuta has risen to 67.

🇮🇷⚡️- Several Iranian government buildings in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, have been evacuated and are reportedly being filled with ammunition and weaponry, according to local Iranian reports.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Initial reports of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Correction: Explosions were reported in the town of Kounine in southern Lebanon, and not due to airstrikes. Instead, they were due to Israeli demolition squadrons within the security zone.

🇷🇺⚡️- At least 3 dead and 21 injured after an improvised bomb exploded in an upscale Moscow restaurant.

A woman tried to enter the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square when a guard stopped her, and the bomb exploded, killing her, the guard, and a customer at the restaurant.

The motive or the identity of the woman is currently unknown.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Iranian drone attack against Iraq's Kurdistan region ongoing for the past few hours.