🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡️- Finnish President Stubb has also indicated the populations needed to "mentally prepare for something serious to happen" while talking about increased Russian drone activity.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️- Other EU countries' officials have issued similar statements which were less alarmist but hinted at a similar risk of the situation worsening. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten told medias that the hybrid attacks from Russia had been ramping up in the Netherlands. Berlin officials are preparing for Russian interference tomorrow amidst local elections. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has reiterated that Russia was in a hybrid war with the Czech Republic and that Czech intelligence services reported an uptick in Russian covert activity.

🇱🇹🇷🇺⚡️- Per Polskie Radio, Lithuania is preparing mass evacuation plans for its civilian population at the request of its government. Certain outlets have falsely reported the evacuation was imminent. In reality, the new plans are an update of previous similar planifications in the event of potential warfare and no immediate evacuation is planned anywhere in the Baltics.

🇷🇺 - Over the past week, Russia has increased the number of beds reserved for military casualties in hospitals in the northwest regions–including Leningrad–by 20,000.

🇵🇱🇱🇹🇧🇾⚡- Belarus has begun a four day military drill near the Suwalki Corridor (along the borders of Poland and Lithuania). The drills include mechanized and tank battalions.

🇭🇺🇷🇺⚡- The Hungarian Ministry of Energy says the European nation will cut Russian gas by the end of the year 2027.

🇬🇧🇧🇾⚡- "The UK says high-readiness British forces could be deployed under NATO defence plans if Belarus and Kaliningrad attempted to close the Suwalki Gap," - UK Defence Journal.

🇫🇷⚡️- French news outlets report several dozen gas stations in France have run out of certain gas types.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- Germany is preparing hospitals for a possible Russian escalation with NATO, Bloomberg reports.

The report says Berlin estimates as many as 1,000 casualties needing care daily.

🇬🇧⚡️- Around 340 proximity incidents caused by drones near military sites were recorded in the UK over the past 12 months.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Confirmed impacts at / near Riyadh International Airport during the early morning Ansarullah attack on the Kingdom's capital.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - A fuel storage depot is still cooking at Riyadh International Airport.

Photo credit: Reuters.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Commercial airline activity seems to have fully resumed at the King Khalid International Airport.

🇷🇺⚡- Several vessels belonging to the Russia's Baltic Fleet are active around the Baltiysk Gap, Kaliningrad.

Anti submarine protective nets are being deployed around the entrance to Baltiysk harbour.

🇩🇪🇸🇪⚡️- "Together with our German friends, we are today carrying out a rapid reinforcement of Gotland. We are bringing qualified systems here for the defense of the island under the protection of fighter aircraft, frigates, corvettes, coastal artillery and other units that guard the harbor" - Stefan Sandborg, Deputy Chief of Operations at the Swedish Armed Forces.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- "Russia cannot dictate French policies using threats or destabilization." - Marine Le Pen, in a rare anti-Russian statement.

Marine Le Pen was France's most popular pro-Russian figure until 2022. She was financed by Russian banks for €9M in 2014. While she criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she kept herself from criticizing Russia openly since then. This statement comes a day after Macron gathered all the leaders of the political forces of France in a meeting to discuss geopolitical threats.

🇺🇸⚡️- MS NOW journalists report they were denied access to the White House.