🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ - Russian President Vladimir Putin has flown to Kaliningrad today, purportedly as a show of force, visiting Russia's westernmost border with NATO. NATO launched 6 reconnaissance aircraft, and many believed NATO would intercept and escort Putin's plane, but this did not happen.

NATO aircraft are still flying around Kaliningrad at this time.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️- An RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint is flying extraordinarily close to Putin's aircraft.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The Kremlin has stated that Putin's visit to Kaliningrad is "not a message to NATO," according to TASS.

🇷🇺⚡️- Igor Strelkov has been sentenced 4 years to a penal colony by a Russian court on charges of extremism.

🇺🇸⚡️- The federal government has given the State of Texas a deadline by Friday to allow US Border Patrol to enter Shelby Park at Eagle Pass.

🇺🇸 - Alabama to carry out the first execution of a convict by nitrogen gas in history.

🇺🇸⚡️- Peter Navarro, a former Trump advisor, has been sentenced to 4 months in prison for defying a House January 6th probe.

🇺🇸⚡️- White House National Security Council member John Kirby has stated that the US government has not reached a decision on the federalization of the Texas National Guard.

🇨🇫 - A memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin was erected in the Central African Republic.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kentucky has sided with Texas and will send National Guardsmen to assist with Operation Lone Star.

🇺🇸⚡️- Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "If President Biden won’t defend us, states will have to defend themselves."

🇺🇸⚡️- The National Border Patrol Council, a labor union consisting of federal border patrol agents, has sided with Texas.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- The Israeli 11th Army Division has departed from Gaza, likely being reassigned to the northern border with Lebanon.

🇺🇸🕊⚡️- "Civil War" is trending on X.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli aircraft above Beirut.

🇺🇸 - Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa declare public support for Texas.

🇺🇸 - At present, states in red have publicly declared their support for Texan Governor Greg Abbott.