🇷🇺 - Celebrations are underway across the Crimean peninsula, as today marks exactly 10 years since the reunification.

🇮🇶⚡️- Barzani-led KDP says will not run in upcoming Iraq Kurdish elections.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Taliban government announced strikes against Pakistani military positions along the border, as retaliation for the Pakistani airstrike on Afghan territory, killing 8.

🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡- Polish farmers have blocked two border crossings with Germany due to ongoing protests against the EU's agricultural policy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian forces have completely evacuated Tonenke and Orlivka.

🇺🇸✡️ - Candace Owens explicitly calls out "merchants" of smear.

🇺🇸⚡️- A federal judge out of Illinois has approved a motion to dismiss charges against an illegal immigrant for unlawful possession of a firearm, ruling that the Second Amendment protects the right for illegal aliens to bear arms.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡ - After the meeting with Nikol Pashinyan, residents of Voskepar and Baganis expressed their readiness to block roads and organize self-defense in the event of an attempt by the RA government to transfer the villages of the Tavush region to Azerbaijan, the “301” portal reports.

🇦🇪🇹🇩🇸🇩 - Chadian leader Mahamat Deby to fly to Abu Dhabi amid increasing Emirati pressure for a direct Chadian military intervention in Sudan after increasing RSF difficulties in Khartoum region - Chadian opposition media

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇶 - Turkish President Erdogan vows to fully secure Iraqi border by summer, complete unfinished work in Syria. - Anadolu

🇷🇺⚡- "Soon the railway through Donbass and Novorossiya will pass to Sevastopol. The road between Berdyansk and Mariupol has been restored; it will go to Crimea and become an alternative to the Crimean Bridge," – Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Putin has almost realized his goal of constructing a land-bridge to the Crimean peninsula, instead of the current Kerch Bridge route. This comes on the 10th anniversary of the Crimean reunification.

🇹🇷🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡️- Erdogan mentionning Syria and Iraq in "every speech", a sign he’s serious, Turkish OSINT observer says.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden and Netanyahu had a phone conversation today, and Netanyahu agreed to send an Israeli delegation to Washington to discuss the impending Rafah offensive.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- President Trump has jumped 3 points nationally in recent polling after his "bloodbath" comments.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- The White House has confirmed that Israel has assassinated Marwan Issa, Deputy Commander of the Qassams Brigades.

🇹🇷🇮🇶 - The co-operation of the PUK leadership in Sulaymaniyah with the PKK poses a national security threat to Turkey - Hakan Fidan

🇺🇸⚡️- The Supreme Court has ordered Texas to indefinitely halt its immigration laws and discontinue its arrests of illegal immigrants

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - Russian state media released an advertisement mocking Russians who move to America.

The advertisement mocks homosexuals, vegetarians, and white guilt.

🇺🇸⚡ - Texas defies ruling.

🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan may start a war with Armenia by the end of the week.

If Yerevan does not comply with Azerbaijan's demand on the issue of border village-exclaves," – Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan.

🇷🇺⚡- 1 dead, 2 injured, from drone attacks overnight on Belgorod, Russia – Belgorod's Governor.