🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian drone “Lancet” strikes the position of an American-donated artillery piece in the Donbas

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡️- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu both met in Berlin today to reaffirm Israeli-German relations.

Netanyahu is also likely looking for an escape from extreme political turmoil back at home.

🇨🇳🇯🇵⚡️- The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that Japan’s “return to the path of militarization” is “dangerous”

🇷🇺🇮🇹⚡️- PMC Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin recently insulted the Italian Defense Minister, referring to him as a “testicle” for insinuating that PMC Wagner’s activities in Africa is to blame for the increase in refugees to Italy

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Reports are suggesting that the wreckage from the downed MQ-9 Reaper has been found near Sevastopol

🇬🇷⚡️- All internal and international air travel in Greece has been halted as air traffic controllers and civil aviation employees are on strike

🇮🇱🇺🇦⚡️- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to help Ukraine build a “high tech civilian air strike warning system,” which will likely use Iron Dome technologies.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- Iran has apparently agreed to stop supplying the Houthis in Yemen

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Plain clothed Israeli Defense Force troops launched an operation in Jenin, West Bank, resulting in 4 Palestinian deaths

🇵🇱— Polish court sentences pro-abortion activist Justyna Wydrzynska to eight months of community service for helping another woman get an abortion

🇵🇱 - This is a promising move from Poland's usually pliable, pro-Western, "national conservative" (and we all know what that means) PiS government - especially given that this same government refused to punish pro-abortionist activists who desecrated images of the Black Madonna, the patroness of Poland.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether Warsaw will actually carry out this sentence or whether this woman will simply be pardoned quietly on the EU's request.

🇨🇬🇷🇺⚡️ - Rallies took place in the Republic of the Congo calling on Russia's PMC Wagner to deploy troops in the country, after the successes achieved by Wagner in Mali, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - A Ukrainian plot to kidnap Russian civilians was discovered in Russia's Kursk oblast.

🇬🇧⚡️ - It has been revealed that British schools have been forcing young children to take part in activities promoting illegal immigration. The phrase "families belong together" is used as a slogan by far-left activists to support issuing visas to every member of a family if one person illegally immigrates to the UK.

Credit to Steve Laws for the video.

🇷🇺 - 106 years ago the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, abdicated on the urging of his closest advisor, Michael Rodzianko, after food riots paralyzed Petrograd - then the capital of Russia.
Nicholas initially turned power over to his brother Grand Duke Michael, before the Provisional Government abolished the Romanov monarchy entirely and proclaimed a Russian Republic under the leadership of Alexander Kerensky. Today marks the end of almost two hundred years of empire and, in the view of many Russian nationalists, the beginning of Russia's downfall; a view this channel's admins are inclined to, at least in part, share.

🇫🇷 - This comes after Macron used an executive order to push through an unpopular pension reform.

🇫🇷⚡️ - Barricades have been set aflame in Paris, France during protests against the pension law. Analysts have compared the situation to the Yellow Vest movement in 2018.