🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 50% of Belgorod, in Russia, is now without power and electricity.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Special attention to the Kharkov region. Defensive battles continue, fierce battles along a significant part of our border strip. There are villages that have actually gone from being a “gray zone” to becoming a combat zone, and the Russian army is trying to gain a foothold in some of them, and simply use some for further advancement. I want to thank our soldiers who are holding their positions." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇷🇺⚡️- President Putin has proposed the appointment of Andrey Belousov, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, as the new Minister of Defense.

🇷🇺⚡️- This is the list of appointments for the new Putin government:

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Sergey Lavrov
Ministry of Justice - Konstantin Chuychenko
Ministry of Internal Affairs - Vladimir Kolokoltsev
Ministry of Emergency Situations - Alexander Kurenkov
Federal Security Service (FSB) - Alexander Bortnikov
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) - Sergei Naryshkin
National Guard of Russia / Rosgvardia - Viktor Zolotov
Federal Protective Service (FSO) - Dmitry Kochnev
Ministry of Defense - Andrei Belousov

The only ministry to receive a new head is the Ministry of Defense. All other appointments have remained the same since the last government.

🇷🇺⚡️- Sergei Shoigu, the former Minister of Defense, was appointed Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - Reports that Russian troops have entered Volchansk

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Scenes from earlier today - Northern Kharkov direction. Ukrainian Kraken operatives came under fire by the Russians.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Zelenoe (Kharkov-Liptsy direction) – Both sides confirm.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Lukyantsi (Kharkov-Liptsy direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm.

The 12th town in the Northern Kharkov region that Ukraine has now lost.

🇮🇷⚛️⚡️ - BREAKING: Iranian lawmaker tells state media that the Islamic Republic has obtained nuclear weapons.

🇮🇷⚛️⚡️ - Whether Iran actually possesses nuclear weapons is still unclear. According to the Fox News article: "Ardestani is only a member of parliament, and he's not in the inner core of the regime's nuclear decision-making circle, so while his comments are interesting, I think they have to be weighed properly given his access and standing."

Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani is known to be a firebrand, and Fox is known to be a pro-Israel outlet.

🇮🇷⚛️⚡️- An Iranian dissident blogger claims that the nuclear facility at Natanz is "busier than usual and full of people."

From the admin- if Iran has acquired a nuclear weapon, you wouldn't hear it from Fox News first. Some Jewish politician or an IAEA report would confirm it first.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- A man was arrested yesterday at a Catholic parish in Abbeville, Louisiana after entering a First Communion ceremony armed with a rifle. Rumors are circulating he intended to "massacre children and families" and was motivated by a hatred of Catholicism.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced over 1,000 meters entering Ivanovka, just North of Kislovka (Kharkov-Kupyansk direction).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Every hour the situation in the border area and Vovchans'k [Volchans'k] is escalating, the Russians have already entered the city. Evacuation continues. The volunteers who work here and the locals actually say that the Russians have already entered. The city is simply on fire, machine gun fire can already be heard." – 'Libkos', a Ukrainian frontline journalist team.

🇲🇲⚡- People's Defense Forces (PDF) attacked a Government checkpoint, in Pakkoku, Myanmar.

This would be the fourth attack on Min Aung Hlaing's Government in three days, by the PDF. Hlaing took power in the 2021 coup.

🇦🇲⚡- 151 people detained in Armenia today, as protests against the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, continue.

🏳️⚡- Death toll reaches 400 from the flash floods across Afghanistan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery strikes in the East and Central of Rafah.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- "We will block all Chinese efforts of reclamation activities in Sabina Shoal," – Jay Terriela, Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) Spokesperson.

🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- The PCG has sent military vessels to Sabina Shoal, to confront China.