🇷🇺⚡- A criminal case has been opened against the Head of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defense, Yuri Kuznetsov, he is suspected of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Kuznetsov has already been arrested.

Kuznetsov was personally appointed by former Defense Minister, Sergei Shoygu.

🇷🇺⚡- Shoygu's former deputies Tsalikov and Krivoruchko both resigned immediately, sources state they hope the investigation do not affect them.

🇷🇺⚡- Deputy Minister of Defense, Tatyana Shevtsova, has now also submitted her resignation, serving for almost 14 years in the position.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli tanks have begun to enter the center of Rafah amid heavy fighting.

🇫🇷⚡- Armed men stopped and attacked a prison van and its convoy, in Incarville, France. The prisoner has escaped, with several prison staff wounded, 2 guards were confirmed to have been killed.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia's new Defense Minister, Andrey Belousov, has dismissed the idea of a second round of mobilization. Instead he said "focus should be on recruitment".

🇬🇪⚡- BREAKING: Georgian Parliament has adopted the bill 'Foreign Agent' into law – the pro-Russian Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, announced. After passing the third and final hearing today, just now.

The pro-Western President, Salome Zourabichvili, reiterated she will veto the decision.

But with a Parliamentary majority, her veto cannot come into effect.

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes from Georgia's Parliament.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Scenes from Volchans'k, right now, as Ukrainian policemen record. The city is covered in smoke, as Russians enter from two directions, the South and the East.

🇬🇪⚡- The scenes outside the Georgian Parliament, protesters managed to break through one of the barricades into the Parliament. Special forces are on site.

🇬🇪🇬🇧⚡- "For those who follow these events, this is Russia's intervention in Georgia, just as Russia is doing, of course, more aggressively, by invading Ukraine. Putin cannot not interfere in the affairs of other countries, sometimes militarily, sometimes through influence. It is not good for the world, it is not good for freedom and democracy. We condemn this influence and strongly urge people to resist this influence coming from Russia. In my opinion, they should act like this, because Putin has shown Georgia that he is not good for the world and his neighbors." – British Defense Minister, Grant Shapps.

🇦🇲⚡- Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, says he wants to join the EU by the end of this year.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡- Azerbaijan will continue to detain former Artsakh President Arkadi Ghukasyan for another five months.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Palestinian demonstrators made pilgrimages to locations of former villages, destroyed by Israel. Today is also the 76th anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence, which many Palestinians consider the 76th year of the Nakba.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian airforce & rocket artillery active in the Sumy region destroying Ukrainian minefields and other fortifications

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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli news reporting the death of a senior Hamas official in Lebanon

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡ - The Ukrainian General Staff has ordered the imminent retreat of Ukrainian forces in and around Volchansk and Lukyantsev.

Russian forces fighting at Volchansk corroborate this to be true.