🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian forces have fully captured Paraskoviivka and Soledar. Bakhmut is at serious risk of encirclement.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡️- Iran has halted gas exports to Turkey.

🇧🇷⚡️- Brazilian army tanks deployed in Brasilia are protecting the Bolsonaro protesters.

🇧🇷⚡️- Rumors are circulating that a military coup has begun in Brazil, as large parts of the military are not dispersing protesters and some are actually protecting protesters.

🇧🇷⚡️- Federal Police and Brazilian Army in an apparent standoff.

🇧🇷⚡️- Brazilian judiciary threatens to arrest any military that refuse to disperse protesters.

🇧🇷⚡️- Brazilian Army refused to allow the Federal Police to enter the HQ in Brasilia, causing the standoff.

🇧🇷⚡️- Brazilian Army arrested multiple protesters in Brasilia today, ending all possibilities of a coup happening.

🇧🇷⚡️ - Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with abdominal pain. He is still in America, despite calls to extradite him to Brazil.

🇺🇸⚡️- Wendy Rogers has been sworn in to Arizona’s Senate.

🇺🇸⚡️- Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has promised to “hold Biden accountable for every troop who died during the withdrawal in Afghanistan, and on the origins of COVID-19”

🇸🇪⚡️- Sweden has announced it will join NATO “without any formal conditions” and allow the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory.

Sweden is currently being blocked from joining by Turkey, which has demanded Sweden extradite Kurdish terrorists before membership can be considered.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - Ukrainian troops in Soledar have been completely encircled. We are also hearing reports that Krasnaya Gora has been liberated by Wagner troops.

🇷🇺 - The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has opened criminal proceedings against Popcorn Books, a Moscow bookstore, for promoting homosexuality. Among other pro-sodomy items, the bookstore sold a novel entitled "Summer in a Pioneer Tie" which was aimed at minors and described a pedophilic relationship between a Komsomol leader and a teenager in the USSR.

If the case is successful, the owners of the bookstore will be the first people to be convicted under Russia's new law on "non-traditional sexual relations".

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been preparing defences around the city of Kiev, in anticipation of Russia opening a second front there.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - AFU troops remaining in Soledar have been ordered to surrender, according to a post circulating on Russian telegram channels.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- 14 battalions defending Soledar from the AFU have either left the city or surrendered to PMC Wagner. This accounts for upwards of 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

🇺🇸⚡️- All US flights grounded due to “FAA technical issues.”

🇹🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Erdogan has denied sending cluster munitions to the Ukrainian army.

🇺🇸⚡️- All US flights suspended for the next hour and a half.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇿🇦⚡️- Russia, China, and South Africa to conduct joint military exercises in February.