🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian Foreign Ministry: "Is Washington's goal a political maneuver to buy time for the Zionist entity or to stop the massacres against the Palestinian people?"

🇮🇷⚡️- The National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis has approved the appointment of Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh to the post of Defense Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Haifa Municipality deployed three mobile shelters this morning in preparation for Hezbollah's response" -Israel Hayom, pro-Likud outlet.

🇩🇪🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Lufthansa, Germany's largest airliner, announces that airline cancellations to Beirut, Tel Aviv, and Tehran will continue until August 26th.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the waste heap in Kirovo (Pivnechnoe), in the Toretsk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces captured an Ukrainian trench system and a fortification north of Peschanoe – Kupyansk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have destroyed a second bridge, the Karyzh bridge, in the Kursk region of Russia.

The only remaining bridge, the Zvannoe bridge, was also severely damaged.

The Zvannoe bridge remains Russia's only route south of the river Seym to supply Koronevo's western defense.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The objective of the Kursk operation is to create a buffer zone in Russia," – Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Ukrainian President.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Kursk region is only the beginning, you will see several more stages of this operation," – Oleksiy Drozdenko, Head of Ukraine's Sumy Military Administration.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- The 115th and the 43rd Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are withdrawing equipment and personnel to the right bank of the Oskol river, Kupyansk Direction.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A Chinese and Philippine vessel collided with each other at the Sabina Shoal.

Both sides are blaming each other for the collision which has left the Philippine vessel significantly damaged.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The Philippine Coast Guard encountered unlawful and aggressive maneuvers from the China Coast Guard," – Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "There is no construction of a forward, offensive deployment base at the Sabina Shoal," – Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard Spokesman, responding to the claims by Chinese state media that the Philippines is building an 'offensive deployment base' at the disputed Sabina.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has arrived at the Zagulba residence in Azerbaijan for talks with Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "We warn the Philippines to immediately stop its infringement and provocation, otherwise all the consequences arising from this will be borne by the Philippines," – Gan Yu, China Coast Guard Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "The Spratly Islands and its adjacent waters including the Sabina Shoal are indisputable China's sovereignty," – Gan Yu, China Coast Guard Spokesman.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- "China must immediately leave the Sabina," – Francis Tolentino, Philippines Senate Majority Leader.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Philippine Coast Guard now claim a second collision occurred south-east of the Sabina Shoal: "A second Philippine Coast Guard ship, the BRP Bagacay, was rammed twice on both sides by a China Coast Guard vessel".

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russia extends ban on Russian airlines flying into Israeli airspace until September 15.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces have captured Apanasovka, Kursk region, Russia.

Both sides report that Ukrainian troops have crossed river Seym, with fighting now ongoing inside of Tetkino.

Fierce fighting reported at Martynovka too, Ukrainian sources claim they captured the town a few hours ago - Russia has not yet confirmed the loss.

🇲🇱🇮🇷⚡- Malian government is exploring the possibility of buying one of Iran's air defense systems – Mali's Junta-backed media.