🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "With these two walls, they are sending a clear message: The Taiwan Strait is their internal waters," - Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwanese Senior Intelligence Officer.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - China's yet to even acknowledge its largest military exercises around Taiwan since 1996.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwanese military operators may have a difficult time discerning when an attack is actually coming when every day looks like an attack," - VoA, quoting a senior Taiwanese defense official.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Very unusually quiet over Ukraine tonight. Just two Russian drones operating over Ukrainian airspace. No Russian jets have lifted off yet. No missile carriers in the Black Sea.

However, Ukraine's monitoring forces say several Russian bombers have been fully equipped over the past few days. And multiple Russian missile carriers are ready to depart into the sea at any moment.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli airstrike just hit a radar system in Tartus, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The attacks on the Kurds must stop," - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾⚡- Scenes from the Kobani direction, SNA firing upon SDF positions.

🇸🇾⚡- Visual confirmation, the Syrian National Army in central Deir-ez-Zur, east Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡️- "A Trump White House looks set to recognize Somaliland as an independent nation." - Semafor, American outlet.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, begins his speech.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Khamenei: "What happened in Syria was planned in the American and Israeli command rooms."

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Khamenei: "There is a neighboring country that played a prominent role in what happened in Syria and is still playing this role."

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Khamenei: "We have evidence of Israel and the US planning what happened in Syria."

🇮🇷⚡- Khamenei: "The more you push resistance, the stronger it becomes, the more you commit crimes, the more motivated it becomes."

🇮🇷⚡- Khamenei: "I tell you that the resistance, God willing, will cover the entire region more than ever before."

🇮🇷⚡- Khamenei: "That ignorant analyst, unaware of the meaning of resistance, imagines that when the resistance becomes weak, Islamic Iran will also become weak, and I submit that by God's will and power, by the permission of God Almighty, Iran is strong and powerful and will become even more powerful."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Taganrog was attacked by several Ukrainian ATACMS ballistic missiles," - Baza, Russian media.

Taganrog is home to one of Russia's largest missile bases.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Khamenei: "Our security agencies had informed President Bashar about this [HTS+SNA Offensive] matter since September."

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Khamenei: "The group in charge currently won't stay in power for long. The youth of Syria will rise up."

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Russia maintains contacts with all political forces currently in Syria," - Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman.