🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Russian President Putin has confirmed he won't be attending the Putin-proposed Istanbul talks tomorrow. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, and Head Presidential Aide of Foreign Policy Ushakov will not be attending either.

Instead, Russia's delegation will be headed by Russia's Chairman of Historical Education Vladimir Medinsky, who'll meet Zekensky tomorrow.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Ukraine's top officials Yermak, Umerov, Sybiha and Zhovka, as well as President Zelensky have left for Istanbul, Turkey.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡- "Iran remains heavily dependent on China for its malign activities in the Middle East," - US Department of State.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Minneapolis and Minnesota state leaders are preparing for a possible Derek Chauvin pardon." - KSTP, local Minneapolis-Saint Paul media.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha met US Secretary of State Rubio in Antalya, Turkey.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led Public Internal Security forces have launched a campaign arresting foreign fighters in the country.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israel has decided to resume humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

🇱🇾⚡- Protests are violent in the Abu Salim District of Tripoli, territory that was previously under SSA control (a corner division under the GNU), and captured by the GNU's main Misrata's Defense Ministry.

🇱🇾⚡- BREAKING: GNU's Misrata-based military forces fire live rounds at protestors in the Abu Salim District of Tripoli.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Minnesotan Governor Tim Walz has reportedly met with the National Guard and state police ahead of a potential pardon of Derek Chauvin." - KSTP, local Minneapolis-Saint Paul media.

🇱🇾⚡- Abu Salim, Tripoli, Libya.

🇱🇾⚡- Protestors have looted a military observation post belonging to the 444th Brigade of the GNU.

February 17th 2011, a repeat?

🇱🇾⚡️- Heavy gunfire against protesters in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli by GNU forces.

🇱🇾⚡️- Anti-Dbeibeh protesters dispersed by GNU forces outside the Presidential Council building in Tripoli, Libya.

🇱🇾⚡️- Protesters in Tripoli have swelled in the last hour. A column of demonstrators were filmed chanting "Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam," a popular slogan most associated with the Arab Spring, and especially the overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011.

🇱🇾⚡️- Protests in Qarah Bulli, Tripoli, demanding the resignation of GNU Prime Minister Dbeibeh.