🇺🇦 - Ukraine's Armed Forces have begun giving servicemen free HIV tests.

🇷🇺🇫🇮 - Ian Petrovsky, a member of the Russian nationalist paramilitary Rusich, was detained upon entering Finland on charges of having committed war crimes in the Ukraine.

🕊 - It is rumored that X is developing a feature to facilitate the removal of "EU-illegal content" as a censorship bill enters into force in the EU.

🇿🇦🇿🇼 - A leading British newspaper published an article yesterday defending the legacies of white rule in South Africa and Rhodesia.

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Belarusian President Lukashenko has stated that Putin “cannot be behind the attempt on Prigozhin”

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Putin has signed a decree that all “Russian paramilitary fighters” must pledge their allegiance to the Russian flag

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “Prigozhin assured me that Putin warned him of an imminent assassination attempt.”

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “I don’t imagine that Putin is behind the killing of the Wagner commander”

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “Prigozhin never requested security guarantees”

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- MiG-31 strike aircraft airborne above Ukraine, alerts issued across all oblasts

🇦🇷⚡️- Javier Milei, the far-right ultralibertarian presidential candidate for the Argentine presidential race, has criticized Argentina’s ascension to BRICS, stating “I won’t ally with communists.”

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: Wagner personnel will remain in Belarus

🇻🇦- Happy Feast of Saint Louis IX!

🇩🇰☪️ - The Danish government introduced a bill that would ban Koran burning.

🇺🇸⚡️- Karnes County in Texas is shutting down its schools for a week over a “recent surge in COVID-19 cases.”

🇺🇸 - Rumors are circulating that Donald Trump Jr "bought" Mar-a-Lago from his father, which Trump Jr denied in a Breitbart article.

🇺🇸 - Chief Keef posted this.

🇷🇺 - Western firms have faced heavy financial penalties for leaving Russia.

So far companies have been hit with losses exceeding $80bn due to write-downs and lost revenue.

Moscow has demanded a 50% discount on all foreign deals and a further tax of at least 10% of the price to support Russia’s national budget.

🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Joint Russian and Syrian strikes against Idlib, supposedly against rebel forces.

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️ - Niger's junta declared the French ambassador persona non grata, ordering him to leave the country within 48 hours.