The Weekly Edition

Russia formally claims control of Novohrodivka, Donetsk Oblast, twelve kilometers (seven miles) from the strategically important Ukrainian logistical hub city Pokrovsk. (Reuters)

Russian troops capture the village of Memryk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)

Russian artillery shelling kills three Red Cross workers and injures two others in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)

The Latvian Defence Ministry confirms that a Russian military Shahed drone that crashed near the village of Gaigalava, Latvia, last week was carrying explosives and was likely intended to strike Ukraine. (Reuters)

Ukraine begins the implementation of "dragon drones" that spray molten thermite on forest cover to reveal and help destroy Russian units and military equipment. (Al Jazeera)

Ukraine launches drone attacks on multiple Oblasts of Russia, including Moscow, prompting all flights to be suspended at Vnukovo International Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz says that at least 59 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over the region. Russia also reports that two people were killed in the Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that Russia has received a shipment of Fath 360 tactical ballistic missiles from Iran, and expects their deployment "within weeks". Iran denies the claim, calling it "psychological warfare". In response, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany announce new sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)

The Netherlands lifts all of its weapons restrictions on military equipment that it provided to Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainian military to target Russia with long-range weapons, while also urging NATO allies to lift their own weapons restrictions. (Kyiv Post)

The United Kingdom reportedly approves the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets inside Russian territory. (The Kyiv Independent)

Russian forces reportedly recapture 10 settlements in Kursk Oblast. (Anadolu Agency)

A spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry say that about 45 Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian military, with efforts currently underway to get a further 50 Indians released. (Reuters)

Russian shelling of the settlement of Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three civilians and injures nine others, including several emergency service personnel. (Reuters)

Russian president Vladimir Putin warns that Ukrainian use of NATO weapons to strike deep into Russian territory indicates NATO's formal entry into war against Russia, due to the programming of these weapons by NATO personnel representing a "direct confrontation". (The Independent)

Ukraine accuses Russia of conducting missile strikes on a Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged bulk carrier carrying grain to Egypt in the exclusive economic zone of Romania in the Black Sea. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)

Russian artillery targets 15 areas in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing two civilians near the village of Yampil and injuring nine others. (Reuters)

Reuters reports that Russia has begun production of thousands of Garpiya-A1 long-range combat drones used against Ukrainian civilian and military targets, that incorporate engines, parts, and technology from China. (Reuters)

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reports that due to the ongoing war, Ukraine's death rate is now the highest in the world at 18.6 per thousand people, while its birth rate is the lowest at six children born per thousand people. (Kyiv Post)

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee release a report criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden for his handling of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. (The Hill)

The Israeli military says that several Hezbollah militants were killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

A Redwan Force commander is killed and fourteen civilians are injured in Israeli airstrikes on Saghbine and Rachaf in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

One Hezbollah militant is killed and one militant and two civilians are injured in Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

A Redwan Force commander is killed and 17 injured in Israeli drone strikes in Ahmadiya and Kfar Remen in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Israel launches several airstrikes in central Syria, targeting the Tartus and Hama governorates. (CNN)

At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in overnight Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian research centers in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian) (Syriahr)

The World Health Organization reports that the death toll from the civil war in Sudan has increased to more than 20,000 people. (AP)

The Rapid Support Forces renew an assault on the city of Sennar, Sennar State, Sudan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100 others. (Reuters)

At least eight people are killed and dozens are wounded in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, bringing the confirmed Palestinian death toll to over 41,000. (Al Jazeera)

According to Hamas, at least 40 people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi refugee camp in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Twenty tents housing displaced people are destroyed during the attack. (Al Jazeera)

The Israeli military says the strike targeted senior Hamas commanders operating in a command center embedded inside a designated humanitarian area whom the Israel Defense Forces says were all involved in the October 7 attack. (Al Arabiya) (Times of Israel)

An Israeli Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board. (Times of Israel)

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At least six Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike on Tubas in the West Bank. (Reuters)

The death toll from Israel's military operation in the occupied West Bank increases to 50, with three people killed by a drone strike in Tulkarm. (Al Jazeera)

The U.S. State Department approves $165 million in weapons sales to Israel to fund tank transporters along with spare parts, tool kits, and technical and logistics support. The parts are expected to be delivered in 2027. (AP)

Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb targets a police vehicle escorting a polio vaccination team in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq. (Daily Sabah)

A new wave of shootouts erupts in Haiti over a football match leaving at least one gang leader dead. Reports admit being unable to determine the total death toll. (AP)

Fourteen people are killed and six more are injured during a mass shooting by Islamic State militants against a bus carrying Shia Hazara people between the Afghan provinces of Ghor and Daikundi, after returning from a pilgrimage in Iraq. (AP)

Three border guards are killed and a civilian is injured by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in Mirjaveh, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)

Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen. (CBS News)

Two Indian soldiers are killed in action in clashes with separatists in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (NDTV)

Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, an Islamic State commander for whom the U.S. Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information for, is killed during a joint United States–Iraq operation in Al Anbar Governorate. Ahmad Hamed Zwein, an Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq, is also killed in the operation. (AP)