🇮🇸🇪🇺🗳 ⚡️ — In Iceland's referendum, with 99% of votes counted, 52.52% voted against resuming accession negotiations with the European Union, while 47.46% voted in favour.

The remaining 0.02% of votes were invalid.

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🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that the Russian leadership is very seriously considering and is prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳⚡️ — Russia accuses NATO of pushing the world toward global-scale escalation, citing the alliance's military buildup and recent air exercises near Kaliningrad.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Kiev now.

Source: @slavaic24

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🇭🇺⚡️ — In Hungary, a man stole a plane from an airfield and flew towards the country's only nuclear power plant, according to Hungarian media.

Fighter jets were scrambled due to a possible threat.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡️ — Yesterday's meeting between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko was not related to the preceding visit of CIA Director Ratcliffe

- Dmitry Peskov.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 — The Ali al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon has become the most significant military flashpoint in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, with the battle unfolding both on the surface and inside a heavily fortified underground complex, according to a strategic analysis by MaxOsintIntel.

➡️ The ridge is part of a three-kilometer-long, 1.5-kilometer-wide line comprising three interconnected hills — Ali al-Taher, Dabsha, and Tuhra — rising 600 to 700 meters above sea level between Kfar Tebnit and Nabatieh al-Fawqa. Its position provides direct observation of Nabatieh to the west, the Iqlim al-Tuffah and Rihan heights to the north, the Litani River valley to the south, and military axes feeding into the Western Bekaa to the east. It sits approximately five kilometers from Beaufort Castle.

➡️ Israeli intelligence identifies the tunnel network beneath the ridge as the main command center for Hezbollah's Badr Regional Division — responsible for territory from north of the Litani River to Sidon — and a critical command post for the elite Radwan Forces. The 20-year-old subterranean complex contains independent operations rooms, ammunition depots, missile storage, and drone launching bays, with dozens of hidden surface shafts branching toward surrounding towns.

➡️ The Israeli operation is led by the 36th Division, with the Egoz mountain warfare unit and Yahalom combat engineering unit tasked with detecting and clearing tunnel shafts. The IDF has established a tight siege using air strikes, artillery, and phosphorus munitions to isolate the complex. Hezbollah fighters inside are using explosive-laden drones and anti-tank guided missiles against Israeli armor while attempting to smuggle reinforcements and supplies through newly dug shafts and drone drops from the Nabatieh plateau.

➡️ Washington has proposed designating Ali al-Taher as a "pilot zone," under which Israel would withdraw and the Lebanese Armed Forces would deploy to the heights. The Lebanese Army has indicated willingness to take over the hill but demands U.S. guarantees that Israeli artillery and air operations will halt before its troops move in. Hezbollah has formally rejected any surrender or handover of the ridge, viewing the loss of the Badr nerve center as catastrophic for its tactical depth. Analysts note that a permanent Israeli presence on the height would amount to de facto long-term occupation of Lebanon's interior highlands.

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