US flies forces in to beef up security at embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel

"The U.S. military said that it had flown forces in to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave.

The aircraft flew to the embassy compound, the U.S. Southern Command said, meaning that the effort involved helicopters. It was careful to point out that “no Haitians were on board the military aircraft.” That seemed aimed at quashing any speculation that senior government officials might be leaving as the gang attacks in Haiti worsen." Breitbart

73 combat clashes on battlefield in last 24 hours

"Seventy-three combat engagements occurred on the front lines in the past 24 hours, most of them in the Novopavlivka sector. According to the report, enemy air strikes targeted the settlements of Hraniv and Synkivka in the Kharkiv region; Serebrianske Forestry and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region; Novosadove, Terny, Yampolivka, Mykolaivka,

Semenivka, Bohdanivka, Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Druzhba, Zhelanne, Oleksandropil, Novokalynove, Ocheretyne, Novooleksandrivka, Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Maksymilianivka, Vuhledar, and Staromaiorske in the Donetsk region; Robotyne and Novodanylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
More than 110 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions were under artillery fire. In the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna sectors, the enemy maintains his military presence in the border areas, conducting subversive activities to prevent the deployment of Ukrainian troops to dangerous sectors and increasing the density of minefields along the state border in the Belgorod region.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops in the Kupiansk sector.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian soldiers repelled seven enemy attacks on Terny and Spirne, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut sector, Ukraine's defense forces repelled six enemy attacks outside Bohdanivka, Ivanivske, Klishchiivka and Andriivka in the Donetsk region.
In the area of responsibility of the Tavria operational and strategic group of troops, in the Avdiivka sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled 16 enemy attacks near Berdychi, Orlivka, Tonenke, and Pervomaiske.
On the Novopavlivka axis, Ukrainian forces continued to hold off the enemy outside Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, made more than 30 attempts to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops." Ukrin

Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel

"Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said it has fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel.....Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group Hamas, and Israel have been exchanging near daily fire across the border since Israel launched a war on Gaza on October 7 in the wake of a deadly attack inside Israel." AlJazeera

Macron: West may need to save Ukraine if Russia makes breakthrough

"Emmanuel Macron warned that the West may have to step in to save Ukraine if Russia makes a breakthrough on the Eastern front, according to reports on Thursday.
The French president produced maps to show opposition leaders, invited to the Elysee Palace, points of potential Russian breakthrough towards Odesa or Kyiv.
He told them there should be “no more red lines” on his country’s involvement in the conflict." Yahoo

Pope says Ukraine should have ‘courage of the white flag’ of negotiations

"Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of

the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands.
Francis made his comments in an interview recorded last month with Swiss broadcaster RSI, well before Friday’s latest offer by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war." MichaelSavage.com