• Shendi — Security Committee statement: The Security Committee of Shendi Locality announced that the Shendi electricity transformer station has gone out of service permanently, after it was targeted at dawn today by a drone carrying four missiles that led to the destruction of the transformers and inflicted complete damage on them, noting that the targeting also hit the "Nile" reserve depot and a hangar belonging to the Armed Forces (Air Defence) and resulted in the injury of one member of the Armed Forces, and the committee reassured citizens that the security situation in the locality is completely stable. (Source: Shendi Locality Security Committee via Al-Ahd Online and Fawri News) • Moscow — Al-Burhan and Putin meeting: Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan expressed, during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today, Friday, Sudan's readiness to grant Russia sites for investment in extracting gold, copper and other minerals, and proposed establishing a free economic zone on the Red Sea, while Putin said his country is ready to cooperate with Sudan in fields including digital development, healthcare, education, logistics services and industry, and that trade and economic relations between the two countries are witnessing continuous development, calling for a halt to combat operations in Sudan and a move towards a political settlement. (Source: Al-Sa'a Network and Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani) • Moscow — Honorary doctorate for al-Burhan: The Russian State University for the Humanities today, Friday, granted the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan an honorary doctorate in appreciation of his contribution to developing relations with Russia, and al-Burhan said in his speech during the ceremony that Russia is "a support for our country" and that Russian businessmen and companies will have priority in Sudan, expressing his country's readiness to develop cultural and scientific relations and support the Centre for the Study of Sudanese Civilisation at the university. (Source: RT via agencies, and Sudan Now) • South File: No new confirmed developments from South Sudan since the midday bulletin in the approved sources up to the preparation of this bulletin. (Source: Editorial Team monitoring of United Nations sources, the UNMISS mission and Reuters)

— Editorial Team