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June was one of the deadliest months in the entire Russo-Ukrainian War in terms of civilian death counts, according to recent reports. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) reported that 293 civilians died in the month of June, marking it one of the deadliest months of the war since its initial months back in 2022.

Over the past month, Russia has been intensifying its war against Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Vladimir Putin in Murmansk (2025-03-27). Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Will Putin Resort to Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? The Ukraine War is heating up in ways that we haven’t seen in months. First, the Russians captured one of the key Ukrainian “Fortress Cities” that formed a barrier in the east against further Russian attacks. Not long thereafter, the Ukrainians initiated a sustained campaign of drone attacks directed against energy, transportation, and agricultural production infrastructure in Russia. For his part, US President Donald Trump is encouraging the Ukrainians to continue attacking into Russia with their drones.

US Navy Conducts First-Ever Shipborne Drone Strike Against Iran: Three American drone boats sneaked into the Iranian Bandar Abbas Naval Base on Sunday and made history. The three drones snuck into the port and blew up a submarine and a ship maintenance facility on Sunday. It marked a significant first milestone for the U.S.’s growing fleet of unmanned surface vessels.

The drone boat attacks, which were part of a broader wave of airstrikes, hit Bandar Abbas Naval Base in a kamikaze mission, according to a video released by U.S. Central Command.

The UK has developed an artillery sustainment hub in Sheffield that appears heavily reliant on contracts to sustain Ukrainian systems.

Ukraine continues Sea of Azov attacks: Starting earlier this week, Ukraine’s drone strikes forced Russia to suspend shipping in the Sea of Azov, a major corridor between Russia and Eastern Europe, as 90 vessels were targeted within a week.

“The technological humiliation of the [Russian] empire continues. It will fall because of Crimea,” Ukraine’s drone forces chief, Robert Brovdi, said in a social media post this week.

The Soviet-designed Su-27 all-weather fighter-interceptor was created to counter the American McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

Iran Threatens to Block Exports As Hormuz Battle Unfolds: Iran has threatened to stop all oil and natural gas exports from the Middle East following the reimposition of the United States’ naval blockade of its ports and the reignited military campaign against the country. The warning, issued in a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is one of Tehran’s strongest threats since the fighting over the Strait of Hormuz began and now raises the chances of a global energy shock – precisely the kind of problem U.S.

The Marine Corps has denounced comments made by a Marine veteran running for Congress who posted a video of himself in uniform and made threatening comments directed at President Donald Trump.
William Upham made the comments in a roughly 6-minute video that was posted on his social media accounts earlier this week. Upham is running for Florida’s 5th Congressional District in November as a write-in candidate.
In the video, Upham accused Trump of being the “antichrist” and “the enemy of God.” 
Upham also claimed the president is “your enemy and he must be killed.

Between 1948 and 1958, Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands was the site of 43 nuclear bomb tests, including the U.S. military’s first hydrogen bomb detonation. In 1977, the Army sent Robert Celestial, a heavy equipment operator, to the islands to help clean up the nuclear waste.
“My job was to transfer radiated debris from one island to the dome that is there now, Runit Dome,” Celestial said. “I have photographs where we’re inside the crater inside the pond, and all the way up their waist, up their chests, and we didn’t realize that we were in a nuclear detonation [zone].

The war between the United States and Iran appears to have restarted, this time mostly taking the form of a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Fox News, the U.S. has launched new strikes on Iran, while also launching a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s IRGC, in turn, has threatened to shut down other waterways.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach takes off in an F-22 Raptor from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 13, 2026.

Elevated by its new status as an official Pentagon Field Activity, the Defense Innovation Unit is maturing with funding and permanence under the leadership of its new director, Owen West, who welcomes the pressure his team is under to speedily deliver “measurable” weaponry and combat power to the U.S. military.
“This could be my last job — I don’t care. I just want to make sure that we get drones in the hands of troops, and we build up a capability in space that cannot be matched for 10 years by our enemies,” West told DefenseScoop.