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Nearly every day brings new headlines about successful drone strikes by Ukraine against Russia. Now, Ukraine has reportedly carried out a strike on the Russian capital of Moscow.

According to ABC News, which cited Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, at least 200 drones were launched towards Moscow overnight.

Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

“More than 200 drones were flying towards the Moscow region. Most of them were neutralized by air defense systems at a distance,” the mayor said in a Telegram post cited by ABC.

Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has selected Terra Drone’s locally developed interceptor drone as a “test article” for its Interceptor Drone Rapid Acquisition Programme.

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Iran calls the Strait of Hormuz a “red line”: The United States and Iran have continued to trade shots in their resumed conflict. And on Thursday, the Iranian side made a threat about the Strait of Hormuz, on which the U.S. has imposed a blockade.

According to NPR, the U.S. and Iran have now once again been firing at each other for six days, essentially putting an end to the ceasefire that was agreed to in the “memorandum of understanding” in mid-June.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Marydith Stidham, a 125th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, marshals Capt.

Iran Says The Strait Of Hormuz Is “An Unbreakable Red Line”: The Iranian IRGC warned that the Strait of Hormuz was an “unbreakable red line” after the US escalated air strikes against it.

The IRGC added that it would destroy “all infrastructure throughout the region” if President Trump acted on this threat to attack Iranian bridges and civilian infrastructure.

Beijing Is Preparing for Putin’s Death, Engaging with His Potential Successors: The PRC was once highly dependent on Russia for most of what made it a world power. But in 2026, not only does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping feel no need to ingratiate himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he and the other top leaders in Beijing are openly planning for what they will be demanding from Moscow once former KGB Lt. Col. Putin is dead or is deposed – or both.

In 1941, the United States Embassy gave Mildred Gillars a way out. She didn’t take it.
Gillars worked for Third Reich Radio in Germany, and as her broadcasts became more anti-American and anti-Semitic, the Americans took notice. Embassy officials wanted Gillars, a native of Portland, Maine, to quit her job and go home to the U.S.
After she refused, they took her passport.
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Earlier this week, the American President Donald Trump appeared confident in America’s position vis-à-vis the war in Iran, and sure that the United States would be able to leverage its position over Tehran to ensure that shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz could do so safely.

“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Independent polling in Russia is notoriously difficult. And while the Russian president’s position is hardly insecure given his iron grip on the reins of power in the Kremlin, he is facing multiple mounting crises both at home and abroad in Ukraine. The war, which he began with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, is no longer limited to Ukraine but has spread widely into Russia itself.

In what appears to be a desperate move by Moscow, satellite imagery reveals that vital military installations in Russia’s far northern Arctic regions have been stripped of their air defense batteries. These anti-air assets are being moved to the interior of Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to find some response to an increasingly successful Ukrainian 40-day  drone campaign.