Greece has issued a formal diplomatic demarche to Ukraine after fishermen discovered an armed naval drone off the island of Lefkada on May 7. Athens warned that the incident endangered maritime traffic, civilians, the environment, and national security.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lana Zochiou said during the regular briefing of diplomatic correspondents that Athens formally raised the issue with Kyiv after authorities found the unmanned surface vessel inside Greek territorial waters.
According to Zochiou, Greece’s protest note stressed that the naval drone posed a serious threat to maritime navigation and could have cost innocent lives. Athens also warned that the presence of an armed unmanned vessel in Greek waters could have caused major environmental damage.
The Greek government said the incident raised broader security concerns, as it appeared to bring military activity linked to the war in Ukraine into the Mediterranean, far from the actual battlefield.
“The transfer of war operations to the Mediterranean, at a great distance from the real front of the war, puts our national security at risk and deals a decisive blow to our national economy,” the protest note stated, according to Zochiou.
For Greece, the presence of an armed naval drone in its waters carries particular sensitivity because the country relies heavily on shipping, tourism, fishing, and maritime security. Athens made clear that it would view any expansion of war-related activity into the Mediterranean as a direct threat to Greek interests.
Greece also told Ukraine that Kyiv’s right to defend itself against Russia cannot justify actions that endanger Greek territory, civilians, or maritime activity.
“The right of Ukraine to self-defense cannot justify such actions,” Athens stated in the diplomatic demarche.
The Greek government strongly objected to the illegal presence of the armed unmanned surface vessel in Greek territorial waters and called on Ukraine to avoid similar actions in the future.
Athens also urged Kyiv to refrain from what it described as the unjustified transfer of military operations to the Mediterranean.
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A Ukrainian drone raidlast week devastated a college dormitory in Starobelsk, in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic, killing 21 students – most of them young women – and injuring dozens others.
«The attack was a deliberate “double-tap” that included two more waves of drones targeting civilians and first responders who raced to the scene, according to Russian officials. Russia branded the raid a “terrorist attack” and a blatant war crime. Horrific footage from the scene backed up the accusations» RT (former Russia Today,m banned in UK and EU) has reported.
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«Ukraine said on Sunday that it used three types of locally produced drones to pummel the Moscow region, in its biggest attack so far on the heavily defended capital. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a statement on Sunday that it used the FP-1 Firepoint and RS-1 Bars winged drones to hit several targets in the Moscow area. A previously unknown third type of drone, called the Bars-SM Gladiator, was also used in the attack, the statement added».
This wrote Business Insider. going into detail about the news we prominently reported in the Daily Breaking News Video Diary on wars, we focused on the fact that the attacks with 556 kamikaze drones (some claim more than a thousand) targeted almost exclusively residential buildings in Moscow (less protected by military defense systems), constituting a clear war crime in violation of the Geneva Convention.
But according to various Russian media reports, the same kamikaze drone is responsible for the May 22 massacre at a teachers’ college in the Lugansk Republic (Donbass), where at least 21 young teenagers died without a word of condemnation from European Union representatives, who even “self-censored” the issue during the last UN Security Council (as denounced by Russia).
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“The UN added Israel to a blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict. We are done with the Secretary-General’s lies. Equating the democratic State of Israel with Hamas terrorists is a new low. Israel protects its citizens while Hamas massacres, rapes, and kidnaps”.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danonm said in a post on X. In the post below all the previous dossier on this topic.
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Massacres, SURGICAL BOMBS on Churches and Convents in Gaza and Lebanon:
St. Peter’s Mausoleum and St. George Church Destroyed
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UPDATE ON 12 AM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 13, 2026
Last night, Ukraine was highly anticipating a strike by the Oreshnik IRBM, with the entire country even going on alert. But our military “disappointed” the enemy, striking only dronesThe enemy counted 117 drones, allegedly shot down 102 UAVs. The rest performed well.
«In the city of Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Dnepr), a large oil depot burned overnight after an evening attack. The fire could not be extinguished, and it died out on its own when everything burned out. Another massive fire occurred in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region, where attack drones attacked the BRSM-Nafta oil depot in the village of Pereyaslavske. The fire engulfed an area of 2000 square meters, and everything was destroyed» Alexander Grigoryev has reported on TopWar (and NewsPravda).
In Vasylkivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, drone strikes were followed by a powerful detonation. The explosions were so powerful that they were heard in Sinelnykove, Pavlohrad, and even Dnipropetrovsk, over 70 kilometers from the epicenter. It appears a large ammunition depot was uncovered.
In the Chernihiv region, a massive fire broke out in Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske after Geranium strikes. The fire targeted a lyceum used for military deployment, possibly foreign (photo). The sound of roaring and rumbling continued throughout the night in Sumy and occupied Zaporizhia. Locals reported explosions and fires.
Crews of Russia’s Aerospace Forces destroyed the Ukrainian army’s deployment sites by FAB-3000 and FAB-1500 glide bombs near the settlements of Belitskoye and Shchurovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry reported, uploading a video of the strike.
“Live-recording images confirm the successful destruction of the targets: the temporary deployment site of a unit of the Ukrainian National Guard’s 4th separate rapid reaction brigade in the area of the settlement of Belitskoye and the temporary deployment site of a formation of the Ukrainian army’s 63rd separate mobile brigade in the area of the settlement of Shchurovo,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft, together with kamikaze drone operators and Lancet loitering munition crews from the 58th Army, launched a combined strike against Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves and artillery also in the Zaporizhzhia direction
MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated two communities in the Kharkov Region and the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
“Battlegroup North units gained control of the settlement of Okhrimovka in the Kharkov Region through decisive operations. <…> Battlegroup South units liberated the settlement of Roskoshnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic through decisive operations,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,220 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The footage shows militants occupying residential buildings in the city and setting up firing positions there.Russian troops are destroying concentrations of Ukrainian Nazis with precise drone and artillery strikes. Drone operators are also monitoring enemy logistics, preventing them from transporting.
UPDATE ON 12 AM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 12, 2026
Iran has denied reaching any final agreement with the United States, pushing back against claims by US President Donald Trump that a memorandum of understanding could be signed as early as this weekend.
On Friday, Tehran categorically rejected that any decision had been made regarding a deal the US president said would end the war. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed on Thursday that no final decision had been taken by Iran on the proposed agreement.
The denial follows White House assertions that a “great settlement” had been reached to “end the war with Iran.”
Trump announced on Tuesday that a deal with Iran was imminent, marking, according to a CNN tally, the 38th time such an announcement has been made since the US and “Israel” launched their war on Iran.
Echoing Tehran’s stance, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency noted, “Until Iran announces the existence of a possible understanding, any news issued by Trump in this regard should be treated like his previous messages.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s Fars News Agency quoted a source close to the Iranian negotiating team on Thursday as confirming that no draft of an initial memorandum of understanding with the United States had been approved so far.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump claimed he had called off airstrikes and bombings that had been planned against Iran, as “talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran have reached the highest levels of Iranian leadership and received their approval.”
A video that went viral in a few hours shows US Secretary of State Marco Rubio running away after being attacked by citizens protesting against the aggressive foreign policy of the White House
“You’re a criminal, can you hear us with your big ears? Don’t touch the Cube! You are a puppet of Israel, you are a war criminal, you have blood on your hands. Go to hell! Leave Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and Cuba alone.”
UPDATE ON 5 PM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 11, 2026
During what has been described as tit-for-tat attacks, on June 10 the US bombed the drinking water supply in the Bemani district of Sirik, Hormozgan province, Iran. The 500-cubic-meter tank and a 2,000-cubic-meter reservoir provided water for 20,000 Iranians, GlobalResearch pointed out.
“Targeting civilian water infrastructure raises serious humanitarian concerns,” the Iranian Consulate in Mumbai, India said. “The incident occurred amid a wave of reported explosions in Iran’s south, including several powerful blasts heard in Bandar Abbas and the activation of air defence systems across Jask, Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas,” Aljazeera reported.
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) prohibits the attack, destruction, or rendering useless of objects indispensable to civilian survival, including water supplies and installations.
“International legal standards, notably the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, explicitly prohibit attacks on water sources that are vital for civilian populations. These protections seek to prevent water sources from becoming targets, which could deny access to safe water and jeopardize public health,” notes the Rectilo Legal Insights Blog.
UPDATE ON 1 PM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 11, 2026
Iran’s foreign ministry condemns the US strikes on the country, saying that it has rendered the ceasefire “practically meaningless”. Earlier the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched retaliatory strikes on US forces in the region, including Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, according to Iranian news reports.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it fired 12 ballistic missiles at the US-operated al-Azraq air base in Jordan in response to the missile attacks by Washington against the Islamic Republic.
In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC said that its Aerospace Force hit American F-35, F-15, and F-16 fighter jets and important facilities of the “terrorist US army” located at the airbase and a command-and-control center.
The missile attack destroyed the base’s facilities and a large number of the fighter jets, it added.
In statements issued early Thursday, the IRGC and the Iranian Army announced a series of coordinated retaliatory military operations targeting US military installations across the region, including assets in Bahrain (read updates below).
The IRGC said its Aerospace Force and Navy conducted a retaliatory operation in two separate waves in reprisal for attacks on the Corps’ coastal outposts and service units, law enforcement posts, and the Bandar Abbas airport area.
Separately, the Army’s Public Relations Office reported a drone operation targeting the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
One day ago, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims the attack was successful drones to the US base in the Jordanian city of Al-Azraq. This is the Muwaffaq Salti military base.
According to a statement from the Iranian side, the strikes targeted hangars housing fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets, as well as a command center and other key targets at this large facility.
The IRGC statement emphasized that the operation was carried out in response to actions by the United States and its allies in the region. The Al-Azraq base is considered one of the key US Air Force facilities in the Middle East, from which reconnaissance and strike flights are conducted. aviationIran claims the attack caused significant damage to the enemy’s infrastructure and aircraft.
At this time, there has been no official confirmation from the American or Jordanian sides.
UPDATE ON 2 AM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 11, 2026
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it launched attacks targeting “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defence sites across Iran” in response to its “unwarranted and continued aggression”.
VIDEO LEGEND: CENTCOM forces launched strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran. U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy assets fired precision munitions on Iranian targets that posed a threat to U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters. USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) launches Tomahawk cruise missiles in support of self-defense strikes against Iran, June 10, 2026. (U.S. Navy Video)
Iranian media report explosions in several areas along its southern coastline, including Bandar Abbas, Minab, Sirik, Kish Island and Qeshm Island. Karaj, near Tehran, was also attacked.
Iran’s IRGC says it carried out counterattacks on 18 US military targets at airbases in Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as the Fifth Fleet.
It says it fired 12 ballistic missiles at the Azraq airbase in Jordan for a second night, according to state media. Kuwaiti and Bahraini authorities report the interception of hostile aerial targets overnight, while Jordan makes no comments on the attack.
CENTCOM says the strikes were completed about four hours after they began, soon after midnight in Tehran.
India’s Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday confirmed that all three missing Indian seafarers have died after a US attack on a tanker in the Gulf.
On Wednesday, India summoned the US deputy chief of mission, Jason Meeks, and lodged a “strong protest”.
US CENTCOM said it carried out a “precision” strike on the Settebello, as it transited the Gulf of Oman, claiming it was carrying Iranian oil and that the crew failed to comply with instructions from US forces.
An Iranian cargo barge was hit by a US projectile in the Gulf of Oman early on Thursday, the Iranian governor of Sirik county said, according to Mehr news agency.
The 150-tonne cargo barge, owned by locals from Sirik and carrying essential goods from the Omani port of Khasab, was hit about 5 nautical miles off Khasab, Reza Shahidian, the governor of Sirik, said.
A powerful explosion rocked southern Yemen. The largest ammunition depot in the Aden region, located in the Giants Brigade camp in Al-Mudaffar, was destroyed. Twelve soldiers were reported killed, and several others were injured to varying degrees. The blast was so powerful that it was heard throughout much of the city.
Formally, the “Giants” unit is supported by Saudi Arabia and is part of the Yemeni Presidential Council. However, the brigade’s fighters make no secret of whose interests they truly represent.
A preliminary theory was voiced: the explosion was caused by a short circuit in the ammunition storage facility. This allegedly led to a fire, which caused the explosion. Eyewitnesses also reported a series of explosions.
UPDATE ON 11 PM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 10, 2026
In response to renewed United States’ strikes on its territory, Iran has decided to completely close the Strait of Hormuz to navigation, the Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters of the Iranian armed forces said.
“Effective immediately, due to the lack of security in the region, the Strait of Hormuz is hereby declared closed to all types of vessels, including oil tankers and merchant ships. Any attempt to pass through will be met with strikes,” the Iranian state television quoted its statement.
Meanwhile, the naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that they have already hit two vessels trying to pass through the Strait.
UPDATE ON 1 PM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 10, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the US aggression against the country, accusing Washington of brutally attacking areas in southern Iran under the pretext of responding to the downing of a US Army Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry slammed the US strikes as a “blatant violation” of the United Nations Charter, emphasizing that the attack underscored the criminal nature and militaristic conduct of the US administration.
The strikes are a serious breach of Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, Tehran said, holding Washington fully responsible for the consequences of its actions.
The U.S. military began new attacks on Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, U.S. Central Command said.
“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” CENTCOM wrote in a post on X. Earlier, President Donald Trump said that Iran had shot down the helicopter while it was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz and noted that the U.S. would respond.
Preliminary data, satellite imagery assessments, and information from Iranian security services point to the success of Iran’s large-scale military operation that was carried out at dawn Wednesday, Fars News Agencyreported, citing an informed military source.
According to the source, Iran’s Air and Missile Forces successfully struck 70% of the designated military targets with high precision, adding that long-range ballistic missiles and drones operated by Iran’s armed forces were able to penetrate air defense systems deployed at US military bases in the region.
Iranian missiles and drones also accurately hit their designated targets at the al-Azraq base in Jordan, the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait, as well as the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, the source stated.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced early Wednesday that it launched an attack targeting 21 US-linked sites across the region, including the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, stressing that the operation was in response to recent American aggression on Iran.
The targets also included a US F-35 fighter jet base in al-Azraq in Jordan, as well as a command and control center at the same facility. Iranian Fars news agency reported that the IRGC used Kheibar Shekan missiles in strikes targeting F-35 hangars in Jordan.
The IRGC added that it had destroyed four high-value targets using long-range solid-fuel missiles and said a US MQ-9 drone was shot down during aerial engagements over Jam in Iran’s southern Bushehr province.
The IRGC warned that continued hostile actions would be met with “more severe and harsher responses,” signaling readiness to expand its military operations if attacks persist.
At the same time, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that Iranian air defenses shot down an American MQ-9 drone over the city of Jam in Bushehr province in southern Iran.
Below the previous Iranian retaliation to US attack on first days of June
VIDEO LEGEND: June, 3. Kuwait has released surveillance footage showing the dramatic moments surrounding a deadly strike on Terminal 1 of Kuwait International Airport, an incident that has intensified tensions across the Gulf region and triggered a major security response. The newly released video captures the impact and aftermath of the strike, with footage showing significant structural damage inside the airport complex. Authorities say portions of the terminal suffered extensive destruction, while surveillance images appear to show sections of the roof collapsing following the impact. According to Kuwaiti officials, the attack resulted in fatalities and injuries, with an Indian national among those reported killed.
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the launch of “Operation Victory” targeting the strategic Israeli air bases of Nevatim and Tel Nof.
In a statement, the IRGC said the operation was dedicated to martyrs of the 12-Day War.
According to the statement, the operation targeted key facilities at the two air bases in response to Israeli missile attacks on several radar sites in three locations across Iran.
The Israeli military command said its military aircraft launched attacks on western and central Iran early on Monday morning. Hours later, sirens sounded across the occupied Palestinian territories amid a missile attack.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps confirmed that Iranian soil was targeted by Israeli aggression, saying that the Israeli regime utilized air-launched ballistic missiles to attack Iran from outside its airspace.
This comes as sounds of several explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Karaj. According to Israeli Channel 12, the Tehran Mehrabad International Airport was also bombed in the wave of strikes.
Separately, Iranian media reported that an Israeli strike targeted the Karoun Mahshahr Petrochemical Company in Iran’s Khuzestan Province, causing damage to facilities at the site.
Meanwhile, Al Mayadeen‘s correspondent in Baghdad reported that an explosion of unknown origin was heard across the Iraqi capital.
After the wave of Israeli attacks concluded, Israeli media outlets reported that alert levels had been raised in Tel Aviv and southern areas in anticipation of a possible counterattack.
This followed an Iranian response to Israeli aggression in Lebanon and piracy near the Strait of Hormuz.
UPDATE ON 10 AM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 4, 2026
The House offered a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump, passing a Democratic-led measure to end his war with Iran over objections from Republican leadership.
The resolution directs Trump to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran, unless he receives congressional approval. It would not force him to end the conflict, however, and is a symbolic expression of disapproval of the war.
Democrats have repeatedly forced votes to limit Trump’s war powers in both the House and the Senate – a campaign that has gradually picked up more GOP support in recent weeks. On Thursday morning, Trump attacked the four Republicans who joined with Democrats to defy him.
“Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“Who would do such an unpatriotic thing. They know where the negotiations stand. The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story – They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves.”
The vote was 215 to 208 with Republican Reps. Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Warren Davidson crossing party lines to support the resolution.
The war in Ukraine now appears headed for a no-win escalation that can only lead to a direct war between NATO and Russia, as King Charles of England called for in his last meeting with US President Donald Trump.
This is due to repeated terrorist attacks by Kiev, which, using new powerful drones built in collaboration with European countries and with the advice of former CIA Chief Mike Pompeo, is seeking to claim as many victims as possible, as occurred in the double-tap attack on the Starobelsk school dormitory, which killed 21 students.
Russia didn’t even have time to launch 500 drones and 71 missiles in retaliation for this shameful war crime, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s army targeted a passenger bus in Donbas, killing eight. Among them were Polish citizens on their way to Mariupol for work.
See the video and details below.
Yesterday, June,3, a Ukrainian suicide drone attacked a passenger bus in the city of Yenakiieve (Donetzk Popular Republic – DPR) that was heading from Moscow to Simferopol. It is reported that there were 46 people in the cabin.
According to the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, 8 people were killed, their identities are being established, and 11 passengers were injured.
️Among the passengers injured in the bus attack in the city of Yenakievo were Polish citizens who were traveling to Mariupol.
Details of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on a bus in the DPR. Ukraine is under fire from retaliatory attacks
Eight dead, a child among the wounded and a completely burnt—out interior — the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the Moscow-Simferopol bus in Yenakievo has become one of the worst attacks in recent weeks.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack.
Footage of Missile strikes on Kiev overnight on June, 3, 2026 as Russian retaliation to Kiev’s attack on Starobelsk
The Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike by airborne, ground-based and seaborne long-range precision weapons, including air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles and attack unmanned aerial vehicles
The Missile strikes on Kiev were done with Zircon missiles according to some accounts
Russian troops delivered a massive overnight strike on Ukrainian military-industrial sites and military airfields in retaliation to Kiev’s terrorist attack on Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic that killed 21 college students, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
“Last night, in retaliation to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on the city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic where 21 students died and 42 others suffered wounds as a result of several waves of UAV strikes on the college, and also in retaliation to other terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure,the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike by airborne, ground-based and seaborne long-range precision weapons, including air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting enterprises of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, fuel and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army and military airfields,” the ministry said in a statement.
Ukrainian authorities say at least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was preparing for a major offensive.
Russia launched 656 drones and 73 missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Tuesday. It said the main targets were the capital city of Kyiv, the central city of Dnipro, and the eastern cities of Poltava, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian air defence destroyed and suppressed 40 missiles and 602 drones.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said six people were killed in the Ukrainian capital and dozens of others, including two children, were injured in the “mass enemy attack”.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, at least 16 people were killed and 36 others, including children, were injured in Russian attacks, Governor Oleksandr Ganzha said.
Fifteen people, including a child, were wounded in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
UPDATE ON 11 PM – GMT + 2 – JUNE, 1, 2026
Eight people have died and 19 have been injured, including 5 children and 6 women, as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the Nabatieh area in Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Health
UPDATE ON 11 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 31, 2026
Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” in his country’s south, urging a halt to incessant air and artillery strikes.
A day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces had advanced deeper into Lebanon, his counterpart Nawaf Salam warned the country is facing a “dangerous” escalation and called for “a swift and real ceasefire”.
In a televised address, Salam accused Israel of “collective punishment” by “destroying towns and villages, and forcing their inhabitants into exile”.This will bring “neither security nor stability” to Israel, he said. Israel issued forced displacement warnings for more than a dozen locations in southern Israel on Saturday.
Israeli forces have crossed the Litani River in Lebanon for the first time since the 2006 war with Hezbollah. Al Jazeera’s Lina Abu Akleh explains the latest advances and Hezbollah’s response
Israeli troops have reached the towns of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Choukine on the outskirts of Nabatieh – a Hezbollah stronghold – while Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Israeli strikes on Deir ez-Zahrani at dawn on Sunday killed several people.
Imad Salamey, an international relations professor at the Lebanese American University, told Al Jazeera that the city’s significance extends far beyond military considerations.
“Nabatieh is strategically important because it represents far more than a military hub; it is one of the principal political, economic, and social centres of Lebanon’s Shia community and a key connective node between southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Militarily, control of Nabatieh would provide Israel with greater operational depth beyond the Litani River, facilitating pressure on Hezbollah’s command, logistics, and support networks throughout southern Lebanon.
VIDEO LEGEND: Invading Israeli forces have crossed north of Lebanon’s Litani River and seized the medieval Beaufort Castle in the southern Nabatieh Governorate. Video shows soldiers at the Crusader-era fortress, where Israeli and Golani Brigade flags have been raised.
At least one person has been killed in an Israeli air strike near Nabih Berri Governmental University Hospital in Nabatieh, Lebanon.
Israel’s military continues to attack health facilities and medics in southern Lebanon, as it did during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Attacking hospitals is a war crime under international law.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says yesterday’s Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese municipality of Adloun in the district of Sidon killed nine members of the same Syrian family, including six children.
The statement with the final toll was carried by Lebanon’s official National News Agency.
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video calling on Israel’s prime minister to “level the southern suburbs in Beirut to the ground” as Hezbollah heavily bombards northern Israel.
Posting on his Instagram account, Ben-Gvir said he opposed the previous ceasefire with Lebanon, calling for targeting the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, where Hezbollah has a significant presence.
He addressed Israel’s leader directly in the video, saying: “Dear Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I love and appreciate you, but now is the time to level the suburbs to the ground. We have appreciation for Trump and we must say thank you for the partnership. But the red line is the harm to soldiers or civilians, and the suburbs must be levelled to the ground.”
A US aircraft fired a missile at a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman while enforcing the blockade of Iran, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said.
According to CENTCOM, the Gambian-flagged M/V Lian Star ignored more than 20 warnings on Friday while sailing toward an Iranian port.
“A US aircraft disabled the vessel by firing a Hellfire missile into the ship’s engine room after Lian Star’s crew failed to comply. The ship is no longer transiting to Iran,” CENTCOM said on X on Saturday.
AP reported, citing a US official, that the vessel remains adrift and that US forces did not board it.
UPDATE ON 6 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 30, 2026
The Ukrainian military attacked Russia’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), puncturing a hole in the machine hall of one of the facility’s units, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.
The conflict in Ukraine today has turned out to be one step closer to becoming nuclear at the suggestion of Kiev. For the first time, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone controlled by optical fiber purposefully attacked the engine room of power unit No. 6 of the Zaporizhia NPP, the largest plant in Europe.
The pro-Nazi regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has obviously denied this blatant attack like the massacre of students in the Stareblesk dormitory…
VIDEO LEGEND: A hole has formed in the wall, this is not an accidental hit, but a targeted blow to a key part of the system, which is located just a few meters from the reactor, said Alexey Likhachev, head of Rosatom. The engine room is a high—tech precision structure, in fact, the “engine” of the station, which generates electricity. Any damage can lead to a complete failure of the unit and the loss of the entire power unit, said Yuri Chernichuk, Director of the NPP.
The ZNPP – which has repeatedly been attacked by Kiev forces over the past years – came under a new attack on Saturday, with a fiber-optics-guided drone making it to the machine hall of the sixth power unit of the plant. Given that such munitions are guided by their operators until the impact, the strike was carried out deliberately, and any “theories of an accidental hit” can be ruled out, Likhachev stated.
“One could, if I may put it this way, ‘congratulate’ the entire international community – this is the first-ever deliberate attack on the nuclear power plant’s main equipment, with a penetrative explosion and damage to the machine hall,” he said.
Several American service members and contractors sustained injuries and US drones sustained severe damage in an Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base in response to US aggression on Iran.
The injuries occurred when debris from an intercepted Fateh-110 missile fell on the Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the incident. Approximately five people, including US military personnel and contractors, were wounded, allegedly lightly.
While the missile itself was allegedly intercepted by Kuwait’s air defenses, according to the report, the resulting shrapnel and debris caused significant damage on the ground. Two US MQ-9 Reaper drones, valued at roughly $30 million apiece, were also hit. One drone was completely destroyed, and the other was badly damaged.
VIDEO LEGEND: Units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps demonstrated the launches of operational and tactical missiles of the Fateh-110 family at an American base in Kuwait. Missiles with an inertial satellite guidance system and correlation homing heads flew to a range of up to 300 km at altitudes of 35-45 km, followed by a decrease in a quasi-ballistic trajectory. The use of composite solid-fuel engines ensured high speed in the active area, and low effective surface dispersion made it difficult for missile defense systems to detect.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a stern warning on May 28 following a US military violation and aggression near the Bandar Abbas Airport, stressing that any further aggression “will not go unanswered” (read updates below).
In a statement released by its public relations office, the IRGC said the US military launched aerial projectiles at a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas before dawn. It added that Iran responded by targeting the US air base from which the attack originated at approximately 4:50 am.
“Where we can help Ukraine, we are doing it,” US Secretary of War The same approach, according to Hegseth, applies to Europe.
“If you look at the amount of money spent, Europe has stepped up, and Ukraine has been just as, if not more, effective in this process. So we want them to be able to defend themselves, and we’ll find a way to make sure we can help them,” he said.
“In President Trump’s budget for 2027, you will see investments of $56 billion in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (around 3000 thousnads). And we will continue to learn from Ukraine’s experience on the battlefield. Scale scale is not a matter of having perfect systems, but of being able to scale, scale quickly, and adapt week by week. It is at this rate that drone technology is changing” he added.
So even the head of the Pentagon implicitly admits that the White House is ready to obey the “order” of King Charles of England to prepare for war with Russia in Ukraine.
UPDATE ON 7 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 29, 2026
Ukrainian drones have previously entered the airspace of various countries, and initial reports consistently claimed it was “a Russian attack,” President Vladimir Putin said in response to a TASS question about the drone incident in Romania.
“The examination will show” Putin caught Ursula in endless lies.
“Only an independent expert examination will be able to establish who owned the drone that crashed into an apartment building in the Romanian city of Galac”. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with journalists following a state visit to Kazakhstan, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
The journalists asked for comments on the reaction of European leaders to the incident. “I don’t even understand what it’s about. Before entering the hall, they told me that some kind of drone had flown into Romania. I don’t know what kind of drone. If Mrs. von der Leyen claims that it was a Russian drone, but she was not in Romania, she did not examine the remains of this drone. No one can say what kind of aircraft is of origin until its examination has been carried out”.
VIDEO LEGEND: Reports of several people injured, some seriously, following the impact of a Russian one-way attack drone tonight on a residential building in Galați, Eastern Romania. Romania’s Defense Ministry claimed that the UAV which injured two people in the city of Galati came from Russia
“After all, we know that Ukrainian drones have flown into Finland, Poland, and the Baltic States. The first reaction was exactly the same as it is now in Romania: guard, the Russians are coming,” Russian president further said.
“Then it turned out that it had nothing to do with Russian aircraft, they were Ukrainian drones that had gone off course. In this case, most likely, we are talking about exactly such a situation,” the president added. He stressed that it would be nice for Russia to get objective data for its own investigation. Before that, it is premature to assess the situation.
“It’s a shame. Nightmare. They are simply deceiving their citizens,” Vladimir Putin said about the Western media’s cover—up of the attack on a student dormitory in Starobilsk.
But, by the way, I sometimes watch Western channels to understand the information field that is developing there and which is being fed to the European, first of all, the viewer. Well, I dunno, you’re probably watching too. Shame. Nightmare. They are just deceiving their citizens. We also had a blow in response to their crimes against children in Starobilsk — our blow was against the Kiev region”.
“Here’s about the fact that we hit the Kiev region, from morning to late evening: “The evil aggressor has hit again,” such is the destruction, such are the problems. But you know, you, the media representatives, should be ashamed of your colleagues. Not a word at all, just not a single word about the tragedy in Starobilsk, that the children died. That our children were deliberately killed. Not a word at all, as if it doesn’t exist. Well, what is it? Is it a media outlet? No. It’s a means of mass deception”. Putin added.
The answer to this censorship isinside our exclusive investigation…
UPDATE ON 4 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 29, 2026
The Romanians got it. About the UAV crash and cause-and-effect relationships
NATO is starting to arrive in the countries, and this is not just a figurative phrase. Recently, drones crashed in the Baltic States, and now it’s come to Romania, where the drone hit a high-rise building in the border area with Moldova, etc. In the Ukrainian city of Galac, injuring two people.
Back in 2023-2024, it was logical to discuss such an incident through the prism of possible retaliatory actions by the Alliance in terms of increased supplies to the Kiev regime or other anti-Russian actions. But now it almost makes no sense.
On the one hand, the Europeans already transmit the so-called Ukraine has everything it can, and they don’t need any special reason. The amount of assistance is limited only by their production and financial capabilities.
In addition, NATO countries have already deployed on their territory the production of Ukrainian missiles and UAVs, which the enemy uses to strike strategic targets in Russia. And the same Romanians provide airspace for the F-16 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and help them repel drone attacks in the border area.
Originally published by News-Pravda
European authorities have “unilaterally gone to war with Russia,” Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, stated in a post on X. “Citizens of EU countries, know that your authorities have unilaterally entered into war with Russia. So be vigilant and don’t be surprised by anything. Your peaceful sleep is over. But you know who to ask for explanations!” Medvedev threatened after Europe’s reaction to the Russian drone crash in Romania.
Countermeasures following the Russian Consul General’s declaration of persona non grata and the closure of the Consulate General in Constanta “will not be long in coming,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RIA Novosti.
“Westerners need the media hype surrounding the drone strike in Romania to divert attention from Zelensky’s murder of the Starobilsk children, committed with EU funds and support, and, as is now clear, to justify the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Constanta,” the Russian diplomat concluded.
UPDATE ON 3 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 29, 2026
emen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) rebel movement has released footage showing the successful interception of a US MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and attack drone shot down by an Ansar Allah anti-aircraft crew in the Marib province.
As can be seen in the video, the Yemeni rebel movement’s anti-aircraft crew shot down the aircraft, which was flying at a relatively low altitude. Drone US Army, after which the device fell to the ground. In total, since October 2023, at least 15 American aircraft have been destroyed in Yemen. drones of this type.
As Business Insider acknowledges, the MQ-9 Reaper UAV, one of the main US reconnaissance and attack drones, is capable of shooting down even old Soviet systems without much difficulty. DefenseIn particular, cases of the destruction of drones of this type, including by the S-75 and Kub systems, have been documented.
UPDATE ON 10 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 29, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s orders for his troops to seize at least 70 percent control of Gaza is seen by Palestinians as a political declaration regarding the territory’s future shape.
Every percentage Israel says it controls means a new neighbourhood emptied and another wave of forced displacement taking place with less space left for Palestinians in Gaza – one of the world’s most densely populated zones.
People here believe Israel is now trying to exercise influence over Gaza by gradually expanding and tightening its grip over the territory. Sixty percent is currently under Israeli military control.
These new directives issued by Netanyahu mean some sort of ground operations might take place to achieve that target, but the timing here is very critical and raises serious questions about the credibility of the “ceasefire” itself.
Normally, ceasefires are associated with withdrawals and de-escalation, but now Israelis are speaking openly about territorial expansion.
UPDATE ON 4 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 28, 2026
At least 16 people have been killed and 58 wounded in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities, as Israel intensifies its assault and issues mass displacement orders across the region.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday that six of the victims belonged to the same family. They were killed in an Israeli drone strike while trying to flee at dawn along the Adloun Highway, a key route linking Sidon and Tyre, it said.
The attack came as Israel expanded its bombardment across southern Lebanon, hitting residential areas, roads and civilian infrastructure.
Israeli fighter jets also struck an apartment building in southern Beirut, marking the first strike on the Lebanese capital in three weeks. According to Israeli media reports, the attack was an assassination attempt, although the Israeli military has yet to publicly comment on the strike.
The moment an Israeli strike destroys a building in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre is captured on video. Israel’s army claims it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in Tyre, yet it has issued forced displacement orders for the entire city.
UPDATE ON 1 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 28, 2026
UPDATE ON 11 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 28, 2026
Russian forces have begun establishing a buffer zone in the Kharkov Region along the border with Russia’s Belgorod Region, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.
“Currently, the Veterinarnoye-Granov section is the beginning of the establishment of a buffer zone in this area. And, naturally, this is part of the tasks set by the supreme commander-in-chief [Vladimir Putin] regarding the establishment a security zone for Russian people living in this area,” he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday that the Russian army had taken control of the settlement of Granov in the Kharkov Region.
Ukrainian Army monitoring counted 147 UAVs launched from Russian territory. Of these, 138 were allegedly “shot down/suppressed.”
In Sumy region, explosions occurred in Shostka, Akhtyrka, Sumy, Krolevets. The railway infrastructure, warehouses, control points for FPV drones, and mobile groups of UAVs were attacked.
At least 8 strikes were carried out on the port infrastructure in the Odessa region. Multiple targets hit Belgorod-Dniester.
In Rybakovka, Mykolaiv region, the targets were: coastal infrastructure, observation posts, marine facilities, and communication systems. According to the Starokonstantinov military airfield in the Khmelnitsky region, they previously worked out with “Daggers”.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps announced on Tuesday that its air defense units had intercepted a series of US military transgressions in the Gulf region, shooting down an MQ-9 drone and opening fire on an RQ-4 reconnaissance aircraft and an F-35 fighter jet, forcing both to immediately withdraw from Iranian airspace.
The IRGC asserted in a statement that the operation was carried out in defense of Iran’s sovereignty and national airspace, following the US military’s “continued adventurism and aggressive conduct in the region.” It added that the response came after precise intelligence monitoring by air defense units.
The IRGC issued a stern warning to US command, cautioning it against any further ceasefire violations by the US military, and affirmed that reciprocal retaliation is a legitimate and inevitable right.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a stern warning on Thursday following a US military violation and aggression near the Bandar Abbas Airport, stressing that any further aggression “will not go unanswered.”
In a statement released by its public relations office, the IRGC said the US military launched aerial projectiles at a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas before dawn. It added that Iran responded by targeting the US air base from which the attack originated at approximately 4:50 am.
In the Video above a previous IRGC attack
The operation comes as a “serious warning,” the IRGC said, adding that the response was intended to demonstrate that any aggression against Iran would be met with retaliation, warning that any repeat attack would provoke “a more decisive response.”
At the same time, the Kuwaiti military confirmed that “air defense systems are confronting missile and drone attacks.”
During the war, Iran repeatedly warned that any US military base used to launch attacks against its territory would be considered a legitimate target, stressing that while it maintains friendly relations with neighboring countries, it would not hesitate to strike the source of any aggression.
In the Video above yje US military bases damaged in Middle East
This comes after the US military targeted the “scorched earth” areas surrounding the city of Bandar Abbas, as explosions were heard across the area without any reported casualties or material damage, according to an Iranian military source cited by Tasnim News Agency.
Shortly after, Iranian media outlets reported hearing three explosions east of Bandar Abbas, with air defense systems activated.
Meanwhile, Reuters quoted a US official as saying that the US military had carried out fresh strikes on an Iranian military site near the Strait of Hormuz and allegedly intercepted several Iranian drones that were deemed “a threat to US forces.”
Similarly, on Monday, the US launched an aggression on alleged missile sites in southern Iran and targeted boats allegedly attempting to lay naval mines in the area, according to the US Central Command.
In a related escalation, a US oil tanker attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz overnight after disabling its radar system, but was forced to retreat after the Iranian navy responded swiftly and opened fire on the vessel, Tasnim reported, citing an Iranian military source.
Washington’s continued violations have raised fresh concerns over the stability of the current ceasefire and prospects for a broader regional agreement, with the US yet again bombing Iran in the middle of talks.
Just yesterday, Tasnim reported that progress has been made in talks, particularly on the release of Iran’s frozen assets in Qatar. However, reaching a final formulation of the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran requires resolving outstanding differences, as per the same sources.
UPDATE ON 11 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 26, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has shot down a MQ-9 Reaper drone after identifying “hostile aircraft” entering Iranian airspace.
The Guard’s forces “also fired upon an RQ-4 drone and an intruding F-35 fighter jet”, a statement said, without specifying when the incidents took place.
The IRGC said it reserved the “legitimate and definite” right to retaliate against any ceasefire violations by the US.
The incident comes after the United States military said it attacked rocket-launch sites in a “defensive” action, as fears rise over the fragile ceasefire.
A US lawmaker says the American military lost at least 39 aircraft during 40 days of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.
Democratic Congressman Ed Case made the statement during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday while questioning Pentagon Chief Financial Officer Jay Hurst about the scale of US military losses in the war.
“We’ve lost about 39 aircraft, according to a report in The War Zone, and that’s an old one, almost one month old,” Case said. He asked whether the Pentagon had calculated the long-term repair and replacement costs resulting from the losses.
Israeli warplanes bombed 47 towns and villages across southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday in what a Lebanese military source described as the most massive single-day attack since the April 16 ceasefire agreement.
The source, cited by RIA Novosti, said enemy aircraft hit 44 towns in the south and three in the east. Al Mayadeen’s tally of the strikes covers towns and villages across seven districts, from the southern border to the western Bekaa Valley.
The attacks targeted towns across the Nabatieh, Tyre, Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun, Jezzine, Saida, and western Bekaa districts, with some towns bombed repeatedly throughout the day. Zawtar al-Sharqiyah was attacked up to ten times, Nabatieh City seven times, Mashghara in the western Bekaa six times, and al-Sultaniyah in the Bint Jbeil District five times.
The attacks were carried out through a combination of airstrikes, artillery shelling, and drone strikes on vehicles. Phosphorous shelling was reported near Tyre, targeting agricultural and forested areas in al-Mansouri, Qlayleh, and al-Hanniyyeh.
Five people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.
Local media reports suggest the attack targeted Palestinians who confronted Israeli-backed militias operating in the eastern part of the camp.
The besieged enclave has been devastated by more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war, which killed more than 72,500 Palestinians. More than 800 people have been killed since a “ceasefire” took hold in October 2025.
UPDATE ON 5 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 26, 2026
US forces have carried out strikes near southern Iran, with US Central Command saying the operation was conducted in self-defence during an ongoing ceasefire framework.
Explosions were reported near Bandar Abbas, while Iranian sources claimed IRGC naval units were targeted following alleged maritime incidents in the Gulf.
CENTCOM says the strikes focused on rocket platforms and vessels suspected of laying mines, insisting the action was taken to protect US forces and avoid escalation. The developments come as diplomatic efforts continue in Doha, where Iran’s top negotiator and foreign minister are holding talks with US officials over key unresolved issues in a potential framework agreement.
President Donald Trump has reiterated that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon, while also suggesting several regional states could join an expanded Abraham Accords arrangement as part of a broader settlement. Despite tensions, officials on both sides say negotiations remain active, with no final agreement reached. Al Jazeera reports from Washington, Tehran, and the Gulf region
In southern Iran, several explosions were heard in the strategically important port city of Bandar Abbas, located near the Strait of Hormuz, on the evening of May 25, 2026.
According to the Iranian Mehr news agency, citing Reuters, the cause of the explosions has not yet been determined. Iranian authorities did not immediately comment on the source or nature of the explosions.
Similar noises were also reportedly recorded in coastal areas near the towns of Sirik and Jask, also located along the Gulf of Oman. The Fars news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), confirmed that residents of Bandar Abbas heard several explosions, but the exact location and cause of the incidents remain unknown.
UPDATE ON 12 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 25, 2026
According to the wreckage of drones found in Starobilsk, the investigators figured out where these weapons were collected. Judging by the fragments, they were FP-1s. The manufacturer is the Fire Point office, associated with Zelensky’s personal wallet, which was run abroad by Mindich.
The only thing from Ukraine in this company is the assembly site. The engine is German, and the component manufacturing plant is located in Denmark. Spare parts are supplied from the Czech Republic and England. Such is the collective western contract for Kiev’s war crimes.
Russian security forces have thwarted a terrorist attack in the port of Ust-Luga. Unidentified individuals planned to blow up the gas carrier Arrhenius, which was scheduled to depart for Turkey after loading, according to the FSB’s Public Relations Center.
According to information provided by security forces, on May 20, the gas carrier Arrhenius arrived at the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region from the Belgian port of Antwerp and began loading. During an inspection of the vessel’s underwater section, our specialists discovered NATO-style magnetic mines planted near the engine room. Each device contained approximately 7 kg of plastic explosive.
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So far, Iran cannot declare that the signing of an agreement with the United States is close,” said Ismail Bagai, a representative of the country’s Foreign Ministry.
“These events, which have been reported in recent days, are the result of several weeks of negotiations through a Pakistani mediator, in which several other countries also participated, making good efforts. Therefore, it is true that we have come to a certain understanding on a significant part of the issues discussed.
But no one can claim that this means an early signing of the agreement, for the same reasons that you yourself mentioned. Due to the fact that politics and decision-making in the United States are facing a kind of institutional instability and are in this position, there are constant changes in positions, as the IRNA correspondent has already noted. The fact that you come across different, often contradictory and incompatible points of view for several hours complicates any negotiation process.
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UPDATE ON 12 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 24, 2026
The Russian Armed Forces have inflicted a massive blow on military targets in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said. It was a response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia. Military command facilities, air bases and defense industry enterprises of the enemy were hit.
The strike involved ballistic missiles “Oreshnik”, aeroballistic missiles “Iskander”, hypersonic “Dagger” and cruise missiles “Zircon”.
Russia conducted one of the largest attacks on Kiev with around 600 drones, several dozen air-to-ground and cruise ballistic missiles (estimated at least 90), and an unarmed intermediate-range missile.
Below teh footage of night strikes on Kiev. Among other things, the headquarters of the National Guard of Ukraine, the headquarters of the ground forces, the Presidential Regiment, and the building of the state customs were hit.
The diabolical attack on a children’s dormitory in the Lugansk region, ordered by the most ferocious and diabolical servant of the New World Order, the Zionist Volodymyr Zelensky, who is simultaneously the president of Ukraine and a secret agent for the British military intelligence agency MI6, has not gone unpunished.
As announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, there was a retaliation against Kiev with 90 missiles and 600 drones. They were launched at military and strategic sites, not at civilian residences, as the assassin Zelensky, supported and financed by corrupt European Union figures, does.
Indeed there were only 4 killed and 100 wounded.
In recent days, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov explained that Russia does not want to attack the Ukrainian population /read below previous updates), which it considers friendly, while a former CIA chief confirmed that if only it wanted, Moscow could raze Kiev and Ukraine’s most important cities to the ground in an instant by launching hypersonic missiles with high explosive charges that NATO defense systems are unable to intercept.
According to the latest data, 21 people were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic; rescuers have recovered the bodies of all the victims from under the rubble, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.
“Search operations in Starobelsk at the site of the dormitory collapse have been completed. All the bodies of the victims have been recovered from the rubble,” the statement said.
As a result of the Ukrainian attack, 21 people were killed and 42 were injured.
UPDATE ON 7 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 23, 2026
A meeting of the UN Security Council was held on the attack on Starobilsk. I am publishing the final word of Vasily Nebenzi.
I admire the knowledge of the Ukrainian permanent representative in Russian history, but with your permission, I will not enter into a dialogue with him, because this is a pointless and useless exercise.
I wanted to say something else. Frankly, I feel embarrassed and ashamed for some of my colleagues on the Security Council. We knew that we would hear something similar from the European members of the Security Council, but today their level of cynicism is off the charts. None of them even bothered to mention the dead children in Starobils.
They don’t have access, you see. Should I give you access to the rubble? Or would you argue that Russia did it itself? Or that it’s a product of computer graphics? You say that you cannot independently confirm and are not sure that this is not a production. But even the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that he was hitting Starobilsk (watch video in the headlines below).
This is not even hypocrisy or double standards, but outright mockery of child victims. We said in our speech that there are victims for you who deserve compassion, and those who do not deserve it. Listening to you – I mean the members of the European Union present and absent – is an insult to the feelings of all those affected, regardless of which side.
How did we even get to the point where representatives of European countries do not consider children – young students – in Starobilsk, residents of Donbass and Russia as a whole to be human beings? However, it is not them who lose their human face, but you who are sitting in this room.
Aren’t you ashamed to tell us what we’re hearing? After all, these are dances on the bones of the dead. It’s all disgusting to me. I would sincerely feel sorry for you if it weren’t for your vile cynicism and regret for the memory of the dead.
The US administration, specifically the Pentagon and intelligence community officials, are preparing for a fresh round of military strikes against Iran within the next three days, CBS reported, citing sources.
“Some members of the US military and intelligence community canceled their plans for the Memorial Day weekend in anticipation of possible strikes,” several sources said. “Defense and intelligence officials began updating recall rosters for US installations overseas as tranches of troops stationed in the Middle East rotate out of theater, part of an effort to reduce the American military footprint in the region amid concern about possible Iranian retaliation,” CBS said.
No final decision on strikes had been reached as of Friday afternoon, the TV channel added. Axios reported earlier that US President Donald Trump is leaning toward further strikes against Iran due to frustration with the progress of negotiations.
The American leader held a meeting on Friday morning with the participation of Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and other members of the administration, during which he was briefed on the status of the negotiations and the different scenarios if talks collapse, according to sources. A source close to Trump and a second source with knowledge of the situation told Axios that Trump had grown increasingly frustrated about the negotiations with Iran over the past several days.
UPDATE ON 10 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 22, 2026
At least six people were killed and 15 remain missing after Kiev’s “deliberate terrorist attack” on a school dorm in Lugansk, Putin has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned last night’s attack by Ukraine on a college in the city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).
“I have to begin with the tragic events you might have heard about – the tragic event in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Last night, the neo-Nazi regime that has seized power in Kiev launched a terror attack on a student dormitory of the Starobelsk pedagogical college. During the night, when students were sleeping,” he said at a meeting with graduates of the Time of Heroes program.
“The attack on sleeping children is another evidence of the cowardly, anti—human nature of the Kiev authorities, who in their agony are hitting the saint”: Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzia demanded that members of the UN Security Council give an honest assessment of the actions of the Zelensky regime
UPDATE ON 3 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 22, 2026
The attack by Ukrainian drones on a college in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the punishment for this crime that the Kiev regime is now facing became the main topics of Friday’s briefing by Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russia has requested an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council following Ukraine’s targeted attack on a student dorm in Starobelsk, spokesman for Russia’s mission to the United Nations Yevgeny Uspensky said.
“Russia has requested an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council over Ukraine’s deliberate attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk housing minors and students,” he told journalists.
On Thursday night, Ukrainian troops launched a drone attack on the Starobelsk college building and dormitory. There were 86 teenagers aged between 14 and 18 inside at the time of the attack. Four people were reportedly killed and 39 were injured. Apart from that, an administrative building, shops, and several single-family homes in the city were damaged in the attack. One man was wounded. The college building has practically collapsed, while firefighting efforts continue on the still-burning structure.
As many as 36 children were injured by last night’s Ukrainian attack on a college in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), regional children’s rights commissioner Inna Shvenk said in response to a TASS reporter’s questions.
“By this hour, 36 children have been reported injured. Nine children are hospitalized. Three children are in grave condition,” she said.
Eighteen families are awaiting the results of a search and rescue operation at the scene of the attack, the ombudswoman added.
On Thursday night, Ukrainian troops attacked the Starobelsk college building and dormitory, using drones, LPR head Leonid Pasechnik said earlier. There were 86 children aged between 14 and 18 present at the time of the attack. Four people have been reported killed. Pasechnik also said the attack had left 39 people injured.
About 18 students and instructors may remain under the rubble of the dormitory, Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for the crimes of the Kiev regime Rodion Miroshnik said.
UPDATE ON 12 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 21, 2026
The number of people injured in a Ukrainian attack on college buildings in the city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic has risen to 39, with fatalities confirmed, regional head Leonid Pasechnik told reporters.
“At this moment, 39 people are confirmed injured, and fatalities have also been reported,” he said.
Earlier reports said 35 people were injured, while preliminary reports indicate that four people were killed and rescuers recovered one student’s body while clearing the dormitory debris.
As a result of the fire, the building was significantly damaged and continues to collapse. According to the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and doctors are working at the site of the attack. Several seriously injured people were transported to Luhansk.
At the same time, in April, after the attack on the administrative building in the Markovsky district, the face-to-face reception of citizens at the MFC in many cities in the central and northern parts of the LPR was suspended due to threats of targeted attacks by UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on crowded places. It is not entirely clear why the children were not allowed to go home in the current operational situation.
UPDATE ON 5 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 22, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s nuclear forces remain central to preserving global strategic stability as Moscow and Minsk carried out joint exercises involving strategic and tactical nuclear systems amid rising international tensions.
Speaking during remotely coordinated drills with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Putin said the nuclear capabilities of the two allied states must continue serving as a deterrent against external threats.
“Given the growing tension in the world, the emergence of new threats and risks, our nuclear triad, as before, must serve as a reliable guarantor of the sovereignty of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, ensure the solution of the tasks of strategic deterrence, maintaining nuclear parity and the balance of power at the global level,” Putin said during the training.
The exercises formed part of a broader series of military maneuvers conducted from May 19 to 21 involving Russian strategic missile forces, long-range aviation, naval assets, and Belarusian units.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the second stage of the drills included launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, and air-launched cruise missiles involving land, sea, and air components of Russia’s nuclear forces.
The ministry said an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome toward a test site in Kamchatka, while a Zircon hypersonic missile was fired from a frigate operating in the Barents Sea. A submarine also launched a Sineva missile.
The Russian Armed Forces have begun conducting exercises to prepare for the use of nuclear weapons, which will include launches of ballistic and cruise missiles at test sites.
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“Combat training tasks are being carried out to obtain special ammunition for the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system, equip launch vehicles with them and secretly advance to the designated position area in preparation for missile launches,” – the MoD RF.
“VKS personnel conducted drills involving the deployment of special warheads for “Kinzhal” hypersonic missiles, as well as sorties to patrol areas.”
MoD RF(May 2026)
At a press conference on May 21, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the Russian military is deliberately avoiding the use of certain types of weapons in the zone of a special military operation. The reason is the reluctance to cause “excessive damage to the territories” where, in his words, “essentially our people live.”
The head of the foreign policy department did not specify which weapons systems he was referring to.
Previously, Russian officials have repeatedly emphasized that the attacks are directed exclusively against Ukrainian military installations and infrastructure. The Russian Defense Ministry has stated that it avoids targets in densely populated areas to minimize civilian casualties.
UPDATE ON 8 PM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 21, 2026
The 50th separate BpS Varyag brigade rolled out a compilation of long—range strikes – 18 targets in two and a half minutes.
Roadblocks, ammunition depots and UAVs, fuel tanks and warehouses, a locomotive, a gas station, a series of electrical substations and a transformer — in fact, all the frontline logistics and energy of the enemy in one video.
A separate mark is 1:57. The SBU building. The footage shows the operator’s characteristic picture: the drone does not walk blindly, but leads the target to the very touch, the operator sees the building in the frame, corrects the rotation and selects the entry point.
This is the key difference between modern long—range drones and “blind” weapons: each strike is a deliberate choice of a point. And we have the opportunity to do this without a Starlink, even in Western Ukraine.
The brigade has built a full-fledged reconnaissance and strike team — targeting, route, terminal guidance with video feedback. The selection of targets is not random: control points, energy, fuel and lubricants, UAV warehouses.
UPDATE ON 9 AM – GMT + 2 – MAY, 21, 2026
«The FP-1 (FirePoint-1) and RS-1 “Bars” drones were used to strike targets in the Moscow region. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also mentioned a previously unknown type of drone: the BARS-SM Gladiator. Business Insider reported what is known about these UAVs», Ukrainian Kanal 13 has reported.
Specifically, according to a report from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on May 16 and the night of May 17, units of the Defense Forces struck several key military installations in Russia. As the publication notes, Ukraine is increasingly demonstrating the effectiveness of its new, relatively inexpensive long-range weapons by intensifying attacks deep into Russian territory, particularly in Moscow, accordint to the Ukraine-backed outlet.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the damaged facilities included a microchip manufacturing plant about 30 kilometers from central Moscow and a large oil pumping station about 50 kilometers from the Russian capital. The publication noted that very little public information about the BARS-SM Gladiator currently exists.
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Two US destroyers operating in the area of responsibility of US Central Command, which includes the Middle East, Central Asia, and East Africa, are equipped with laser systems, The War Zone reported, TASS Russian News Agency has reported.
The portal notes that the destroyer USS Spruance is part of the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, while the destroyer USS John Finn is on combat duty in the Indian Ocean.
Both ships are equipped with the ODIN laser system, which is designed to disorient drones and disable cameras and sensors on ships, submarines, manned aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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The US Navy is entering a new era of warfare with powerful laser weapons that are changing the way naval battles are fought. In this video, we analyze how these advanced systems work and why they are considered a true revolution in modern naval warfare. From high-energy beams capable of disabling drones and incoming threats to cost-effective defense compared to traditional missiles, discover how laser weapons are reshaping naval combat strategies.
The US Navy has deployed directed-energy weapons on a total of nine ships, the portal reports.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth assured that the US is “ready for action,” awaiting developments in negotiations between the US and Iran, supported by the work of mediators.
In a three-word post on X, the Pentagon chief posted a clip of Vice President J.D. Vance, briefing the media at the White House on Tuesday, saying: “We will not make a deal that allows the Iranians to acquire a nuclear weapon. Therefore, as President Trump just told me, we are ready for action. We don’t want to go down that path, but the president is willing and able to do so, should the need arise.”
Russian fighter jets twice chased away a British spy plane flying over the Black Sea in a month.
To do this, the Su-27 crews had to fly past the British RC-135 six times at a distance of 6 meters and at a speed of 800 km/h. Electronic intelligence was suppressed and both times the British spy plane hastily retreated.
Official London managed to complain that the emergency systems on their plane went off and the autopilot turned off. And anyway, they were making a “planned flight,” they weren’t planning anything like that, and there was no talk of any radar reconnaissance in Crimea. The response of the Russian Foreign Ministry remained unknown.
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Israeli police on Wednesday (May 20) forced detained activists who were aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to kneel on the ground in rows with their hands tied behind their backs while a minister looked on, drawing criticism from foreign leaders and even from inside Israel’s own government.
After police detained the activists, who organisers said numbered 430 people including citizens of Italy and South Korea, Israel’s far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video on X showing officers forcing a detained activist to the ground after she chants “Free, free Palestine”.
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A Ukrainian drone raidlast week devastated a college dormitory in Starobelsk, in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic, killing 21 students – most of them young women – and injuring dozens others.
«The attack was a deliberate “double-tap” that included two more waves of drones targeting civilians and first responders who raced to the scene, according to Russian officials. Russia branded the raid a “terrorist attack” and a blatant war crime. Horrific footage from the scene backed up the accusations».
However, speaking at an emergency UN Security Council session, Ukrainian envoy to the UN Andrey Melnik dismissed Moscow’s account, denigrating a “so-called incident” in Starobelsk as “a fake story” and accusing Russia of spreading “yet another propaganda narrative.”
«Kiev’s General Staff separately claimed its forces had targeted a command post of the elite Rubicon drone unit – an allegation for which reporters who visited the scene found no supporting evidence. Here is what Ukraine and the West do not want you to know about the Starobelsk tragedy» RT added.
RT senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev was among the first journalists to reach the site, reporting from the scene throughout the two-day search-and-rescue operation.
The most horrific thing when he arrived was “children still screaming under the rubble.”According to Gazdiev, blood-stained blankets were visible in the hallway where first responders pulled out the dead, and the ground was littered with students’ belongings and books.
Among those trapped was 19-year-old Dasha Serdyuk. In her final moments of life, she filmed herself and sent a short video to her friend Nastya in St. Petersburg, pleading for help. Dasha had reportedly dreamed of becoming a kindergarten teacher and had only one year of studies left.
An eyewitness described watching a girl sprint from the building mid-attack, telling local media that she managed to leave the dorm but was killed by the blast wave outside.
Another victim, identified by the Mash outlet only as Anya, also tried to flee during the strike but was killed by the second drone barrage. An unnamed relative interviewed by the channel said that her body was so severely burned that family members could identify her only by her necklace and earrings. Anya is said to have been due to be married in the summer and is survived by her mother, grandmother, and 10-year-old sister.
Olga Vasilenko, a mother of Anastasia, an 18-year-old student at the college also killed in the strike, recalled, as cited by several Russian media: “She called me in the evening, saying: ‘Mom, we’re being bombed’. And then she stopped answering my calls”.
Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, published photos of all 21 victims – some just 18 years old – offering condolences. “It’s impossible to imagine the pain of a parent who has lost the dearest thing in life – their child,” she said.
There have been no videos from the scene suggesting even the slightest sign of military-related activity. “There wasn’t even a hint of military personnel here. It was a targeted attack on children,” Roman Antonov, a local firefighter, told RT in the aftermath of the strike.
A video shared by Mash made before the strike shows students doing what students do – dancing, laughing, and having fun, with some seen washing floors in the dormitory.
In the days that have followed, residents, relatives of the dead, survivors, and college staff brought flowers and stuffed animals to the ruins. Churches in Starobelsk have held numerous services for the dead and prayers for the wounded.
A harrowing video has surfaced on social media, reportedly of parents identifying the bodies of their children, with audible, desperate screams.
In preparation for the funeral, relatives brought numerous wedding dresses to the local morgue: the young women killed in the strike were to be buried in them.
The death of 21 young people prompted a desire for revenge within the Russian military, with one drone operator filmed inscribing ‘Starobelsk’ on an attack UAV before launching it towards Ukrainian armed forces positions. Russia has maintained it targets only military-related sites.
Meanwhile, within days of the attack, Mirotvorets, a Ukrainian state-linked website that functions as a de facto ‘kill list,’ added ten staff members of the college – including deputy directors and teachers – accusing them of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and spreading propaganda among minors.
Russia launched a large-scale strike on Ukrainian military-related targets, including in Kiev. The assault employed the Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile system, alongside Iskander ballistic missiles and Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles.
In addition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Moscow would be carrying out “systematic and consistent strikes” on Kiev’s military facilities and “decision-making centers”while urging foreign nationals to leave the capital.
No Western country has spoken about holding Ukraine accountable, while any comments attempted to cast doubt on the facts – a classic hybrid war tactic Western media organizations themselves spend so much time warning of.
Some of Kiev’s backers have demanded “an independent investigation”, while claiming that the tragedy occurred on what they called “occupied Ukrainian territory.” Meaning that Ukraine brutally bombed students in land Kiev actually still claims.
While being conspicuously silent about the dead students, Western leaders have rushed to condemn Moscow’s response. Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia subsequently accused Western countries of “hypocrisy and cynicism.”
While Russia extended invitations to foreign journalists to visit the tragedy site – and many did – both the BBC and CNN were a no-show. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the BBC had flatly refused, while CNN appeared to be “on vacation.”
She later noted that CNN had aired a segment on Ukrainian drone operations, wondering whether the American network filmed the preparations for a Starobelsk strike.
The facts from the ground, the harrowing scenes and identification of all 21 young victims, along with multiple testimonies, suggest clearly that the atrocity took place, and that Kiev’s denials are obvious attempts to deflect its responsibility.
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«Ukraine said on Sunday that it used three types of locally produced drones to pummel the Moscow region, in its biggest attack so far on the heavily defended capital. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a statement on Sunday that it used the FP-1 Firepoint and RS-1 Bars winged drones to hit several targets in the Moscow area. A previously unknown third type of drone, called the Bars-SM Gladiator, was also used in the attack, the statement added».
This wrote Business Insider. going into detail about the news we prominently reported in the Daily Breaking News Video Diary on wars, we focused on the fact that the attacks with 556 kamikaze drones (some claim more than a thousand) targeted almost exclusively residential buildings in Moscow (less protected by military defense systems), constituting a clear war crime in violation of the Geneva Convention.
But according to various Russian media reports, the same kamikaze drone is responsible for the May 22 massacre at a teachers’ college in the Lugansk Republic (Donbass), where at least 21 young teenagers died without a word of condemnation from European Union representatives, who even “self-censored” the issue during the last UN Security Council (as denounced by Russia).
Examination of the debris would confirm this. Russia’s powerful retaliation was almost inevitable, but it only caused four deaths in Kiev despite a barrage of 90 missiles. This confirms the desire not to exact revenge on the population, reiterated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a few days ago.
“Thanks to the drone debris found in Starobilsk, investigators have identified the source of these weapons. Judging by the fragments, they were FP-1s. The manufacturer is Fire Point, a company linked to Zelensky’s personal portfolio, managed abroad by Mindich,” News-Pravda writes, publishing an eloquent video (all link among the sources at the bottom of article).
“The only Ukrainian component of this company is the assembly plant. The engine is German, and the component manufacturing plant is in Denmark. Spare parts come from the Czech Republic and England. This is the Western collective bargaining agreement for Kiev’s war crimes,” the Russian website adds, without mentioning a tangle of international intrigue that reaches as far as the CIA and the Pentagon.
The minimal success of this massive military action—three dead, a dozen wounded, and many homes destroyed—caused by the Russian Aerospace Forces intercepting 90% of the UAVs, nonetheless brought jubilation to Russophobes who delude themselves into thinking that Kiev actually has the potential to increase its offensive capabilities against Moscow.
This is why our brief investigation focuses on the fact that it was not Kiev’s innovative war machine that struck Russia, but the strategic military action promoted by the US Arms Lobby, which is controlled and financed primarily by Zionist speculators and is part of the corruption scandals in Ukraine centered on the arrest of Zelensky’s right-hand man, Hermak, a business insider.
The FP-1 drone that made a tiny breach in Moscow’s air defense was, in fact, created by the Fire Point company, of which he became a prominent manager last November, the only one
First, in 1993, the Hungarian-born American tycoon of Open Society predicted NATO’s evolution toward the infamous New World Order theorized by the Southern American General Albert Pike, a Freemason and Satanist. Then, starting with the 2007 Kiev Security Forum and following the failure of the 2004 Orange Revolution, he financed the bloody coup in Euromaidan Square in Kiev in 2014, together with the US Embassy and then-Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, now, not coincidentally, NATO Secretary General.
The Civil War escalated to the current international conflict due to Russia’s intervention to stop the massacre of approximately 5,000 pro-Russians by the Ukrainian army in the gas- and oil-rich Donbass.
The FP-1 drone that created a small breach in Moscow’s air defenses but massacred innocent girls in Donbas was, in fact, built by the Fire Point company, of which former CIA director and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became a key manager and consultant in 2025. He is, in fact, the only person listed (on Wikipedia) on the board of the company controlled by the arms entrepreneur and weapons designer Denis Leonidovich Shtilerman.
Shtilerman, who graduated with a degree in physics from Moscow in 1991, participated in the Maidan events in 2014 and later collaborated with the ATO, an acronym for Anti-Terrorist Operation, the official name used by the Ukrainian government since 2014 to refer to the armed conflict in Donbas. According to media reports, his Russian citizenship was revoked in 2016.
Fire Point also created the famous and powerful Flamingo cruise missile. Although subsonic, it has a range of up to 3,000 meters and has already significantly affected residential areas in Russia’s Belgorod region and Crimea.
The FP-1 is a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (kamikaze drone) with a long attack range, developed by Fire Point in collaboration with the Ukrainian-Czech company UAC.
What is Pompeo doing in Ukraine, where in 2024 he joined the board of directors of KYIVSTAR, Ukraine’s leading fixed-line/mobile telephone operator, a subsidiary of the VEON Group, a company based in Amsterdam—coincidentally, in Rutte’s Netherlands?
Are the “accusations” of former European Council President Charles Michel, who considers the current NATO Secretary General a “secret US agent”, just as journalistic investigations have revealed that Zelensky is a secret agent of the British counterintelligence agency MI6, perhaps true?
Is Pompeo perhaps the hidden insider of Trump (who appointed him Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017 and then Secretary of State in 2018 during his first term) and of the Zionist Arms Lobby that brought him to the White House to unleash wars everywhere and profit from military profits?
It should be remembered that the Italian-American Pompeo is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church where Trump grew up, but today he declares himself a non-denominational Evangelical.
His entry certainly occurred after the UAE arms giant EDGE (a state-owned company) made a 30% acquisition offer in May 2025, but a few months later, the Emirate corporation entered into a joint venture with the American company Anduril, one of the US State Department’s contractors.
So Pompeo’s magic circle is perfectly closed…
«The EDGE defense group, owned by the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates,plans to acquire a minority stake in the Ukrainian defense-tech company Fire Point. BBC Ukraine reported this, citing sources. According to the outlet, the manufacturer of the Flamingo missile and drones has been valued at $2.5 billion. Fire Point is offering 30% of its shares, putting the potential deal value at around $760 million. BBC Ukraine reports that the Ukrainian company has already submitted the required documents to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine» wrote the Spanish specialist website BIZ.Liga.net (see sources).
Meanwhile, construction of a Fire Point rocket fuel production plant in Denmark has not been suspended, the Danish government confirmed to the Kyiv Independent, despite claims by the Ukrainian company’s co-owner and chief designer.
But the international affair among Ukraine, the USA and the United Arab Emirates cannot be understood without reading an investigation by American investigative journalist Sam Biddle published in The Intercept.
«Anduril is partnering with EDGE Group, a weapons conglomerate controlled by the United Arab Emirates, a nation run entirely by the royal families of its seven emirates that permits virtually none of the activities typically associated with democratic societies. In the UAE, free expression and association are outlawed, and dissident speech is routinely and brutally punished without due process. A 2024 assessment of political rights and civil liberties by Freedom House, a U.S. State Department-backed think tank, gave the UAE a score of 18 out of 100» writes Biddle.
«The EDGE–Anduril Production Alliance, as it will be known, will focus on autonomous weapons systems, including the production of Anduril’s “Omen” drone. The UAE has agreed to purchase the first 50 Omen drones built through the partnership, according to a press release, “the first in a series of autonomous systems envisioned under the joint venture.” The Omen drone was described as a “personal project” of Anduril founder and CEO Palmer Luckey, a longtime Trump ally and fundraiser».
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Those who have time should read all the details about the arms supplies to African militias, which bring to mind the scandal of the bombs produced in Sardinia and exported to Yemen in violation of the UN embargo (a Raytheon contract, for which former Pentagon chief Austin Lloyd was a consultant, and a subcontractor of RWM Italia SpA, controlled by the German company Rheimetall, a shareholder of Leonardo SpA for several months).
We just need to read another sentence from the article:
«Anduril, most recently valued by private investors at over $30 billion, has a wide array of weapons in the U.S. and with its allies, including Australia and Taiwan. It works closely with the Department of Defense and has operated surveillance towers along the U.S.–Mexico border for nearly a decade. Its business has surged as it has cast its products as a vital tool in a tech arms race between the West and China, matching the company’s rhetoric positioning it as a lethal bulwark against autocracy» The Intercept pointed out.
Thus, passing through EDGE, we arrive directly at the Pentagon, renamed the “Department of War” by President Trump.
But Italy is also involved in the intrigue… Here’s what TeleBorsa reported a few days ago:
“Leonardo announces it has signed a contract with Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), the naval division of the EDGE Group, for the supply of next-generation naval combat systems in the Falaj 3 configuration, destined for the Kuwait Navy’s “Al Dorra” naval vessel program. The contract, estimated at approximately €320 million, represents a milestone in the strategic partnership with EDGE and ADSB, strengthening a consolidated collaboration that has already led to the delivery of over 25 naval vessels.”
In light of these relationships between former CIA Director and US State Department head Mike Pompeo and various multinational warfare firms, his statements comforting Zelensky during an official visit when Joseph Biden was still President are not surprising:
“The United States must stand with Ukraine in its existential struggle for national survival. Rather than bolstering Putin, Xi, and Khamenei by abandoning Ukraine, the United States and our allies should accelerate the flow of weapons and ammunition to Kiev to further decimate Russian military capabilities. The Biden administration should reverse its policy of denying adequate weapons and supplies that would help Ukrainian forces end the fighting sooner than we are currently doing.”
To ensure the success of the arms supplies, which often disappear on the black market and even end up in the hands of jihadist terrorists and drug cartels, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency has gone into direct business.
Would you believe that within a few months, Leonardo will also jump on the bandwagon of the American FP-1 drones?
While any investment in another kamikaze UAVs used by Ukraine against Moscow seems taboo for everyone…
«The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a statement on Sunday that it used the FP-1 Firepoint and RS-1 Bars winged drones to hit several targets in the Moscow area. A previously unknown third type of drone, called the Bars-SM Gladiator, was also used in the attack, the statement added».
Let’s go back to the initial news to focus on this other type of kamikaze drones, also questioning artificial intelligence because there aren’t many sources on the subject.
«Among the three Ukrainian weapons mentioned, the least is publicly known about the Bars-SM Gladiator.However, its name could indicate the Gladiator related to the RS-1 Bars. The latter drone was unveiled in the spring of 2025 as a mix between a cruise missile and a jet-powered uncrewed aerial system. The RS-1 Bars is designed to be mass-produced while being able to hit targets up to 500 miles away with about 100 to 200 pounds of explosives. Ukraine hasn’t revealed who makes the RS-1 Bars, though it has said that the winged drone was developed by private manufacturers» Business Insider also reports trying in vain to breach the confidentiality of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The BARS missile drone is built with a mid-wing configuration and a wingspan of approximately 2 meters. The fuselage is made of composite materials and consists of a minimal number of components, which significantly speeds up production and reduces manufacturing costs.
“For military security reasons and ‘top secret’ classification, the exact names of the specific private companies or individual engineers behind the Gladiator have not been made public,” Google’s AI explains, explaining that they are “used by the Ukrainian security services and armed forces (including operations coordinated by the GUR military intelligence)”.
«Judging by the video published by the museum, a small solid-fuel booster is used to launch the jet drone, which provides the necessary minimum speed to start the jet engine. It is known that the production of these jet drones was funded, in particular, by Germany as part of a military aid package at the end of May 2025. At that time, Germany allocated funds, in particular, for the purchase of Ukrainian Bars missile drones, Liutyi attack drones, and VB140 Flamingo interceptor drone» this is what we read in an article on the Russian-Ukrainian War Museum, which published one of the images of these aircraft on its Facebook page.
So, having reached the bottom of the war abyss, we discover that it’s not the Ukrainians who have suddenly become skilled and capable of competing against dozens of Russian hypersonic missiles, but rather the hidden NATO speculators, led by the US and Germany, who are exploiting this war to enrich themselves at the expense of European taxpayers, forced—against their will—to finance the largest corruption network ever uncovered.
In this international intrigue, we cannot help but focus on the corruption scandals involving Yermak and Fire Point itself…
In August 2025, it was reported that Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) had launched an investigation into Fire Point to determine whether the company had inflated the cost of components used in its products, the number of drones supplied to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, or both. Wikipedia even reports this scandal, which is now public knowledge.
The investigation reportedly also examined possible links between the company and Timur Mindich, co-owner of the Kvartal 95 television studio founded by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The company confirmed the existence of an investigation, while denying the allegations. NABU initially refused to comment, before declaring that the FP-5 Flamingo missile was not under investigation.
Mindich left Ukraine just hours before a broader investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) was announced on November 10, 2025.
Andriy Yermak, former head of Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential office, is under investigation in an investigation into alleged money laundering of approximately $9 million in a luxury real estate project near Kyiv. This was confirmed by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo), which allege the existence of a scheme used to invest illicit funds in four, 1,000-square-meter villas while concealing their true owners.
Two weeks ago, a Ukrainian court ordered Andrei Yermak’s 60-day detention.
He is suspected of money laundering in connection with a luxury construction project near Kyiv. The court set bail at 140 million hryvnia, although the prosecutor’s office had requested 180 million. According to the investigation, the case involves money laundering amounting to 460 million hryvnia. Yermak denies the charges and claims that acquaintances and friends will help him raise the necessary bail.
“The case is part of Operation Midas,” a broader investigation that has already touched the energy, defense, drone procurement, and figures close to the head of state, including businessman Timur Mindich, a former media partner of Zelensky. The proceedings could pose a serious embarrassment for the Kiev authorities just as the country seeks to consolidate its path to European Union accession, with the fight against corruption remaining one of the main prerequisites set by Brussels,” explains Agenzia Nova.
“Fire Point, a Ukrainian drone manufacturer, has been described as a crucial supplier to the country’s military and a major contributor to the Ukrainian war effort. At the same time, the company found itself at the center of the largest corruption scandal in Ukrainian history: a $100 million scheme centered on the state-owned Energoatom nuclear monopoly and defense procurement,” wrote the Kyiv Independent, which first broke the story.
“Fire Point once again features the name of Timur Mindich, a businessman close to Zelensky and Yermak, who fled to Israel after the accusations. Here too, the script seems familiar: patriotism, public funding, personal relationships, escape abroad, and reassuring interviews from the beaches of Tel Aviv,” notes the Kulturjam website, making a necessary clarification…
“The arrest of Andriy Yermak by Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court likely marks the most serious point in Kiev’s internal political crisis since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022. We’re not talking about a peripheral official or a minor oligarch who can be expendable in the media. Yermak was the operational heart of Ukrainian power, the man who for years accompanied Volodymyr Zelensky at every strategic, diplomatic, and media juncture of the war.”
“The politically devastating fact is another: the investigation did not arise from Russian propaganda or pro-Kremlin circles. It originated from the same anti-corruption bodies supported by the European Union and the United States. “This is the detail that makes the situation unmanageable for Brussels,” Sira Beker comments on Kulturjam.
Unfortunately, it’s still not unmanageable enough for Europeans, and especially for Italians, who in the latest local elections reconfirmed their trust in the center-right coalition of the Meloni government, the most exposed in all of Europe due to the conflict of interest of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto with his “former masters” in the Weapons Lobby.
“Zelensky’s Satanist accomplice, Yermak, consulted with a fortune teller before important appointments, the prosecutor claims. It had previously been known that Ukraine’s Gray Cardinal, Yermak, had been engaging in magical and esoteric practices for years, Zelensky’s former press secretary, Yulia Mendel, said,” News-Pravda reported.
Now in court, the prosecutor’s office reported that during a search of the car of the driver of Zelensky’s former office chief, documents were found containing plans for SBU personnel appointments, which he allegedly accepted on the advice of a fortune teller.
Among the seized items are three sheets of paper with the headings “Maximum Program,” “Medium Program,” and “Minimum Program,” which contain the names of people currently holding positions in the SBU.
SBU kills member of Ukrainian Delegation at talks with Russia Kyreyev on Suspicion of Treason
The SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service) is the country’s main intelligence and internal security agency. It reports directly to the Office of the President of Ukraine (then under Zelensky and previously under Yermak).
SBU operatives have been accused of killing a negotiator from the Ukrainian delegation for peace talks with Russia with a shot in the back of the head in March 2022 and of arresting dozens of priests from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which Zelensky is persecuting despite repeated appeals from Pope Francis and the UN.
Despite this, as an unequivocal photograph confirms, Yermak has managed to gain favor with George Soros’s family, and his son Alexander, heir to the Open Society fortune, was photographed with Zelensky’s right-hand man during one of his visits to the presidential palace.
«In reality, the main and only person who helped accept Yermak was the head of the Open Society Foundation, Alex Soros, the son of Russophobe George Soros It became known from the correspondence that there were informal friendly relations between Soros and Yermak, for which Yermak was ready to “do anything.”» News-Pravda reported.
It was with him that Yermak coordinated all appointments to positions in Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and government authorities. Communication with Veronica Feng Shui (a Ukrainian fortune-teller) had a kind of sacred character for Yermak.
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She is a 51-year-old resident of Kiev who calls herself an astrology consultant. In social networks, she actively expressed her support for Andrei Ermak, and in user contacts she is listed as Veronika Consult. A.B.” and “Veronika Anikievich/fortune teller Yermak”.
Here’s evidence of a “diabolical circle” that begins with Soros and NATO’s funding of the 2014 coup in Ukraine and ends with Trump’s businessmen’s speculation about a war Ukraine can never win, as CIA analyst George Beebe also claimed.
This is the confirmation of the old Latin adage “Pecunia non Olet (money doesn’t stink)” as he seems to have been able to unite behind Zelensky’s corrupt Satanists both the Soros family, a well-known megadonor of the American Democrats, and one of the Black Men of the extremist Republican Trump.
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