Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says
Moscow has ended production of the Geran-3 while expanding production of faster jet-powered models built to strain Ukraine’s air defenses, HUR says.
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New Iranian loitering munition has started reaching Ukraine, analyst says. It’s built to hit deep behind front
Iran is improving its Shahed-107 kamikaze drones based on the Ukraine war, adding shrapnel elements.
Iran was prepared to strike three Ukrainian sites over sunken ship but paused after Kyiv’s explanation, Tehran claims
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Tehran still intends to make Ukraine "pay" for the attack despite suspending its immediate response. Ukraine has maintained the vessel was carrying Iranian drone and missile components for Russia.
After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel
Monitoring channels raised the prospect of a ballistic strike, but Ukrainian officials say no such intent is confirmed.
US sanctions 13 Iran-Belarus-China entities supplying Iran’s IRGC. That’s three of four “Axis of Upheaval” states
The same Iran-Belarus-China network is the operational ecosystem supplying Russia's drone war on Ukraine.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.
Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets
The Geran-4 has a brand-new reinforced airframe and can pull high-G maneuvers at 300-400 km/h, per Ukraine's military intelligence. It carries up to 90 kg of thermobaric explosives.
Xi pledged to stop arming Iran—US intelligence warns the weapons still flow
Xi pledged to stop arming Iran, but US intelligence says covert Chinese weapons shipments continue via third countries—no deal, no monitors signed.
Washington lets the Russian oil loophole expire, ending months of seaborne sanctions relief
Senators from both parties had pressed the administration to drop the carve-out that critics said funneled billions into Moscow's war chest.
Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year high
A Delaware senator walked the Treasury Secretary through the loop. The March oil numbers closed it.
One US team, two wars. Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t wait for Iran to close
Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells CNN it would be a "big risk" to pause Ukraine peace talks until the US war with Iran ends, and calls the EU's €90 bn loan "life and surviving."
Oil jumped 8% as Trump’s Hormuz blockade undid the ceasefire crash
Talks collapsed in Pakistan. A naval blockade replaced a truce. For Russia’s war revenues, the brief window of relief is over.
Ukraine just X-rayed Russia’s $100,000 drone — and found components from China, Taiwan, and Switzerland
Only the EU is sanctioning the factory behind this drone. That's the problem.
Satellites alone don’t explain Iran’s nine-fold jump in strike accuracy — InformNapalm says Russian SOF doctrine does
Iran's missile hit rate rose from 3% to 27% in weeks. The data transfer was real, but without Russian SOF closing the loop between reconnaissance and fires, those numbers don't move that fast.
Pentagon called in Vatican’s top US diplomat over Pope’s anti-war remarks, media reports
The Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV's Vatican envoy over his anti-war remarks. Sources describe a "bitter lecture."
WP: Hungary is sharing intelligence with Iran, while Vance flies to Budapest to back its leader amid election campaign
Vance is Campaigning for a man whose minister offered Iran his intelligence services.
Trump’s Iran war lasted 39 days. The impact on Ukraine will last longer
Five weeks on, we are updating our analysis of the Iran war and its impact on Ukraine: what we got right, what we got wrong, and the moves that nobody saw coming.
Russia talks compromise, demands capitulation — and is lying to Trump while preparing more occupation, Zelenskyy says
Moscow's logic is internally consistent but strategically unacceptable: Ukrainian withdrawal would stop Russian casualties while giving Russia the foothold it needs for further occupation.
US intel warns Iran won’t budge on Hormuz
Iran is unlikely to relinquish control of the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway carrying a fifth of the world's oil — because doing so would surrender the only leverage it holds over Washington, US intelligence reports have concluded.
UAE says it would join Hormuz fight as Iran fires 2,500 missiles at Dubai
A country that was mediating between Washington and Tehran as recently as February is now lobbying for a military coalition to seize Iranian-held islands and clear the Strait of Hormuz by force — a strategic about-face driven by nearly 2,500 Iranian missiles and drones that have hit Dubai's airports, hotels, and airline routes.