In my opinion, Iran has finally started getting steady flows of intelligence from Russia in recent weeks (or perhaps even China too), beyond individual assistances we likely saw during the active phase of the war, in response to the U.S. providing extensive intelligence to Ukraine.

🗺 Map of reported U.S. strikes against Iran as of 21:45 UTC

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇸 Fars: 2 Iranians were killed and 11 injured as a result of the American strike on the Iraq-Iran Shalamcheh border crossing.

@wfwitness

CENTCOM released footage of their 12th consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, which they claim targeted Iranian maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defence assets.

Day 15 of Russia's new strike campaign on port infrastructure of Odesa and Mykolaiv Oblasts:

Today, Russia launched at least 5 Kh-59/69 cruise missiles, 2 Oniks supersonic cruise missiles, 3 Banderol jet-drones, 13 Geran-3/4 jet-drones, and 34 Geran-2/Gerbera drones.

Ukrainian air defence was able to shoot down 2-3 of the Kh-59/69 cruise missiles, which were targeting the Odesa Port. Additionally, both of the Oniks cruise missiles missed their targets at the Odesa Port due to their low accuracy, with one impacting in an open area and another falling in a river (as seen in the attached video). Furthermore, 1 out of the 3 Banderol jet-drones was shot down (which also targeted Odesa Port).

The primary targets were the Odesa and Chornomorsk Ports. Today and yesterday, Russia has significantly increased the number of Geran-2 drones used, while today they slightly decreased the number of Geran-3/4 jet-drones.

Footage showing the impact of a Russian Geran-2 drone in Odesa City.

Russia launched at least 34 Geran-2/Gerbera drones and 13 Geran-3/4 jet-drones at Odesa Oblast during the night.

Recently, a large number of accounts have been claiming that Ukraine successfully encircled a large number of Russian troops north of Lyman, as a part of their ongoing counterattacks that began in mid-April.

This is not true, and originated from a single small Ukrainian Telegram channel that, somehow, managed to mix up Ukrainian artillery and MLRS shelling with Russian KAB glide-bomb strikes on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, resulting in him drawing incredibly inaccurate and ludicrous maps from this assumption that Russia was striking Ukrainian positions in this area.

In reality, there is no encirclement. In the area where he claimed the encirclement occurred, there is still another 11 km (including grey-zones) between Ukraine's northern and southern flank. While Ukraine's counterattacks allowed them to retake important areas here, they have significantly slowed down in recent weeks, with Russia even being able to retake some previously lost positions near Zelena Dolnya. Furthermore, Russia has resumed assault operations in the Stavky and Drobysheve areas, which has resulted in a difficult situation for Ukrainian forces holding the southern flank.

As usual, the same accounts that copy/paste and blindly trust the best-looking maps for Ukraine from Telegram are spreading misinformation, while gaining thousands of likes and hundreds of thousands of views per post, and receiving exactly zero backlash from the so-called "disinformation fighters" in the Pro-Ukrainian community.

High Iskander-M/Oniks threat from Crimea for Odesa

Possible launch.

Edit: no missiles were detected

Gonna take some time off this evening to avoid burnout. Working almost all day 7 days a week can be exhausting 😅

Nice. This guarantees something big will happen. 🍿