Hezbollah claims responsibility for attacking Mount Meron's intelligence base, calling it "an initial response" to the Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri.

62 rockets were fired.

German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer tried to whitewash Israel's massacres in Gaza:

We have seen the case brought against Israel by the Republic of South Africa at the International Court of Justice, but we do not believe that Israel is guilty of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

EU foreign policy chief Borrell:

We know that Israel's security is part of Germany's DNA. Germany would not accept sanctions against Israel along with other European states.

Nepal decided to stop issuing work permits to people working in Russia and Ukraine after at least 10 of its citizens died in Ukraine while fighting for Russia.

Nepal has also asked Russia not to deploy its citizens in the army and to repatriate all Nepali soldiers.

The Nepalese government estimates that around 200 Nepalese nationals are serving in the Russian army and there are around 100 missing Nepalese.

Iranian President Raisi: Israel will definitely be destroyed.

Israel will cease to exist despite the support it receives.

Automated turret with Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun in service with Ukrainian Army's 5th Assault Brigade.

Firing on Russian forces at a distance of two and a half kilometers without leaving the dugout.

Last night, for the first time, French Air Force joined its Jordanian counterpart to air-drop seven tonnes of humanitarian medical aid to southern Gaza, for the Jordanian field hospital there.

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Israeli forces on the northern border & stamped "For Israel" on one of the artillery shells.

German law does not allow the extradition to Ukraine of men who left for Germany in order to avoid mobilization, German Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann says.

According to German authorities, since February 2022, 221,571 men aged 18 to 60 have arrived in Germany from Ukraine.

Artillery shells used per day by Russia and Ukraine in Summer 2023 & now.

Source: WSJ

Russian bomber drone strikes on Ukrainian boat with marines on the Dnieper.

North Korea fired coastal artillery for the second day in a row in the island area on the border with South Korea; more than 60 shells were fired today.

Russian FPV drones with machine vision and automatic target acquisition, as well as a thermal imager, appeared at the front, Ukrainian source reports.

The system is still in its infancy, but concerns are already being expressed about the presence of such weapons.

Friendly-fire with HARM.

American-supplied Ukrainian anti-radar missile AGM-88 HARM hit the positions of the Ukrainian artillerymen.

Production scale of North Korea's KN-23 (Kimskander, yes that's a thing now) short-range ballistic missile.

Photo from last year from one of the production facilities.

Denmark’s transfer of the first F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine has been delayed by about six months, Berlingske newspaper reports, citing Danish MoD.

Reasons: Failure to fulfill a number of conditions, including the training of Ukrainian pilots, the training of mechanics and ground personnel, the condition of airfields and the organization of supplies of ammunition and spare parts.

No Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine?

White House and Pentagon officials have warned that the United States will soon be unable to keep Ukraine’s Patriot batteries supplied with interceptor missiles, which can cost $2 million to $4 million apiece, NYT reports.

"If our foreign partners turn their backs on us, we will return to the beginning of the war, when people simply did not come out of their shelters, and the Russians tried to turn our cities into complete ruins,” said Ukrainian Major Volodymyr.

Various missile and torpedo boats were transferred to the IRGC Navy today, including Shahid Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis class catamarans.

The deputy head of the Iraqi Militia Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed along with IRGC General Qassem Soleimani after American strike in Baghdad in January 2020.

Iran’s IRGC and Iraq’s Iran-backed People's Mobilization Forces (PMF) held a a joint naval parade in Faw, southern Basrah, Iraq today with paragliders and boats.

China's military corruption crisis: Missiles filled with water

US intelligence indicates that President Xi Jinping’s sweeping military purge came after it emerged that widespread corruption undermined his efforts to modernize the armed forces and raised questions about China’s ability to fight a war, Bloomberg reports.

The US assessments cited several examples of the impact of graft, including missiles filled with water instead of fuel and vast fields of missile silos in western China with lids that don’t function in a way that would allow the missiles to launch effectively.

The US assesses that corruption within the People’s Liberation Army has led to an erosion of confidence in its overall capabilities, particularly when it comes to the Rocket Force, and also set back some of Xi’s top modernization priorities.

Israeli media claims this footage shows IDF Apache combat helicopter shoting down a Hezbollah drone today.