WATCH: Russia is airlifting Pantsir-S1 air defense systems onto Moscow skyscraper rooftops using Mi-26T heavy-lift helicopters — including a filmed deployment onto the 42-floor Nordstar Tower.

Russia has been expanding this rooftop network since 2023.

EU’s Kaja Kallas said “America left” Kyiv, but it’s false.

The US Embassy immediately denied it and confirmed it’s fully operational.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry also shot it down.

Kallas was apparently relaying bad information she’d received from Ukrainian sources the day before.

All European embassies are staying too.

Russia had issued threats urging diplomats to leave Kyiv ahead of planned strikes, but no major embassy moved.

Kremlin:

Russia warned embassy personnel that they should leave Kyiv, and after that, everyone will make their own decisions.

North Korea says there will be “absolutely and forever no denuclearization” of the DPRK.

Pyongyang enshrined its nuclear status in law in 2022 and Kim has repeatedly ruled out bargaining it away.

Kazakh President Tokayev:

No global problem can be solved without Russia’s participation.

Zelensky:

Today I am in Sweden on a working visit. We are preparing a major defense package for Ukraine and a strong step regarding Gripen fighter jets that will definitely make our combat aviation more effective.

Guatemala agreed to allow joint U.S. military strikes on drug trafficking groups inside its borders.

It’s the second such arrangement under Trump (after Ecuador), with Honduras reportedly next.

The broader goal appears to be encircling Mexico, which has refused U.S. military presence on its soil.

Source: NYT

Former senior CIA officer David Rush was arrested after FBI agents found ~300 gold bars ($40 million +), $2 million cash, and 35 Rolexes at his Virginia home.

He’d falsely claimed the gold was for “work-related expenses” over several months.

He also spent nearly two decades lying about his credentials — fake degrees from Clemson and RPI, fake service as a Navy pilot — none of it true.

CIA Director Ratcliffe referred the case to the FBI after an internal investigation.

Most assets have been recovered.

NEW: The US government picked five companies to potentially receive leftover Cold War nuclear weapons material and turn it into fuel for power plants.

It would be the first time private companies get access to this kind of weapons-grade plutonium.

Source: NYT

Israeli "settler" enters a cave dwelling in the West Bank's Masafer Yatta area and shoving a Palestinian woman holding a child to the ground.

The man is also seen beating the family's tied-up dog with a stick.

📸 Hezbollah FPV drone hit a readiness squad vehicle in the Shomera area of northern Israel after the squad responded to an initial drone attack that had started a fire.

The double-tap strike seriously damaged the vehicle and wounded two reservists, one moderately and one severely.

Their helmets are credited with saving their lives.

Source: ynet

WATCH: Iran has used bulldozers and dump trucks to reopen at least 50 tunnel entrances across 18 underground missile sites during the ceasefire, restoring access to missiles and launchers that U.S.-Israeli strikes had sealed inside mountain bunkers rather than destroyed.

Source: CNN

Armenia's PM Pashinyan:

Today we present to you the new Army of the Republic of Armenia — with new weapons, new uniforms, and a new ideology.

The army’s only mission is the defense of the internationally recognized sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, and our army must not be used outside Armenia’s internationally recognized territory, except for peacekeeping missions carried out on the basis of international agreements.

Armenia's PM Pashinyan:

The Republic of Armenia has learned the lessons of history.

The Republic of Armenia has learned the lessons of army history.

And today you see — and will continue to see — the tangible results of all this.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei:

The enemy's blind plan — after the imposed war, economic pressure, and propaganda siege — is to create division and social fragmentation, to compensate for its military defeats and bring the nation to its knees.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei:

I appreciate the efforts of the representatives, especially the honorable Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Dr. Ghalibaf, on the path of elevating the country.

NEW: CENTCOM says Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait late Tuesday — intercepted by Kuwaiti forces — hours after U.S. forces shot down five Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and stopped a sixth from launching.

CENTCOM called it an egregious ceasefire violation.

Iran's IRGC Navy says 26 commercial ships and tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours after obtaining IRGC permission.

Several vessels that tried to enter without authorization — with navigation systems disabled — were stopped or turned back.

The IRGC also claimed the U.S. struck near Bandar Abbas airport with "no damage," and said it responded by attacking the U.S. base that launched the strike.

It warned of a "hard response" to any repeat.

Israel bombs Beirut in an apparent assassination attempt.

Armenia publicly displayed Chinese-made CH-4B Rainbow combat drones for the first time at its Republic Day parade in Yerevan, armed with air-to-ground missiles and paraded on transporter trucks.

Türkiye's Gökdoğan (BVR) and Bozdoğan (WVR) air-to-air missiles — domestic replacements for the AMRAAM and Sidewinder respectively — have completed live warhead tests, clearing the final verification hurdle before serial production.

Developed by TÜBİTAK SAGE since 2013, the missiles are set for integration on F-16s and future Turkish platforms including the KAAN stealth fighter and Kızılelma unmanned fighter jet.