Footage of a Russian Shahed-style attack drone slamming into a high-rise residential building in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv during tonight’s massive drone, cruise and ballistic missile attack against Ukraine.

Burned out cars, lit ablaze earlier tonight by anti-government protesters, seen on Ferdows Boulevard near the Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch in the northern district of Iran’s capital of Tehran.

During an interview tonight with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, President Donald J. Trump was asked if he was following the ongoing protests in Iran and if he had heard about Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s plan to flee to Moscow.

Trump: “Yeah, I'm following it very closely.”

Hannity: “And have you read that the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now has a Plan B to go to Russia?”

Trump: “Or someplace, yeah. He's looking to go someplace.”

Hannity: “Do you believe that Iran, you think the country is on the verge of collapsing?”

Trump: “Well, it could be. I mean, what they've done is they start, in the past, they've started shooting the hell out of people. And all of a sudden, people without any weapons whatsoever are standing there and you have machine guns gunning them down. Or they take them to prisons and then hang them and kill them. So they played rough. And I said, if they do that, we're going to hit them very hard. Well, we're going to hit them hard. We're ready to do it. If they do that, we're going to hit them hard. And so far, for the most part, there's been some of it. But for the most part, they haven't. There have been people killed. Some of them, the crowds are so big that some of them have had really like were stomped on. Literally, it was it was terrible. The crowds are just they're massive. The enthusiasm to overturn that regime is incredible. But there's been people killed, but it's more from death by it's literally stomping. It's it's people running in a certain direction. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. They know, though, that it's a stampede is, I guess, the best word they have, like a stampede. You talk about stampede for cattle. But the people are stampeding, and you're losing a lot of people with the stampedes. There's so many people protesting.”

As ongoing nationwide anti-government demonstrations across Iran continue to grow, the chances on Polymarket that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be out as Supreme Leader of Iran have skyrocketed, with traders predicting that there is a 56% chance that Khamenei will be out by the end of 2026.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump stated during tonight’s interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, that special operations and land strikes are going to begin soon against the Cartels in Mexico. Talks with the Mexican Government regarding such operations have been ongoing now for nearly a year, with missions likely to be alongside or in support of Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released their first statement since tonight’s large-scale drone and missile attack, confirming that it carried out a “high-precision long-range” strike using an “Oreshnik” Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) against Ukraine, claiming the strike and attack to be a response to the recent alleged Ukrainian drone attack on the state residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. An attack which Ukraine denies and nearly all members of NATO, including the United States, say never happened, despite continued claims by Russia.

The Ukrainian Air Force reports that during last night’s large-scale attack against Ukraine, primarily targeting the capital of Kyiv, Russia launched and Ukrainian air-defenses were able to down 226 of 242 Shahed and Herbera-Style One-Way Attack Drones, 8 of 13 Iskander-M/S-400 Tactical Ballistic Missiles, 10 of 22 Kalibr Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles, and 0 of 1 “Oreshnik” Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM).

Overnight, President Donald J. Trump announced that he had cancelled a second wave of attacks against Venezuela, citing their “cooperation” regarding the release of political prisoners and “as it pertains to rebuilding, in a much bigger, better, and more modern form, their oil and gas infrastructure.”

The U.S. Coast Guard is currently attempting to seize the sanctioned stateless oil tanker Olina in the Caribbean Sea, officials have told Reuters.

Lots of horrific claims being made by Iranian opposition channels this morning, following last night’s anti-government protests and nationwide internet blackout, with reports of a heavy crackdown overnight by security forces in Tehran. Channels on Telegram claim that security forces opened fire on crowds with live-ammunition, killing dozens, with one opposition correspondent claiming that a doctor said the death toll was higher than the civilian casualties seen during the Twelve-Day War with Israel.

Six members of Iranian security forces were killed during last night’s anti-government demonstrations in the city of Hamadan, while several others were killed and injured in Tehran, according to Iran’s state-owned Tasnim News Agency.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will meet today at the White House with executives from seventeen oil and energy companies to discuss Venezuela, these include:

- Chevron
- Exxon
- Conoco Phillips
- Continental
- Halliburton
- HKN
- Valero
- Marathon
- Shell
- Trafigura
- Vitol Americas
- Repsol
- Eni
- Aspect Holdings
- Tallgrass
- Raisa Energy
- Hilcorp

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced and published footage of this morning’s boarding and seizure of the stateless sanctioned oil tanker, M/T Olina, in the Caribbean Sea, carried out by Sailors and Marines assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS), in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

BLKCAT5, a U.S. Navy MQ-4C “Triton” High-Altitude Surveillance Drone is returning to Naval Station Mayport in Florida, following a patrol this morning over the Gulf of America off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. This follows a statement yesterday by President Trump, claiming that land strikes would begin soon against the Cartels in Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum states that Mexico will “strengthen communication” with the United States, following yesterday’s statement from President Trump suggested special operations and land strikes soon against the Cartels in Mexico.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, to discuss ongoing efforts to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the significance of Arctic Security for all members of NATO.

Early this week, U.S. intelligence assessed that the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran lacked sufficient energy to challenge the stability of the regime, officials told Axios. But that view is reportedly being reassessed in light of recent events. “The protests are serious, and we will continue to monitor them,” a senior U.S. official said.

Over three minutes of footage published by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from this morning’s boarding and seizure of the stateless sanctioned oil tanker, M/T Olina, in the Caribbean Sea, carried out by the U.S. Coast Guard in coordination with Sailors and Marines assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS).

Footage published by Iran International which appears to show multiple bodies laying on the ground outside Alghadir Hospital in Eastern Tehran, following massive anti-government protests in the capital overnight on Thursday.

Massive crowds of anti-government protestors tonight in the Northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, likely tens of thousands from a city with a population of roughly 3,400,000.

Diplomatic and security personnel from the U.S. Venezuela Affairs Unit, which has been operating out of Colombia since 2019, traveled to the Venezuelan capital on Friday along with the Acting U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, John McNamara, in order to conduct an initial assessment to determine whether operations could resume in phases at the site of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, several officials have told CNN.