The Leningrad Region is experiencing the largest drone attack since the start of the special military operation. More than a hundred flights at Pulkovo Airport have been rescheduled or canceled.

The attack has been ongoing since yesterday. At the moment, 70 drones have been shot down over the region. According to Governor Alexander Drozdenko, one of the drones' targets was the Primorsk port. At Pulkovo Airport, restrictions were repeatedly imposed and lifted several times in a row.

Amid the attack, mobile internet was shut down for residents of St. Petersburg and the region. Only "whitelisted" services are operational.

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📸 Clash Report: Iranian media close to the IRGC state that there were no negotiations between Iran and the US, and Trump "retreated" due to fear of Tehran's retaliatory actions.

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🖥️ An American F-15 fighter jet was shot down in the skies of Kuwait, according to Mehr News, which also published a video of the incident.

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❗️ The Times of Israel: The IDF carried out new strikes on Tehran, while Trump announced negotiations with Iran.

The Israeli Air Force has launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran, the military reports. The Israel Defense Forces state that the airstrikes are aimed at the infrastructure of the Iranian regime. These strikes were carried out shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that his administration is conducting productive negotiations with Iran on a "full and comprehensive settlement" of military actions.

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Reporter: If you do attack Iranian power stations, how would that differ from what Russia is doing in Ukraine?

Trump: I think that it's completely different... I'm not thrilled about what Russia is doing either, but it's completely different

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📸 Iran has not conducted negotiations with the US, emphasized the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:

"1/ The Iranian people demand a complete and merciless punishment of the aggressors. All Iranian officials and the people firmly support their supreme leader and will continue to do so until this goal is achieved.

2/ There are no negotiations with the US, and fakenews is being used to manipulate financial and oil markets and to get out of the quagmire in which the US and Israel have found themselves."

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📸 JD Vance may lead the American delegation in possible US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, reported Axios correspondent Barak Ravid.

"An Israeli official: Negotiations are underway for a meeting of senior Iranian and American officials in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, which will take place at the end of this week.

A senior Israeli official: As part of the negotiations on the summit in Pakistan, the possibility of US Vice President Vance becoming the senior US representative is being considered.

An Israeli official: Israel knew that several countries were making mediation efforts to start negotiations between Iran and the US, but was surprised by Trump's words that these contacts are progressing and that, apparently, agreements on 15 points have been reached."

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🖥️ Iranians are publishing a Lego-style video about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🖥️ "The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention." Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, on Zelensky's attempt to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.

"Mr. Chairman, you don't need to be a genius or a shrewd analyst to understand why the Ukrainian regime and its European accomplices requested today's meeting. Zelensky is literally stunned by the shift of attention away from Ukraine and his own 'heroic' persona to the situation of escalation in the Middle East, which objectively requires the close attention of the international community. The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention. But the failed actor from Krivoy Rog couldn't miss the opportunity to try to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.
Zelensky immediately started fussing and began offering his help, reporting on how he is sending Ukrainian military specialists and drone crews thousands of kilometers away to defend foreign bases and participate in foreign conflicts. Instead of taking care of his own country and people, he is trying at any cost to remind his Western patrons of his usefulness.
At any cost. Otherwise, God forbid, the money he regularly pockets for himself and his cronies will flow into a bay far from Ukraine. It's obvious that for Kiev today, it's more important to be involved in any war than to seek peace at home.
That's why he's touring around the world: Europe and the United States, begging for financial and military aid and trying to create the illusion of a desire for peace, putting forward demands and, as he imagines, fair conditions: an immediate ceasefire; a return to the 1991 borders; the deployment of foreign military contingents in Ukraine, and so on."

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An explosion disabled one of the largest US refineries in Port Arthur — a key processing center on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

The causes are unknown

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The Wall Street Journal: US allies in the Gulf are angry - Washington is not listening to them and dragging them into war with Iran

The Gulf countries have found themselves in a trap: they wanted to stay out of the US and Israel's war with Iran, but now they are being drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict. Arab monarchies, whose economies and energy infrastructure are under constant attack, are increasingly asking: why Washington is not listening to their opinion.

"The Gulf countries are united in their anger towards Iran, but they are also angry that they cannot exert significant influence on the Trump administration's decisions, despite the fact that they are security partners and invest huge amounts in these relations," the WSJ reports, citing Arab officials.

Saudi Arabia, before the start of the war, stated that it would not allow its facilities and airspace to be used for strikes on Iran. However, the kingdom has now agreed to provide the Americans with a base in the west of the Arabian Peninsula. The reason is that Iran has started to hit Saudi facilities, and Riyadh realized that it would not be able to stay out of the conflict.

"Saudi Arabia's patience with Iranian attacks is not unlimited. Any belief that the Gulf countries are unable to respond is a miscalculation," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

The UAE, meanwhile, has begun freezing Iranian assets. In Dubai, the Iranian Hospital and the Iranian Club were closed, which, according to the authorities, were used by the Iranian regime and the IRGC to promote an "agenda that does not serve the Iranian people". This is just the first step: the Emirates have already warned that they may freeze billions of dollars of Iranian investments, which will be a serious blow to Tehran's economy, which is already suffocating from sanctions.

"Certain institutions directly associated with the Iranian regime and the IRGC will be closed as part of targeted measures after it was established that they were used in violation of UAE laws," the Emirati government said.

The Arab countries were particularly irritated by Israel's strike on the Iranian gas field South Pars. Arab officials believe that they convinced Washington to prevent such strikes after the Israeli attack on fuel storage facilities in Tehran. However, the US, having received prior notification from Israel, allowed this strike to take place.

"They simply have no way out of this structural trap, in which weaker partners always end up in an alliance with a stronger one. If the stronger partner takes a belligerent position, they fear that they will be dragged into a war in which they do not want to participate," said Gregory Gause, an analyst on US-Gulf relations at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

The Arab countries themselves do not want to become open participants in the conflict. Entering the war would turn them into direct enemies of a large neighbor across a narrow strip of water. But Iran is not leaving them a choice: attacks on hotels, airports, oil refineries and oil storage facilities occur almost daily. The UAE had to repel more than two thousand attacks.

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More than 2,100 children have been killed or injured since the beginning of the US and Israeli military operation against Iran, reports the international child protection organization UNICEF.

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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The USA has started using its "Hera" counterparts against Iran

▪️In the video — a LUCAS (Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drone shot down by Tehran, which was introduced by the USA last summer.
▪️According to media reports, it costs about 35 thousand dollars.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 USA VIOLATED THE CEASEFIRE

Iranian media claim that the US attacked energy infrastructure.

According to Fars News Agency, buildings of the gas management and a pressure reduction station were damaged in Isfahan, and a missile fell near a gas pipeline of a power station in Khorramshahr.

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The Guardian: Trump used 'negotiations' with Iran to buy time in the oil market

According to the publication, a sharp turn in Washington's rhetoric occurred just a few hours before the opening of American markets, which were facing a difficult day amid the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump himself was unable to clearly explain with whom exactly the contacts are taking place, nor what the terms of a possible deal might look like, the newspaper notes. Meanwhile, Tehran directly stated that no negotiations with the US are taking place, and the talk about them is needed by the White House rather to calm the markets and mitigate the consequences of the energy crisis.

"No negotiations with the US have taken place, and fake news is being used to manipulate financial and oil markets and to get out of the impasse in which the US and Israel have found themselves," said the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

According to the publication, even if some contacts through intermediaries are indeed taking place, for Trump this story is now primarily giving a political and economic pause.

While words about diplomacy are being spoken, Washington is gaining time amid the instability of oil markets, and the Pentagon continues to reinforce forces in the region, the author concludes.

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📸 After Trump's remarks about "joint management" of the Strait of Hormuz with the new Ayatollah, the Iranian embassy in South Africa posted their reaction.

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