Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces carried out strikes on Russian targets in occupied Makiivka and Donetsk.

SOF drones hit a fuel storage and distribution facility in Makiivka, while in Donetsk they struck a Volna-3 electronic warfare station used to disrupt UAV control frequencies.

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

The “Skifs” unit is shooting down Russian Shahed drones over Kharkiv region using a Bofors 40 mm gun.

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

@FellFister13 @WarMonitor3: It does not look like they have any end goal; militarily, you could keep bombing for the rest of time.

But realistically, politically, there needs to be an end goal. They have been inconsistent about their goals regarding the regime and negotiations. And given the history with this administration, it doesn’t look like they have a plan for anything. For Ukraine, the plan was to end the war; every 2 weeks, they claimed, they would. Now, they’ve given up completely.

They said they wanted to take Greenland, started a whole unnecessary political war with Europe for weeks, and got not even a draft agreement out of it, while damaging relations with our allies. For Venezuela, they took Maduro, and said they wanted the government out and new elections. Within 2 weeks, they forgot about Venezuela completely; no US companies ended up negotiating deals to get oil, and the whole terrible government there remained, implementing the same policies and still doing trafficking. For Iran, the nuclear threat was eliminated, all of Iran's enrichment plants and research centers were destroyed, but they don't state what their end goal is, or what they want from the government or from the people of Iran to end the war.

For the American people, it looks like the US just got into another massive Middle East war, with no clear end goals or stated objectives. That’s been America’s main problem with foreign wars: they get into them or support them, and since there are no clear end goals, the problem either doesn’t get solved, or it wastes a lot more US resources and time than needed. Examples: Several Middle East wars and conflicts since 2000, Ukraine, Vietnam, and the previous examples I listed.

The Lookout (Twitter)

The Bofors 40mm is still doing its thing. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2031371162303844360#m

Status-6 (Twitter)

RT @NavyLookout: 3 @815NAS Wildcat helicopters now deployed to Cyprus.

First cab armed with Marltet missiles airborne yesterday

Status-6 (Twitter)

RT @DefenceGeek: Another 3 B-1B bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford a short time ago

I'll release an updated list of airframes shortly, but notable in that 25% of the USAF's active B-1B "Lancer" fleet will now be at RAF Fairford
#FreeIran‌ #OperationEpicFury

Status-6 (Twitter)

Ukrainian servicemen intercept Russian Shahed/Geran-type long-range OWA-UAVs with Swedish-made Bofors L70 40mm anti-aircraft gun in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast.

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

RT @novakakhovka_ua: ❗️Погані новини. З Олешок виїзд став неможливим. Місто заблоковане. Водії/перевізники не заїжджають, дороги заміновані, русня розвертає. Єдиний спосіб станом на сьогодні йти пішки(!!) до Голої Пристані вздовж річки Дніпро, 7 годин, звідти їхати в бік Криму. Волонтери з Олешок
1/4 https://twitter.com/novakakhovka_ua/status/1870491112013693331#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

A mobile fire group of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine shoots down a Russian Shahed-136 using gunfire https://twitter.com/DPSU_ua/status/2031317929950613610#m

The Lookout (Twitter)

A note:

Casually looking at online AIS providers (here VesselFinder) does not tell you anything about "whether Hormuz is open or not" due to electronic warfare and especially spoofing over a wide area.

The Lookout (Twitter)

Zoom in and it should be obvious that what you are looking at does not represent reality.