📸 USAF KC-135R Stratotanker damaged by an Iranian missile strike in Saudi Arabia was flown to the UK for repairs before heading to the U.S, - Mark Lynham

Patches spotted at nearly every part of the aircraft.

🇿🇦 South Africa: Fresh Impeachment Calls Against Ramaphosa After Declassified Phala Phala Police Report

A newly declassified report by South Africa's Independent Police Investigative Directorate on the handling of a large-scale theft of US dollars from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm has triggered renewed calls for impeachment proceedings against the president. The report details what critics describe as a hush-hush response to the incident by law enforcement authorities linked to the presidency.

The Phala Phala affair, which first surfaced publicly in 2022, has remained a persistent source of political controversy for Ramaphosa, with opposition parties arguing that the handling of the theft constituted a cover-up.

#SouthAfrica

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Ukraine's 24th Brigade tested Russia's ceasefire by dressing captured Russian POWs in neutral clothing and sending them out as a fake evacuation group. Russians hit them with FPV drones immediately. Three dead – all their own soldiers.

😂 St. Petersburg official, awarded the honorary badge "For Mercy," was accused of embezzling money from homeless Russians sent to war.

Social services employee Indira Sevostyanova found and convinced two homeless men to sign military contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense.

She persuaded them to hand over the bank cards they were depositing money onto, and stole nearly 13 million rubles from the homeless men. The fate of the homeless men remains unknown.

💀 Before evacuating the military, the Ukrainian Armed Forces decided to check the Russians and first sent the captured Russians: the Russians predictably violated the ceasefire and killed their own

🇺🇦Life hack from the 24th Motorized Rifle Brigade.

Russia has started using cheap improvised SAMs against drones. In Oryol, a likely truck-based R-77-1 launcher was spotted, a concept Ukraine has used for years with Raven.

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Futenma Base Return Still Decades Away

Thirty years after Japan and the United States agreed to return U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Japanese control, the replacement facility in Nago's Henoko coastal area remains unfinished due to local opposition, legal disputes, and construction complications. Japan's Defense Ministry has indicated the earliest possible return of the Futenma site is 2036.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara stated that construction would continue on the basis that relocation to Henoko is the only viable solution. Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki countered that the current plan would not remove the dangers posed by the Futenma base in the shortest possible time.

The U.S. Defense Department informed a congressional watchdog that the United States would continue operating Futenma unless Japan identifies an alternative runway of sufficient length. The original base has a 2,700-meter runway, while the planned replacement would feature two 1,800-meter V-shaped runways.

#Japan #USA

@asianomics

Власти Швеции разрешили продолжить путь грузовому судну Hui Yuan под панамским флагом, направлявшемуся из России в испанский Лас-Пальмас.

"Мы провели допрос капитана, и он признал, что совершил это нарушение по неосторожности", - сообщил государственному вещателю SVT старший прокурор Хокан Андерссон.

Судно было оштрафовано и после внесения денег смогло продолжить путь.

@interfaxonline

😎 The operators of the 10th OGShBr have shot down another Russian hexocopter with special drone!

🇺🇸 Trump: We are going to be blockading the Strait of Hormuz; it will take a little while, but it will be effective pretty soon.

hey will not have nuclear weapons. I've been saying this for 30 years—I would never have allowed it even before I entered politics.

And this country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries should not be allowed to have them, but this country will certainly not have nuclear weapons.

A private air defense system with remote-controlled M2 gun turrets is now live in Ukraine, a Defense Ministry adviser says. Flash says the turrets have a range of up to 2 km to guard critical infrastructure, and any business can order protection.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: They came in like they had the cards, but they don’t have the cards.

NATO countries say they want to come, and they want to help with the strait, and it won’t take long to clean it out. So we’re going to clean out the strait.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran doesn’t hold the cards’

President Trump: ‘A massive American fleet is headed to Iran’

@Middle_East_Spectator