🇾🇪🇮🇷⚡- The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of Yemen, based in Aden, intercepted an Iranian military cargo vessel in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The vessel, which departed from Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, was carrying weapons and goods for the Houthis. The crew of eight have also been arrested.

🇵🇸 - Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, today.

❗🇺🇦🇷🇺 ⚡️Ukrainian Armed Forces troops have advanced to the northern outskirts of Kucherov Yar, an area currently within the scope of the Russian Armed Forces' Dobropillya breakthrough.

@BriekBPeek

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route, and carrying narcotics. There were two narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. Both terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere. Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people. There will be no refuge or forgiveness—only justice," - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

🇱🇾🇸🇩⚡- Khalifa Haftar led Libyan National Army has begun amassing in the al-Kufra military base, southeast Libya, on Sudan's border.

Southeast al-Kufra has been used by the Rapid Support Forces to stage attacks against the Sudanese government.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: The US has lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-rang missile strikes deep into Russian territory.

Kiev has confirmed using Storm Shadow missiles to strike an explosive and rocket fuel factory in Bryansk, Russia.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says he will notify Congress of military strikes against land-based drug smuggling routes in Venezuela, stating “it needs to be done” in order to save lives.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump also implied that military strikes will occur against Venezuelan territory imminently.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Wall Street Journal story on the U.S.A.’s approval of Ukraine being allowed to use long range missiles deep into Russia is FAKE NEWS! The U.S. has nothing to do with those missiles, wherever they may come from, or what Ukraine does with them!" - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent announces a new package of sanctions on Russia, targeting Russian energy giants Rosneft and Lukoil, and their subsidiaries.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The Department of Treasury is imposing sanctions on Russia for its lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine. Today’s actions increase pressure on Russia’s energy sector and degrade the Kremlin’s ability to raise revenue for its war machine and support its weakened economy.

Permanent peace depends entirely on Russia’s willingness to negotiate in good faith," - Department of Treasury.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire.

Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine. Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war. We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions," - Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent.

🇺🇸⚡- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's meeting with President Trump has begun at the White House.

🇺🇸⚡- "It's an honor to have a very good friend of mine Mark Rutte Secretary General of NATO here.

Every country in Europe has great respect for the leader [Rutte] – he is the leader," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "These are tremendous sanctions against Russia. They're against their two big oil companies, and we hope that the sanctions won't be on for long. We hope the war will be settled.

We would like to see them settle on the [front] line, and go home," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: "I canceled my meeting with Putin. It did not feel right," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "These are drug boats. If people want to stop seeing drug boats blowing up, stop sending drugs to the United States.

All these boats are in international waters. These are people travelling in international waters heading towards the United States, with hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. They're going to be stopped, and that's what's happening.

Last week there was a case of a submarine drug boat. We track them from the very beginning, we know who's on them, where they're coming from, and what they have on them.

If you're running drug boats, you're in great danger," - Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "The Colombian President is a thug, he makes a lot of drugs. Colombia has cocaine factories.

He better watch it or we will take very serious action against him and his country," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇴⚡- "This is a national security problem. These drugs coming in killed 300,000 people last year.

We know the people coming in, we know the boats, we're allowed to do it. It's in international waters. If we don't do it, we'll lose hundreds of thousands of people.

The drugs will be coming in by land a little bit more, because they won't be coming in by boats. There are no more boats in the waters. We'll hit them very hard when they come in by land, they haven't experienced that yet, but we're totally prepared to do that," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡- "We have imposed sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, that fund Putin's war machine.

I am pleased that the United States is joining us in imposing major sanctions on Russian oil companies.

Putin must pay the price for his unjustified aggression and the killing must stop now," - UK Prime Minister's Office.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "I will defend myself legally against the slanders made against me by high-ranking officials on American soil," - Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.