🇺🇦 - Mykhailo Drapatyi was the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from late 2024 to June 1st 2025. He had resigned following a Russian strike on Ukrainian training grounds in Dnipropetrovsk. Mykhailo Drapatyi indicated that his reasons for resigning were due to being "unable to ensure the proper execution of his orders" and that "Ukraine's military is disadvantaged by a command culture that is unwilling to accept personal responsibility for and learn from battlefield failures."

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The Saudi and Emirati Ministers of Media have released joint statements stating Riyadh and Abu are "bound by a shared heritage and history."

This marks a major warming of relations between the two Gulf countries as tensions spiral around them.

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇾🇪⚡- Following the media statements from the Saudi Kingdom and the Emirati State, in a dramatic turn of events the former Southern Transitional Council President Aidarus al-Zoubeidi is excepted to make a remarkable return to Aden, Yemen, tomorrow.

Al-Zoubeidi, who fled to UAE via a boat to Somaliland, will shortly address the nation of Yemen.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - Note, Riyadh's joint statement with Abu Dhabi, coupled with its decision to permit the return of the widely popular South Yemeni separatist leader Aidarus al-Zoubeidi to Aden, appears to be a political response to Ansarullah's blockade of Saudi's Red Sea ports.

🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Saudi Royal Court Minister Turki al-Alshikh posts a photo of Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman with UAE's Vice President Mansour bin Zayed.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens in Kuwait. Ongoing Iranian drone attack.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇶 - There is no unusual British aerial refueler movements over Iraq or Syria.

Reg: RRR9961 has, long before the U.S.-Iran war, ran routine military operations out of RAF Akrotiri dragging two British jets.

Reg: RRR9949's entire schedule is RAF Akrotiri -> Baghdad, a few days layover then Baghdad -> RAF Akrotiri.

Reports alleging major B1 Bomber deployment from RAF Fairford are also false.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes erupted between Kurdish forces, likely YPG, and Arab Bedouin tribes in the al-Hasakah region, northeast Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Kurdish frontline sources report that the clashes between SDF + YPG elements and Arab Bedouin tribes in the al-Hasakah region, northeast Syria, have largely ended. The fighting lasted just a few hours, but Kurdish troops remain on high alert.

Footage shows Bedouin tribes firing upon an SDF / YPG position.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Fighter jet activity is reported over Tehran, the capital of Iran. Preliminary, unconfirmed reports of explosions have been reported near the city.

🇮🇷 - Locals report a single explosion in eastern Tehran, resembling a controlled explosion, not an airstrike.

🇮🇷⚡- Fire services have been dispatched to Narmak, eastern Tehran, possibly indicating the sound came from a gas explosion.

🇮🇷 - Confirmed gas explosion on Square 95, Narmak, eastern Tehran, hence the dispatch of fire services.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- 4 US airstrikes on Behbahan, and 2+ on Bandar-e Mahshahr, both in the south of Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Initial reports of a ballistic missile launch from the Hamedan high grounds, western Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Several US airstrikes on Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US attacks on the Chabahar-Konarak area, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Explosions heard in or near Qeshm Island.

🇮🇷⚡- Multiple explosions in Tabriz, northwest Iran. Cause unknown.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrikes against Tabriz, northwest Iran. The city has been struck at least 5 times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Continued explosions in Tabriz, northwest Iran.