🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇧🇭 — Iran's IRGC says it targeted and destroyed the air surveillance and control radar and the fuel pumping station serving fighter aircraft fuel storage tanks at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain.

➡️ The group said the strike was carried out in retaliation for the recent U.S. strikes on Iran, adding that "this battle continues."

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — WATCH: Drone boats of Ukraine’s SBU struck the Russian "Banda" and "Louise 1" oil tankers in the Black Sea.

🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said the dismissal of Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov came as “quite a big surprise.”

➡️ Kubilius said “a lot was achieved” during Fedorov’s tenure and added that his dismissal will inevitably prompt questions within the EU about why he is being replaced.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Shipping companies are increasingly avoiding the U.S. military-guided transit route through the Strait of Hormuz following recent Iranian attacks on commercial vessels, Reuters reports.

➡️ One shipping source said, “The U.S. doesn’t seem to have any control over the situation,” citing crew safety and the worsening security environment.

➡️ While Washington maintains that the strait remains open and that many vessels continue to transit with U.S. coordination, maritime security firms warn there are no reliable guarantees of safe passage.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — President Trump is expected to address previously unreported allegations of Chinese election interference in his primetime speech Thursday night, CBS News reports.

➡️ The claims include that China accessed U.S. voter data during the 2020 election and that the CIA was aware of the alleged activity but did not inform him during his first term.

🇬🇷🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️ — Greece is holding up the EU’s latest sanctions package against Russia, objecting to a proposed ban on transporting Russian LNG to third countries that Athens says would severely harm Dynagas, a Greek company specializing in Arctic LNG shipping, FT reports.

➡️ Greek officials argue that the firm’s highly specialized ice-class LNG carriers cannot easily be repurposed, while other EU states insist economic sacrifices are necessary to maintain pressure on Moscow.

🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — The memorial service for Senator Lindsey Graham appears to have been postponed until the end of the month, meaning Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will no longer travel to the U.S. next week, i24NEWS reports.

🇺🇦⚡️ — Ukraine’s pro-government UNITED24 Media has suspended publishing for the day as staff join nationwide protests against President Zelensky’s dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.

🇺🇦⚡️ — The Ukrainian Parliament has approved Serhii Koretsky, the current CEO of state energy company Naftogaz, as the country’s new Prime Minister.

🇺🇦⚡️ — Ukraine’s outgoing Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov criticized Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi, saying that instead of finding ways to “asymmetrically defeat Russia,” Syrskyi had “figured out how to split the country.”

➡️ Fedorov said Ukraine must “change the Commander-in-Chief and Chief of the General Staff” to defeat Russia with “minimal losses,” while acknowledging that Syrskyi “saved the country with the Kyiv operation” in 2022.

➡️ He added that the war has since changed and accused Syrskyi of blocking new initiatives and avoiding direct discussions about problems.

➡️ Fedorov also said President Zelensky offered him a position as an adviser, but he refused.

🇮🇶⚡️ — An oil tanker was hit by a drone at the Basra oil terminal in Iraq, though no damage or fire was reported after the strike, Reuters reports.

➡️ Oil loading operations at the Port of Basra have been temporarily suspended as authorities investigate the incident and assess the situation.

➡️ The origin of the drone remains unknown.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there are currently “no prospects” for a quick return to peace negotiations over Ukraine.

➡️ He added that it is not important who heads Ukraine’s Defence Ministry, saying the main issue is whether there is someone in Kyiv “capable of making a decision that would allow for a resolution to the conflict.”

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — Kuwait's army says it is currently repelling a drone attack.

🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — The pro-government Darfur Joint Forces militia reportedly retook the Orshi area of north Darfur from the UAE-backed RSF rebels.

The captured area is home to the strategic Orshi reservoir, which is considered a key water source in the region.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — WATCH: Iran’s IRGC released footage of the overnight ballistic missile launches towards U.S. bases in the region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia and Ukraine have carried out an exchange of fallen soldiers’ bodies, with 501 bodies transferred to Ukraine and 31 returned to Russia.

🇲🇽⚡️ — Sicarios of the CJNG-affiliated Dos Aguas armed group used a drone to bomb the position of the R5 cartel in an unknown location of the Michoacán state of Mexico.