🇲🇩⚡️ — Five drones were detected in Moldovan airspace overnight on August 27, according to a press release by the Moldovan Army.

The drones entered from Ukraine, with some briefly crossing back into Ukraine, while others flew over areas near Palanca, Căplani, Crocmaz, Olănești and other locations before exiting Moldovan airspace or disappearing from radar near Transnistria.

🇲🇩⚡️ — Debris from an aircraft, possibly a Russian Gerbera-type drone, was discovered by the roadside along the Chișinău–Basarabeasca road in Moldova.

Police cordoned off the area and are examining the debris to determine its type and origin. Authorities have not yet confirmed the aircraft's model or whether it poses any danger to the public, according to a press release by Moldovan police.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧⚡️ — Russia’s Foreign Ministry:
Russia’s response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons could include targeting British military facilities — both in Ukraine and beyond its borders.

🇷🇺⚡️ — A Russian military officer, reportedly a colonel, was killed in a car explosion in St. Petersburg, while his wife in the vehicle was seriously injured.

The blast reportedly occurred on Kolpinskoye Highway in the Pushkinsky District after an improvised explosive device detonated inside the vehicle.

🇮🇹🇺🇦⚡️ — Italy has secretly approved a military aid package worth around €3 billion for Ukraine, focused on strengthening its defenses against ballistic missiles, according to La Repubblica.

The package includes four SAMP/T NG air-defense batteries, Aster 30 interceptor missiles, and seven long-range radars produced by France’s Thales and Italy’s Leonardo.

Italy is expected to deliver some of the missiles by October, with the package funded through the EU’s Ukraine Support Loan program.

🇮🇱⚡️ — IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir warned that budget shortages are already affecting and harming military readiness, saying the IDF is operating with “empty coffers” while its forces remain deployed across several fronts.

⚡🇶🇦🇮🇷 — Qatar and Iran discuss plan to create a temporary shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Saudi Arabia appears to be preparing for a renewed war with the Houthis (Ansarallah) following weeks of attacks targeting Saudi ships, airports, and oil facilities, NYT reports.

Analysts warn that a new Saudi campaign could deepen the wider Middle East crisis and potentially open another front in the Iran war. Few believe Riyadh could completely defeat the Houthis; instead, the likely goal would be to weaken the group and pressure it into a Yemen peace settlement more favorable to Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies.

Saudi officials say the kingdom still prefers a peaceful solution but is prepared to take military action if the attacks continue.

Israeli airstrikes currently on Southern Lebanon.

⚡🇺🇦🇷🇺 — Ukraine strikes nuclear fuel storage facility at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

⚡️🇨🇦🇺🇸U.S. President Trump has signed an Executive Order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Secret Service Communications Director Anthony Guglielmi and two other officials have been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into alleged misconduct, CNN reports.

All three lost their security clearances and access to work devices. The Secret Service has not disclosed the nature of the allegations.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — A Russian drone guided by an onboard AI system killed three Ukrainian civilians in a July 6 strike on a gas station in Zaporizhzhia, NYT reports.

It is the first documented case of civilian deaths caused by a fully autonomous Russian drone.

The drone used a commercially available Nvidia Jetson Orin computer costing a few hundred dollars and had no antennas or human pilot. It was programmed to reach a specific gas station, then independently identified and targeted propane tanks using AI trained to recognize specific objects.

Ukrainian investigators found unencrypted terrain images and targeting code on the chip, allowing them to determine what objects the drone had been trained to detect and attack.

❗️🇮🇷🚀— IRGC naval forces launch anti-ship ballistic missiles toward Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸/🇮🇷🔻The U.S.-sanctioned LPG tanker ‘Seagates’ is currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz via the route designated by Iran.”

⚡🇺🇸🇷🇺 — US asks Russia to end its economic and security relations with Iran.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. Central Command commander Admiral Brad Cooper claims that U.S. forces have facilitated the transfer of 1500 commercial vessels and 750M barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz, while not allowing Iran to export any crude oil whatsoever.

Admiral Cooper further claims that no Iranian ship has entered or left an Iranian port without CENTCOM's permission, and that ships are only being allowed on humanitarian grounds.

Admiral Cooper claims that around 75 ships have been redirected and 3 have been disabled since the start of the U.S. Navy's blockade against Iranian ports.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — PLC armed forces has published footage of BM-21 Grad MLRS launches towards unspecified Ansarallah positions.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Yaroslavl Oil Refinery.

The refinery is one of Russia’s largest, processing around 15 million tons of crude oil annually and producing gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel and other petroleum products.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Zelensky says Ukraine’s Alpha unit have struck a Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber in an overnight attack on Engels-2 Air Base, Russia’s Saratov region.

🇵🇱🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Apparently, Putin’s spooks told CIA Director he would not provoke NATO.

Putin had told President Biden’s CIA Director that he would not invade Ukraine.

We should accelerate defence preparations.