🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 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.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. officials say the U.S. military has significantly reduced Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, potentially marking a turning point that could gradually ease global economic pressure and improve prospects for a deal with Iran, Axios reports.

Iran has fired on ships but has “limited accuracy", with only about 2% of vessels transiting the Strait last month hit.

Officials say more than 200 mine-like objects have been cleared from the main shipping lane, though only 11 were identified as actual mines.

Traffic through the southern channel has increased to 20–30 tankers per night, carrying 9–10 million barrels of oil — roughly half the pre-war volume, per officials.

The UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait have joined the US-protected export route; Saudi Arabia is expected to join, and Qatar may soon send LNG tankers.

The U.S. aims to widen the main channel by mid-September to allow at least 50 ships through each night, with a longer-term goal of restoring 60–70% of pre-war oil exports.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Satellite imagery confirms that another Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber was indeed hit in an Ukrainian drone attack at Engels-2 Air Base overnight.

Unlike the Tu-95MS hit during the July 16 attack, which suffered critical damage, this one only lost part of its right wing.

📰— Reuters: Gulf states activate sovereign wealth funds to bypass Strait of Hormuz

🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 🔻Israeli media says:

“U.S. administration has warned Israel against carrying out any unilateral strikes against Iran.”

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇬🇦🇪🇮🇷 Reuters⁠: The Trump administration plans to restrict an Egyptian bank over its business with Iran, including revoking the US financial access of Banque Misr’s branches in the UAE.

If finalised, the proposed rule would prevent Banque Misr UAE from maintaining correspondent banking relationships with US financial institutions, effectively cutting its direct access to the US financial system.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: As part of the economic D-Day sanctions against Iran, Iranians have been banned from taking the Duolinguo English test.

🇰🇷 Both initial flight tests of the South Korean military's ADD UCAV (an analogue copy of the Iranian Shahed-136) ended in failure, with the drones crashing into the water immediately after launch.

The manufacturing cost for the two prototype drones has been reported as $35 million.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇦🇪/🇪🇬 U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent:

‘Treasury promised to sever every economic lifeline Tehran has left and finally end the threat of the Iranian regime. We also warned that Iran’s enablers cannot continue to enjoy access to the U.S. dollar and the global financial system.

Banque Misr UAE decided to find out the hard way, and today, we are taking the first step in holding it accountable for its continued, egregious support of the Iranian regime.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In response to Trump’s claim that America controls the Strait of Hormuz, hundreds of Iranian citizens and paramilitary volunteers (Basij) went out and sailed through the Strait

Some of the boats were threatened multiple times by the U.S. Navy, but ignored warnings and continued to sail.

🇮🇷🔻Clashes between Iranian security forces and terrorist elements in the city of Saravan, southeastern Iran; one terrorist killed and 6 others arrested.

🇮🇷 | Iranian anti-ship missiles were launched at violating ships.

⚡🇮🇷 — Iranian President Pezeshkian says Iran is ready to cooperate with Saudi Arabia, UAE and other regional countries.

🇮🇷❌️🇺🇸 Since 16:00 local time today, 28/08/2026, Iran has launched three Hadid-110 advanced attack drones and two cruise missiles at ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz without prior approval from the Persian Gulf Strait Authority.

So far, reports tell at least one successful strike.

🇷🇺❌️🇺🇦 A massive explosion followed by dozens of secondary blasts have rocked the Bucha area in the Kyiv region.

It's believed that the Russian Geran-4 jet attack drones, successfully struck a major ammunition storage centre.

A close up of the initial blast at the ammunition storage depot in Bucha, Kyiv region of Ukraine.