Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has confirmed this morning’s long-range live-fire strike exercise carried out by PCL-191 Long-Range Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) assigned to the 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade Rocket Artillery of the 72nd Group Army, under the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command, with the rockets being fired from Pingtan County, Fuzhou City in the Fujian Province of Southeastern China. According to the Taiwanese Coast Guard, seven rockets were detected landing within Zone 1 and 2, roughly 24NM to the north of the Island of Taiwan.

Large drone attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is currently underway against the Russian capital of Moscow.

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov states that there is no need to release evidence of the alleged Ukrainian drone attack yesterday against the state residence of President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Oblast of Northwestern Russia.

For the first time, M1A2T “Abrams” Main Battle Tanks with the Republic of China Army have been been spotted in active combat service in Taiwan, participating in ongoing Rapid Response Exercises to counter snap-military drills by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command.

The Emirati Defense Ministry has announced that the UAE is ending its “military presence in Yemen in coordination with relevant partners,” following recent tensions with Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Government over their support for the Southern Transitional Council (STC).

A source close to French President Emmanuel Macron has told Reuters that there is no evidence backing Russia’s claim that Ukraine targeted the state residence of President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Oblast of Northwestern Russia.

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to pursue the Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T Bella 1, which is currently sailing northwest through the Northern Atlantic possibly towards Iceland or Greenland, with the crew having recently painted the Russian Flag on the hull of the ship, appearing to claim protection status from the Russian Federation, according to the U.S. officials who spoke to The New York Times.

Multiple fires are currently burning at the Tuapse Oil Refinery in the Southwestern Russian city of Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai near the coast of the Black Sea, following several drone strikes in the past hour by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Some officials with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were upset by President Donald J. Trump's recent decision to claim responsibility for a covert drone strike earlier this month against a facility in Venezuela linked to drug trafficking, an operation normally intended to be secret or at least have no obvious links to the United States, current and former officials told the Wall Street Journal. “There was near-universal dismay among former intelligence officials that President Trump chose to disclose what almost certainly was intelligence community covert action,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior operations officer with the CIA.