🇺🇦🇷🇺 Unit from the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of Ukraine ambushed a Russian recon unit somewhere in Pokrovsk, likely northwest of the city, killing four Russian soldiers and destroying a “Zhdun” UAV.

🇺🇸 US Navy (USN) P-8A "Poseidon" maritime surveillance aircraft conducted a flight west of the Black sea after departing Sigonella in Italy (N/A), now it is being refueled by a Air Force KC-135R "Stratotanker" (#AE0237 & N/A) northeast of Romania after departing UK RAF Mildenhall in a separate flight along with two other KC-135R/T single-aircraft flights.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Overnight, operators of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) conducted a deep drone strike at the "VNIIR Progress" enterprise in the city of Cheboksary, 1000 km from the border of Ukraine.

The enterprise specializes in the production of GNSS receivers and antennas for GLONASS, GPS, and Galileo satellite systems, particularly the "Kometa" navigation modules that are resistant to electronic warfare (EW) countermeasures. Russia installs these modules on "Kalibr," Kh-69, "Iskander-M," S8000 "Banderol" missiles, as well as on Shahed and Orlan-10 UAVs, according to SBS.

Furthermore, "Kometa" is included in the UMPK munitions guidance kit that converts conventional aerial bombs into high-precision guided munitions, like the widely used FAB bombs.

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Actually, this happened northeast of Pokrovsk, near a main education school. After that, SSO operatives crossed the Pokrovsk-Dobropill road towards Myrnograd.

“Школа №6, Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 85300”… 48°17'51"N 37°12'04"E

🔗 Geolocation

A Mirage with 12 confirmed Kh-101 cruise missile kills.

Per the technican in the attached still, they marked only six kills on the airframe because they don’t always have marking stencils in their forward airfields, and sometimes they just don’t have time to mark them.

🇷🇺🇹🇷 Russian Goverment Tupolev Tu-204-300 aircraft (#14FA3B & RSD795) from the Special Flight Squadron left Moscow en route to Ankara, Turkey.

During the Coalition of the Willing meeting in London yesterday, Turkish President Erdogan stated that Turkey is ready to contribute, as it has in the past, to all diplomatic initiatives and plans that will facilitate direct contact between the parties and pave the way for lasting peace in the region.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 Iraqis reported again that “fighter jets passed over Maysan region south of the country.”

It turned out that these were Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) pilots training there, and it’s possible that the US is providing support; A USAF KC-135R “Stratotanker” (#AE0485 & N/A) is currently heading back to al-Udied Air Base in Qatar after following a path similar to yesterday’s.

🇬🇧 UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon jet (#43C79F & SPARTA23) is squawking 7700 emergency northeast of the UK.

🇮🇶 Unidentified drone struck the Khor Mor gas & oil field, one of Iraq's largest, north of the country, with reports of casualties there. Operations in the field have been halted.

Only Iran-backed factions, primarily Kataib Hezbollah, has the ability to conduct such operations in Iraq.

Well said, actually.

🔗 Atlantic Council's Simon Shuster & Missy Ryan

During his meeting with Western officials in Kyiv last Friday, US Secretary of Army Daniel P. Driscoll told the assembled officials that Russia is building enough to amass a growing stockpile of long-range weaponry, according to The New York Times. Some Western officials who attended the meeting with Driscoll and spoke to the NYT called the Russian buildup alarming and said his warning had resonated.

🔗 NYT

While answering Russian journalists in a press conference following his state visit to Kyrgyzstan and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "the troops of Ukraine will withdraw from the territories they occupy—that is when the hostilities will cease. If they don't withdraw, we will achieve this by armed means."

🔗 Kremlin

Citing two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats, POLITICO reports that Europe is thinking of launching joint offensive cyber operations against Russian infrastructure, like the Alabuga economic zone in Tatarstan, where Moscow is producing Shahed-136/238 drones, as well as energy facilities or trains carrying weapons, in addition to surprise NATO-led military exercises, in response to Russia's drone and fighter jet incursions that temporarily suspended air traffic in major European airports multiple times, as well as its recruitment for agents to plan sabotage operations across the continent.

🔗 POLITICO