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Footage shows the destruction of a Russian Geran-2 UAV somewhere in Ukraine using a Soviet “Igla”/SA-16/18 man-portable air-defense system (MANPAD).
Turkish authorities found two Russian intelligence and reconnaissance drones in the country's northwest this week, with the long-range Merlin-VR UAV discovered by farmers in a field in the Manyas district of Balıkesir province and an Orlan-10 UAV found in Izmit.
Notably, both of these drones are launched by a catapult instead of using conventional runways.
Notably, both of these drones are launched by a catapult instead of using conventional runways.
The 2nd Army of the “Center” group of the Russian Armed Forces (AFRF) have captured the populated area of Svetloe west of Mirnograd, further tightening the pressure on the encircled Ukrainian forces in the city, according to mapped reports by Russian milbloggers. In addition to the Mirnograd-Pokrovsk direction, AFRF forces have advanced further in the northern and southern sectors of Guliaipole with increasing pressure; Ukrainian General Staff reported 17 attempts by the AFRF to infiltrate the city in its daily situational report.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday, during a speech to troops at a military base in Abu Dhabi, plans to construct a new, larger and more modern aircraft carrier to replace the ageing Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of the French Navy which entered service in 2001 and remains the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world besides those operated by the United States.
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The bombings caused the Odessa-Reni highway to become closed for all individuals effectively cutting off the Budzhak region from the rest of Ukraine. Traffic for cars is expected to resume in the future as the neither of the two bridges collapsed.
Soon after, the customs with Moldova in the region were closed but not the customs with Romania.
The bridge in Mayaki was used frequently by residents of Odessa and other nearby towns and villages to travel to the Moldovan capital, Chișinău, as it is the closest functioning airport and connection with other countries. Now, they have to make a detour around Transnistria and enter Moldova through the north
On the same day as the bombings of the bridges in Budzhak, the deputy commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine – NSATU, Maj-Gen Maik Keller, announced that in January 2026, a new logistical supply center for Ukraine will be opened by NATO in Romania in an undisclosed location, meant to supplement the logistical supply center in Rzeszów, Poland.
The decision to bomb the two bridges in Budzhak is meant to hinder supplies coming from Romania.
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Israel warned the US this week that a recent Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile exercise could serve as a precursor to a surprise attack, though Israeli Mossad currently assesses the probability of such an operation at less than 50%, according to Axios. While both US and Israeli intelligence reportedly see no reason signs of an imminent strike within the next three months, officials are concerned that the IRGC’s rapid reconstruction of its missile and air-defense capabilities will become a critical issue later in the year, leading the Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Eyal Zamir to meet with the US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Admr. Brad Cooper on Saturday to initiate urgent preventative coordination and defensive measures.
Russians report that Ukrainian engineers have developed a high-precision munition by modifying the 80mm-caliber Soviet-era S-8 unguided rockets with Western components, featuring an added rocket engine, an infrared (IR) seeker, and modified warheads, and now being deployed from newly designed pylons on Ukrainian MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters.
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Rep. Senator Lindsey Graham stated on NBC News that he “will go all in” against Russia if President Vladimer Putin rejects the current peace deal, delivering Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike drone and missile factories inside Russia.
“2025 was a difficult year, but don’t worry — the next one will be much worse,” — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) released drone footage of a special operation carried out using an air-burst drone equipped with 2,000 fragmentation elements to hit a modernized Russian Il-38N "Sea Dragon" maritime reconnaissance plane at the Yeysk airbase in Krasnodar Krai, which was carried out before the attack on the Kilo-class submarine in the port of Novorossiysk, as this aircraft was used by Russians to detect Ukrainian “Sea Baby” unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) has carried out airstrikes with “Storm Shadow”/SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles on the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant in Russia's Rostov Oblast, igniting a large plume of smoke.
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Footage released by the Russian Ministry of Defense show Tupolev Tu-95MS “Bear-H” long-range, nuclear-capable strategic bombers of the Aerospace Forces (VKS), escorted by Su-33 “Flanker-D” fighter jets, flying in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea, before being escorted by NATO jets somewhere during the scheduled flight.
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Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced the elimination of Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari in an airstrike on his truck in the Ansariyah area of Lebanon, who was a key member in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force’s (IRGC-QF) Unit-840, responsible for directing and overseeing Iranian activities in Lebanon and Syria.