🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Ongoing report of an explosion in the PLC-controlled Al-Rayyan Airport in Mukalla, eastern Yemen.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — WATCH: Intense Russian air defense activities last night during the Ukrainian attack against the city of Novorossiysk.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine has halted drone strikes on oil tankers using Russia’s Novorossiysk port after U.S. Vice President JD Vance asked President Zelensky to stop the attacks during a July 31 call, FT reports.

Kyiv agreed not to target Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) infrastructure or non-Russian vessels unless they were sanctioned by Ukraine or carrying Russian oil or cargo.

Washington was concerned the strikes were disrupting global oil markets and affecting U.S. companies Chevron and ExxonMobil, which have major stakes in the Kazakhstan-linked CPC route.

🇷🇺🇯🇵🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian President Putin on Japan:

Japan, under the pretext of events in Ukraine, without delving into the causes of this conflict, imposed sanctions against Russia that were unprovoked on our part.

🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡️ — Russian President Putin on Japan:

We are not threatening Japan. We have absolutely no claims against it. On the contrary, Japan has territorial claims against our country. I mean the problem of the Kuril Islands.

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Ibrahim Al-Akwa, an Ansarallah/Houthis commander, was killed following clashes with the Saudi-backed PLC forces on the Marib front.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) says Russia has stockpiled more than 6,200 Geran drones ahead of winter.

During this buildup period, Russian forces are launching around 150–200 drones per attack, while large-scale strikes could involve 600–1,000 drones at once.

GUR estimates production of Geran-4/5 drones alone at around 3,000 per month.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡️ — The Iranian threat that prompted President Trump’s secret Air Force One swap last month emerged as he was heading into his last day at the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, on July 8, NYT reports.

U.S. intelligence received multiple streams of information indicating a specific surface-to-air missile threat against Air Force One, regardless of which aircraft was carrying the president.

A person near the NATO summit was also spotted with a shoulder-fired missile, while Iranian operatives knew exactly where Trump was staying in Ankara, including the floor of the building.

🇪🇹⚡️ — The EDNF is deploying additional reinforcements, including armored vehicles, in the town of Gilgel Belles in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia following an offensive by the Gumuz Force Unity Front (GFUF) rebel force group, who briefly captured the city before being driven out.

📝The GFUF is an ethnic Gumuz rebel faction operating alongside other groups in the Benishangul-Gumuz region against the federal government due to ethnic tension and economic discrimination caused by the Ethiopian government.