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Glory to ukraine.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

President Donald J. Trump formally notified Congress of the resumption of U.S. military operations against Iran on Friday July 10th, fulfilling his reporting obligations under the War Powers Resolution.

The notification follows the renewal of U.S. strikes on Iranian military targets and the reinstatement of the naval blockade of Iran, actions taken in response to Iran's continued attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. interests and regional partners.

Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, the President is required to notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities or situations where hostilities are imminent. The notification does not itself authorize military action but satisfies the statute's reporting requirements while Congress retains its constitutional oversight role.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

President Trump will back the bipartisan Russia sanctions package spearheaded by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, a White House official tells CNN.

The bill would allow Trump to impose heavy tariffs on countries buying Russian oil, uranium and natural gas. Lawmakers are now moving to advance the legislation as a tribute to Graham, who made its passage a top priority in his final days.

[Lockmart Liberal Customer Support (Fan) @FellaHrx69]

So what exactly is the plan here? They take a city they fought years for, and they don’t even fortify it? Use it for operations? They just drive everybody out, destroy it, and let it rot?

So unbelievably Russian.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The son of the late Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and around 500 former mercenaries have built a major criminal empire in Africa.

After Prigozhin’s death in 2023, most Wagner overseas assets were absorbed by the Russian Defense Ministry’s African Corps. However, Pavel Prigozhin and about 500 loyalists refused to integrate and went independent.

They control illegal gold mining at the Ndassima mines in the Central African Republic, generating an estimated $500 million annually.

The group has also established its own drug cartel, smuggling high-dose tramadol, known in Africa as “cocaine for the poor,” and distributing it to fighters, pro-Russian demonstrators, and miners. They use the profits to buy weapons and maintain independence.

They have additionally set up the production of addictive alcoholic surrogates mixed with tramadol.

Local authorities in the Central African Republic are unable to dismantle this autonomous narco-empire in remote regions.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The Houthis in Yemen start launching missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia.

An area near King Khalid Air Base in southwestern Saudi Arabia has been hit.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

According to President Macron of France, Ukraine will recieve licenses for the production of Aster-30 missiles for SAMP/T air defense systems, AASM Hammer guided bombs, and SCALP cruise missiles. He also announced that Ukraine will acquire 16 Rafale fighter jets in 2028-2029

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

President Trump formally notified Congress that fighting had resumed in Iran. In a letter sent to congressional leaders on Friday and obtained by The New York Times on Monday, the president wrote that American forces engaged in “defensive strikes against targets within Iran” on July 7.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

President Donald J. Trump has announced via Truth Social that he will be addressing the nation on Thursday evening at 9p.m. ET.

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Removing Fedorov would be catastrophic for the Ukrainian war effort and a supremely stupid decision by Zelensky.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released video of what it describes as the first operational use of the Corsair one-way attack surface drone, employed during yesterday's strikes against a ship and submarine maintenance facility at Bandar Abbas, Iran.

According to CENTCOM, the strike was intended to further degrade Iran's naval capabilities and its ability to threaten commercial shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

While the Corsair's capabilities have been known within defense circles for some time, they did not become widely publicized until last month's rescue of the crew of a downed U.S. Army AH-64 Apache near the Strait of Hormuz. In that operation, a Corsair autonomously reached the survivors after they had spent approximately two hours in the water, recovered them, and ferried them to a rendezvous point where U.S. forces completed the rescue.

The latest operation demonstrates the platform's versatility, showing that the same unmanned surface vessel can be configured for both precision strike missions and personnel recovery, depending on operational requirements.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump:

I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina.

This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

For the first time, US forces have used Ukrainian-style sea drones to attack an Iranian coastal installation.

Seen here, a trio of American Corsair USVs drive up to a sub repair dock at Bandar Abbas and detonate.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

President Trump announces that the blockade of Iran has resumed.

The US will also now charge a major 20% toll to any vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Among Zelensky's main shortcomings as president are his endless favoritism and his carelessness in personnel policy.

Ever since 2019, there has always been someone this guy, someone at his shoulder, standing behind Zelensky and quietly whispering things into his ear. First it was the notorious lawyer Andriy Bohdan, then, until recently, the untouchable gray cardinal Andriy Yermak, then someone else.

The current situation with the reported threat of dismissing the popular young defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov reminds me of early 2020, when Zelensky suddenly fired his first defense minister, Andriy Zahorodniuk.

It seemed that, after a succession of post-Soviet parade generals, the new president had appointed the country's first genuine civilian defense minister in line with the Western principle of civilian control over the military, a man from senior business management.

Many long-overdue reforms got underway, there was a clear plan, and anti-corruption watchdogs were quite pleased.

But nope -- Less than six months later, Zelensky fired Zahorodniuk before allowing him to finish almost anything he had started.

Because he had "failed to prove himself." At the time, however, the circles around the Defense Ministry, the Presidential Office, and the press persistently said that the sudden decision had been pushed by none other than Andriy Yermak, who had become head of the Presidential Office just a couple of weeks earlier and immediately began putting his own people in place and getting rid of those he disliked.

After his dismissal, Zahorodniuk insisted in conversations that he had never had any conflict with Yermak, but the press of those years persistently reported that Yermak had convinced Zelensky to throw out the defense minister because he objected to the then-time drama of pulling back Ukrainian troops from the frontline with Russian-controlled militant formations in Donbas.

The business manager in a suit was replaced by yet another post-Soviet general from the military bureaucracy, Andriy Taran -- who, during his two years in office became memorable mainly for being unable to string two words together and for constantly failing to complete the state defense procurement program.

That is how we ended up with the endless, barely comprehensible carousel of reshuffles, dismissals, and appointments, which people here in Ukraine sometimes refer to as "rearranging the beds in a brothel."

And now it is starting again.

Fedorov, with enormous progress in Ukraine's digital transformation behind him, has served as defense minister for only about six months.

He managed to cut Russians off from Starlink, drone production is booming, digitalization is accelerating, processes are being optimized, AI is being introduced on a massive scale, and there is now a strategy for technological superiority over Russia.

And that's it -- Fedorov has already fallen out of favor because the young IT guy did not get along with General Syrskyi and his methods of working.

And, according to rumors, Fedorov and his reforms have become a thorn in the side of those who have gotten too used to making very good money from military production.

Now Ihor Klymenko, the interior minister and former chief of the National Police, is reportedly being lined up to replace Fedorov. He is remembered mainly for his video in which he boasted about how National Guard recruits are drilled obsessively to make their beds with the sheets aligned perfectly to a string.

Every time our Defense Ministry starts climbing even half a head above the stagnant swamp, Zelensky's favorites always pop up and whisper in his ear -- urging him to appoint yet another mediocrity who would be comfortable for everyone, change nothing, and get in nobody's way.

That is how we live and fight -- two steps forward, one and a half steps back.

[Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ]

IMO, in cases like this, the EU and/or influential countries like Germany should exert serious pressure on Zelensky to stop such stupid actions.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This is not a fact yet, but if this happens, there need to be protests in the streets again IMHO.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Close-up footage shows Saudi airstrikes hitting Sanaa Airport as an Iranian Mahan Air flight carrying a Houthi delegation was prevented from landing and diverted to Hodeidah, where it landed safely.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

The New York Times reports Israel spent years cultivating former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential leader of a post-regime Iran, despite his past calls for Israel’s destruction, Holocaust denial and role in accelerating Iran’s nuclear program.

According to the report, Ahmadinejad was lured to Budapest under the cover of an academic conference and secretly met Israeli intelligence officials in 2024 and 2025. Then-Mossad chief Dadi Barnea personally traveled to Hungary for one of the meetings, while the CIA was reportedly informed of the contacts. Israel also allegedly paid Ahmadinejad secretly.
The effort culminated on Feb. 28, the opening day of the war, when an Israeli strike hit his residential compound, targeting the building housing his guards and armored vehicle. A black Peugeot then arrived, reportedly driven by Mossad operatives, who extracted Ahmadinejad and moved him to a secret safe house inside Iran.
But the operation ultimately failed: a shaken Ahmadinejad left the safe house under unclear circumstances. Iranian sources now say he is under house arrest by the IRGC Intelligence Organization after Tehran uncovered his alleged ties to Israel. The Mossad declined to comment to the NYT.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. carried out another round of strikes Sunday against Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz, targeting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile sites, air defenses, fast attack craft, coastal surveillance systems, and drone infrastructure following continued attacks on commercial shipping.

The report also notes that Iran has expanded its response beyond the Strait, launching missiles and drones toward Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, broadening the confrontation to include several Gulf states that host U.S. forces or have supported efforts to keep maritime traffic flowing.

From the U.S. perspective, the strikes are intended to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping and preserve freedom of navigation through the Strait. Iran, however, maintains that it has the right to regulate traffic through the waterway, has declared the Strait closed, and argues vessels using routes not authorized by Tehran are operating unlawfully, viewing control of Hormuz as key leverage in broader negotiations with Washington.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇦Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly Saturday, spent his final weeks laying the groundwork for an ambitious new push for Israeli-Saudi normalization, he told me in multiple conversations over the past several weeks. My story on @axios
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