Ballistic missile launches from Yemen to Riyadh

The Ukrainian Parliament has advanced new legislation that would create the Space Forces as a new branch of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

This would involve the development of space technologies, including defending against threats from space, such as Russia's Oreshnik IRBM. A national early-warning system to detect Russian missile launchers was also proposed as, which could involve Ukraine's own satellites.

This comes as Ukraine has reportedly been testing it's own exo-atmospheric interception systems, and is in the aftermath of the October Starshield/Starlink restrictions.

Two Iranian Air Force fighter jets are currently conducting a patrol near the western border with Iraq.

This is the second patrol to be carried out in this area so far today.

Saudi Arabia claims one ballistic missile was shot down near Riyadh

Ansarallah claims to have shot down a Saudi CH-4 reconnaissance drone over the Al-Jawf Governorate of Yemen.

This is reportedly the fourth drone of this type to be intercepted since the new war began.

DTEK reports that Russia carried out 128 attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the last week.

I don't think you're the one who was dodging the bullet, you Redditor from hell 🤣🤣

Russian fibre-optic FPV drone strike on a train at the Sumy Railway Station.

Russia continued their large-scale Geran-2/4/5 drone attacks against Ukraine over the last 24 hours, using over 250 drones and S8000 Banderol cruise missiles to strike dozens of targets across Ukraine.

The targeted regions were similar to previous nights, with the heaviest attacks being carried out on Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kyiv Oblasts. Some smaller attacks targeted Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, and Kharkiv Oblasts.

During the 24 hours, explosions were heard in/near approximately 76 locations across Ukraine, including around 59 unique towns and cities.

These locations include:

- Derazhnya, Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Novodnistrovs'k, Chernivtsi Oblast
- Khmil'nyk, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations in Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations in Kozyatyn, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Haisyn, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Ladyzhyn, Vinntysia Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations inTul'chyn, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Shpykiv, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Rakhny-Lisovi, Vinnytsia Oblast
- Balta, Odesa Oblast
- Berezivka, Odesa Oblast
- Pivdenne, Odesa Oblast
- Kyselivka, Mykolaiv Oblast
- Zavodske, Mykolaiv Oblast
- Mykolaiv City
- Approximately 3 different locations in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Vil'nohirs'k, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Approximately 5 different locations in Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Vil'noandriivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations in Zaporizhzhia City
- Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast
- Leb'yazhe, Kharkiv Oblast
- Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast
- Vasyshcheve, Kharkiv Oblast
- Approximately 3 different locations in Kharkiv City
- Kozelshchyna, Poltava Oblast
- Rokytne, Poltava Oblast
- Horishni Plavni, Poltava Oblast
- Approximately 3 different locations in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast
- Approximately 3 different locations in Poltava City
- Kanatove, Kirovohrad Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations in Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast
- Pobuzke, Kirovohrad Oblast
- Approximately 2 different locations in Uman, Cherkasy Oblast.
- Cherkasy City
- Yahotyn, Kyiv Oblast
- Doslidnyts'ke, Kyiv Oblast
- Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast
- Hlevakha, Kyiv Oblast
- Chabany, Kyiv Oblast
- Nalyvaikivka, Kyiv Oblast
- Dymer, Kyiv Oblast
- Peremoha, Kyiv Oblast
- Pidlissya, Kyiv Oblast
- Zalissya, Kyiv Oblast
- Khotyanivka, Kyiv Oblast
- Oseshchyna, Kyiv Oblast
- Selyshche Vodohin, Kyiv Oblast
- Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast
- Approximately 3 different locations in Kyiv City
- Olyshivka, Chernihiv Oblast
- Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast
- Chernihiv City
- Popivka, Sumy Oblast
- Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast

The primary targets were, once again, electrical substations, thermal power plants, warehouses, and railway infrastructure.

Note: Not every explosion necessarily represents an impact, as some can be mixed up as interceptions, although the vast majority of these locations did experience direct strikes. Additionally, this report will not have accounted for every single targeted location, and it's expected that there is a large number of other areas hit that aren't listed here.

The sheer number of posts with a similar format that are suddenly being made blindly regurgitating the Ukrainian government claims on Russian casualties makes me wonder if this is a coordinated propaganda campaign to mask other issues.

This all seems extremely unnatural, even for the pro-Ukraine info space.

Bloomberg reports that a recent U.S. intelligence assessment found that Iran is still producing around 50 ballistic missiles per month, despite months of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.

This is half of what Iran was able to produce pre-war, and contradicts U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent claims that 80% of Iran’s industrial base has been destroyed. Iran also still has a separate stockpile of components that can be used to assemble additional ballistic missiles.

This comes as the IRGC unveiled a new underground "missile city", containing new cruise missile variants, hypersonic ballistic missiles, and other related equipment.

The New York Times reports that the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has left his home and relocated to a military base following Iranian threats against his life.

U.S. officials have repeatedly been expressing concern about Iranian plots to target high-ranking American officials in recent weeks, with this new NYT article reporting that these plots have reached a more advanced stage.

During this large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the Ust-Luga Port in Leningrad Oblast, drone alerts were issued for parts of Latvia and Lithuania following reports of drones entering Baltic airspace from Belarus.

This almost always happens when Ukraine attacks Russian ports in Leningrad Oblast, and is presumably caused by Ukrainian drones using NATO airspace to evade Russian air defence.