Hezbollah shot down an Israeli IAI Eitan reconnaissance drone over the village of Mlita, southern Lebanon.

The UK announced a new military aid package for Ukraine.

The package contains the following:

- 6 T-72 tanks.
- 52 ATV vehicles.
- 46 Roshel Senator armoured cars.
- 53 Huskey armoured vehicles.
- 20 M113A1B armoured personnel carriers.
- 6 Mastiff armoured patrol vehicles.
- 1 FV432 armoured personnel carrier.
- Numerous other vehicles of various types.
- 6 AS-90 self-propelled howitzers.
- 60 combat naval vessels.
- 20 Avon W525 inflatable boats.
- 30 MK3 inflatable boats.
- 5,000 air-to-surface missiles.
- 12,565 drones of various types.
- 12,000 fixed-wing strike drones.
- 50 ALTIUS-600M loitering munitions
- 172,350 FPV drones.
- Thousands of small-arms weapons.

Edit: I misread the initial report. This is a tally of the UK aid to Ukraine during 2025.

As Russia continues to further develop their mid-range drone strike capabilities, they have significantly stepped up their strikes on rear Ukrainian logistics.

Two particular locations have experienced a significant uptick in Russian FPV drone strikes, especially from Molniya-1 drones:

On the Pavlohrad-Pokrovsk highway in eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Russian drones have frequently targeted Ukrainian logistics in recent months. There are numerous areas where there is no anti-drone netting, especially closer to Pavlohrad, allowing long-range drones connected to the larger aerial mesh network of repeaters and transmitters to easily attack vehicles moving along the road. An increase in strikes has been noted here recently.

On the Sumy-Kharkiv highway, Russian drone operators have been targeting the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, with large Molniya drone raids for the last few weeks, despite it being over 21 km from the border. More recently, they have been targeting the highway outside the city, which has not been covered by anti-drone nets.

The State of Palestine (PA) strongly condemned the recent Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain, calling it a violation of Bahrain and Kuwait's sovereignty, and a breach of international law.

Who remembers when the Palestinian Authority gave the IDF and Shin Bet intelligence on the whereabouts of Jenin Brigade members in 2024-2025, and carried out assassinations of Palestinian fighters from the Jenin Brigade and other local armed groups in the West Bank?

They also negotiated a ceasefire with the Jenin Brigade after their forces failed to capture the Jenin Refugee Camp, in order to buy the IDF time to build up forces and storm the camp by surprise.

Just putting it out there.

CENTCOM claims that U.S. forces shot down 2 Iranian strike drones over the Strait of Hormuz.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to ‘critical’, after increased efforts by Mossad to spy on U.S.-Iran talks – NYT

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: U.S. servicemembers sent to defend Israel had their phones bugged and wiretapped – New York Times

@Middle_East_Spectator

May vehicle losses have been released.

28-159, giving a ratio of 1:5.6

Excluding armoured cars and MRAPs, 26-73, at a ratio of 1:2.8

SPG losses (6-27) continue to show the trend of attrition, and the overall prognosis, is extremely poor for Ukraine.

(Credit HeyHeyHayden)

These are all visually confirmed losses.

So, while you see sources like ISW and Deepstate showing supposed net Ukraine gains for May (even this is not the case), the rate of attrition continues to favour Russia, as evidenced here.

The Israel Broadcasting Authority, citing the IDF, reports that 4 reserve Israeli soldiers were injured by a recent Hezbollah FPV drone strike in southern Lebanon.

Well, the Ukrainian presence in Zirka (Prosyana/Komar direction) has been confirmed. @Suriyak_maps reported this a couple of days ago, and yesterday's Sentinel-2 imagery shows Russian KAB glide-bomb strikes west of the village, as well as near Hrushivske and Tolstoi.

Zirka is situated east of the Mokri Yaly River, meaning some Ukrainian soldiers have managed to penetrate 9 km behind Russian lines from Andriivka-Klevtsove and cross the river. The village is currently contested, alongside Zelenyi Hai, Novokhatske, Tolstoi, and Piddubne. A large grey-zone has formed, where both sides are present in overlapping positions. It is not clear which side has the upper hand in terms of manpower quantities in this grey-zone.

We might see a further Russian withdrawal from Ivanivka in the near future due to the risk of encirclement, and the elimination of the threat of a Russian flanking attack around Novopavlivka. At the same time, Ukrainian infiltrations towards Myrne put Russian forces currently attacking the Oleksandrohrad area at risk of being cut off too.

This area has long been a vulnerable area for Russia, as Ukraine controls the majority of the surrounding dominant heights. It is situated in lower-lying grounds and is surrounded on 3 sides by rivers, making it difficult to resupply, especially in today's drone-dominated war.

I expect that once Russia stabilises the Ternove-Berezove-Sichneve-Novoselivka sector, they will begin assault operations northwards from the tactical heights at Voskresenka to help stabilise this line too. They recently redeployed elements of the 120th Naval Infantry Division (recently upgraded from the 336th Naval Infantry Brigade) from the Dobropillya direction to approximately the Voskresenka area, so they may take part in any future counterattacks here.