Maksym Lavrynenko, the owner of Ukraine's largest Telegram channel network "Truexa" announced that he was tracked down by 5 members of the TCC (territorial recruitment) on the personal orders of Ukrainian Defence Minister Fedorov, after attempting to investigate corruption in Ukraine's defence sector.

He accused the Ukrainian government of trying to silence them on a story that could become "one of the biggest corruption scandals since the beginning of the war".

Maksym Lavrynenko's Truexa network is also well known for being the largest publisher of videos of Russian strikes, and in the past has been accused of leaking air defence positions.

Additionally, in 2023, one of the largest Russian bloggers Rybar accidentally leaked his Telegram DMs during a livestream, which showed his most recent message being from Lavrynenko, who was conversating with Rybar in a friendly manner about the ongoing Ukrainian summer counteroffensive.

Personally, I'm surprised he wasn't apprehended sooner. I doubt he has any ill intentions towards Ukraine with these controversies, but they certainly provide the Ukrainian government with "justification" for an arrest.

Keep in mind from a symbolic perspective. that these recent advances put the “Holy Mountain” or «Святые Горы» national park well and truly in reach for Russia.

This will be a large morale boost for Russian forces, to capture such a religiously significant area.

This forest is completely destroyed though. Sentinel imagery shows it fully blackened out now.

— Note that Iran has not made any commitment not to enrich uranium. The absence of this commitment from the MoU is very telling.

In fact, Trump made several comments today that implied Iran would be allowed to continue enrichment at low levels (likely 3.67% for civilian use).

That would be extremely embarassing for the United States, considering that the official position during the Araqchi-Witkoff negotiations was ‘zero enrichment’ for 10-20 years.

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The IDF announced that a sergeant of the 36th Division was killed by a recent Hezbollah strike in southern Lebanon. Another 7 soldiers (4 reserve soldiers, 1 reserve officer, 1 non-commissioned officer, and 1 officer) were moderately and lightly injured.

In a separate statement, the IDF announced that 5 soldiers were injured (1 seriously, 2 moderately, 2 lightly) from a Hezbollah FPV drone strike in southern Lebanon.

The IDF claims that both of these strikes occurred after the beginning of the new ceasefire agreement. Hezbollah has not issued any statements on these attacks.

This brings the confirmed IDF death toll since the beginning of their invasion of Lebanon to 31.

The IDF released footage showing an airstrike on a loaded Hezbollah rocket launcher in southern Lebanon, which they say targeted IDF positions with several rockets.

Additionally, in a separate statement, the IDF claims that a Hezbollah drone was detected over southern Lebanon near IDF positions, and that an interceptor missile was launched from northern Israel towards it.

Hezbollah has not issued any statements claiming to have launched rockets or drones at Israeli forces.

Overnight, Russia carried out a series of missile strikes on Kyiv and Poltava.

4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles launched from OTRK installations northwest of Klintsy, Bryansk Oblast, targeted something in the eastern part of Kyiv. 1 missile was intercepted by Patriot systems, which in total launched at least 7 interceptors during the attack.

4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles equipped with cluster warheads launched from near Novovoronezh, Voronezh Oblast, impacted the Ukrgazprombud facility on the northeastern outskirts of Poltava City, which is the construction and installation branch of Ukrtransgaz, and is involved in the construction, major repairs, and maintenance of main gas pipelines and gas transportation system facilities. These strikes also damaged the nearby "Promuzel" 110 kV electrical substation and "Zaturino" 110 kV electrical substation.

Additionally, 4 Banderol jet drones were launched from Kursk and Bryansk Oblast. 2 drones impacted the same target in eastern Kyiv that the Iskanders struck. 1 other targeted something northeast of Vasylkiv, Kyiv Oblast, and a 4th was likely shot down south of Kyiv.

On the map:
Red = Iskander-M flight routes.
Orange = Banderol jet drone flight routes.

The moment of 2 Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile impacts in southeastern Kyiv.

A Patriot interceptor missile is seen failing to intercept a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile. The Iskander-M impacts just next to where the Patriot interceptor self destructs.

A fire broke out in the southeastern part of Kyiv following 3 Iskander-M ballistic missile strikes.

NASA FIRMS data shows an unusually high number of fires burning in frontline Kherson Oblast in the last 24 hours, especially concentrated on the Ukrainian-held side of the Dnieper River.