⚠️ New details on what happened inside the Flydubai cockpit, in Captain Smit Machchar’s own account to the Israeli PM:

1️⃣ The flight was normal. The co-pilot said he wanted to pray, something Machchar says was not unusual among local pilots.

2️⃣ Machchar faced forward while the co-pilot prayed behind him.

3️⃣ Four or five minutes later, Machchar says he was suddenly struck hard on the back of his head.

4️⃣ His first thought was catastrophic aircraft damage. Then the blows kept coming. He realised it was the co-pilot attacking him.

5️⃣ The initial blows left his vision severely blurred. He tried to fight back, but says he could barely see.

6️⃣ His next sensation was the aircraft plunging sharply. His memory of these moments remains fragmented.

7️⃣ He recalls managing to open the cockpit door once, but says the co-pilot apparently shut it again.

8️⃣ Lying on the cockpit floor, he could hear the aircraft rushing through the air and passengers screaming.

9️⃣ Machchar says he realised he had “one last fight” left. His thought was brutally simple: if he didn’t act, he was going to die.

🔟 He threw everything he had into reaching and opening the cockpit door. People outside were waiting to pounce. They entered, control was regained.

Netanyahu invites the Indian pilot of the Flydubai plane and Modi to Israel to light a ceremonial flame.

The pilot tells Netanyahu the story of the attempted hijacking.

Trump:

I'm a high-IQ person, among the highest IQs anywhere in the world.

Russia's Medvedev:

Western countries still behave toward other states on the basis of colonial thinking: “We are superior, we are strong, we are developed, and you must obey.

No world ruler has the right to take upon himself the mission of the Almighty or the Lord God.

Russia's Medvedev:

I am often asked why I haven’t left a social platform like X, or Twitter.

The answer is obvious: who, then, will tell the truth to the peoples of Western countries, to the peoples of Europe?

At least this way they receive some information, even if it is only in limited doses.

WATCH: Ukrainian logistics robot catching a Russian FPV kamikaze drone in a rear-mounted net moments before impact.

The system, called KARAKURT, fires a 3×3m net to tangle the drone's rotors — each cartridge costs about $26.

Honeytrap in India: An Indian Navy sailor was arrested at a training base in Coimbatore on suspicion of leaking classified Eastern Naval Command data to a Pakistani intelligence operative.

Investigators say a woman contacted him on social media months earlier, built an online relationship, and extracted information on fleet movements and strategic naval assets at Visakhapatnam.

It's the second alleged Pakistani honeytrap case involving an Indian sailor this year.

Source: Times of India

Russia's Medvedev:

How can a state that is now turning 250 years old lecture Iran, whose history stretches back 4,000 years? It looks unserious.

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has resigned.

Zelensky on Russia:

According to our information, Russia has a stockpile of around 700 ballistic missiles and several thousand other missiles.

They produce around 130–140 ballistic missiles per month. This has to be fought, and we are fighting it.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

On the Iran issue, first of all, I do want to make a very clear distinction.

India was a country which did not sign the NPT and which reserved its rights. Iran was a country which signed the NPT.

So the situation is very, very different.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

You get these reports: well, energy flows were very good today, or last week it was almost the same as what it was.

But the fact is, energy markets are deeply unsettled. The price of energy tells you really what the sentiment is and what the market expectation is.

You can’t have oil at above 100 and pretend that things are near normal. They are not.

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

The landscape today is primarily marked by a radical repositioning of the United States — a repositioning which is a posture of choice, and where, in a way, it has deliberately become a lonely power.