Overview
- President Donald Trump confirmed late-week limited U.S. strikes that disabled an Iranian air‑defense system on Keshm island.
- U.S. Central Command said its forces disabled a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the crew ignored repeated warnings and tried to breach a U.S. maritime blockade that has altered dozens of commercial transits since July.
- Iranian state outlets reported explosions on Keshm and said their air defenses shot down a U.S. MQ‑1 Predator, creating competing accounts that have not been independently verified.
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 199 combat engagements in the prior day and gave updated cumulative Russian personnel losses of about 1,606,400 with roughly 2,290 lost in the past day.
- Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy system have caused widespread outages and civilian harm, with Dnipropetrovsk officials saying more than 600,000 consumers lost power and hospitals running on generators.