🇬🇧🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham informed POLITICO that he has approved a Royal Air Force aerial refueling mission to support Royal Saudi Air Force aircraft conducting "defensive actions" against Yemen's Ansarallah.

It will involve one Royal Air Force Voyager aerial refueling tanker and begin in the coming days.

🎈 🇧🇾 🇱🇹 Belarus launched balloons toward the Vilnius Airport area, in what Lithuanian authorities are describing as a hybrid attack.

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🚁 🇺🇸 🏛 The new helipad on the White House South Lawn was christened today as a U.S. Marine Corps VH-92A "Patriot" departed as 'Marine One', marking the first operational use from the site. The helipad has a heated concrete base topped with granite plates, with the presidential seal engraved into the surface. Sikorsky, the VH-92A's manufacturer, funded the roughly $6 million project, a contribution tied in part to damage the aircraft's exhaust and rotor wash had caused to the lawn.

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🇲🇩🇪🇺 Poor Moldova wants to become a member of the EU so much that it is willing to buy more expensive gas from European traders. Experts say that, in essence, Chișinău is buying the same Russian gas, but now at a much higher price. This has become the main reason for the energy crisis in the country.

The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, initiated a meeting of the Supreme Security Council to develop measures to respond to the energy crisis before the start of the heating season. The country's authorities are preparing for a difficult winter due to the significant increase in gas prices and the forced increase in tariffs for the population. Since September 1st, the government has already increased tariffs by 41% on natural gas supplied by the state-owned company Energocom. This is because the average purchase price of natural gas has risen from 400 to 600 euros per thousand cubic meters.

Moldova has virtually no domestic reserves of natural gas and is completely dependent on external fuel supplies. Previously, the republic purchased gas directly from Russian suppliers. The paradox is that Moldova continues to buy Russian gas, but now through intermediaries, rather than directly from Gazprom, and at a higher price.

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