🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️ — Mexican drug cartels are recruiting individuals with experience from the war in Ukraine and sending their representatives to the Ukrainian front to gain skills in operating drones.

This was reported by The Washington Post, citing American and Mexican officials.

The focus is primarily on citizens of Colombia. According to the publication, the cartels offer large sums of money to specialists returning from Ukraine and are involving them in training drone operators in Mexico.

Some individuals linked to the cartels are being sent to the war under annual contracts.

The U.S. State Department has stated that it is discussing with Kiev measures to reduce the risk of transferring combat skills to criminal groups.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense considers the problem to be limited. The ministry stated that foreigners undergo checks, and that there are "not many" people arriving with criminal intentions.

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🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Ansar Allah announced that it had shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Wing Loong II unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) over Mokha in southwestern Yemen.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage shows air defense crews of the 50th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade “Varyag” intercepting Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

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🇮🇷⚡️ — Reports of anti-ship cruise missile launches by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) toward the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — On the evening of September 22, a single-seat MK-58 jet aircraft belonging to the U.S. company ATAC crashed off the coast of California. ATAC provides the U.S. Navy with air-combat training services and operates as a simulated adversary.

The aircraft, bearing registration number N345AX, crashed into the Pacific Ocean approximately 9.7 km (6 miles) northwest of Morro Bay during a training sortie. Before the crash, the pilot issued a distress call: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, engine lost thrust.”

The pilot was rescued by a U.S. Navy crew. At the time of the accident, the MK-58 was conducting a training flight alongside at least three other aircraft in the airspace off the coast of Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Geran-4 loitering munitions equipped with electro-optical (EO) seekers struck the “Sirius Extrusion” logistics center in Dnipropetrovsk.

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🇸🇦⚡️ — Saudi Arabia has restarted crude oil loadings at the Yanbu South terminal on the Red Sea, a key export hub, Bloomberg columnist says.

Satellite imagery cited is dated September 21.

🇫🇮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — The United States is trying to achieve a partial ceasefire in Ukraine by the winter, said the President of Finland, Stubb.

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🇺🇳🇷🇺⚡️ — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous, so we will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is exactly triggered or not.

Because we don't want to make our adversaries any wiser.

But when it comes to hybrid, let me assure you, we have all the response options we need.

Some of them you will not see because they are simply not public.

Someone is scared 🤣

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🇪🇹❌🇪🇹 — Fighting has broken out between Ethiopian federal forces and Tigrayan rebels in the Afar region, with clashes in Abala and Erebti and aid groups warning the violence could spread, AFP reports.

TPLF forces have reportedly seized the airport in Mekelle, the Tigray capital.

Seven Ethiopian militias, including the TPLF, have formed an alliance aimed at overthrowing the current government.

🇷🇺❌🇵🇱 - A Russian Mi-8 helicopter from Kaliningrad entered Polish airspace near Braniewo for 42 seconds before returning to Kaliningrad.

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🇮🇷⚡️ — UKMTO reports that a cargo vessel came under projectile attack in the Strait of Hormuz and is currently on fire. The entire crew was evacuated, with two casualties reported.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — A 17-year-old teenager set fire to a fuel pump at a gas station and a police vehicle in the Moscow Region. Both fires were extinguished, and there were no injuries.

The minor was detained. It was found that he had been carrying out an assignment from unknown individuals he contacted through a messenger app.

A criminal case has been opened.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) operations:

Druzhkivka:

• 00:01 — A UAV launch site operated by the 93rd Mechanized Brigade was struck by five FAB-500 bombs.
• 00:10 — A UAV launch site operated by the 100th Mechanized Brigade was struck by two FAB-1500 bombs.

Slobozhanske:

• 00:20 — A UAV launch site operated by the 13th Separate Airmobile Brigade was struck by a Kh-39 Light Multipurpose Guided Missile (LMUR).

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