🇾🇪🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ — NEW: Asian refiners are rerouting Saudi crude shipments through the Suez Canal and around Africa following Houthi threats of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, adding up to four weeks of transit time and raising freight costs significantly, Reuters reports.

➡️ Two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude to Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday after Houthi blockade threats; vessel crossings via the Strait of Hormuz also declined further.

➡️ Liberia-flagged tanker *Rodos*, loaded at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Yanbu and bound for India, was tracking west toward the Suez Canal as of Tuesday.

➡️ South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank is seeking a Very Large Crude Carrier to load at Yanbu with the option of routing via the Suez Canal and Egypt's SUMED pipeline to South Korea.

➡️ Saudi crude and products transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait hit a record of over 4 million barrels per day last month, making the disruption particularly acute for Riyadh.

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🇷🇺⚡️ — Russian Urals crude oil exceeded $75.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Support for the Iran war is slipping among Trump's MAGA base, a new Politico poll shows.

➡️ The share of MAGA voters who consider the war worth the economic cost dropped from 50% in May to 37% in July.
➡️ More MAGA voters now say the US should stay involved only if costs don't rise further, or end the war altogether.
➡️ Rising gas prices, US military casualties, and broader economic concerns appear to be driving the decline.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — The IRGC claims its strikes on the King Faisal and Prince Hassan Air Bases destroyed multiple U.S. drones and inflicted significant damage on military infrastructure.

According to the group, an F-15 preparation hangar was hit, while a drone preparation hangar housing eight brand-new MQ-9A unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), still in their packaging and not yet assembled for service, was completely destroyed. Two additional drones positioned outside the hangar were also said to have sustained heavy damage.

The IRGC further claims to have struck a helicopter maintenance hangar, severely damaging two heavy U.S. helicopters, as well as accommodation facilities, reportedly killing and injuring several personnel.

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🇮🇷❌🇯🇴🇺🇸 — EXCLUSIVE: footage shows US soldiers at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base taking cover as IRGC strikes hit the base.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️ — Lavrov reported that he will meet with Rubio tomorrow.

▶️ The Moscow Exchange index began to rise following this news.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Tsentr Group artillery destroyed Ukrainian fortified positions, dugouts, and a UAV command post using Msta-S self-propelled guns in the Dobropolye direction.

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🇮🇷❌🇰🇼🇺🇸 — An FPS-117 early warning radar at Ahmad Al-Jaber Airbase in Kuwait has been destroyed.

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🇮🇷❌🇧🇭🇺🇸 — The IRGC is conducting a strike on Bahrain.

🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 — The IRGC is conducting a strike on Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 — Explosions rock Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian forces conducted a large-scale overnight strike on Odessa-region military and logistics targets.

➡️ Infrastructure at the Port of Odessa was struck, including facilities used for unloading military cargo and fuel storage tanks.

➡️ Two cargo vessels — a dry cargo ship and a bulk carrier — were hit at sea while delivering supplies to AFU ports at Odessa and Chernomorsk, 15 km and 53 km south-east of Odessa respectively.

➡️ A Nova Poshta logistics centre in Odessa used to store military cargo was also struck.

➡️ A Ukrainian Neptune-2 coastal missile system battery near Kovalevka (25 km north-east of Odessa) was destroyed, including two launchers and a transport-loading vehicle.

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🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 — Explosions reported near King Fahd Airport in Saudi Arabia.

🇦🇹⚡️ — In Austria, reports say that the building where Adolf Hitler was born, located near the border with Germany, will officially become a police station today.

▶️ After years of uncertainty over the fate of the building, the government in Vienna hopes that turning it into a police station will prevent the site from becoming a pilgrimage destination for neo-Nazis.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: The Pentagon is running out of cash for the Iran war, with some funds set to dry up within weeks, Washington Post reports.

➡️ The White House has asked Congress for an immediate $67 billion to cover war costs, but lawmakers are gridlocked — the House leaves for a month-long recess Thursday, pushing any deal weeks away.

➡️ Navy and Air Force operations funding is on track to run out by the end of this month; the Pentagon is already canceling training and draining maintenance budgets to cover the shortfall.

➡️ Budget director Russell Vought put the war's cost so far at ~$30 billion — but that figure excludes rebuilding US bases damaged by Iranian strikes, and independent analysts say the real total is far higher.

➡️ The military has burned through thousands of munitions in Iran; privately, Pentagon officials are anxious about restocking weapons needed to deter Russia and China, even as Hegseth publicly claims stockpiles are "great and only getting stronger."

➡️ Only 28% of Americans say the war has been worth fighting versus 68% who say it wasn't — on par with the worst assessments of the war in Afghanistan.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — What is known about the new Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ihor Skybyuk:

▶️ 49 years old, Hero of Ukraine and officer of the Air Assault Forces.

▶️ Took part in the battles for Ilovaisk and Debaltseve.

▶️ In 2014, he was wounded; after treatment, he returned to service, and in 2022, he led the defense of Kiev.

▶️ Later, he commanded the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade, which took part in the liberation of Izium during the Kharkiv counteroffensive (for this operation, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine).

▶️ He has also been awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, 2nd and 3rd classes.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A massive crater has been formed in the Odesa region. It is claimed that it was caused by a fallen P-800 "Oniks" missile.

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