🇲🇽⚡️ — The Mexican army has launched a major operation in Michoacán against a high-ranking leader of the CJNG, Heraclio Guerrero Martínez, known as "El Tio Laco," who remains at large.

Following the operation, members of the CJNG reportedly set up more than 20 "narcotic blockades" (setting numerous vehicles on fire and using them to block roads) in northern Michoacán.

Nine suspected members of the CJNG were arrested, including Marisol "N" and Lourdes "N," identified as the daughter and accomplice of El Tio Laco.

Mexican forces also seized a large quantity of weapons, including four Minimi machine guns, a 12.7mm machine gun, explosives, a drone equipped with explosives, vehicles, and other equipment.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️ — According to a report in The Telegraph, Russia has launched a new "hybrid" campaign against European arms factories.

According to Western intelligence sources, the Kremlin is recruiting local criminal groups to carry out sabotage operations in facilities that supply weapons or components to Ukraine.

Here are some examples:
August 15: Arson at the Milrem Robotics drone factory in Estonia (Latvia has arrested three of its own citizens as suspects).
August 10: Explosion at the Bulgarian EMCO ammunition factory (which manufactures 155mm artillery shells for Ukraine).
August 13: Explosion at the KNDS Ammo Italy ammunition factory near Rome.
Similar incidents have occurred previously in the Czech Republic (drone factory) and Lithuania.

The GRU is no longer sending its own agents, but is instead hiring through online intermediaries, who often do not even know that they are working for Russia.

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🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️ — Taiwanese M1A2T Abrams MBTs fitted with anti-drone cope cages during the Han Kuang 42 exercises, which rehearsed the defence of Taipei’s main airport against a potential PLA airborne assault modeled on Russia’s attempted seizure of Antonov Airport in Kyiv.

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