🇪🇺⚡️ — The European Commission has proposed launching negotiations to extend the "Roam Like at Home" policy, which currently allows free roaming in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Moldova and Ukraine, to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A serviceman from the Southern Group of Forces used a TM-62 mine to destroy Ukrainian soldiers in one of their positions.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has removed the American flag following CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s unannounced four-hour visit.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — In recent days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told several of his counterparts from other countries that, "at this time," the United States does not plan to initiate new strikes against Iran, but rather intends to focus its policy on other pressure tactics. This was reported by a senior U.S. official and another source familiar with the details.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group (DRG) penetrated several kilometers into Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Druzhkivka, killing Ukrainian drone operators and allegedly finishing them off with knives.

The group reportedly managed to withdraw afterward.

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🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️ — The Trump administration has formally submitted a bilateral civil nuclear energy agreement with Saudi Arabia for congressional review.

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🇺🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — NATO intelligence has reportedly “picked up signals” indicating that Russia may be planning to test NATO’s response by carrying out limited incursions into European territory.

This also coincides with CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to the Kremlin, during which he reportedly delivered an ultimatum concerning recent Russian drone incursions into NATO territory.

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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️ — President Erdoğan stated that Turkey is aware of Israel's attempts to impose "bloody scenarios" on the region and emphasized that Ankara will not allow such plans to be realized.

Erdoğan also stated that Turkey will continue to provide support in the process of rebuilding the Syrian state and will not cease this support despite objections from "criminal organizations stained with the blood of innocent people."

He emphasized that Turkey's foreign policy is determined solely by the will of the Turkish people and cannot be directed or limited by external actors.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Nineteen sailors have died after attacks on 68 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz since the outbreak of the conflict around Iran in late February, according to the data of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

As of August 21, as many as 68 incidents had been confirmed. Nineteen sailors reportedly died, 49 received wounds, and one is officially missing.

Since early August, five vessels reported attacks on them, which would represent a monthly low since the conflict outbreak. There were 20 reported attacks in March, 14 – in July, and 12 – in May.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — The US Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the country's highest elected leaders, has said that it is aware of a video aired in the Iranian media that threatened the life of US President Donald Trump’s son Barron.

“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees,” Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring said in a statement. “Out of concern for operational security, we do not discuss matters of protective intelligence.”

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage showing the destruction of a site used for the preparation and launch of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ long-range FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles near the settlement of Fedorovka, Kharkiv Oblast.

The site was struck by two missiles launched by an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile, as well as seven Geran-4 loitering munitions equipped with electro-optical (EO) seekers. The target was hit, with extensive burning of spilled fuel observed across an area of approximately 40,000 square meters.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — UAV operators from the 18th Combined Arms Army (18th CAA) of the Dnepr Group of Forces continue to strike Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Kherson.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Two people were killed and two others injured after a UAV crashed into a private home in Lipetsk Oblast, causing a fire.

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