🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️ — Rosatom forecasts a 14% rise in cargo traffic along Russia’s Northern Sea Route in 2026, after volumes exceeded 37 million tonnes for two straight years.

Chinese carriers are expanding Arctic shipping, with more than 30 voyages planned this year as trade between China and Russia grows.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia’s 50th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade “Varyag” struck a vehicle belonging to an IRIS-T SLM surface-to-air missile (SAM) system operated by the Ukrainian Air Force near the Port of Yuzhny in Odesa Oblast using a Lancet loitering munition.

The footage is notable not only because the target was struck nearly 200 km from the launch point, but also because the indicated launch point is located directly in the Black Sea.

Footage from the Lancet’s onboard cameras shows its automated target-recognition and guidance system (IRRA) identifying equipment camouflaged in a wooded area before guiding the munition toward the target.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Meanwhile, the United States has begun a large-scale series of strikes within Iranian territory.

According to reports, the strikes are targeting locations in various areas along the coast of the Persian Gulf.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A large column of smoke following a Geran-2/4 loitering munitions strike on warehouses near the village of Chaiky in Kyiv Oblast.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says member states made no new commitments to supply Ukraine with Patriot interceptor missiles.

EU defence ministers discussed additional deliveries, but no specific decisions were reached, with consultations set to continue.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran shot down a U.S. Air Force (USAF) MQ-9A unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) over Khomeyn, Markazi Province.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Reports of explosions in the vicinity of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. A mix of interceptions and impacts are reported.

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🇷🇺🇩🇪⚡️ — Russia rejects Germany’s accusations over the Leipzig Airport drone incident and vows to respond to Berlin’s closure of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin.

Moscow calls the allegations baseless, says Germany provided no evidence, and warns that the measures mark an unprecedented escalation in bilateral relations that will not go unanswered.

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🇩🇪❌🇷🇺 — Germany will close Russia’s Consulate General in Bonn on September 18 and terminate the agreement governing the Russian House in Berlin.

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🇰🇵🇺🇸⚡️ — North Korea rejected US demands for denuclearization and stated that it will continue to strengthen its nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang emphasized that the US "hostile policy" toward North Korea has not changed.

A North Korean foreign ministry official called US criticism of the country's human rights situation, calls for complete denuclearization, and planned military drills with South Korea and Japan evidence of Washington's "hostile approach."

Pyongyang called its nuclear weapons an "absolute guarantee" of sovereignty and stated that repeated US demands will not change North Korea's nuclear status.

North Korea also said that expecting a reduction in regional tensions is "pointless" as long as Washington adheres to its current policy, stressing that US policy toward North Korea has also not changed.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The source claims that infrastructure for the storage and deployment of Russian unmanned boats (UBVs) is being built on the shore of the Donuzlav Bay in Crimea.

A published satellite image shows 6 completed docks and 5 more under construction.

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