🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 328 Ukrainian drones during the past night over Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Volgograd, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Orenburg, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Tver, Tula, and Ulyanovsk Oblasts, Krasnodar Krai, the Republics of Adygea, Bashkortostan, and Tatarstan, as well as over the Black Sea.

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🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️ — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi is expected to arrive in Tehran today. The visit is not related to the Iran–U.S. tensions and will instead focus on strengthening bilateral relations and cooperation.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage shows yesterday’s crash of a Russian Geran-5 on the bank of the Konik River near Kyiv, filmed by people kayaking along the river.

The Ukrainian surface-to-air missile apparently failed to detonate but grazed the drone in flight, knocking it off course.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — The IRGC has released footage showing the interception of a U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) over the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — BREAKING: Scott Bessent, presented as the U.S. Treasury Secretary, declared all Iranian airlines will be shut down worldwide on Wednesday, September 23, under “Operation Economic Outcast,”

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli occupation forces deliberately set fire to an irrigation pump engine in Mansouri, southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Geran loitering munitions struck targets in Borodianka, Kiev region, sparking a large fire and a towering column of black smoke visible for kilometers.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russia struck a gas station in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, igniting a fire at the fuel facility.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — UKMTO reports an LNG tanker was attacked while attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — WATCH: A Saudi Terrorist attack struck a popular market in Dhubab District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen.

🇺🇸🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — NEW: Trump considered but paused direct US strikes on Ansarallah in Yemen after CENTCOM prepared target options, Axios reports.

He held off, citing active direct channels with Ansarallah representatives and an understanding to avoid targeting US forces while Washington focused on non-combat intelligence and advisory support, Axios reports.

🇾🇪❌🇹🇷🇵🇰🇸🇦 — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned Turkey and Pakistan not to join Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen, saying Riyadh is seeking their military support.

🇾🇪❌🇵🇸🇮🇱 — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi vowed the group will back Palestinians in any future escalation on a greater scale than during the Al-Aqsa Flood.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made an unusual statement, saying Saudi authorities gave Jeffrey Epstein a piece of the Kaaba’s kiswah, which he said was later used in “satanic rituals.”

Records showed Epstein received three items connected to the Kaaba, including a kiswah that had covered its exterior, The New York Times reported in April.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — A chatbot nearly sent US troops onto a Chinese ship, CNN reports.

During the war with Iran this spring, a US intelligence report claimed the vessel was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program. Armed personnel prepared to board it, while US aircraft were already in the air.

Then, just before the operation, officials discovered the intelligence was wrong. The report had been produced with AI assistance, and the chatbot had misidentified the cargo. One source called it “entirely false” and said it “almost started a war.”

What alarmed officials was how far the mistake had already traveled. AI had combined open-source material with classified intelligence, then helped package the false conclusion into a normal-looking military report commanders could act on.

CNN says similar AI hallucinations have surfaced elsewhere as the Pentagon rapidly expands AI use in intelligence analysis and targeting.

The same kind of intelligence failures also helped enable the bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 120 students.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) strikes with FAB-1500 bombs equipped with UMPK guidance kits:

• UAV control post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 158th Mechanized Brigade near the settlement of Khoten.

• UAV control post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 156th Mechanized Brigade in Druzhkivka.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — BREAKING: Gazprom Neft’s major Moscow refinery halted crude processing after fires hit its main distillation units following a Ukrainian drone attack on Sept. 20, Reuters reports.