—❗️🔥 🇭🇷 URGENT: Surreal scenes emerged from Omiš, Croatia, as a major wildfire swept across the Dalmatian hills, turning the sky over the Adriatic deep red.

➡️ Thousands of people were reportedly evacuated as firefighters battled the advancing flames.

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—❗️UPDATE: Our source in Croatia reports that one person died and seven are in critical condition due to the major wildfires affecting the country.

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—🇷🇴 NEW: Romanian authorities found another crashed drone near Plauru in Tulcea County, roughly 2 km from the Ukrainian border.

➡️ The Defence Ministry said specialists identified the object and secured the area; reports indicate it was the fourth drone-related discovery in Romania on the same day.

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—🇷🇺/🇷🇴 Russian drone incidents near Romania risk becoming the new normal

➡️ Repeated Russian attacks along the Danube are increasing the frequency of drone incursions or crashes near Romanian territory, raising concerns that violations of NATO airspace could become normalized.

➡️ Not every incident should be treated as deliberate: electronic warfare, GPS jamming, navigation failures and battlefield conditions can also push drones off course.

➡️ The growing activity is nevertheless placing additional pressure on Romania, including on tourism and regional economic activity near the border.

⚠️ Other incidents involving possible sabotage or unexplained incursions remain unclear and should not be attributed without evidence.

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—☦️ 🇲🇪 WATCH: Serbian Orthodox nuns pray in front of the flames as the wildfire approaches the Monastery of Saint Basil of Ostrog, near Ulcinj, Montenegro.

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—☦️ 🇲🇰❌🇷🇸 NEW: Tensions have flared after Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said Orthodox churches in North Macedonia are part of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

➡️ Macedonian PM Hristijan Mickoski rejected the remarks as belonging to the past rather than the 21st century, stressing that the Macedonian Orthodox Church is a central pillar of Macedonian identity and claims ecclesiastical jurisdiction over North Macedonia’s historic Orthodox churches.

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—🇧🇬 Bulgaria sits at the crossroads of Europe, the Balkans, the Black Sea and Turkey, giving it direct access to key regional markets, ports, transport corridors and cross-border trade routes.

➡️ Infrastructure can be expanded, but the country’s strategic location is an advantage already in place.

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🇪🇸🇷🇴❌🇲🇩⚠️ A Spanish F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone entering Romanian airspace from Moldova, around 24 kilometres north of Galați.

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—🇷🇴/🇺🇦 NEW: Romania’s Port of Constanța, the largest seaport on the Black Sea and a major European trade hub, has become a key outlet for Ukrainian grain and oilseeds, supported by EU solidarity lanes and expanded handling capacity along the lower Danube corridor.

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