Iran has announced strikes on targets in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain following US attacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not currently prepared for peace talks with Ukraine and is likely considering a further escalation of the war. This was reported to Reuters by three sources whom the agency describes as close to the Kremlin.

The Open Alabuga website has been made publicly available, containing the personal data of over six thousand people who, according to its authors, are linked to the ‘Alabuga’ special economic zone, where Russian military drones are assembled. The Russian authorities and the company’s management have not yet commented on the situation.

The fuel crisis in Russia has become the most serious since the collapse of the USSR, and attacks by Ukrainian drones have, according to various estimates, put between 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the country’s oil refining capacity out of action. Around 50 million Russians are already feeling the effects of the fuel shortage.

On the night of 9 July, the Ukrainian Defence Forces carried out strikes against a number of Russian military and military-economic targets. The strikes targeted vessels in the Sea of Azov, an oil terminal in the Rostov region and an ammunition depot in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region.

The United States has launched a new wave of air strikes against targets in Iran. US Central Command stated that the operation is aimed at undermining Tehran’s ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.