måndag 27 juli 2026
Russian invasion
Iran war
The major wars are merging: Iran warns Ukraine
The wars in Ukraine and Iran have officially merged, writes Wall Street Journal chief correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov, following allegations that Ukraine shelled Iranian ships in the Caspian Sea.
According to Volodymyr Zelensky, the attacks were directed at Russian ships transporting military equipment for the war in Iran. According to Iran's Foreign Ministry, the ships were Iranian. According to the agency, several crew members were killed when one of the ships exploded.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security Commission, warns Ukraine that Iran may respond to the attacks.
“All attacks on Iran have a price, that still applies, just as the US and Israel have already discovered,” he writes on X.
The world's response
Pentagon: US is years behind Ukraine's drone production
The US Defense Headquarters Pentagon states that it will take several years before US drone production reaches the same levels as Ukraine's, reports Reuters.
The Pentagon says that the US is still in the early stages of the initiative and that the country's production so far only corresponds to a fraction of Ukraine's.
The Pentagon has allocated $ 1.1 billion to a drone program with the goal of building 200,000 drones by February next year. This can be compared to Ukraine, where between six and seven million of FPV drones alone are expected to be manufactured this year, says Travis Metz, who heads the Pentagon's drone effort.
At the same time, Metz believes that the US will catch up.
- I see no reason why we cannot also become a world leader in this area, he says.
Putin’s Russia
Kremlin does not want to comment on renewed peace talks
It is too early to comment on Reuters reports that the US and Ukraine will soon present a proposal for a ceasefire in air warfare to Russia. This is what Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement.
– We do not know how credible these reports are or where they come from. These are newspaper reports and nothing more.
A few days ago, a Ukrainian source stated that there are hopes that Russia may now agree to an air ceasefire, given the number of Ukrainian attacks inside Russia. Zelensky and Trump are expected to meet in Washington on Tuesday.
American efforts to broker peace in Ukraine have been put on hold in recent months when
Putin cancels military parade - speech disrupted by interruption
For the second year in a row, Russia canceled its military parade in St. Petersburg, writes the Kyiv Independent. Ukraine has recently repeatedly attacked Russia's major cities with drones.
For almost ten years, Navy Day has been celebrated in Russia on the last Sunday in July - and as a rule, the Russians have beaten the big drum and shown off their navy from its best side.
But this year, the traditional parade was not held. Instead, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at the naval headquarters in the city, which was also disrupted by a major internet outage that was going on at the same time. The Kyiv Independent describes it as the interruption "sabotaging Putin's propaganda theater".
The Iran war has been at the center, writes Reuters.
Trump's USA
The President's New Luxury Plane
Trump is blamed for shortcomings in the new Air Force One
The new US presidential plane, donated by Qatar, has been the subject of extensive scrutiny recently. According to information and image analysis, the Boeing plane lacks several of the safety systems that were on board the previous Air Force One.
After the NATO summit in Turkey, Donald Trump was advised not to fly home on the plane because it did not yet meet safety requirements.
A new review from the New York Times points to Trump as a major cause of the shortcomings. According to information to the newspaper, he pushed for the plane to be rebuilt before the 250th anniversary of the United States, which led to compromises on safety.
Trump is also said to have personally approved which features and safety systems would be included. The rapid reconstruction also meant that White House officials initially expected the plane to be used only for domestic flights.
The Raids
Data: Attacks on drug boats have not reduced smuggling to the US
The US has carried out 67 attacks on suspected drug boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean since 2025. A total of 221 people have been killed. Donald Trump has claimed that the attacks have effectively put an end to drug smuggling at sea.
But according to informants and documents seen by the Washington Post, neither the Pentagon nor the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) share that picture.
DEA analyses show that the attacks have neither affected the price of cocaine nor smuggling to the US. Instead, smuggling routes have moved from international waters closer to the coasts, while smugglers are increasingly using larger boats instead of smaller ones.
“When you squeeze the balloon on one side, the air is always pushed out on the other side,” a DEA official told the Washington Post.
At a briefing last month, Pentagon officials also told policymakers in Washington that the attacks had not reduced the supply of cocaine or lowered its purity.
Trump: Good talks with Iran
The US and Iran are having “good talks” about a possible peace deal. This is stated by Donald Trump, but contradicted by Iran, which claims that the parties are not talking to each other.
The US has paused its attacks on Iran after a direct appeal from Iran, the US president claims.
– They asked us very kindly, “please stop,” says Trump aboard the presidential plane Air Force One, and adds:
– If we don’t get a deal, we will go back (to attacking).
Earlier on Monday, Trump told the news site Axios that he decided on Friday to suspend the attacks on Iran after mediators asked him to give diplomacy a chance.
Iran, however, is playing down talk of talks.
– Mediators convey messages from the American side. But at the moment we are not involved in negotiations with the United States," said Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry.
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