This morning, Ukraine’s intelligence service assassinated Russian Major General Yaroslava Moskalik, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate.
He was killed by a nearby car bomb.
The explosion:
The general was reportedly killed after a nearby Volkswagen exploded.
Overnight, Ukrainian attack drones successfully penetrated over 750km into Russian airspace and struck Russia's only domestic fiber optic producer, an immensely key link for Russian drone production.
The facility is heavily damaged and burning.
Location (54.225040, 45.195491)
Russia heavily relies on fiber optic cables for drone control due to heavy Ukrainian jamming, with each sortie burning through miles of unrecoverable fiber optic line.
This is possibly the most insane national security story in the last 50 years. Includes a massive text chain between senior members of the Trump admin gaming out foreign policy and war plans on Signal, and they accidentally added a reporter to the group chat.
After a series of Russian strikes tonight targeting Ukrainian infrastructure, Russian channels report that Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit a Russian Rosneft fuel depot in Krasnodar.
Amending the location: NASA’s FIRMS orbital fire monitoring system confirms a large fire at a Naftatrans fuel processing facility outside of Kavkazskaya, Krasnodar Krai.
The scion of a Mexican billionaire suddenly leaned forward from their seat on the private jet.
“You absolutely cannot use my name.”
From @hntrbrkmedia, the story of how American companies Remitly and Western Union may be exposed to cartel money laundering on a massive scale.
Cartels increasingly rely on “money-mule” networks using remittance services to funnel cash from U.S. drug sales back into Mexico, avoiding scrutiny through thousands of small transactions.
In 2023, Reuters scrutinized the conglomerate Grupo Elektra/Banco Azteca in its Special Report: “How Mexican narcos use remittances to wire U.S. drug profits home.”