Putin announced Russia temporarily banned gasoline and kerosene exports and is considering a full diesel ban. He also claims Russia has 1.7 million tons of gas reserves, supposedly only 4% down from last year, but admits fuel station queues and unavailable grades persist.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the next round of U.S.-Iran talks, set to take place this upcoming weekend, have been postponed to a yet unspecified date, following the newest spate of reciprocal strikes between the two belligerents.

CENTCOM has released footage of tonight’s U.S. strikes on Iranian military targets, which it says were carried out in response to Iran’s drone attack on the commercial tanker M/T Kiku.

Russia's Slavyansk-na-Kubani oil refinery continues to burn out of control, with the morning sun revealing a massive smoke plume. The burning refinery also appears to have overloaded the fire monitoring sensor on NOAA-21.

Amidst Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s ongoing crackdowns, it’s yet unclear if the arrests are sequestered to pro-Iranian politicians, as reports continue to come in that politicians on both sides of Iraq’s U.S.-Iran political spectrum, including subordinates of former Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, have been targeted for arrest.

"Iran has launched multiple missiles and drones towards neighboring countries including Bahrain and Kuwait. The situation is still unfolding. There are no reported U.S. casualties or major impacts or damage to our locations at this time." - U.S. official to Axios

Following U.S. retaliatory strikes against select targets in Iran, both Bahrain and Kuwait are now dealing with renewed Iranian drone and missile attacks, with Kuwait’s General Staff saying just earlier that air defense systems are intercepting hostile targets.

Following reports of Iraqi armor activity in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, reports also indicate that a number of politicians, including Sunni politician Muthanna al-Samarrai, have been arrested. Per reports from local media, the crackdown is supposedly subordinate to ongoing corruption investigations spearheaded by Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali Al-Zaidi. Al-Zaidi has close ties to Iran through his bank.

Ukrainian attack drones hit Russia's Slavyansk-na-Kubani oil refinery tonight, setting the facility ablaze.

Reports that Iraqi military forces are rolling into Baghdad's secure government quarter, the Green Zone, tonight with heavy armor.

Gunfire reported in the Green Zone, Iraq, tonight as government-aligned SOF, backed by Iraqi Army armor, move to arrest several pro-Iranian politicians.

According to Reuters, citing a White House official, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has renewed her bid to return to Venezuela in recent days. The move, which had increasingly frustrated Trump administration officials, comes against the backdrop of twin earthquakes that devastated Northern Venezuela. Per the report, Machado has petitioned the administration, the State Department, and members of Congress to aid in her return, but at the time of writing, the administration is reticent to accede to the request, as one White House official told Reuters “We support her returning to Venezuela, but does it have to be 24 hours after a massive humanitarian catastrophe where the death toll continues to climb?” Machado currently resides in the U.S., after leaving a Venezuela do to the threat from the former Maduro regime.

Residents of Eureka, Mammoth, and Silver City, Utah called for immediate evacuation as Cherry Fire breaks out.

Footage of Ukrainian forces launching a salvo of Flamingo heavyweight cruise missiles into Russia last night. At least 3 of the 5 Flamingos fired found their target, slamming into the Titan-Barrikady factory roughly 550 km downrange.

Ukrainian forces just carried out a successful Flamingo cruise missile strike in Russia’s Volgograd. Seen here, a school bus-sized Flamingo flies over the city towards its target.

Footage of destroyed Russian transports littering the side of the E58 highway in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian mid-range strike drones continue to chew through Russian rear-area supply lines.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has now confirmed that aircraft carried out strikes earlier today, June 26, against Iranian missile and drone storage locations as well as coastal radar sites, in retaliation for yesterday’s drone attack on a commercial shipping vessel in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.

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The U.S., Lebanon, and Israel signed a trilateral framework agreement today, following multiple rounds of government and military-to-military negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in Washington D.C. over the last 2 months. This framework agreement, while not a final agreement, compounds on and seeks to begin the implementation of the joint Israel-U.S.-Lebanon statement on June 3, which called for the cessation of hostilities, implementation of withdrawal frameworks, and the Lebanese Armed Forces administrating key contested areas in Southern Lebanon.

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