Day News Recap: Ukraine energy strikes deepen as Hormuz attacks, Yemen missiles and global unrest spread

Ukraine said Russian strikes hit more than 15 energy sites in a large overnight assault, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that limits on Starlink were hampering interceptor operations and that Moscow was intensifying pressure on the power grid. He also said Donald Trump’s pause on a new sanctions package would encourage Russia to step up the war.  🔗  🔗

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Fighting in eastern Ukraine remained contested, with Kyiv rejecting Russian claims of major territorial gains in Donetsk, while a separate Russian drone strike on Kharkiv killed two people during Zelenskyy’s talks with European leaders in Brussels.  🔗  🔗

In the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz saw a fresh wave of vessel attacks, with UK Maritime Trade Operations saying confirmed strikes in and around the waterway had risen to 12 in a week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a super tanker carrying more than two million barrels of oil caught fire after hitting a sea mine, underlining the risk to shipping and energy markets.  🔗  🔗

Yemen’s internationally recognised government said Houthi missiles struck the Al Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden and landed near the city’s airport, while earlier reports said two missiles were fired close to Aden International Airport and narrowly missed aircraft. Iran denied Saudi accusations that it was behind recent Houthi attacks as cross border strikes continued.  🔗  🔗  🔗

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Elsewhere in the region, Israeli settlers attacked a European diplomatic convoy near Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, leaving a visiting French mayor hurt, and a separate rabbinic ruling that settlers may take olives from Palestinian orchards deepened tensions during the harvest. In southern Syria, families said Israeli raids, checkpoints and arrests had left relatives missing.  🔗  🔗  🔗

Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces traded claims after strikes in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, as the conflict there remained volatile. In East Africa, the United States called for dialogue as tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea rose again amid warnings of renewed war.  🔗  🔗

Across Europe, finance leaders including Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey walked out of an IMF session in Bangkok when Russia’s finance minister began speaking, while in Germany prosecutors in Hamburg widened the Christina Block case with the arrest of a former intelligence chief in related espionage fallout. In Italy, prosecutors opened an investigation into Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz and 12 other officials over alleged abuse of flotilla activists.  🔗  🔗  🔗

France saw violent protests in Paris, Lyon and Marseille over education and living costs, while in Tunisia thousands marched against President Kais Saied over freedoms and rising prices. In Scotland, John Swinney is set to tell the SNP conference that conditions are aligning for independence, and in the UK a former national security adviser urged stronger defences against Russian hybrid attacks on critical infrastructure.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

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In the Americas and Asia Pacific, Hurricane Trudy moved toward Mexico’s western coast with warnings of flooding, landslides and dangerous surf, while Southern California’s Norte Fire spread through Orange County and forced wider evacuations. Australia reported a magnitude 3.0 aftershock near Korumburra in Victoria, and Melbourne opened the country’s first Vietnamese heritage museum. North Korea said it had tested an AI powered torpedo system, and the United States said Marco Rubio was arriving in Samarkand as the C5 plus 1 Central Asia summit began.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

In Washington, Donald Trump waived the newly passed Russia sanctions package, including measures that would have penalised purchases of Russian diesel, and extended a diesel exemption to April 2027. Separately, the US budget deficit rose to $1.99 trillion in fiscal 2026, while the Trump Vance administration promoted a nationwide anti fraud coalition and the US Attorney’s Office in Nevada announced an election integrity plan.  🔗  🔗  🔗  🔗

Other developments included a bilateral meeting in Bangkok between the Central Bank of the UAE and the Monetary Authority of Singapore on digital payments and green finance, and a magnitude 3.0 aftershock in Victoria that followed the earlier quake in the same area.  🔗  🔗

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