Ukraine changed commanders in the middle of a shooting war: late Monday Zelensky dismissed armed forces chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and elevated Joint Forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi, a 43-year-old advocate of decentralized command whom the street protests gripping Kyiv since defense minister Fedorov's ouster had pushed as their candidate. The deep-strike campaign did not pause for the reshuffle; Ukrainian drones set Wildberries logistics hubs in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk ablaze before dawn, the third strike on the retailer's warehouses in four days, injuring 15, while an FP-2 drone struck a Russian military convoy at the Chongar checkpoint into occupied Crimea. Russian Gerans answered against a recruitment center in Chernihiv and housing in Odesa region, where one person was killed.
The US air campaign against Iran ran an eleventh consecutive night and widened north, with Iranian media reporting strikes near Tabriz alongside fresh blasts at Mahshahr, Bushehr and Chabahar; Trump said Washington will hit any site where Iran is "even thinking about nuclear" work, including one Tehran may be trying to reconstitute, a step the Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters warned would expand the war. The Joint Chiefs named American dead from Iranian strikes on bases in Jordan and Iraq, among them 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan, Sgt. Michael Swinton and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. Oil priced the escalation, WTI up 3.5 percent to 87.31 and Brent up 3.8 percent to 94.50, after another product tanker was hit near the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. SENTINEL's logistics board shows the buildup still deepening: 18 Europe to MENA airlift movements behind 13 C-17s, a five-ship KC-135 shuttle into the Gulf, a 14-tanker Atlantic surge, and Lincoln and Bush still paired in the Arabian Sea.
In Sudan, the Red Cross is pre-positioning aid in el-Obeid as the RSF shells power stations and fuel depots and masses troops for what aid agencies call an imminent assault on a city sheltering more than 650,000 people. The UN flagged intensifying Israeli attacks in Gaza alongside surging West Bank settler violence, where mourners at a funeral in Deir Jarir near Ramallah were hit with stun grenades and tear gas. The thermal layer is quiet, only scattered single-frame power plant readings in France, California and Russia's far east with no reported incidents, while Tropical Storm Bertha is expected ashore in southeast Louisiana on Wednesday, threatening the Louisiana and Texas coasts with flash flooding through week's end.