Ukraine and Russia traded one of the heaviest overnight exchanges of the year: Moscow claimed 571 Ukrainian drones destroyed across 15 regions and Crimea, one of Kyiv's largest swarms to date, as strikes set Wildberries logistics centers burning near St. Petersburg, in Tver and in occupied Simferopol, the fifth hit on the retailer's network since July 18. Three people were wounded near St. Petersburg, roughly 50 flights were disrupted at Pulkovo airport, and a defense plant was reportedly also struck; Kyiv accuses Wildberries of storing drone parts for the Russian army. Russia's answer was pointed, a missile strike on a Kyiv-region training ground hosting an arms exhibition that killed six people and injured dozens, while glide bombs on Slavyansk killed five more.
The American air campaign against Iran ran a thirteenth consecutive night, with a strike near Ahvaz killing four, fresh explosions at Bandar Abbas and Jask, and Iranian drones reaching Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan without causing casualties. Defense Secretary Hegseth put the campaign's cost at 37.5 billion dollars, and the Pentagon is asking Congress for 67 billion more. SENTINEL's logistics board is notably quiet: zero strategic airlift flows, no tanker surges and no strategic-infrastructure fire signatures, though Lincoln and Bush remain paired in the Arabian Sea, suggesting the buildup phase has plateaued even as the strike tempo holds.
Wall Street's selloff owed as much to an AI story as a war story: the Nasdaq fell 2.2 percent and the Nikkei 2.7 percent after Alphabet shares sank 7 percent on a capital spending forecast lifted to roughly 200 billion dollars, reviving doubts about the payoff of AI infrastructure outlays. Crude gave back part of its war premium, WTI down 2.5 percent to 89.89 and Brent down 2.4 percent to 92.01.
Israel intensified strikes across Gaza, hitting a residential building on Gaza City's Al-Jalaa Street and killing at least one person at Jabalia camp, while a drone struck an ambulance in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon and settlers and troops raided Tal village near Nablus. In Sudan, el-Obeid still braces for an RSF ground assault with about half a million people trapped, and the storm board carries Hurricane Fausto in the eastern Pacific and Tropical Cyclone Noul in the western Pacific.