Nearly 400 Ukrainian drones swarmed Moscow and its suburbs overnight, hours before President Zelensky's Oval Office sit-down with Trump, setting a tire regeneration plant in Chekhov and a logistics warehouse near Koledino ablaze and damaging an apartment block in Chekhov itself; Russia claimed 356 intercepts, reported 19 injured when a drone struck a passenger bus in the Belgorod region, and said its Geran-4 jet drones hit two dry cargo ships in Mykolaiv's port. Netanyahu follows Zelensky into the White House in back-to-back meetings, with both leaders due at Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral afterward, putting America's two wars through the same doorway in a single day.
The Iran bombing pause is holding after Washington ended 13 straight days of airstrikes on Friday, and the White House is pressing to restart negotiations, though Tehran's public line stays defiant: the timing of war and peace, it says, is not Washington's to decide. Iranian drones struck northern Iraq again overnight in a large-scale attack on Kurdish targets around Erbil, with explosions reported near the US consulate and coalition fighters conducting air-to-air intercepts. SENTINEL shows the strike architecture intact: 16 Europe to MENA airlift movements on 13 C-17s, ten tankers over the Atlantic, five KC-135s shuttling into the Persian Gulf, and Lincoln and Bush both underway in the Arabian Sea. A quieter shift is visible eastward, where eight heavy-lift movements from North America to the Indo-Pacific coincide with George Washington operating in the South China Sea.
Markets took their cue from chips rather than the truce: the Nikkei fell 3.95 percent after reports of a Chinese breakthrough in domestic DUV lithography hammered semiconductor names, with Kioxia down 18 percent and SoftBank more than 6, while Brent slid 2.6 percent to 86.10 as the Iran pause held.
In Sudan, the army pushed the RSF off the 400-kilometer highway linking Khartoum to el-Obeid, and the paramilitaries answered with drone strikes that wrecked the city's lawyers' association and an Agricultural Bank branch. Gaza's attrition continued with strikes killing Palestinians in Jabalia and south of Deir al-Balah, and UN rights chief Türk warned Israel's strikes on Lebanon could amount to international crimes. The thermal layer stayed noise-grade, its strongest reading a single-frame 987-megawatt flare on the Marathon Boise to Pasco pipeline corridor, consistent with wildfire season; Hurricane Genevieve, Tropical Storm Fausto, and Tropical Cyclone Dolphin round out the hazard picture.