Geopolitics Watch

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦 - According to the NYT, Qatari forces captured three Iranian Su-24 pilots after their aircraft were downed in March by the QAF. The report claims the pilots have remained in Qatari custody for six months without outside contact. ▶️ Tehran has reportedly…

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 – Meanwhile, a Wilberries facility in Koledino, Moscow oblast, is completely engulfed in flames following a Ukrainian strike. The facility had been targeted in late July, but damage is of a much larger scale this time. @GeoPWatch

🇪🇸🇷🇴❌⚠️ - A Spanish fighter jet has shot down a drone that was found violating Romanian airspace. @GeoPWatch

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 – FIRMS also confirms that a Skladskoy Complex, used for logistics and transportation, was struck not far from the Wilberries. This attack took place seemingly at the same time in Domodedovo, Moscow oblast, and the facility appears to also be completely engulfed in flames. @GeoPWatch

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 – Meanwhile, a Wilberries facility in Koledino, Moscow oblast, is completely engulfed in flames following a Ukrainian strike. The facility had been targeted in late July, but damage is of a much larger scale this time. @GeoPWatch

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 – Ukraine claimed to have shot down/suppressed Russian missiles for the first time since August 1, when two missile were intercepted. Last night, Ukraine destroyed three X-59/69 air-to-air missiles, while letting through an unknown number of Iskander-M, S-400, and Kn-23 ballistic missiles, as well as Onyx anti-ship missiles. Ukraine admitted to successful Russian strikes in at least 13 locations. @GeoPWatch

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦 - According to the NYT, Qatari forces captured three Iranian Su-24 pilots after their aircraft were downed in March by the QAF. The report claims the pilots have remained in Qatari custody for six months without outside contact. ▶️ Tehran has reportedly filed a formal complaint with the Red Cross, citing Geneva Convention provisions governing POW communication and complaints. ▶️ Qatar, however, denies holding any Iranian pilots, stating it has invited Iran to participate in reviewing the search operation. Reuters reports that Iran did not reply to the offer. @GeoPWatch

🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 - Houthi forces fired 6 ballistic missiles at the Red Sea port of Mocha. Reports of 7 killed and multiple vessels on fire and sunk. @GeoPWatch

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 – Israeli outlet Ynet reported additional strikes in Gaza after an IDF tank hit an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which produced no casualties. @GeoPWatch

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 – The strike in Ansar appears to have been a retaliation to the launch Hezbollah explosive drone that seriously injured three IDF soldiers in the Ali al-Taher ridge, in southern Lebanon. @GeoPWatch

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 – The IDF claimed the target of the strike in Ansar, which killed seven people, was Ali Samir Al-Haj Hassan, an alleged battalion commander in the Radwan Force unit of Hezbollah. The IDF also stated that others who died were "terrorists", and that Ali Samir's family was injured, since he "used them as a human shield" by sheltering them in his "headquarters". The strike destroyed a residential unit. @GeoPWatch

❗️🇱🇧🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah releases a statement in response to Israel's renewed strikes in Southern Lebanon. 📝 Hezbollah called for national unity and resistance in the face of Israeli aggression. The group also promised retaliation for Israeli strikes. This morning, Lebanese citizens awoke to an escalation of aggression and a brutal massacre committed by the criminal Israeli enemy against innocent civilians in the south. The enemy targeted a house on the outskirts of the town of Ansar and a building in Deir Zahrani, resulting in the deaths of eleven martyrs, including children and women, and the injury of twelve others. This heinous crime adds to the enemy's record of massacres, crimes, and bloodshed, as well as the destruction of Lebanese homes, fields, and villages. This Israeli escalation, targeting civilians and expanding the scope of targeted areas, reflects the desire and will of the criminal Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to escalate the war to strengthen his domestic political standing, serve his electoral goals, and appease the far-right. This blatant aggression and violation of Lebanon's sovereignty are the responsibility of the Israeli government and the United States, which provides it with support and cover. The Lebanese authorities, on the other hand, must seek ways to stop this aggression and should not insist on continuing the path of humiliating direct negotiations and offering free gifts to the enemy, despite all the crimes and assaults it commits, and the aggressive and expansionist intentions it declares towards Lebanon. It is time for the authorities to reassess their policies comprehensively, in a way that preserves Lebanon's sovereignty and rights, instead of continuing policies that demonstrate their inability to protect Lebanon and its people. They must adopt a national, courageous, and responsible stance, stop chasing the negotiations orchestrated by the Americans, and realize that relying on American guarantees and mediation is a futile endeavor. The United States is a partner with the Israeli enemy in its crimes and massacres against Lebanon. The recent, impudent, and extortionate statement by the American ambassador in Lebanon, in which he called for the surrender of the resistance's weapons, while he should be pressuring the Israeli enemy to withdraw from the areas it occupies, is merely confirmation that what the Americans are seeking is the benefit and security of the Israeli enemy at the expense of Lebanon's sovereignty and its people. All Lebanese citizens, with all their components, must realize the danger of the approach adopted by this authority towards Lebanon, its unity, security, and independence. The Israeli enemy must understand that its attacks, transgressions, and attempts to impose a fait accompli cannot continue, and will be met with a response commensurate with the situation, in defense of Lebanon, its people, its sovereignty, and its national dignity. @GeoPWatch