Rockets strike mayor's office in separatist Donetsk

"The mayor's office in a key eastern Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists was
struck by rockets, Russian state agencies reported. According to the separatist authorities, four people were injured. According to RIA Novosti, the municipal building in Donetsk was "seriously damaged" by the attack, which local separatist authorities blamed on Ukraine. Kremlin-backed separatist authorities have previously accused Ukraine of numerous strikes on infrastructure and residential targets in the occupied territories, often employing the U.S.-supplied long-range HIMARS rockets, without providing corroborating information." AfricaNews

US Informs Ukraine It Doesn't Have Enough Long-Range Missiles To Send

 "Ukraine has been urging for the US to immediately transfer Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMs), which have a range of up to 190 miles, capable of being fired from the HIMARS rocket systems, which the Ukrainians already possess. 

But now the US is informing the Ukrainians that it doesn't have enough of these long range missiles even if it were willing to provide them. Citing four US officials, Politico writes that "Transferring ATACMS to the battlefield in eastern Europe would dwindle America’s stockpiles and harm the U.S. military’s readiness for a future fight, the people said." ZH

Pentagon admits ‘UFO encounter’ blunder

"The Pentagon has acknowledged that it failed in its first attempt to shoot down a mysterious
object spotted in the skies over Michigan last weekend, saying one AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired by an F-16 fighter jet missed its mark and landed “harmlessly” in a body of water. The target was one among three mysterious entities seen in North American airspace in recent days, though officials are still unable to identify any of them. Speaking to reporters for a press briefing on Tuesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley was asked to comment on the object shot down over Lake Huron days prior, following reports that the military was unable to hit its target on the first go. 

“First shot missed. Second shot hit,” he said, adding “the missile landed harmlessly in the water of Lake Huron” and did not detonate on impact. " RT

‘Executed’ Wagner Group fighter shown alive to press

"Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private military company Wagner Group, has confirmed that Dmitry Yakushchenko, a soldier who was previously assumed by some to have been executed, is alive.

Yakushchenko came into the media spotlight this week, after a video purportedly showing his execution was published on social media. In it, he confessed to deserting Wagner and going to the Ukraine-controlled side. He claimed that he had been abducted in Ukraine for a “trial” before an unidentified person appeared to smash his head with a sledgehammer. The video was heavily blurred.

Since the ‘execution’ video was confirmed to be a hoax, Prigozhin claimed that Yakushchenko was captured after getting lost on the frontline and “acted like a real man, that is told lots of f**king lies” to survive. He backed the assertion that the man returned with a lot of “useful information.” RT