US Launches Airstrikes In Somalia For First Time This Year

"US

launched airstrikes in Somalia US Africa Command announced on Tuesday, marking the
first known US bombing of the country in 2024.
AFRICOM said in a press release that the strikes consisted of two separate engagements against al-Shabaab about 20 miles northeast of Kismaayo, a port city in southern Somalia. The command said the strikes were launched at the request of the US-backed Mogadishu-based government." ZH

Ukraine Indirectly Admits It Shot Down Large Russian Transport Plane, Possibly With Own POWs On Board

"The Kremlin is accusing Ukraine of shooting down the Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed in a border region near Ukraine. All 74 people aboard have been reported killed,

including the 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were allegedly on board being transported. The Associated Press suggests that Kiev has made an indirect admission of guilt, but there was no mention of Ukrainian POWs dying. "Hours after the crash, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made no mention of the crash in a statement," writes AP. "But it added that Ukraine targets Russian military transport planes believed to be delivering missiles, especially near the border." Ukrin

56 combat clashes on front lines in past day

"Fifty-six combat engagements were recorded on the battlefield in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, with Ukrainian forces continuing to expand a bridgehead in the Kherson sector.
In total, the enemy launched 48 missile strikes and 112 air strikes and carried out 73 attacks using multiple rocket launchers against the positions of our troops and settlements.

Unfortunately, Russian terrorist attacks led to civilian casualties, among them children. More than 200 civilian infrastructure facilities in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, Kharkiv and Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region were destroyed and damaged.

Air strikes were launched in Kozacha Lopan, Lyptsi and Hatyshche in the Kharkiv region, Makiivka, Bilohorivka and Serebrianske Forestry in the Luhansk region, Terny, Serebrianka, Siversk, Bohdanivka, Avdiivka, Novomykhailivka, Kostiantynivka and Urozhaine in the Donetsk region; Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region, Kachkarivka, Mylove and Beryslav in the Kherson region.
More than 150 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions came under artillery fire." Ukrin