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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
September 13, 2026
Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea
This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that has become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video detailed Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The featured time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The comet was seen rising through a foreground of bright and undulating noctilucent clouds, and before a background of distant stars. Comet NEOWISE remained unexpectedly bright for over a month, with its ion and dust tails found to emanate from a nucleus spanning about five kilometers across.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S3zbkOr9ds
Pole Shift Faster, Space Radiation Cancer | S0 News and frens
Sep.13.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5yq3ZPyx00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcDZXXksew (Fox Weather: More Rounds Of Severe Storms, Increased Flood Threats Target Midwest This Week)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVT2bJKXt6g (Max Velocity: A DANGEROUS Storm Is Coming..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyWkoupkvo (Stefan Burns: This is Getting Very Concerning…(earthquakes and volcanoes))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMC5cEjlHh4 (On the Pulse with Silki: INDONESIA HAS A PROBLEM! Could the M6.6 Trigger a Monster KRAKATOA Eruption?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sQhu-SsLU (EarthMaster: Pressure ramping up in Southern California right now! Multiple Earthquake swarms happening..)
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wildfires
https://time.com/article/2026/09/12/the-u-s-is-on-track-for-a-record-wildfire-season-here-s-what-it-could-cost-americans/
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/arson-suspect-sherman-oaks-grass-fires/3941107/
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/power-shutoffs-public-safety-psps-pge-northern-california-wildfire-risk/
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/mendocino-co-wildfire-grows-to-4-008-acres-near-22429256.php
https://www.ktre.com/2026/09/12/600-acre-wildfire-reported-davy-crockett-national-forest/
https://kiowacountypress.net/content/new-mexicos-plan-reduce-wildfire-risk-currently-nowhere-near-enough
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/wildfires-blanket-indonesia-in-toxic-haze-as-thousands-fall-ill-3228026
https://www.dw.com/en/croatia-monster-fire-triggers-evacuation-on-brac-island/a-79250480
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storms and floods
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/rain-and-severe-storms-to-roam-the-midwest-through-mid-september/1933249
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/heavy-rain-severe-storms-target-midwest-flash-flood-threat
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/record-rainfall-triggers-catastrophic-floods-in-se-missouri/
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/09/12/heavy-rain-triggers-street-flooding-across-metro-atlanta/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/ominous-ufo-shaped-supercell-thunderstorm-165934168.html
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/severe-weather-disrupts-flights-across-nyc-airports/
https://interestingengineering.com/science/2026-nepal-china-flooding-disaster
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tornadoes
https://iowaweather.com/severe-storms-could-hit-iowa-monday-with-hail-damaging-winds-and-tornado-risk/
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hurricanes and frens
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hurricanes-2677852407/
https://www.wusf.org/weather/2026-09-13/national-hurricane-center-monitors-atlantic-disturbance-but-no-u-s-threat-expected
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/human-remains-hurricane-helene-victim-found-tennessee
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/tropical-depression-makes-landfall-with-wide-area-affected-post351764.vnp
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/climate-crisis-change-nepal-flash-floods-el-nino-2026-how-extreme-heat-deluge-disease-can-get-worse-with-global-warming-12040726
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earthquakes
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/swarm-of-90-micro-quakes-rattles-residents-in-lennox-westmont
https://ticotimes.net/2026/09/12/golfito-earthquake-magnitude-5-1-southern-zone
https://qna.org.qa/en/news/news-details?id=49-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-japans-bonin-islands&date=13/09/2026
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/980411/earthquake-magnitude-5-2-strikes-off-coast/
https://modern.az/en/event/787687/62-magnitude-earthquake-in-indonesia/
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volcanoes
https://www.2news.com/news/national/streams-of-lava-flowing-down-the-kilauea-volcano-in-hawaii/video_63f11768-484d-5263-b8bd-d1177faf59d7.html
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2304323/taal-volcano-update-7-volcanic-quakes-logged-alert-level-1-stays
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/regions/1002174/kanlaon-volcano-emits-ash-generating-200-meter-plume-alert-level-2-remains/story/
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dailys
https://schumannresonance.today/
https://www.weather.gov/
https://www.americanforests.org/wildfire-map/
https://www.doi.gov/wildlandfireservice/current-wildfire-information
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news.html
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=13&month=09&year=2026
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers the rings of tiny solar system body Chariklo are changing
September 13, 2026
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew.
The object in question is Chariklo, which orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus, at around 17 times the distance between Earth and the sun.
Despite only being around 155 miles (250 kilometers) wide, Chariklo, part of the Centaur family of asteroids, possesses two thick rings.
Though Saturn is the solar system body most famous for its rings, other planets also have ring systems, albeit less prominent. That includes Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter.
However, Chariklo and the even smaller body Chiron, show that even the most diminutive bodies can develop rings.
Now, thanks to the incredible sensitivity of the JWST, scientists know that the rings of Chariklo are even stranger than their initial discovery in 2013 suggested.
"The ability to detect these changes opens a new window for understanding the evolution of these systems and, possibly, that of other ring systems in the solar system."
The team, led by researchers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), began observing Chariklo with the JWST in Oct. 2022.
They used a technique called stellar occultation, which measures the decrease in light from a star when an object passes in front of it.
"By comparing JWST observations with those obtained during other stellar occultations over the last decade, we discovered opposite changes in the two rings: while the inner ring shows significantly higher opacity, the outer ring shows lower opacity," team leader Pablo Santos-Sanz of the IAA-CSIC said in a statement.
The changing rings of the asteroid suggest that it experiences more complex physics than previously thought. This is important because scientists had previously believed that small bodies had relatively stable rings.
"Our results force us to rethink how they form, how they evolve, and what mechanisms maintain their stability," Santos-Sanz said.
"The ability to detect these changes opens a new window for understanding the evolution of these systems and, possibly, that of other ring systems in the solar system."
The cause of these changes remains a mystery.
Another milestone for the JWST and Gaia
The research doesn't just represent an important step in our understanding of asteroids and solar system rings, but it is also an important milestone for the JWST.
"Achieving this required knowing with extraordinary precision the orbit of Chariklo, the position of the star, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the trajectory of JWST itself around the L2 Lagrange point, a region of space located about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) beyond Earth, away from the sun," team member Yücel Kilic of the IAA-CSIC said. "The JWST follows an orbit around this region that requires periodic corrections through station-keeping maneuvers."
During the occultation the team used in their research, Chariklo was traveling at around 5,600 miles per hour (2.5 kilometers per second) relative to the JWST.
This is incredibly fast by Earth standards, but relatively slow for objects racing through the solar system. This low speed allowed the rings of Chariklo to be resolved in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers currently rely on occultation to study Chariklo and its rings, as even the JWST isn't powerful enough to directly image this small and distant asteroid.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-the-rings-of-tiny-solar-system-body-chariklo-are-changing
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh4794
moar
https://downthetubes.net/the-henry-ford-launches-artemis-adventure-with-lego-bricks-an-interactive-space-exhibition/
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6082250-nasa-low-earth-orbit-strategy/
https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/nasa-signs-space-exploration-agreement-with-republic-of-djibouti/447046
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/science-in-2009-nasa-started-conducting-the-largest-airborne-survey-of-earths-polar-ice-under-operation-icebridge-to-bridge-the-observational-gap-between-icesat-and-icesat-2/articleshow/134150789.cms
Good video.
<there's going to be a divine king born in Bethlehem, saddle up the camels.
Are we not also Bethlehem, the house of bread?
Camels at the ready.
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2098842327947317525
moar
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2098784829508583756
https://x.com/NASASpox/status/2099156434889957416
https://x.com/NASA_Marshall/status/2099151115195445274
https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2099154708921295289
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
@NASAAdmin
Back at it again with a long one, but can't help myself on the Space Academy topic.
Interesting to read some of the policy experts who have taken skeptical, and in some cases negative, public positions on the need for a United States Space Academy. People are certainly entitled to their opinions.
There are also those who believe we should not build a single spaceship or invest in technological progress until we solve every problem on Earth. That is simply not how you build a better future for our children.
I suspect, for some, the objection has more to do with the politics than the merits. So let me address a few of the common concerns and offer some rationale.
Global dependence on space is increasing at an astronomical rate. Weather forecasting, disaster response, precision navigation, communications, agriculture, national security and scientific discovery all depend on capabilities in orbit.
Connecting the disconnected and expanding access to knowledge is itself foundational to solving many of the world's problems. The data we will be taking in, whether from Earth observation or instruments like Roman, will answer questions we do not even know to ask today.
And there is no going back from the trajectory we are on. A decade ago, the FAA was overseeing barely more than a dozen commercial space launches per year.
Today, nearly a dozen U.S. companies are operating or developing orbital launch systems, chasing economic opportunity measured in the trillions. But the upside is far greater than economics.
Think about what we stand to learn scientifically, what technologies will have to be pioneered to explore out there, and how many of those breakthroughs will make life better back here.
Our new national space transportation policy calls for the United States to support more than 1,000 launches annually by 2030. Some already believe that is off by an order of magnitude.
America will certainly establish a permanent outpost on another world in the years ahead, and we are not alone in our ambitions. That outpost will become NASA's proving ground for where we go next. Mars.
And then we continue on. It is our destiny to harness more of the energy of our star, unlock more of the energy potential in matter, and venture farther outward, in the same spirit as the explorers of centuries past who discovered the New World.
And we have no idea how quickly that timeline could accelerate in a world transformed by artificial superintelligence, robotics, quantum technologies and additive manufacturing.
All of it is unfolding in the context of a great power competition where falling behind could materially affect our way of life and the trajectory of civilizations.
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I do know the future will require a bright new generation educated and prepared for this environment. Many will serve in inherently governmental roles.
They will need specialized education in disciplines that barely exist today, including nuclear power and propulsion for space applications, before having the opportunity to continue careers across government or the private sector.
If you understand the increasingly important and contested environment above us, then a Space Academy is as timely and necessary today as the Space Force has already proven to be.
So what are the objections? It blurs the line between peaceful applications in space and the military.
This may be the weakest argument I have seen. NASA's history began with astronauts flying to space on ballistic missiles. Several Space Shuttle missions were, and remain, classified.
NASA Aeronautics flies repurposed U-2 spy planes for high-altitude research and F-15s for high-speed research. Breakthroughs pioneered through NASA aeronautics have benefited civil aviation and national security alike.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, under the Department of Transportation, graduates students who go into industry, government and the military. Some have even become astronauts.
Three of the four Artemis II astronauts came from the military, as have many NASA astronauts throughout our history, and some have continued serving in uniform after their NASA careers.
NASA's mission is as peaceful as it is patriotic. We explore for the benefit of all humankind, but we go there under our flag. That mission would be impossible without the Guardians standing watch over the domain as we venture outward.
There is no contradiction in giving future civil, commercial and national security space leaders a common educational foundation, especially when our adversaries draw no such distinction themselves.
What about the cost? Congressional leaders and Governors from both parties have been reaching out and assembling potential funding packages.
It is interesting, I face questions during congressional hearings over whether we are investing enough in STEM education. We can absorb billions of dollars in canceled programs from mismanagement.
But investing in the education of the next generation, in a domain increasingly central to our scientific, economic and national security future, is somehow uneconomical?
We should look past the politics on this one.
Go back to 1963, when the world was captivated by the possibilities of space, and remember another iconic JFK speech.
He reminded us that we all treasure our children's future. Fittingly, he delivered those words at a university commencement.
It is time for another great American academy. A United States Space Academy worthy of the extraordinary adventure ahead.
11:33 AM · Sep 12, 2026
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Sea, Space and Cyberspace Are All Under Siege
September 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM PDT
The freedom of the global commons helped the world thrive economically and politically. China and Russia want to end it.
Most people don’t realize how profoundly their lives have been shaped by freedom of the commons.
The ability of goods, information and people to move with minimal friction through several crucial, shared domains — seas, skies, space and cyberspace — underpins our global economy.
It has facilitated world-changing booms in commerce and prosperity as well as the remarkable great-power peace that has prevailed since 1945. Freedom of the commons is at the heart of the modern world order. It is now, increasingly, under threat.
Freedom of the seas is under assault in waterways from the South China Sea to the Strait of Hormuz. A shifting maritime balance is challenging the US Navy’s role as guardian of the global commons.
Space is becoming more crowded and contested — an arena for rivalry in peacetime and perhaps violent conflict in war. Geopolitical tensions are simultaneously fracturing and weaponizing cyberspace as AI-aided tools of cyberwarfare intensify perils.
We’ve entered the era of the contested commons. Domains that once enabled connectivity are becoming battlefields, a change that’s putting the world’s prosperity and progress at risk.
How the Oceans Were Opened
The seas were the original commons. For most of history, they weren’t very free. Pirates ravaged merchant shipping. Countries commissioned privateers to despoil their rivals’ commerce.
In the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, two great oceanic empires — Spain and Portugal — divided the world’s waters (as well as its newly discovered lands) between themselves.
The rise of free navigation required an intellectual revolution.
In 1609, the Dutch scholar Hugo Grotius published his tract Mare Liberum, arguing that the oceans belonged to no sovereign and that all nations should have access to the high seas, even as he acknowledged that states might control territorial waters along their shores.
Many powerful actors thought otherwise, so it also took a geopolitical revolution — the rise of Anglo-American supremacy beginning in the 18th century — to make that vision real.
Imperial Britain was an imperfect protector of maritime freedom. Blockade was the Royal Navy’s favored tactic in conflicts; the War of 1812 was essentially an American revolt against London’s heavy-handed naval hegemony.
But Britain did have a compelling interest in securing the sea routes that linked its home islands to a growing global empire and its dominant industries to the markets of the world.
By the late 19th century, the US was growing rich by trading on oceans pacified by British power. And when British primacy broke down in the 20th century, America stepped up.
In two world wars, Washington fought to subdue the German submarine menace to an open Atlantic.
After 1945, America put itself at the center of a world order made stable and prosperous by thriving trade. The US Navy secured sea lanes and protected free navigation in distant oceans.
When Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi claimed the Gulf of Sidra in the 1980s, when pirates stalked shipping off the Horn of Africa in the 2000s, or when China has challenged the openness of the Western Pacific, Washington has led the response.
By the early 2000s, the US enjoyed what political scientist Barry Posen called “command of the commons.”
Dominance of the oceans, air and space allowed the US military to roam the Earth’s far reaches; it provided the security and openness in which go-go globalization could occur.
Global gross domestic product rose (in inflation-adjusted dollars) more than 12-fold between 1950 and 2020. Global trade volumes increased 45-fold over that same period.
This would have been impossible had predators ruled the oceans, given that 80% of merchandise trade by volume travels by sea.
yuge article cont.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2026-09-13/china-and-russia-have-sea-space-and-cyberspace-under-siege
moar international space
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-cataract-surgery-space-surgeon.html
https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/somalia/400135/somalia-plans-first-satellite-launch-in-2027-as-space-partnership-with-turkiye-takes-shape
https://techreviewafrica.com/news/7182/sansa-explores-climate-cooperation-with-space-for-climate-observatory
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/09/12/greek-space-leader-calls-women-to-join-aerospace-sector/
Trump envoy names key obstacle to Ukraine peace
13 Sep, 2026 08:58 | Updated 13 Sep, 2026 10:00
Moscow and Kiev remain divided over territory despite progress on security and ceasefire mechanisms, Jared Kushner has said
The territorial dispute between Moscow and Kiev remains the main obstacle to ending the Ukraine conflict, Jared Kushner, US special envoy and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has said.
His comments came after he and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow and Kiev for high-level talks on ending hostilities.
Speaking via video link at the annual YES 2026 conference in Kiev on Friday, Kushner said that Moscow “wants to discuss a way to resolve” the conflict, but “the hardest issue is still territory,” partly because the question is to a degree dictated by a battlefield situation that remains highly dynamic.
“Seeing the advancement in the technology and the way that the battlefield has happened is, I think, beyond the expectation of both sides.
And I think one thing I’ve learned in politics is [that] any expert you talk to will give you a ton of ideas, but nobody has any idea what’s actually going to happen,” Kushner said.
Despite this hurdle, Kushner still sounded optimistic about the overall progress.
During earlier trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, he said, US, Russian and Ukrainian representatives “completed a deconfliction mechanism and a monitoring mechanism,” with the US military involved in the discussions.
Once the territorial question is resolved, Kushner said, that framework could provide “a real mechanism both to enforce it, protect it and oversee it.”
He stressed that much of the rest of a potential deal could fall into place if Moscow and Kiev overcome the territorial dispute. “I think the sides feel good about” the arrangement, he added. “And that’s actually real progress in that regard.”
Kushner and Witkoff travelled to Moscow earlier this month, where they held more than three hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin before heading to Kiev.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov described the Moscow meeting as “substantive, constructive and extremely candid,” saying Putin stressed Russia’s battlefield gains and the need to address the conflict’s root causes.
Following the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow hopes trilateral negotiations with Washington and Kiev can resume in the “foreseeable future,” with Ushakov naming Abu Dhabi as Russia’s preferred venue.
Moscow has long insisted that a sustainable settlement is possible only if Kiev recognizes the “new territorial realities,” as well as commits to neutrality, demilitarization and denazification.
As Russian forces are making progress on the battlefield, Kiev still clings to less than 15% of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
https://www.rt.com/news/645641-trump-envoy-key-obstacle-ukraine-peace/
moar RT
https://www.rt.com/news/645651-trump-zelensky-diesel-price/
https://www.rt.com/russia/645646-moscow-reveals-potential-timeline-trilateral-ukraine-talks/
https://www.rt.com/russia/645644-russia-hits-ukraine-military-logistics/
https://www.rt.com/russia/645619-zaporozhye-emergency-fuel-convoy/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/84383
https://kyivindependent.com/drone-attack-hits-industrial-hub-in-russias-tatarstan-casualties-reported/
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-poland-border-russian-strikes/33853301.html
https://www.dailymail.com/video/news/video-3711287/Boris-Johnsons-train-evacuated-Russian-drone-strike-alert.html
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/939141/ukraine-says-it-fought-first-all-drone-naval-battle-in-black-sea
https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/13/nato-fighter-jets-scrambled-intercept-drone-actually-flock-birds-29597928/
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/13/ukrainian-troops-are-now-operating-across-africa/
Drones Target Nizhnekamsk Hub and Slavyansk Refinery in Russia
Sept. 13, 2026, 11:36 am | Updated: 2s ago
In brief: Unmanned aerial vehicles struck key Russian petroleum and chemical production hubs early Sunday morning, Sept. 13, targeting the industrial cluster in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, and igniting a fire at an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai.
Nizhnekamsk houses some of Russia’s largest refining and petrochemical enterprises, including Tatneft’s TANECO refinery, TAIF-NK, and synthetic rubber producer Nizhnekamskneftekhim. In Slavyansk-on-Kuban, drone impacts triggered a blaze at the local refinery, which had previously caught fire during strikes in June.
Drones targeted the major petrochemical and oil refining cluster of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan and sparked a fire at an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai.
In Nizhnekamsk, situated roughly 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian frontier, residents reported low-flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overhead followed by a series of heavy blasts and anti-aircraft artillery fire near the industrial district, according to independent Russian outlet Astra and Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+.
Russia’s Unified State System for Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS) issued regional drone alerts across Tatarstan overnight.
Local officials acknowledged an incident within the industrial zone, with regional official Radmir Belyaev confirming an ignition “at one of the city’s enterprises,” widely reported by monitoring groups to be Tatneft’s TANECO refining complex.
Nizhnekamsk houses one of the Russian Federation’s most critical fuel and chemical manufacturing hubs.
The complex includes Tatneft’s TANECO facility, ranked among Russia’s five largest oil refineries with an annual crude processing capacity exceeding 16 million metric tons, alongside the adjacent TAIF-NK refinery, which processes more than 7 million tons of crude petroleum and gas condensate annually.
The industrial hub also hosts Nizhnekamskneftekhim, a Sibur subsidiary and one of Europe’s largest synthetic rubber and polymer producers, which holds a dominant domestic market share in synthetic rubber and industrial plastics utilized across civilian and defense manufacturing sectors.
Fire ignites at Slavyansk-on-Kuban refinery
Concurrently, overnight drone attacks struck the Slavyansk-on-Kuban oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Krai, triggering a blaze at the facility, Astra reported.
Geolocated video footage published by local residents on social media showed a large fire and an orange glow illuminating the night sky above the plant. Regional authorities have not released an official assessment of the structural damage or casualties.
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The Slavyansk refinery, operated by Slavyansk ECO, has an annual processing capacity of approximately 4 million tons of crude oil.
The facility had previously halted processing operations following Ukrainian drone strikes in late April and June that caused fires in the plant’s atmospheric distillation units.
Subsequently, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR) confirmed that operators from the Department of Active Operations and the Department of Unmanned Systems of the Main Intelligence Directorate, as part of a joint deep-strike operation with the Ukrainian Defense Forces, struck the “Slavyansk-ECO” oil refinery in the city of Slov ’yansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar Krai.
“As a result of the operation, a key oil refining facility and the company’s tank farm – which fuel the criminal war against Ukraine – were struck,” HUR stated.
Thick smoke and the glow from the major fire at the Russian oil refinery are visible from dozens of kilometers away.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reported that units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the “Slavyansky” oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai, and the “Taneco” oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, as well as command posts and storage facilities for the Russian invaders’ attack drones.
Expanding campaign against Russian energy and chemical sectors
The overnight strikes in Tatarstan and Krasnodar Krai follow an intensified campaign by Ukrainian forces against Russian defense manufacturing, fuel distribution networks, and chemical plants over the weekend.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian forces struck two major chemical industry enterprises in Russia’s Samara and Perm regions, alongside targets in the Black Sea and occupied territories.
In the Samara region, overnight drone strikes on Saturday ignited a blaze at the KuibyshevAzot chemical facility in Tolyatti, which produces roughly 50% of Russia’s caprolactam and 75% of its industrial tire cord.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine subsequently confirmed a direct strike on the nearby Tolyattikauchuk plant, which produces synthetic rubbers, monomers, and high-octane gasoline additives essential for manufacturing solid rocket fuel used in tactical and ballistic missiles.
In the Perm region, long-range drones targeted the Azot plant in Berezniki on Friday, Sept. 11, which manufactures nitric acid and ammonium nitrate – critical industrial precursors for military-grade explosives.
Simultaneously, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) conducted an operation against five military and logistics installations in Taganrog, Rostov region, striking a first-person-view (FPV) drone production workshop, two UAV warehouses, an oil storage tank, a P-18 radar station, and a Pantsir-S2 air defense system.
Ukrainian long-range drones have targeted Russian oil refineries over 70 times since early 2026, significantly reducing domestic fuel output and compelling at least 17 Russian regions to introduce fuel sales rationing.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-killed-two-hamas-engineers-in-gaza-strike-13-others-reported-injured/
other Israel
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlbb6k
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Israeli-forces-raid-towns-in-West-Bank/67094621
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908442
https://deadline.com/2026/09/naza-review-venice-film-festival-1237100430/
Live Updates: IDF kills two Hamas terrorists in Gaza City strike, alerts sound in Saudi Arabia near Yemen border
September 13, 8:28 PM
Iran's President Pezeshkian vows not to surrender • Iranian ship struck near Qeshm Island • Iran, Oman deal sets path to reopen Hormuz
September 13, 7:39 PM
Kushner reveals how failed Doha strike helped Washington pressure Israel on Gaza
“Israel did the strike in Doha, which was a terrible thing,” Kushner said. “And obviously, it was unsuccessful as a military operation. And that led to Israel being globally isolated.”
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser and one of the administration’s key figures in diplomacy surrounding the Gaza Strip, delivered sharp criticism over the weekend of Israel’s strikes in Doha, Qatar, last year, while also acknowledging that Washington used the international fallout from the attack to increase pressure on Israel and push it toward an agreement.
Speaking by video at a conference in Kyiv, Kushner described the Israeli operation bluntly.
September 13, 7:39 PM
Trump says US could stay in Iran and keep oil, like Venezuela deal
"We'll ultimately get out (of Iran), unless we decide to stay and keep the oil like Venezuela," Trump said, adding that the US revenue from Venezuela has "paid for the war many times."
President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the United States could stay in Iran and "keep the oil," drawing a parallel with a US push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
On a trip to Ireland for meetings and to watch golf, he reiterated that he still expected the Iran war to end this year, possibly just after midterm elections due in the United States in November.
September 13, 6:24 PM
Alerts sound in Saudi Arabia near border with Yemen
Saudi authorities activated emergency alerts in southwest Saudi Arabia near its border with Yemen, Ynet News reported on Sunday.
September 13, 5:52 PM
Iran requested new Russian Geran drones for attacks on Israeli, American targets amid war - report
Russia based the original Geran, which carries a 20-kilogram warhead and has a top speed of 185 kph, on Iranian-designed Shahed drones.
Tehran requested that Russia provide the regime with its new generation of Geran drones earlier this year during the Israeli-US war with Iran, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
The report cited Western security officials and a source close to the Kremlin, who said that Iran made the request following substantial improvements to Russia's Geran family of drones.
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September 13, 3:44 PM
IDF kills two Hamas terrorists in Gaza City strike
The IDF killed two Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the military said, noting that both were members of the terror organization's engineering unit.
The terrorists, identified by the IDF as Hassan Ali Abu Nada and Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Khalil Khawa, were involved in weapon production and development, the advancement of terror attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, and reconstituting Hamas's capabilities.
September 13, 2:20 PM
Two killed in Gaza City strike, IDF says it targeted car with Hamas terrorists
The strike in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in western Gaza City struck a vehicle, according to footage circulated on social media.
At least two Palestinians were killed, and 13 were wounded, in an IDF strike on a vehicle in Gaza City on Sunday, according to medical staff in the area.
The strike in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in western Gaza City left the vehicle mangled, according to footage circulated on social media. Local medical staff told Reuters that they urged people to provide information that could help identify the two people who were killed.
The IDF stated that the strike targeted two Hamas terrorists, without giving further information.
September 13, 9:47 AM
Yemeni army rosters filled with 'ghost names,' leaving Mocha vulnerable to Houthi takeover - report
Yemeni battalions stationed in the port city of Mocha were left largely unprepared to fend off a takeover by the Iran-backed Houthis on Thursday, with much of the force’s roster filled with “ghost names” of soldiers that did not actually exist, according to a Saturday CNN report.
A Western source with knowledge of Yemeni anti-Houthi operations told CNN that the “ghost names” received salaries, making the army seem much stronger than it was on paper. In actuality, the army was only around 20% of what it appeared to be, according to the source.
Blame for the apparent lack of military resistance to the Houthi takeover has been split between Yemeni leaders, the United States, and Saudi Arabia, with multiple sources telling CNN that different parties were responsible for the failure.
One regional CNN source described the fall of Mocha as “a Saudi-American f*** up of epic proportions” caused by delayed decision-making by Washington and Riyadh.
September 13, 9:47 AM
IDF warns of rising West Bank tensions despite low terror levels, pushes for preventive operations
Despite the fact that terror levels in the West Bank are very low, the lowest since 2011, security officials warned on Sunday that Hamas headquarters in Turkey, Gaza, Iran, Qatar, Lebanon, and other locations will likely attempt to advance terror plots targeting Israelis and IDF soldiers.
The low level of terror activity is attributed to combined operations by the Judea and Samaria Division, commanded by Brig.-Gen. Kobi Heller, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Israel Police and Border Police.
Ahead of the holidays, the Judea and Samaria Division carried out extensive preventive operations, targeting not only suspects involved in terror activity but also incitement hubs, in an effort to minimize the potential for attacks in the area.
September 13, 7:48 AM
One killed, three injured in strike on Iranian commercial ship off Qeshm Island - report
One person was killed, and three were injured after an Iranian merchant ship was struck off the coast of Qeshm Island in the early morning hours on Sunday, according to Iranian state media reports.
September 13, 4:57 AM
Ship in Strait of Hormuz struck by unknown projectile, UKMTO says
A ship was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday.
UKMTO said the status of the ship's crew is currently unknown.
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