Tehran Gas Lines Grow Without an Uprising
Washington reads pressure working and capitulation near; AP finds queues, not protesters - CTP says the regime prepares suppression, and the pump is where the theory meets asphalt.
Katya Volkov
Bureau: Moscow
Russia Throws 150 Drones and Two Missiles at Ukraine
Kyiv counts decoy-saturated attrition economics - 150 airframes spent to burn interceptors - while Moscow preaches homeland defense and quietly nationalizes whatever the drones damage.
Ukraine Hits Ozon Warehouses Rocket-Fuel Plant and a MiG-29
Western wires lead with weapons systems while Kyiv fires officials and debates wartime votes - same Independence Day, two different wars, and Ozon shareholders paid part of the difference.
Putin Signs Decree Allowing State Seizure of Drone-Damaged Infrastructure
Kremlin messaging calls it protecting the homeland while Kyiv reads a decree converting deep-strike success into transfers of private wealth to the state.
Zelensky Fires Mudra on Independence Day Amid Scandal
Western wires chase weapons systems while Kyiv's anti-corruption court moves on Zelensky's own ex-deputy — same day, different wars, and the domestic one barely registers.