After UK Defense Secretary John Healey revealed Russian undersea activity near the UK’s critical infrastructure, the Ministry of Defence said it had, together with other NATO allies, tracked two vessels from Russia’s “shadow fleet” as they were escorted through the English Channel by the frigate Admiral Grigorovich. The Telegraph first reported the story.

According to Reuters, citing three European diplomats, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte informed member states that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is seeking commitments to a Strait of Hormuz framework within the next few days. One diplomat added, “We recognize the frustration in Washington, but allies were not consulted either before or after the conflict began.”

According to Axios, citing an Israeli official, Israel will not consider Lebanon as a part of the currently in place ceasefire framework during negotiations with Lebanon. Israel-Lebanon negotiations on the disarmament of Lebanese Hezbollah are set to commence in the coming days.

Container (green) and tanker (red) vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz via MarineTraffic since the announcement of the ceasefire shows that the few vessel transits that have occurred continued to deviate out of the main channel around the north side of Larak Island for inspection by Iran.

According to CBS News, citing survivors of the deadly Iranian strike in Kuwait that killed six U.S. servicemembers from the Army’s 103rd Sustainment Command, the circumstances of the attack may have been significantly misrepresented by officials.

Survivors said the strike was a direct hit and that defensive measures around the installation were insufficient. They also reported that an “all clear” had been issued from a prior alarm before the impact, leading personnel to return to their posts and remove protective gear.

Despite the conditions, survivors described how servicemembers immediately rushed to assist their wounded comrades following the strike.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey said today that Russia has been carrying out covert undersea operations near critical infrastructure north of the United Kingdom in recent months.

According to Healey, the activity involved a Russian Akula-class attack submarine along with two submarines linked to Russia’s Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI).

He stated that a Royal Navy warship and a Royal Air Force P-8 maritime patrol aircraft were deployed to track the vessels. The Akula-class submarine has since withdrawn from the area, while the two GUGI-linked submarines remain in place and continue to be monitored.

In a now deleted post on the Pentagon’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), a Sailor working on an EA-18G “Growler” Electronic Warfare Aircraft assigned to “The Gray Wolves” of Electromagnetic Attack Squadron 142 (VAQ-142), deployed onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), can be seen wearing a morale patch which says:

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