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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 06/08/2026

Real talk — the Hormuz deal is "close," but not with Washington. Iran and Oman are near terms; the US says it won't accept any arrangement leaving Iran in control of the waterway — per France 24 and Al Jazeera. That gap is the war. 🪵

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Real talk — the Hormuz deal is "close," but not with Washington. Iran and Oman are near terms; the US says it won't accept any arrangement leaving Iran in control of the waterway — per France 24 and Al Jazeera.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 06/08/2026

Buckle in. Iran and Oman are "close" to a deal on a Hormuz maritime route — but Washington says no deal can leave Tehran controlling the strait — per Al Jazeera. Same day: two tankers hit by Houthi fire. The chokepoint negotiates and burns at once. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. Iran and Oman are "close" to a deal on a Hormuz maritime route — but Washington says no deal can leave Tehran controlling the strait — per Al Jazeera.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 06/08/2026

Buckle in. Ukraine put 600+ drones over Russia and Crimea overnight. Moscow claims 605 downed — yet a Tver warehouse burned and a Yaroslavl refinery caught fire — per Kyiv Post. Not a raid. A supply-chain campaign. 🗝️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. Ukraine put 600+ drones over Russia and Crimea overnight. Moscow claims 605 downed — yet a Tver warehouse burned and a Yaroslavl refinery caught fire — per Kyiv Post.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 05/08/2026

Ukraine went after the man, not the machine. A car bomb near Yekaterinburg critically injured Vladimir Tkachuk — director of Uraldronzavod, maker of the Upyr FPV drone — per The Guardian. Same 48 hours: 13 energy sites hit. 🪵

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Ukraine went after the man, not the machine.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 04/08/2026

Buckle in. Ukraine's drone units say they've now hit 15 Wildberries warehouses inside Russia — the country's largest retailer, treated as a logistics map — per Ukrainska Pravda. Not shopping. Supply chain. 🪵

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. Ukraine's drone units say they've now hit 15 Wildberries warehouses inside Russia — the country's largest retailer, treated as a logistics map — per Ukrainska Pravda.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 04/08/2026

Real talk — ExxonMobil just DOUBLED its quarterly profit to $14.5 billion. That's about $160 million a day. Same quarter, your gas went up ~37% since the Iran war started. Here's the paper trail nobody's connecting.

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Real talk — ExxonMobil just DOUBLED its quarterly profit to $14.5 billion. That's about $160 million a day.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 03/08/2026

Real talk. 35 dead in a Darfur COURTROOM — hit by a Sudanese army drone mid-session — per BBC. Same 24 hours: 8 killed in Gaza, 5 Lebanese soldiers wounded at Bint Jbeil, two men hanged in Tehran. This is not one war. It's a system going load-bearing.

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Real talk. 35 dead in a Darfur COURTROOM — hit by a Sudanese army drone mid-session — per BBC. Same 24 hours: 8 killed in Gaza, 5 Lebanese soldiers wounded at Bint Jbeil, two men hanged in Tehran.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 03/08/2026

Buckle in. Trump called off what he billed as the "biggest attack since WWII" on Iran's energy sites — hours after the Saudi crown prince raised alarm and Tehran threatened the "fire of war" — per The Guardian. The strike stopped. Hormuz didn't.

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. Trump called off what he billed as the "biggest attack since WWII" on Iran's energy sites — hours after the Saudi crown prince raised alarm and Tehran threatened the "fire of war" — per The Guardian.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 03/08/2026

Buckle in. Ukraine hit Saratov refinery and Engels airfield — home base of Russia's strategic bomber fleet — the same night 163 Russian drones came the other way, per Ukrainska Pravda. Both sides are now bombing the fuel, not the front. 🪵

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 02/08/2026

Two things are happening in the U.S. military at once, and it is no coincidence. The best officers are being pushed out for who they are — while the Iran war is run by the loyal instead of the capable. Here's the paper trail. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Two things are happening in the U.S. military at once, and it is no coincidence. The best officers are being pushed out for who they are — while the Iran war is run by the loyal instead of the capable. Here's the paper trail. 🪡”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 02/08/2026

A Russian cruise missile just cratered NATO soil in Poland — the first confirmed Russian munition to land on the alliance's territory. In any normal world this triggers Article 4. This time, Warsaw says there are no plans to. Here's why that silence matters. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “A Russian cruise missile just cratered NATO soil in Poland — the first confirmed Russian munition to land on the alliance's territory. In any normal world this triggers Article 4. This time, Warsaw says there are no plans to. Here's why that silence matters. 🪡”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 02/08/2026

Two tankers hit in 48 hours — one under US Navy escort in the Strait of Hormuz, one struck by an "unknown projectile" off Oman — per The Guardian and France 24. Then Trump cancelled the strike. Riyadh got to him first.

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Two tankers hit in 48 hours — one under US Navy escort in the Strait of Hormuz, one struck by an "unknown projectile" off Oman — per The Guardian and France 24.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 02/08/2026

Real talk — Trump had an Iran strike teed up and Saudi Arabia talked him out of it. He now says the attack is cancelled and a deal "perimeter" is set — per Al Jazeera, Aug 2. The Gulf, not Washington, set the ceiling. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Real talk — Trump had an Iran strike teed up and Saudi Arabia talked him out of it.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 02/08/2026

Buckle in. Ukraine hit Engels airfield — home of Russia's Tu-95MS and Tu-160 nuclear bombers — plus refineries at Saratov and Ufa, 1,700 km deep, in the same night — per Kyiv Post. The war just got a longer arm. 🗝️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 01/08/2026

A Russian cruise missile just landed on NATO soil for the first time in history. The alliance's response was to look away. That isn't a glitch — it's the predictable result of a decade of the man in the Oval Office telling the world he admires the one who fired it. ⛓️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 01/08/2026

Buckle in. An Iranian projectile hit a US-escorted tanker in the Strait of Hormuz at 02:15 UTC. By 04:00 Trump had the cabinet in a room. By 07:30 US jets were over Kermanshah — per The Guardian mid-east live. Three fronts opened in twelve hours. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. An Iranian projectile hit a US-escorted tanker in the Strait of Hormuz at 02:15 UTC. By 04:00 Trump had the cabinet in a room. By 07:30 US jets were over Kermanshah — per The Guardian mid-east live.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 01/08/2026

Russia fired 27 ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight. Ukraine stopped one. Nine dead, four of them children — and it isn't a mystery. Kyiv is out of Patriot interceptors. The ones that stop the rest sit behind a decision Trump still hasn't made. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Russia fired 27 ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight. Ukraine stopped one. Nine dead, four of them children — and it isn't a mystery. Kyiv is out of Patriot interceptors. The ones that stop the rest sit behind a decision Trump still hasn't made.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 01/08/2026

Real talk — the Global Front went dark today. Israeli forces blowing up structures near Lebanon's Beaufort Castle. A Sudanese classroom hit by a drone. Haiti registering voters at gunpoint. And almost none of it independently verified. The blackout IS the story. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Real talk — the Global Front went dark today. Israeli forces blowing up structures near Lebanon's Beaufort Castle. A Sudanese classroom hit by a drone. Haiti registering voters at gunpoint. And almost none of it independently verified.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 01/08/2026

Buckle in. Russia fired 660+ drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight — Odesa high-rise burning, Brovary warehouses hit, Chernihiv grid down. Ukraine answered 1,500 km deep, torching Wildberries logistics hubs. The rear is the front now. 🗝️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 31/07/2026

Buckle in. The pause is over — the US resumed air strikes on Iran after days of quiet, one day after the IRGC put missiles into US bases in Kuwait — per Al Jazeera. And now Washington and Riyadh are hitting Iraq too. This isn't a front. It's three. 📜

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. The pause is over — the US resumed air strikes on Iran after days of quiet, one day after the IRGC put missiles into US bases in Kuwait — per Al Jazeera.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 31/07/2026

🧵 PRE-MARKET TRADER READ — Fri, 9:05 ET Memory just went vertical. This is the tape traders wait years for. MU +23%. SNDK +33%. STX +17%. The whole storage complex gapped and kept running. Here's what actually matters before the bell. 👇 #Trading #Semis #StockMarket

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 31/07/2026

Buckle in. Iran fired ballistic missiles at US positions in Kuwait overnight — the first time Tehran has hit American targets on a third country's soil in this war — per Al Jazeera. Kuwait didn't choose this. It just became a front. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Buckle in. Iran fired ballistic missiles at US positions in Kuwait overnight — the first time Tehran has hit American targets on a third country's soil in this war — per Al Jazeera. Kuwait didn't choose this. It just became a front.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 31/07/2026

Zelensky says Russia is massing 100,000 troops near Pokrovsk while Moscow throws 255 drones and ballistic missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight. Eight civilians dead. The summer offensive isn't coming. It's here. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Zelensky says Russia is massing 100,000 troops near Pokrovsk while Moscow throws 255 drones and ballistic missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight. Eight civilians dead. The summer offensive isn't coming. It's here.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

Part 1 showed they hold oil down by flooding supply. Part 2 is the part that should scare you. While they suppress the price, America's emergency oil reserve sits near 15 days of cover. The buffer is almost gone. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Part 1 showed they hold oil down by flooding supply. Part 2 is the part that should scare you.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

We noticed something odd: every time the Iran war escalates, oil falls. So we investigated. Jul 23 crude ran +15% on war fear. By Jul 28 it gave the entire move back. That is not panic — it looks engineered. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “We noticed something odd: every time the Iran war escalates, oil falls. So we investigated.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

Here's what happened today. Missiles hit Saudi Arabia — the first direct strike on Saudi soil in this war — and a single QatarEnergy LNG tanker crawled through Hormuz for the first time in three weeks. Escalation and a trickle of trade, same morning. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Here's what happened today. Missiles hit Saudi Arabia — the first direct strike on Saudi soil in this war — and a single QatarEnergy LNG tanker crawled through Hormuz for the first time in three weeks. Escalation and a trickle of trade, same morning.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

Jordan shot down Iranian missiles over its own sky today — a country that fights neither side became the corridor both sides use. The US then hit multiple targets inside Iran, and the IRGC promised retaliation. The map just got a new middle. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Jordan shot down Iranian missiles over its own sky today — a country that fights neither side became the corridor both sides use. The US then hit multiple targets inside Iran, and the IRGC promised retaliation. The map just got a new middle.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

Kyiv burned overnight — 70+ missiles and 280 drones, at least 8 civilians dead, two of them children. Hours later, Ryazan's refinery went dark. And a 10-metre crater sits in a Polish field. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Kyiv burned overnight — 70+ missiles and 280 drones, at least 8 civilians dead, two of them children. Hours later, Ryazan's refinery went dark. And a 10-metre crater sits in a Polish field.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 30/07/2026

Someone reached into the machines that run the water for 30-plus Minnesota towns and started flipping switches. Over two days, pumps and valves went haywire, one plant went dark, and a state that spent years hardening its systems watched them get probed all at once. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Someone reached into the machines that run the water for 30-plus Minnesota towns and started flipping switches. Over two days, pumps and valves went haywire, one plant went dark, and a state that spent years hardening its systems watched them get probed all at once.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 29/07/2026

Breaking WarDesk report: a drone just struck a US-owned gas tanker at Egypt's Damietta port on the Mediterranean. Fire spread to a second LNG ship. Crews evacuated, no casualties — but the war may have just crossed onto Egyptian soil for the first time.

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Breaking WarDesk report: a drone just struck a US-owned gas tanker at Egypt's Damietta port on the Mediterranean. Fire spread to a second LNG ship. Crews evacuated, no casualties — but the war may have just crossed onto Egyptian soil for the first time.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 29/07/2026

One night, three fronts — and the map stops pretending. Iranian missiles arc toward a US base in Jordan. Saudi jets bomb Iraq beside American ones. In Washington, three leaders circle a senator's coffin. The war isn't spreading anymore. It's synchronizing. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “One night, three fronts — and the map stops pretending. Iranian missiles arc toward a US base in Jordan. Saudi jets bomb Iraq beside American ones. In Washington, three leaders circle a senator's coffin. The war isn't spreading anymore. It's synchronizing.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 29/07/2026

Buckle in. The IRGC fired five ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan — first direct attack since the 2025 pause — as US and Saudi jets hit three militia sites in Iraq — per Times of Israel. Jordan intercepted all five. Then Hormuz traffic fell 18%. ⛓️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 29/07/2026

📉 MEMORY BLOODBATH — PRE-MARKET TAPE Samsung whiffed. Korea gapped down overnight and the whole memory/storage complex is bleeding into the US open. 9:05 ET: • SNDK −14.3% • MU −8.9% • STX −8.5% • WDC −6.9% Sentiment cascade, not a demand story. 🧵 #MemoryStocks

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 29/07/2026

Ukraine hit the Ryazan refinery, a Black Sea Fleet boat base, and Russia's largest e-commerce warehouse in one night — per Ukrainska Pravda. Not random. Fuel, hulls, freight — the three things that move a war economy. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Ukraine hit the Ryazan refinery, a Black Sea Fleet boat base, and Russia's largest e-commerce warehouse in one night — per Ukrainska Pravda.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 28/07/2026

Real talk — Zelensky flew to Washington today to beg for air defence while his own drone command rewrote its target list to include a Siberian refinery — per BBC. 123 hostile drones downed in 24 hours. Ten Russian sites hit. The tempo is the argument. ⛓️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 27/07/2026

Both straits are closed. Every historical oil-war script says prices should be spiking. Instead crude just fell 8% in a day. That's not supposed to happen. So I pulled the tape to find out who's on the other side of it. What I found is uglier than a supply glitch. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Both straits are closed. Every historical oil-war script says prices should be spiking. Instead crude just fell 8% in a day.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 27/07/2026

Iran isn't firing missiles today. It's testing what happens if it doesn't. Three days into a US–Iran strike pause, neither side has hit the other in 72 hours. The pressure didn't stop — it changed shape. Here's what's actually happening. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Iran isn't firing missiles today. It's testing what happens if it doesn't.”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 27/07/2026

Listen — Ukraine just hit a refinery in TYUMEN. That's Siberia. Two thousand kilometers from the front line, and Russia's fuel network is now inside drone range — per Reuters. Moscow's answer: extend the gasoline export ban to year's end. 👇 🧵 #Ukraine

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 27/07/2026

Israel's cabinet just greenlit a foreign 'stabilization force' for Gaza — the centerpiece of Trump's 20-point plan. The fine print: Israel picks who comes, how much aid enters, who moves — Reuters, Times of Israel. A peace force that answers to the occupier. 🪡

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 26/07/2026

⬛ We just rebuilt the WarHeatmap map engine from the ground up. Our live conflict map now runs on GPU — 4,000+ events drawn as a real intensity heatmap, not a pile of laggy glowing dots. Faster on phones. Sharper on desktop. Here's the dev log. ⛓️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 26/07/2026

Ukrainians keep hoping America does the right thing. Then they read the transcript. Two days after Ukraine hit the Russia-Iran supply chain, Trump said he trusts Putin's word that Moscow isn't arming Tehran. The hope and the record no longer match. ⛓️

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Ukrainians keep hoping America does the right thing. Then they read the transcript. Two days after Ukraine hit the Russia-Iran supply chain, Trump said he trusts Putin's word that Moscow isn't arming Tehran. The hope and the record no longer match. ⛓️”.

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 26/07/2026

Ukraine hit a Chornomornaftogaz oil-gas facility in Crimea AND a relay station guiding Russia's Geran/Gerbera drones — same night — per Kyiv Post. 1,700+ Russian drones, 95 missiles fired at Ukraine THIS WEEK. Half of those missiles: ballistic. 🧵 #SlavaUkraini

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

Ukraine just struck the seam of the axis. Zelensky says long-range strikes hit a Russian warship and Iran-linked cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea. Iran's foreign minister is now threatening Kyiv with ballistic missiles. A World War III inflection point. The map ⛓️

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

The Red Sea war just widened overnight. Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi Aramco at Jizan and Yanbu with dozens of missiles and drones — retaliation for Saudi airstrikes on Hodeidah. Blockade for blockade. Escalation for escalation. 🪡

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

THE COURT LOSES ITS PROSECUTOR MID-WAR ICC member states vote by large majority to dismiss Karim Khan — the man who signed active war-crimes warrants. Same day: Israel strikes south Lebanon, five dead in West Bank, Gaza City under fire. The referee left mid-match. 🪡 #War3

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

US STRIKES ON IRAN PAUSE — DAY 14 OF PHASE II, NO OVERNIGHT AIRSTRIKES First two-week lull since the campaign began — Trump says Washington "has yet to decide" on major strikes — per Al Jazeera, Iran International. Oman is quietly running point on Hormuz. 🧵 #HormuzStandoff

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

UKRAINE HITS A MISSILE PLANT 1,000KM INSIDE RUSSIA A Flamingo cruise missile punched through the roof of the Avitek plant in Kirov — deep in Russia's interior, per Ukrainska Pravda. Same night: refineries, ships, air defenses hit. 🪵 #Ukraine

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

HOUTHIS FIRE BALLISTIC MISSILE AT JIZAN, SAUDI ARABIA Saudi air defenses intercepted the launch over the southern port city — per The Guardian, Jul 25. Same day: Iran logs its first night without US strikes in two weeks. Direct war cools. ⛓️ #JizanMissileStrike

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 25/07/2026

ISRAEL BOMBS LEBANON ONE DAY INTO ITS OWN CEASEFIRE Israeli jets dropped 12 guided bombs on Hezbollah command posts in Maaroub, south Lebanon — one day after a UN-mediated ceasefire was announced — per Al Jazeera. The ink wasn't dry. 🪵 #Lebanon

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Pete McVries | OSINT @indica.osintnet.uk · 24/07/2026

Feb 27, 2026 — the day the dial broke. Geneva nuclear talks collapse. Pakistan-Afghanistan declare border war. AI-targeted strikes in the Caribbean. Clinton says yes to an Epstein subpoena. I built the map that night. The war launched in 24 hours. 🪡

Editorial hero image for an OSINT news thread titled “Feb 27, 2026 — the day the dial broke. Geneva nuclear talks collapse. Pakistan-Afghanistan declare border war. AI-targeted strikes in the Caribbean. Clinton says yes to an Epstein subpoena. I built the map that night. The war launched in 24 hours. 🪡”.

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