A significant part of the tank farm - a key oil storage and accumulation unit at the Tuapse Oil Refinery - was damaged or destroyed after an attack by Ukrainian drones. This is evidenced by satellite images based on Vantor data, published on April 26 by the Ukrainian OSINT project Exilenova+. Visual signs show damage to pumping stations, the railway oil loading rack, as well as process pipelines and piping units.

Z-channels began to disseminate information about the evacuation of parts of the Afrika Korps of the Russian Ministry of Defense from Kidal. Previously, pro-Russian forces denied claims about the capture of Kidal rebels, which were spread by Western media with reference to the Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front.

Earlier it was reported that the shooting occurred at the Washington Hilton hotel, where a gala dinner was being held for journalists accredited to the White House. The event was attended by Trump, his wife and representatives of the US administration. One Secret Service employee was injured and hospitalized. The suspect has been detained.

As a result of an attack by Ukrainian UAVs in the Vologda region, a high-pressure pipeline with sulfuric acid was damaged on the territory of the Ammonia-3 complex of Apatit JSC, the governor of the region, Georgy Filimonov, announced this early in the morning of April 26. According to the governor, five people previously received burns from sulfuric acid and were hospitalized. One of the victims is in serious condition.

Ukraine’s growing activity in the Middle East and Africa amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is turning Kyiv into an equal security partner in one of the world’s key regions. However, given Russia’s longstanding relationships with several of these same states, it remains unclear whether Ukraine’s new partnerships will endure after the war with Iran ends.

In the Colombian department of Cauca, a minibus explosion killed 19 people. According to El Espectador, on April 25, a gas cylinder filled with explosives hit the vehicle and exploded. Earlier, authorities reported 14 dead and dozens wounded. Updated data appeared after the start of the forensic medical examination: several interdisciplinary groups were involved in the work, which are engaged in identifying bodies and establishing the causes of death.

In Russia, a new edition of school history textbooks for 10th- and 11th-grade students is set to be published , authored by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky and MGIMO rector Anatoly Torkunov. Previous editions under their editorship were criticized for factual errors — even by official educational institutions. Beyond inaccuracies, the texts were full of ideological manipulation and whataboutism, features that will evidently remain in the new versions.

The bulk carrier PANORMITIS (IMO: 9445021) with grain exported from the occupied territories of Ukraine is approaching the Israeli port of Haifa, reported Katerina Yaresko, a journalist of the investigative project SeaKrime of the Peacemaker Center. On board - 6201.56 tons of wheat and 19,043.73 tons of barley. Investigators were able to document the origin of part of the cargo, Yaresko claims.

An opening ceremony took place in Pyongyang for a memorial complex and museum dedicated to North Korean military personnel who participated in hostilities against the Ukrainian army. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un spoke at the ceremony.

Twitch blocked the accounts of streamers who broadcast the Counter-Strike 2 championship, organized by Alabuga Polytechnic, and posted advertisements for the college. Blogger Alexey Gubanov (JesusAVGN) reported this. According to him, 14 players and streamers were blocked, including poka (Kirill Starovoitov), ​​PCH3LK1N (Alexey Pchelkin) and fANDERCS (Ilya Bagreev) - each has more than 500 thousand subscribers, they are in the top 100 of Russian Twitch in terms of audience size.

This is not the first time that Iran, weakened and decapitated, seems like easy prey to its opponents. After the Iranian revolution of 1979, purges in the leadership of the army and security forces by the new Islamic government reached such a scale that foreign intelligence services considered Iran’s combat capability to be completely lost.

The death of Mali's Defense Minister Sadio Camara was reported by several international media outlets. In particular, as Reuters reports with reference to RFI radio, he was killed as a result of an attack by the al-Qaeda-linked group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen (JNIM) on his residence at the Kati military base. Le Figaro , Jeune Afrique and Al Jazeera previously wrote about his death.