US EUROPEAN COMMAND - The United States, with support from the United
Kingdom, interdicted the motor tanker Bella I alongside the previously
seized M/T Sophia.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that both vessels were
either last docked in Venezuela or en route to the country.
Secretary Noem described the ships as part of a “Ghost Fleet,” noting
that Bella I had evaded U.S. Coast Guard pursuit for weeks by repeatedly
altering its flag and even repainting its hull with a false name in an
effort to avoid capture.
LATVIA - On the morning of August 14, a NATO fighter jet operating under the Baltic Air Policing mission from a base in Lithuania intercepted and destroyed a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle that entered Latvian airspace over Balvi Municipality.
GERMANY - On August 6 the Office of the Federal Prosecutor assumed lead of the investigation into the explosive-laden drone recovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport on the night of August 4-5, classifying the incident as a serious attack on Germany’s transport and logistics infrastructure.
CEUTA, SPAIN - The U.S. Department of State on August 1 updated its Travel Advisory for Spain, raising Ceuta to Level 3 - Reconsider Travel due to unrest.
POLAND - An armed Russian Kh-101 cruise missile violated Polish airspace and crashed in a field near Tarnawa-Kolonia, approximately 31 miles (50 km) from Lublin, during a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into July 30.
