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BREAKING: Zelensky just told NBC News that Russian satellites photographed Prince Sultan Air Base three times in the days before Iran struck it. He shared this intelligence from Doha, sitting in the same Gulf state where he had just signed a 10-year defence deal to protect against the weapon Russia helped Iran build. One man. Both sides of the intelligence war. Same interview. Zelensky shared a summary of his daily presidential intelligence briefing directly with NBC News per the exclusive report published hours ago. The briefing stated that Russian satellites imaged Prince Sultan Air Base on March 20, March 23, and March 25. On March 27, Iran struck the base with six ballistic missiles and 29 drones, damaging an E-3 Sentry AWACS and multiple KC-135 tankers and wounding at least 15 American troops per AP. Zelensky told NBC: “We know that if they make images once, they are preparing. If they make images a second time, it’s like a simulation. The third time it means that in one or two days, they will attack.” Then the sentence that will reshape the war’s narrative: “Do they help Iranians? Of course. How many percent? One hundred percent.” NBC separately reported earlier this month that Russia was providing intelligence to Iran on the location of US forces in the Middle East, citing four sources with knowledge of the matter. Lavrov denied it in an interview with French media on Thursday, though he admitted Moscow has sent military equipment to Iran under their long-standing alliance. Here is what makes this the most important intelligence disclosure of the war. Zelensky is not a neutral observer. He is selling the counter-weapon. Ukraine’s FPV interceptors kill the Shahed-136 at a 70 percent rate. The Shahed was designed by Iran, upgraded by Russia, fired at Ukrainian cities for four years, and is now being fired at the Gulf states Zelensky just visited. He signed defence deals with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar in 48 hours. And from the same tour, from the same interview, from the same city where he signed the deal, he hands NBC the intelligence showing that Russia photographed the base those interceptors are designed to protect. The timing is strategic. Zelensky is demonstrating to Washington and the Gulf that Ukraine sits at the intersection of both wars. Ukraine knows Russia’s satellite patterns because it has been targeted by them for four years. Ukraine counters Iran’s drones because it has been intercepting them for four years. Nobody else occupies this position. Zelensky told NBC he believes Putin wants “a long war in the Middle East” because it delivers higher oil prices, temporary sanctions relief, and revenue for Russian weapons production. “If sanctions are lifted, he will get more money, much more money, and he will put this money to weapons.” Russia photographs American bases for Iran. Russia upgrades drones for Iran. Russia profits from the oil spike the war creates. And Russia sends deputy ministers to Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean to sell the fuel that bypasses the chokepoint Iran controls. The spotter and the seller are the same country. The man who exposed the spotter is the same man selling the counter-weapon to the countries being targeted. Two wars. One architecture. One man sitting in Doha connecting both. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…



BREAKING: Iran did not randomly hit Prince Sultan Air Base. New analysis suggests the attack geometry targeted the E-3 AWACS parking area specifically, not the tankers beside it. Defence Security Asia reported within hours that post-strike Landsat imagery indicates “one or two E-3G Sentry aircraft may have been destroyed or rendered inoperable.” The publication concluded the strike pattern shows “the E-3G parking area appearing more central to the attack geometry” than the KC-135 tankers. If correct, this was not a punitive barrage. It was a precision operation to decapitate American airborne command and control. Air and Space Forces Magazine confirmed “a photo showed significant damage to a USAF E-3” and that “multiple refueling aircraft and an E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane are among the aircraft damaged.” Retired Air Force Colonel John Venable told the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a huge deal. It hurts the U.S.‘s ability to see what’s happening in the Gulf and maintain situational awareness.” Planet Labs satellite imagery from February 21 showed 43 aircraft on the PSAB tarmac, including 13 KC-135 tankers and six E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft per Times of Islamabad. Six of America’s 16 operational AWACS were concentrated at a single base in the open. No hardened shelters. No dispersal. Parked on the apron like commercial aircraft at a regional airport. Iran struck with six ballistic missiles and 29 drones per AP and WSJ. Most were intercepted by Saudi Patriot and THAAD systems. But the ones that got through hit the command layer, not the combat layer. The E-3 does not drop bombs. It tells every other aircraft where to drop them. It tracks Iranian drones, coordinates F-35 strike packages, manages tanker flows, and maintains command links across the entire theatre. Damage one E-3 and you do not lose a weapon. You lose the system that makes every weapon effective. CENTCOM has not commented on the damage. No official statement confirming or denying destruction. The Aviationist reported that Sentinel-2 short-wave infrared imagery showed “a heat signature at the same location” consistent with “flames and hot gases in the smoke towering from the area.” The Aviation Geek Club confirmed the E-3 and multiple KC-135s were damaged. No outlet has confirmed total destruction, but every outlet confirms the aircraft is out of action. And the replacement does not exist. The Boeing 707 airframe has not been manufactured since 1992. The E-7 Wedgetail successor has two prototypes funded but will not fly until 2028. Each E-3 costs $537 to $596 million in 2026 dollars. There are 16 left. Six were at this base. The war is 28 days old and America’s airborne command architecture is being degraded by an adversary whose missile capability CENTCOM says has been reduced by 90 percent. That is the number that should terrify every defence planner. Ninety percent of Iran’s missiles are gone. The remaining ten percent hit the brain. Over 300 service members have been wounded in Operation Epic Fury per Air and Space Forces Magazine. Thirteen killed. The carrier is in Croatia for a laundry fire. The tankers are damaged on the ground. The AWACS is out of action. And a three-star general is telling 35,000 reservists to pack their desert uniforms and prepare their families. Iran does not need to match American firepower. It needs to find the one aircraft America cannot replace and put a missile next to it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…







🔥 Leningrad: Russia's Kirishi refinery still burning 2 days after Ukraine hit.









