Steve VanProoyen

🇺🇦🇳🇴 Sky protection and basic minimum provision of drones for brigades — Ukraine and Norway agree on priorities Fedorov met with his Norwegian counterpart on the eve of Ramstein. The parties agreed on cooperation in the field of air defense, drone development and defense innovations, in particular, on providing brigades with a guaranteed minimum of drones.

@FaytuksNetwork Did they use minehunters?

NEW: Several U.S. Navy vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday without coordinating with Iran, a U.S. official told Axios, in a move contrary to Iranian state media reports that a destroyer had turned back after a warning. The official said the operation was intended to boost confidence for commercial shipping and reinforce freedom of navigation

@BarakRavid With or without minehunters?

🚨The U.S. official said the warships crossed the strait of Hormuz from east to west to the Gulf & then made their way back through the strait to the Arabian sea 🚨"This was an operation that focused on freedom of navigation through International waters", the U.S. official said

@BarakRavid Does the US have their minehunters nearby?

@BarakRavid @JasonMBrodsky @axios I don’t think this is accurate

🚨🇺🇸🚢U.S. warships cross Strait of Hormuz for first time since Iran war began. My story on @axios axios.com/2026/04/11/us-…

The #Iran regime delegation in #Pakistan for talks with the U.S. includes Mohammad Jafari Sahararudi, who led a terror operation in Vienna, Austria in 1989 that assassinated Iranian Kurdish leaders.

"A senior Iranian source said on Saturday the U.S. had agreed to release Iranian frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks, welcoming the move as a sign of 'seriousness' in reaching a deal with Washington in talks ‌in Islamabad. The source, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters that unfreezing the assets was 'directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz,' which is expected to be a key issue in the talks." reuters.com/business/finan…

🚨🇺🇸🚢Several U.S. navy ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, U.S. official says 🚨🇺🇸🚢The move was not coordinated with Iran. It's the first time this happens since the beginning of the war

@OilHeadlineNews @JackRyanlives Were they forced to pay the toll?

THREE SUPERTANKERS JUST CROSSED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

NEW: Iran’s Fars News Agency reports a U.S. destroyer moving from Fujairah toward the Strait of Hormuz turned back after an Iranian warning issued via Pakistani mediation during Iran–U.S. talks in Pakistan. Iran said it told mediators the vessel would be targeted “within 30 minutes” if it continued, and that talks would be affected. The ship then halted and withdrew according to the report.

@Faytuks Have we gotten our minesweepers s back back from Southeast Asia?

Trump says "we're now starting the process of clearing out the strait of hormuz". This comes after Axios reported that US warships have crossed the strait.

The goal of the negotiation in Iran should not be an end to fighting for its own sake. It should be a better peace. History shows that wars that end without resolving the underlying drivers do not really end. They just produce the conditions for the next round of fighting. A better peace here is not hard to define. It means an Islamic Regime in Iran that is not on the threshold of a nuclear weapon. It means a regime that cannot use control of international waterways as a tool of coercion. It means a regime that is not building missiles capable of reaching Europe or the United States, missiles to attack its neighbors or to shield its nuclear weapons pursuit. And it means a regime that is no longer funding, building, and sustaining proxy terror armies in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, and Iraq. If those conditions are not met, then whatever agreement comes out of negotiations is temporary. Many people only focus on stopping the fighting. That is not the same as achieving the purpose of the war. The real measure is whether Iran’s behavior changes when the war is over. If the capabilities remain, the intent will follow. And if both remain, the conflict will start again later. Ending the war is not the objective. Ending it on terms that will hold is.

“Russia's crude oil exports from its main western ports increased in early April compared with March, trading and port sources said and Reuters calculations showed, despite disruptions to loadings caused by ‌drone attacks on energy infrastructure… The Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, along with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, loaded a combined total of about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in the first week of April, compared with an average of 1.9 million bpd in March, three trading and port sources said… However, a sharp increase in loadings at Primorsk in April, as well ⁠as high export volumes from Novorossiisk early in the month prior to a drone attack, have so far helped to offset the halt ⁠in Black Sea exports, the sources added.” reuters.com/business/energ…

When (not if) Orbán loses this weekend’s election, Europe won’t be out of the woods. He won’t give up power easily. Russia has likely prepared a “regime preservation” package. Expect pressure, instability & Russian operatives on the ground. This will be a major test for the EU.

Two Members of the Iranian Delegation tell @MSNOWNews contributor @inzyrashid: "Talks will not start until a ceasefire is agreed in Lebanon. As of now, we haven’t met with US officials in Islamabad. But we have had extensive conversations with our Pakistani brothers and hosts and have relayed out position.”

The grooming of Orban's regime as a Trojan horse inside the EU and NATO is no longer speculative: it's now evidence-based, confirmed by leaked Budapest-Moscow communications. Agentstvo reports that roughly half of all Russian embassy staff maintain ties to intelligence services:

Iran's red lines include Strait of Hormuz, payment of war reparations, release of Iran blocked assets and ceasefire across the region - Iran State TV reporter