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1. 11 August 2026 · Latest casualty update time not statedReported / attributed

   Unidentified cargo vessel — projectile strike off al-Makha

   Southern Red Sea off Al-Makha (Mocha), Yemen; precise position not published · Port or tanker · Drone / missile attack

   UK Maritime Trade Operations classified Warning 110-26 as an attack after receiving a report that a cargo vessel in the southern Red Sea off al-Makha had been hit by an unknown projectile, resulting in casualties. An earlier account from British maritime-security company Vanguard said two crew members — one Pakistani and one Indonesian — were killed aboard the commercial vessel and four others — three Pakistani and one Indonesian — were injured. Vanguard said a Yemeni Navy vessel deployed to assist then came under fire, causing an additional fatality. Yemen's Transport Ministry subsequently raised the death toll to four and said Houthi forces fired three ballistic missiles at the ship, followed by an additional missile toward rescue teams attempting to reach it, wounding a Yemeni rescuer. Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar later said three Pakistani nationals were killed and one was injured. He condemned the attack on what he described as a non-combatant commercial vessel and said Pakistan was coordinating with Saudi authorities and Yemen's internationally recognised government. Yemen's Coast Guard has now raised the wider reported toll to six people killed and 10 injured. Dar's statement clarifies part of the nationality breakdown but does not account for every casualty in the latest aggregate, and the successive reports remain unreconciled in other respects. The Houthis had not immediately commented. The timing, vessel description and overlapping location indicate this is likely an update to UKMTO 110-26, but the reviewed sources did not explicitly cross-reference one another, so that linkage remains provisional. The reports did not identify the vessel, flag, cargo, damage extent, environmental impact, exact position or incident time. The marker is therefore an approximate offshore reference near al-Makha and is not placed in Sudan; the Sudan label supplied with the original report described an external map's viewport. This is separate from the missile and drone attacks on al-Makha city and port on 9 August.

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2. 10 August 2026 · Morning (local time)Reported / attributed

   TANECO refinery, Nizhnekamsk — mass drone attack

   Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia · Refinery · Drone / missile attack

   Tatarstan authorities said Nizhnekamsk came under a massive drone attack targeting industrial and civilian facilities. They reported 13 people killed, including a child, and at least 75 wounded across the city; nine of the deaths were reported at a hostel. Associated Press described it as one of the deadliest attacks inside Russia during the full-scale war. An RT report updated earlier that day carried the same death toll but an earlier regional-government injury count of 48; the record retains the later figure of at least 75. Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck Tatneft's TANECO oil refinery and started a fire. Russian officials did not identify the drones' specific targets, and the refinery strike and fire could not be independently verified in the reviewed reporting. The casualty figures apply to the wider Nizhnekamsk attack and must not be attributed specifically to the refinery site. This is a separate attack from the strikes on TANECO and other Nizhnekamsk facilities in June and July 2026.

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3. 9 August 2026 · Two attacks within 24 hoursDocumented

   Al-Makha port — Houthi missile and drone attacks

   Al-Makha (Mocha), Taiz Governorate, Yemen · Port or tanker · Drone / missile attack

   Houthi forces attacked the government-held Red Sea port city of al-Makha twice within less than 24 hours using ballistic missiles and drones. Yemen's government-aligned armed forces said residential areas and port facilities were targeted and that air defences intercepted some drones. Yemen's Defence Ministry subsequently reported at least seven people killed — four troops and three civilians — and 30 injured; an earlier account had specified at least 15 civilian injuries. A Yemeni information-ministry official said the attacks severely damaged port buildings and piers as well as commercial goods and food supplies. The Houthis said they targeted weapons depots, military forces and Saudi troop concentrations. The record therefore distinguishes confirmed port damage and reported casualties from the opposing parties' disputed descriptions of the intended targets. Al-Makha is a principal port controlled by Yemen's internationally recognised government and has been renovated to handle shipping diverted from Houthi-held Hodeida.

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4. 8 August 2026 · Early hours; reported 10:30 GMTDocumented

   ADNOC vessel — missile attack, no injuries

   Strait of Hormuz · Port or tanker · Drone / missile attack

   A vessel belonging to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) was targeted by a missile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE's WAM state news agency initially reported without identifying an attacker. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs subsequently accused Iran of the strike, describing it as an act of piracy by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and demanding Tehran halt the attacks and reopen the strait fully and unconditionally; ADNOC confirmed one of its ships was targeted by a missile but did not detail damage or the vessel's exact location. No casualties were reported. The attack drew swift condemnation from Gulf and Arab governments: the Gulf Cooperation Council's secretary-general called it a 'dangerous and unacceptable escalation'; Qatar and Saudi Arabia condemned it and demanded the strait reopen without conditions, with Riyadh calling it a grave breach of international law and UN Security Council Resolution 2817; Jordan called it a flagrant violation of international law; and Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it violated international law, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and Resolution 2817, affirmed full solidarity with the UAE, and urged the UN Security Council to take decisive measures. It follows ADNOC's own statement the previous day (7 August) that 15 of its vessels had been attacked by missiles and drones since the war began, including three that week alone, resulting in one fatality and 20 injuries; this new attack is separate from and not yet included in that count.

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5. 8 August 2026 · Reported by early afternoon CETDocumented

   Drone explodes near Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, Bulgaria

   Near Kardam, Dobrich Province, Bulgaria (Romanian border) · Pipeline · Drone / missile attack

   An unidentified drone entered Bulgarian airspace from the direction of Romania and exploded about 1,000 metres from a compressor station on the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, near the former Kardam border checkpoint in Dobrich Province, close to the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said noise from the drone was detected by Romanian border police before a loud explosion was heard by a Bulgarian border-police patrol near General Toshevo; he said both Bulgarian and Romanian authorities had failed to detect the drone in their respective airspace. No casualties or damage to buildings or infrastructure were reported, though the drone was reportedly carrying a large quantity of explosives. Radev said Bulgaria would redeploy border-police anti-drone detection and countermeasure capabilities from its border with Turkiye to the border with Romania, and an investigation was launched to determine the drone's type and origin. Bulgaria's defence ministry later said there were indications the drone was of a type used by Ukrainian armed forces and that the incident was likely accidental; no group or government claimed responsibility. Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said the incident would be raised at a NATO North Atlantic Council meeting early the following week. The Trans-Balkan pipeline (part of what an opposition lawmaker described as the Vertical Gas Corridor linking Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Ukraine) has also been described as linking Turkiye to Ukraine. The incident follows a surge of drone incursions into Romanian airspace, including three drones Romanian forces shot down in late July — at least one confirmed as a Russian-made Shahed-type — and a Russian explosive-laden drone that hit a Galați apartment block in May.

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6. 28 July 2026; Unit 2 at imminent risk of shutdown as of 6 August 2026Documented

   Cernavodă NPP — Unit 1 shut down, Unit 2 at imminent risk as record-low Danube threatens cooling

   Cernavodă, Constanța County, Romania · Nuclear Power Plant · Operational failure

   A severe drought and heatwave drove the Danube River to record-low levels, cutting the cooling water available to Romania's only nuclear plant, Cernavodă. Unit 1 was shut down and disconnected from the grid on the morning of 28 July 2026; Unit 2 was initially expected to follow but was kept online after an analysis found its operating parameters still allowed safe continued operation. Authorities also blew up an underwater rock formation near Izvoarele to try to divert more river flow toward the plant's cooling intake. The same power crunch led Romania's government to ask roughly 80 major industrial electricity users to cut consumption; Dacia and Ford both temporarily halted production at their Romanian car plants (using the pause for planned maintenance) until 19 August, a step officials said would save about 200 MW. The drought produced parallel effects elsewhere on the Danube: Hungary shut its only nuclear plant, Paks, entirely (see the separate Paks record), while Bulgaria's Kozloduy plant continued operating at planned capacity, with Bulgarian officials coordinating with Serbia to release water from the Djerdap 1 (Iron Gates) dam upstream to keep river levels above Kozloduy's cooling threshold. The Danube's flow in Romania fell to an all-time low of about 1,400 cubic metres per second on 6 August, roughly a third of the usual August average. With Unit 2 now the country's only operating reactor, plant director Romeo Urjan said it would likely have to shut within five to six days without further intervention; Romania's navy detonated another rock obstruction and the state water agency rushed to sink four rock-filled barges into the river to build an underwater barrier redirecting flow toward the plant, a measure Urjan said could extend operation to nine or ten days if it works, though the sinking was itself delayed a day by unsafe conditions. Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said a staged, pre-notified industrial power-cut plan was ready but not expected to be needed for five to seven days, or for as long as Unit 2 keeps running. Analysts (ING Bank) cautioned that these river interventions are emergency stopgaps, not a substitute for new generation capacity or grid investment. No radiological release was reported at any of the three plants; this is a drought-driven operational and cooling-water event, not a nuclear-safety accident.

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7. 25 July 2026 · Time not stated (GMT / UTC+0)Documented

   Jizan Aramco refinery and fuel storage

   Saudi Arabia · Refinery · Drone / missile attack

   Saudi Aramco fully shut down its 400,000 bbl/d Jazan refinery on 27 July after a Houthi attack reported two days earlier damaged the Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and oil tank-farm area, according to IIR Energy reporting cited by Reuters. The Houthis said they targeted the refinery again on 9 August with a drone. Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry confirmed a fire at a facility belonging to the refinery but did not state its cause; no casualties were reported. IIR subsequently moved the expected restart from 15 August to 30 August. Reuters linked the prolonged Jazan outage and the 10 August TANECO strike in Russia to a sharp tightening in global diesel supply: US ultra-low-sulfur diesel futures rose 7.4% to $4.19 per gallon on 10 August and European diesel refining margins rose nearly 10%. US distillate inventories were 107.2 million barrels on 31 July, the lowest for that time of year in three decades. Those market figures provide context and are not presented as damage caused solely by Jazan.

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8. 14 May 2026 · 05:45 GMTDocumented

   Unidentified vessel — seized at anchor and taken toward Iranian waters

   38 NM northeast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates · Port or tanker · Shipping disruption

   The company security officer reported that an unidentified vessel was taken by unauthorised personnel while at anchor approximately 38 nautical miles northeast of Fujairah and was proceeding toward Iranian territorial waters. UKMTO continued to investigate and did not identify the boarding party, report casualties or damage, or attribute responsibility. A later JMIC incident table described the vessel type as fishery research and continued to withhold its name. The identifier #28082035 appears in some web listings for this record, but the official UKMTO warning number is 057-26 and the agency classified it as Suspicious Activity rather than Attack. The marker position is approximate, calculated from the reported distance and direction from Fujairah.

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9. 3 April 2026 · Time not statedDocumented

   Al Taweelah industrial site — attack and emergency shutdown

   Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Power Grid · Drone / missile attack

   Emirates Global Aluminum said Iranian missile and drone attacks caused significant damage at its Al Taweelah site in Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi. The entire site was evacuated and all listed facilities—including the captive power plant and alumina refinery—entered emergency shutdown. EGA said some alumina-refinery and recycling production might restart earlier, while complete restoration of primary aluminum production could take up to 12 months. The 100% figure describes the confirmed initial site-wide shutdown, not permanent capacity loss. The marker is placed at the Al Taweelah complex.

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10. 3 January 2026 · approximately 06:00 local timeDocumented

    Berlin-Lichterfelde power-cable bridge — Vulkangruppe-claimed arson

    Berlin, Germany · Power Grid · Sabotage

    Unknown perpetrators set fire to a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal at the Lichterfelde combined heat-and-power plant in southwest Berlin, destroying five 110kV high-voltage and ten 10kV medium-voltage cables feeding substations serving Dahlem, Schlachtensee, Lichterfelde, Nikolassee, Wannsee and Zehlendorf. The outage cut power (and, in freezing winter weather, heating) to more than 40,000 households and over 2,000 businesses — roughly 100,000 people — including hospitals, nursing homes, schools and daycare centres; mobile and internet infrastructure was also disrupted. Berlin's Senate declared a major-damage situation and requested Bundeswehr logistical assistance to fuel emergency generators. Power was not fully restored until 7 January, making it, per German reporting, the longest lasting power outage in the city since 1945. A letter of responsibility published on Indymedia by a group calling itself Vulkangruppe described the act as "oriented towards the common good" and a protest against fossil-fuel power generation; investigators considered it likely genuine, though the federal government stopped short of confirming the motive, and rival or disavowing letters muddied the claim. Mayor Kai Wegner called the attack terrorism; the case was transferred to the Federal Prosecutor General over suspected terrorist-organisation membership, and a €1 million reward was later offered for information leading to identification of the perpetrators.

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