NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/9/2026*THREE MAJOR CHINESE FIRMS GET 'MILITARY DESIGNATION' FROM US*DAMAGE ISRAELI AIRBASE?*US CHOPPER SHOT DOWN NEAR HORMUZ*IRAN WAR CONTINUES IN LEBANON*XI, KIM VOW CLOSER CHINA-NK TIES*

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Russian air defenses taking down 292 attacking Ukrainian drones today...RIA Novosti Russia

A MAN KILLED IN A CAR BOMB EXPLOSION NEAR MOSCOW TODAY.   

THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS BOMBINGS-ASSASSINATIONS IN MOSCOW LINKED TO UKRAINIAN INTELLIGENCE SINCE THE UKRAINE WAR BEGAN...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...

MEANWHILE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES PUTTING OUT WORD A SUSPICIOUS DEVICE WAS FOUND ON ANOTHER CAR IN THE MOSCOW AREA.    

THAT DEVICE SAID TO HAVE BEEN 'NEUTRALIZED'...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

The US designating three major Chinese businesses as 'military companies'.   

They include BYD a company selling less expensive electric cars than US based electric car maker Tesla.

Also included the Chinese based technology company "Alibaba" and the Chinese internet service and AI company "Baidu".

This move by the US Department of War (Defense) sets those companies up for imposition of more serious sanctions in the future...OSINTdefender "X"

US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP NOW ACKNOWLEDGING IRAN SHOT DOWN A US HELICOPTER.

TRUMP SAYS THE US IS OBLIGATED TO RESPOND...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

In Kenya police firing tear gas and making six arrests at a demonstration opposing a US Ebola treatment center being prepared for American exposed to the virus.

A Kenyan judge barring the center from operating as he considers the lawsuit against it.   

But preparations for operation of the center continue at an airbase in Nanyuki...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)

IMAGES FROM A EUROPEAN COMMISSION SATELLITE SUGGEST DAMAGE AT ISRAEL'S RAMAT DAVID AIR BASE FOLLOWING IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS.

IMAGERY FROM YESTERDAY SHOWING A DISCOLORED PATCH WHERE A HANGER IS LOCATED.

ISRAEL SAYS 24 IRANIAN MISSILES WERE FIRED SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY.

ALL MISSILES SHOT DOWN SUNDAY NIGHT AND MOST MISSILES WERE DOWNED ON MONDAY...TIMES OF ISRAEL

(Updated) A US army helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz.

Sources tell The New York Times the two-member crew of the Apache AH-64E attack helicopter were rescued.

It is still not known if the chopper was shot down...OSINTdefender "X"...US President Donald Trump confirming rescue of the crew without providing further details.

EIGHT KILLED IN THE LATEST ISRAELI ATTACK IN TYRE, LEBANON.   IT CAME AFTER AN ORDER TO EVACUATE FROM THE ISRAELI MILITARY.

IRAN HAS WARNED OF ATTACKS IF ISRAEL CONTINUES TO LAUNCH ATTACK IN LEBANON AIMED AT THE IRAN-ALIGNED HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT...AFP FRANCE-AL JAZEERA QATAR

The markets today...Marketwatch

CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING WELCOMED IN PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA FOR STATE VISIT BY KIM JONG UN

NORTH KOREA AND CHINA VOW A NEW ERA OF CLOSER RELATIONS DURING A VISIT BY CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING.

XI VISITING NORTH KOREA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS.

HE SAID CHINA IS RESOLVED TO 'DEFEND THE COMMON INTERESTS OF BOTH SIDES'.

KIM SPEAKING OF A 'SPECIAL, GENUINE AND SOLID STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP' WITH CHINA...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA

The Pentagon reversing classification of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints the "Mormon Church" as a non-Christian group.

Controversy ignited when the Defense Department trimmed the number of recognized faiths from 200 to just 31.

The LDS Church not one of the 21 Christian denominations on the trimmed list.

Republican US Senator Mike Lee of Utah described the non-Christian classification of his faith as ' very unfortunate' and bringing the government into a 'doctrinal dispute'...The Hill USA