❗Conflict Overview: Day 231

▪Twenty-two vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz in the first 13 days of October, as follows from TASS calculations

▪Two supertankers caught fire after colliding with naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said

▪The United States will not send weapons to Ukraine at the expense of security of its own armed forces in the Middle East, said Jude Russo, a columnist for the US magazine The American Conservative

▪Sounds of explosions were heard near the city of Sirik in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, the Fars news agency reported

▪A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) was attacked off the Yemeni coast, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) center under the Royal Navy said