Monday at BBC Verifypublished at 10:30 GMT
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Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
Good morning.
Over the weekend BBC Verify’s journalists saw reports that the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had been spotted in the Arabian Sea by a satellite.
Confirming the warship’s location – off the coast of Oman – adds to what we know about the US military build-up in the Middle East as Washington continues to put pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme.
After the US military boarded a second oil tanker in the Indian Ocean as part of a crackdown on sanctioned oil exports from Venezuela we’re using ship-tracking to see where it was intercepted. We’re checking publicly available tracking sites to see if we can learn what it is carrying and where it is heading.
Elsewhere, we’re checking reports that strikes overnight have caused damage to energy infrastructure in the Russian cities of Belgorod and Bryansk, both near the border with Ukraine. The government in Kyiv has said it will target energy facilities in Russia following repeated attacks by Moscow on power stations and networks across Ukraine this winter.
More on all those stories to come across the day.
