BREAKING: A Chinese J-16 fighter jet performed an aggressive maneuver last week, flying in front of the nose of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 above the South China Sea, causing the American aircraft to fly through wake turbulence. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command released a video of the incident Tuesday. AERIAL ASSAULTS: Russia was targeted by a drone attack Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian defense ministry, per our own GABRIEL GAVIN and NICOLAS CAMUT. “The attack involved eight uncrewed aircraft. All the enemy drones were shot down,” the defense ministry said, adding that no one was “seriously injured.” The assault comes after days of fire from Moscow. On Tuesday, Russia unleashed its third air attack in 24 hours on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to the city’s mayor VITALI KLITSCHKO, per Reuters. City officials said at least one woman was killed in the assault, with at least 11 others wounded. The Ukrainian Parliament approved a sanctions package against Iran on Monday, after accusing the country of supplying weapons for Russia’s latest assault. The decision will prevent Iranian goods from transitioning through Ukraine, and includes financial and technology sanctions against the country, per Al Jazeera. ERDO-WON: As widely expected, Turkish President RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN won reelection with 52 percent of the vote Sunday to stay in power for a third decade. World leaders, including President JOE BIDEN, quickly congratulated the autocrat on his victory. "I spoke to Erdoğan. I congratulated Erdoğan. He still wants to work on something on the F-16s. I told him we wanted a deal with Sweden, so let's get that done,” Biden told reporters Monday — appearing to imply that one depended on the other. Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN explicitly delinked the two issues on Tuesday. "While we are not linking the two issues –– when I say 'we,' I mean the Biden administration –– some members of Congress are," he said during a visit to Sweden. "We believe that both should go forward…as quickly as possible." Domestically, Erdoğan now has more authority to continue stacking the deck in his favor. The election itself wasn’t much of a fair fight because Erdoğan had near-complete control of the media, severely restricting the opposition’s ability to get their message out, and he used state resources to raise the minimum wage and physically hand out money. And on the world stage, Erdoğan –– the leader of a NATO country –– will likely continue to cozy up to Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN. That could increase friction as the alliance heads into a major NATO summit in July. HELP WANTED: Russia's paramilitary Wagner Group has been using Twitter and Facebook to recruit medics, drone operators and even psychologists to aid fighting operations, including in Ukraine, our own CLOTHILDE GOUJARD reports. Job ads for Wagner, which has mercenaries operating in several countries, have reached nearly 120,000 views on the two social media platforms over the last 10 months. Sixty posts in dozens of languages — including French, Vietnamese and Spanish — shared information about fighting, IT, driving and medical positions apparently available with Wagner. They also included contact phone numbers, Telegram accounts and touted monthly salaries of 240,000 rubles ($3,145) with benefits including health care. SANCTIONS OVER ANTI-GAY BILL?: Biden dangled the idea of sanctioning Uganda over its anti-LGBTQ bill. “We are considering additional steps, including the application of sanctions and restriction of entry into the United States against anyone involved in serious human rights abuses or corruption,” he said in a Monday statement. The president has already instructed the National Security Council to review if the U.S. can safely deliver humanitarian assistance after the law’s enactment and Uganda’s eligibility for some free-trade agreements. To get the benefits of such deals like the African Growth and Opportunity Act, “countries must establish or make continual progress toward establishing a market-based economy, the rule of law, political pluralism, and the right to due process,” per the office of the U.S. trade representative. TAIWAN’S D.C. REP TOUTS INVASION DETERRENCE: Taiwan’s government is going all-in on asymmetrical weapons systems to help deter a possible future invasion of the self-governing island, Taiwan’s de facto Ambassador BI-KHIM HSIAO said at a press briefing on Tuesday. Taiwan is in the market for “smaller, cost-effective, highly mobile survivable systems that will target an invading force and that would be strong enough to also deter ultimately any possible invasion,” Hsiao said, per our own PHELIM KINE. Taiwan’s defense system shopping list includes Stinger and Javelin missiles as well as weaponized drones. And Hsiao expressed optimism that the U.S. will clear the backlog of delayed weapons systems shipments essential to Taiwan’s defense. That backlog “has certainly had an impact on Taiwan” but there has been “good progress in terms of moving up some of the delivery timelines,” Hsiao said. IT’S TUESDAY: Thanks for tuning in to NatSec Daily. 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