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A Ukrainian drone boat hit and disabled a tanker alleged to be a part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” on December 10, Reuters reported, citing Ukrainian officials.
According to the officials, the tanker, identified as Dashan, came under attack as it sailed through Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea on its way to the Russian port of Novorossiysk.
The tanker, which flies the flag of Comoros , was sailing at maximum speed with its transponders turned off and sustained critical damage during the attack, in which powerful explosions hit its stern, the official at the Security Service of Ukraine, more known by its acronym SBU, said.
Three Sea Baby-type suicide drone boats were used in the attack on Dashan, according to footage released by the SBU. Boats of this type typically have an operational range of around 1,000 kilometers, a speed up to 48 nautical miles, and could carry a payload weighing as heavy as 850 kg.
Notably, a RC-135W Rivet Joint intelligence aircraft of the Royal Air Force was flying over the Black Sea close to Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone when the Dashan was targeted. This suggests that the United Kingdom played a direct role in the attack.
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This was the fourth such attack against a tanker with alleged links to Russia’s shadow fleet and the third to be claimed by the SBU.
On November 28, multiple suicide drone boats struck two Gambian-flagged tankers alleged to be a part of the shadow fleet, the Kairos and the Virat, off the coast of Turkey. Ukraine described the attack as a joint operation involving the SBU and the navy.
A third tanker, the Russian-flagged MIDVOLGA-2 tanker came under attack later on December 2, also off the coast of Turkey. The tanker, which was carrying sunflower oil, was targeted with aerial drones. Kiev denied any involvement in the attack.
The attack on Dashan indicates that Ukraine, likely with the support of the UK, is now waging a war on Russia’s shadow fleet, likely to make up for recent defeats.
In recent weeks, Kiev forces lost two three key cities, Pokrovks, Kupyansk and Vovchansk, and they are expected to lose two more, Myrnohrad and Siversk, before the end of the year. On top of this, Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Russian territories became way less effective in recent months.
Russia slammed Ukraine’s tanker war, but has not yet responded in kind. The Russian military could easily shut down all Ukrainian ports, even target Ukrainian ships way beyond the Black Sea. However, Moscow appears to be giving a chance to the ongoing peace talks.
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during the meeting, the u.s. treasury department announced a 180-day extension of its suspension of enforcement of the so-called caesar sanctions. a compete revocation of the sanctions is expected soon with the approval of the u.s. congress…………………… https://psee.io/8ela5d
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as of to be a human of the latest order, what do you have to pay or loose in your
sick existence, except nothing? so go on with that rotten life of yours, nobody has ever cared nor will.
they won’t win peace .the eu s insisting that russia’s a threat means they can make demands which will ensure russia won’t accept .and the popes justified their position already .do it’s ww3 on the way allegedly .a hundred years war .
so it’s ww3 on the way .
here the problem is the incompetence of the black sea admirals after 4 years of war, unable to find solutions.
russia has good submarines but thats about it. russia would be better of control the black see by air and from land based missile and drone troops.
change your name, you shit.
there are more classes of submarines in russia, than any nation in the west. she has 64 subs, many under 10 years old, including balistic submarines. 16 balistic, ‘borei-k class’, took 7 years to build (2014-2021) and enter active service. uk it takes at least13 years to build a small attack submarine and for it to reach active service. together with russia’s 14 attack subs, 11 cruise missile attack subs, 23 diesel-electric plus her ‘special service’ submarines, not under naval control.
2) the uk, has 9 submarines and bearing in mind it takes around 13 years for the uk to produce a small attack submarine, and for it to reach active service. astute attack submarine, there are 5 commissioned, plus the 4 aged balistic subs, which will not be replaced until the mid-30’s and the missiles are leased from the us, with us having full control over when and how they are used. astute replaced 12 aged submarines, swiftsure and trafalgar class subs.
3) france is in the same position, 2 aged attack submarines, 3 post 2020 attack submarines and 4 aged balistic submarines.
us has 69 subs. 49 aged attack submarines and 18 aged balistic submarines, due to be replaced in the 30s. russia has been rolling both balistic, attack and cruise control subs, off the conveyor belt since 2014. so has a high percentage of relatively new submarines, all classes, unlike the west.
russia’s problem is that they have to restrain themselves because they don’t want to fall into the trap of being too aggressive .they’re on a tight rope of balancing the war without being portrayed as the big bad wolf anymore than already .
none of the adversaries of russia will ever honor anything in the direction of “restrain”. it is the still not completely died out “admiration of western partnership” in the russian leadership that prevents them from “starting something serious” even three years into a war where they are lead by the nose.
that is how putin thinks, which is why he should retire.
why care what the demographically dying (((west))) thinks about anything?
how you make me laugh. you are so obsessed with president putin, and yet you hero worship the pianist prick and his snowy nosed besties. now why am i singing ‘rudolph the white nosed reindeer’ as images of the 3 stooges and the ‘little green man’ comes to mind?
the brics are the reason they restrain themselves. the west will allways hate them and is allready calling the russians the worst. but russia knows that the other brics are always calculating when the cost is to high and its better to join team usa. the more ther west says or does against china the better for russia.
beware of the divide and conquer attempts. the empire will not share power and wants its enemies (not ‘adversaries’ there is no room at its side, just under its boots till it finishes you off) to decouple if not to destroy each other. playing the tyrant works best against the cowards and the weaks.
russia is also exposing the west. if russia had not taken it slowly, in accordance with international law, and showed the 80% of the world, that owns 20% world debt, how they actually respect both the citizens of ukraine, as well as their own forces, things would have been so different. russia has the respect of the majority of nations, excluding the west, owing to have they have conducted themselves. unlike the west, which governs 20% of the planet, but, owns 80% of world debt.
they are calm and coping well. it also helps that they understand the idiots that they are up against. what i have found fascinating, since 2014, is how their patience and understanding of their foes, has exposed the stupidity of the west, to the world. as we watch nato and the eu ready to fall.
too many strange ‘deals’ with ‘partners’ and ‘oligarchs’ to fight in a normal manner.
are you talking about zelinsky and the nazified west?
in the uk, we have got more admirals than military ships. funny that and most of them promoted, owing to being good, little, ‘yes men’.
all roads lead to the vatican. the 3 october treaty of 1213 was signed. king john of britain, ratified his surrender of all his kingdoms to the pope, including future territory colonised (which includes the usa). the treaty has never been receded. over 2,000 years ago, jerusalem was an outpost of the roman empire.
pt 2. – frankfurt, before the fall of the roman empire, was a free city of the roman empire. washington dc, city of london and the vatican, are squatters in the nations they reside, with their own taxes, laws and rules, based on the old roman empire. the 3 corporations that rule the world – washington dc – military, city of london – economics and the vatican – spirituality. jesuit zionists, jesuit christians and jesuit islamists – all part of the same club.
mr putin has said that if it keeps happening ukraine will end up landlocked.
they’re begging for it!
obviously they’re playing out a scene for historical retelling . it’s pretty basic game playing .
russia will be landlocked without crimea .apparently their arctic fleets wrecked ,their ice breakers damaged and the workers walked away ,according to you tube videos .but who can trust most of them anymore .some idiots with a laptop cutting and pasting old news clips and sticking their two bits in.
riddle me this, how many nuclear and non nuclear ice breakers have russia got. how many in active service and fully operational? then compare the figures with how many ice breakers the us have, and whether or not the us ice breakers are operational and in full working order;
how is russia landlocked? when she also has access to the baltic sea. white sea, baltic sea, caspian sea, barent sea, bering sea, laptev sea, east siberian sea, and the chukchi sea. ironically, the us has never ratified the international laws of the sea, meaning it has no say in the navigation of the world’s oceans, including the arctic or the caribbean, come to that.
all or nothing
russia must take whole ukraine, or russia has lost.
russia has lost anyways. 1 mio russians have died since 2021 , remember?
where the heck you got these numbers from? either you made up or got it from ukraine and nato. even if it’s true: that won’t deter russia.
russia is still capable of that and mutch more.
according to larry fink media. meanwhile, for every 1000 bodies returned to ukraine, 30 are returned to russia. even ukrainian nazis are confirming the deaths of at least 1 million ukrainian forces and that is not including those missing in action or wounded in action. ukraine even reported at least a quarter of a million of their forces have gone awol.
they have no desire to take the ukrainians with galician dna or the barren lands of western ukraine. who would want it? besides it is the part of ukraine that is russian unfriendly. it will go back to pre-1917 borders, with romania, hungary and poland reclaiming their lost territory.
nato and their ukrainian cannon fodder are giving russia no option but to also include odessa and the landlocking of ukraine as another target to be achieved by the special military operation.
it’s a war russia can’t win in the long run . anyway no one’s going to win and we will all be gone long before it ends.
for fact, don’t ever overvalue that human being, it dies without residues…
please speak for yourself. you are just a 1/8billion and want to speak for the whole mankind.
and the reality is more that you can see. so come down from your high space speaking down to us.
the nato member west has one economic policy more war. do they want the black sea closed ?
nato is france britain creation to counter germany originally .remember your history qe1 was told england’s destiny was to rule the world .to counter the vatican roman objective which to them they already had done since they had already given half the world to spain and half to portugal . by papal bull .there’s no law higher .
meaning the whole world is catholic owned according to the vatican .they never talk about it .that’s the clue .allegedly .
starlink-assisted? what’s musks’s stance on that?
they re not that smart actually and he’s not the richest man in the world it’s all propaganda .allegedly .old roman families are .
british imperial elites accusing russians from building an empire .. and sabotaging the peace as always
the empires that expanded across the globe are the british spanish dutch and french .
the brits intermarried with the spanish and dutch to unite as one extended family anyway .the french with the scots . but every president is related to margaret ,the sister of henry the 8 who married into scotland .they all are .allegedly .
how long will it take for russia to grasp the idea that “neutral territory” has ceased to exist on this planet? they should not wait for 8 years again before trying the first few steps, “not starting anything serious”, in the philosophy of their “valued western partners”!
they should cease to allow third party surveillance machines to operate over “neutral” war zones. they should declare – simply as a note of information to the un – that all areas – including neutral ones and possibly even foreign ones – where any adversary conducts warfare against russia are treated as war zones by russia.
if putin could get permission from the owners of russia to fight in a normal manner the ukraine wouldn’t have access to the sea.
by the end of it, ukraine will not have access to the black sea. president putin stated that he wanted to de-nazify and demilitarise ukraine, and for them to be neutral and kept out of nato. by taking it slowly, as a special military operation, he is de-nazifying and de-militarising ukraine. if he had declared war, then you would have seen a completely different script. remember georgia 2008 and saakashvili begging for a ceasefire after 3 hours?
one has to wonder — why isn’t russia hitting these terrorist helicopters with ecw to bring them down ?
soon everyone who loves democracy, which is a zionist creation, will be destroyed. and the righteous will celebrate.
there is no place for godless democracy in god’s kingdom.
porque a rússia não toma odessa? vamos pressionar putin a tomar odessa!