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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
On the night of August 4, the Kiev regime launched a sea drone attack against a Russian tanker. Luckily, the resulting damage was insufficient to sink the ship or cause any casualties among the 11 crew members, but it did hinder its operation. The attack happened at about 23:20 just south of the Kerch Strait, according to a statement by Russia’s Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport. The vessel was later identified as the chemical tanker SIG. The Russian maritime agency detailed that there is a hole “near the waterline on the starboard side, presumably as a result of a sea drone attack” and confirmed there were no casualties.
It’s important to note that the SIG is sanctioned by the United States for transporting jet fuel to the Russian military in Syria, making American involvement in the attack almost a certainty, particularly at a time when Washington DC’s aggression against Damascus is escalating. The targeting information was most likely provided by US ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) platforms which then relayed this to the SBU or the Neo-Nazi junta forces. The move aims to hamper vital Russian logistics in Syria, particularly operations by the VKS (Russian Aerospace Forces) which is regularly intercepting US/NATO aircraft illegally entering Syrian airspace.
To further conceal direct US involvement, the Kiev regime openly boasted about the attack, which is highly unusual given the fact that it normally maintains plausible deniability in the aftermath of such actions. According to NBC, “the tanker was transporting fuel for the Russian troops,” citing sources and adding that “it was well loaded” and that “the ‘fireworks’ could be seen from afar”. They said that a surface drone and TNT had been used to carry out the attack. A video was also released and shared by several Neo-Nazi junta officials, showing a sea drone moving towards the tanker, although it cuts just before reaching the ship, suggesting the explosion followed immediately after.
“Any explosions that happen with the ships of the Russian Federation or the Crimean Bridge is an absolutely logical and effective step in relation to the enemy,” the head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk posted on Telegram, adding: “If the Russians want the explosions to stop, they should use the only option for this — to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine.”
Several hours before the attack on SIG, another sea drone damaged the “Olenogorsky Gornyak” landing ship, just off the port of Novorossiysk, one of Russia’s major export hubs. Coupled with attacks on tankers, such actions are obviously designed to hinder Moscow’s oil sales as the so-called “price cap” turned out to be a miserable failure, with even US vassals such as Japan ignoring it. By targeting Russian tankers and major ports, the US is hoping to stop or at least hamper oil sales. This is also connected to the issue of insurance for Russian vessels, meaning there would be no compensation in case of such attacks, possibly prompting other tankers to halt transporting Russian oil.
On the other hand, drone strikes on Russian cities aim to disrupt normal economic activity and discredit Russian authorities, probably in hopes of causing unrest of some kind. On August 6, Moscow’s Vnukovo airport was forced to temporarily halt all flights due to a failed drone attack. The Russian military’s electronic warfare (EW) assets downed the drone in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs. The attack could have caused untold damage had it reached the airport, jeopardizing the lives of thousands of civilians. Since major drone attacks on buildings in Moscow (including the Kremlin itself), the Russian military strengthened its air defenses in and around Moscow, including by placing “Pantsir” SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems on rooftops.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote on Telegram: “Today at around 11:00 AM, a drone attempted to break through to Moscow. It was destroyed on the approach by air defenses. Well done, military.”
Drone attacks on civilian infrastructure are absolutely irrelevant to Russian military operations in Ukraine, meaning they are either an act of desperation (as the Kiev regime’s much-touted counteroffensive has been an absolute debacle) or the United States is simply trying to launch a total war against Russia, as its economy has proved to be virtually impervious to political West’s unrelenting sanctions warfare. Another proof that the economic siege of Russia has failed spectacularly is the fact that the Eurasian giant’s economy will grow 1.5% this year, according to an assessment by the IMF. This “unpleasant surprise” most likely prompted the political West to take “concrete action” in order to prevent such a scenario, as its own economic prospects are not looking so good.
Namely, although President Joe Biden vowed to “turn the ruble into rubble” just last year, this has proven to be nothing more than a fantasy, as the Russian economy is now outperforming those of its adversaries, the same ones enforcing the sanctions. Unable to face Moscow in a fair fight, be it militarily, economically or otherwise, the political West is left with underhanded tactics such as biological warfare, evident terrorist attacks and even covert nuclear proliferation. As previously mentioned, all this can only be described by two words – total war. And while it inevitably results in damage for Moscow on a tactical level, strategically and historically, Russia has never lost such confrontations, as evidenced by the last attempt by a certain failed painter with a peculiar mustache.
we all know kiev’s brutal regime uses mortar shells and missiles to strike innocent civilians.
*shrug* the longer this goes on the worse it is for everyone. russia has said they will strike any vessels using ukrainian ports, civilian, foreign or otherwise.
i am not buying this us-nato lullaby “we do not want the war with russia”. there has already been a one and the obvious culprits who are, in fact, cowards, are its indivisible part. so be ready to pay your bill !
the globalists blame russia for causing the usa to loose hegemony when blame can be more accurately put on corruption , poor leadership , economic mismanagement and an unrealistic world view.. making this war foolish ill advised and likely to yield no positive results win or loose.
über 32000 milliarden$ staatsschulden alles in verbrechen investiert ist die krux des unterganges
für die usa!
russia should realize that the article 5 is causing them fear which is out of proportion to the actual threat. when one is too afraid of ones opponent to take the risk of escalating, then your hands are tied and they have an advantage. putin must encroach on the borders of article 5 because nato en masse are already at war against them.
if nato had wanted to wage war against russia in actuality, then they should already have done so! if nato wanted to use nukes against russia, they would already have done so. there is a reluctance by nato to do either out of fear. therefore if russian ships and oil tankers get targeted, russia must target the us ships. their pipelines, ships, bridges from the uk to the us are all legit targets.
russia can also do these things in such a way that russia is not actually giving evidence of having done these things. then when russia gets blamed for it, they can say that the us blames russia for blowing up their own pipelines and then they blame russia for blowing up american pipelines. the us is not worth listening to. then if accused and asked to deny they can sarcastically say oh yes we blew up our own pipelines and then we thought it would be great fun to blow up some more of them.
russia can also say that when all of these things happen to them, the ukrainians tend to be blamed, even though russia considers the us and uk and ..culpable so maybe we should blame it on ukraine. the russians can also fabricate about things having gone missing when the next explosion occurs in russia or use captured nato nations stuff back against them,
1/2 if i were a russian military advisor i would not be thinking about pushing the bounderies of article 5, that would only give nato precisely what it wants: an excuse. they screwed it up this time, the whole world is watching and russia isn’t playing, nor should they, unless they can use a5 or make a sufficiently horrific fabrication stick nato loses as soon as they attempt a direct intervention.
2/2 of course it’s also true that if the can’t intervene directly then they lose anyway by attrition and attention span. not to mention all the lessons the russian army has taken away from this war, even the navy is showing learning difficulties, so long as they stay the course russia is already victorious.
of course sf..but russia has water drones( we see months ago one of them attacking a bridge in odessa)..so it means that russian water drones can attack ships in black sea or even in mediterranean sea in iran style…it is to say that they dont “know” nothing about the attack…
anglo-us-krake schlägt breits irratio umsich, gleich einem ertrinkenden nichtschwimmer
it’s been a long time since nato should have ended the russian nazis who invaded a sovereign country and their specialty is committing war crimes by attacking civilian targets, the russian government is worthless and trash
these attacks on civilians are the american school… in 1999, for the first month and a half, the nato gang targeted military targets, and when they saw that it had no effect until the end of the war, they frantically targeted civilian targets because… the result is important, not the method!
this is just another us, nato attack on russia and all of it organized and carried out by them and ukrainian shills. us and nato are about to loose more than this war for sure; as they sanction more nations such; as niger. much of africa will not stand with having resources ripped from them forever and western nations militarys in their countries. it’s all an existential fight unfolding across continents.
usa#1 i’m a tranny pedophile that doesn’t realize the world’s discussed and laughing at me and my woke country that destroys the family to push child destruction and mutilation. oh, we even have a tranny admiral and will see he dance with my pedophile freaks in front of classrooms of children. we also read homosexual stories with pedos; as well. we are discusting.
time to flatten kiev once and for all. the civlians were already informed many times to leave that nazi capital – and if they did not by now, it’s their own fault. we, the forum members, expect mr. medvedev to act and fulfill his words. it’s time.
moscow mayor sergey sobyanin declared a digital qr code system will defend moscow in the future. you must have a digital id and a digital wallet to enter into moscow if you are a drone or a nato pilot.
why are bridges over dniper standing?