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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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where’s spideyman at? 😂
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.
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?
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.
too many strange ‘deals’ with ‘partners’ and ‘oligarchs’ to fight in a normal manner.
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.
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.
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.
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!