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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 1d

#Oiltanker mentioned is from #Torm ( #DK #Denmark #Copenhagen #DKBiz #EU #EUBiz #Europe)

southpatt 🇦🇺🍿 @southpatt.bsky.social · 2d

Australia is fueling Russia’s economy through an oil loophole

(fk me! - sorry everyone - wish my government had a fking brain)

odessa-journal.com/australia-is...

Russian Fuel Arrives in Australia Despite Sanctions - Oj

Russian tankers deliver diesel to Australia, fueling Kremlin revenues. AFUO urges Canberra to close loopholes and fully ban Russian crude imports.

odessa-journal.com

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 1d

#Oiltanker mentioned is from #Torm ( #DK #Denmark #Copenhagen #DKBiz #EU #EUBiz #Europe)

southpatt 🇦🇺🍿 @southpatt.bsky.social · 2d

Australia is fueling Russia’s economy through an oil loophole

(fk me! - sorry everyone - wish my government had a fking brain)

odessa-journal.com/australia-is...

Russian Fuel Arrives in Australia Despite Sanctions - Oj

Russian tankers deliver diesel to Australia, fueling Kremlin revenues. AFUO urges Canberra to close loopholes and fully ban Russian crude imports.

odessa-journal.com

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 8h

#FR #France patrolvessel keeping a close watch on #Arktika and #LadyD passing #DK #Denmark waters inbound #BalticSea

#Bamberg westbound and #RDN patrolvessel eastbound. About to handover something exiting #BalticSea ?

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 7h

Russian air defence is keeping track of when Swedish signals intelligence aircraft S102B Korpen take off from Malmen, Sweden and Russian forces are notified and warned.

Other SIGINT aircraft does not seem to cause this warning to be sent.

Go Sweden!

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 8h

Dutch newspaper NRC with new detail:

"This is an exceptional emergency measure intended to prevent IP related to chips from disappearing abroad. According to insiders, there were indications that Nexperia was planning to leak chip knowledge to China."

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Nederland grijpt hard in bij chipfabrikant Nexperia uit angst voor lekken chipkennis naar China

Intellectueel eigendom: Het ministerie van Economische Zaken legt de bedrijfsvoering van chipfabrikant Nexperia grotendeels stil, om te voorkomen dat chipkennis naar China weglekt.

www.nrc.nl

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 6h

Sweden minister of defence Pål Jonsson attributes Baltic area GNSS/GPS jamming to Russia. I think a first?

In same news, not only ambulances on Öland but also cows get spoofed, both to the sea and to Kaliningrad.

D.F3NS @s-n-a-f-u.bsky.social · 18h

Det är även fastslaget var de ryska störsändarna är placerade, i (norra) Königsberg och söder om Sankt Petersburg. Främst i kartläggningen är @auonsson.bsky.social

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fors... #ryssland #säkpol #föpol

Försvarsministern slår fast: Ryssland bakom gps-störningarna - P4 Kalmar

Det är Ryssland som ligger bakom gps-störningarna, som ambulanser i Kalmar län drabbats av, det säger Försvarsminister Pål Jonson.I kartsystemet kan det ...

www.sverigesradio.se

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but a fly @claudialanz.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting:
Container vessel HAIAN MIND (VN) IMO 9503691 departed from Dekheila/Egypt earlier this evening and is now at anchor OPL Port Said, enr to Nhava Sheva/India.
HAIAN MIND likely exchanged cargo with Russian gunrunner RUSLANA at Nemrut/Turkiye OCT04.

Context:

bsky.app/profile/clau...

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but a fly @claudialanz.bsky.social · 6h

Russian cargo vessel CRYSTAL STPETERSBURG is about to depart from El Dekheila/Egypt, Next destination St. Petersburg/Russia.

bsky.app/profile/clau...

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but a fly @claudialanz.bsky.social · 6h

Update:
NOVAYA ZEMLYA is now at anchor off Tartous/Syria, last port Istanbul/Turkiye.

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but a fly @claudialanz.bsky.social · 2d

Russian bulk carrier NOVAYA ZEMLYA is enr from Istanbul/Turkiye to Tartous/Syria.

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spectre crouton @spectrecrouton.bsky.social · 5h

...transiting northeast in the North Sea towards the Skagerrak

h/t @randomjazzlover.bsky.social @te3ej.bsky.social

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 8h

🚨Amazing:
🇳🇴 Norway’s drone detection system protecting Oslo Airport comes from 🇨🇳 Chinese company DJI Aeroscope, with system updates coming directly from DJI in China.

Unexpectedly that 🇨🇳 system was down for a full 19h from the evening of September 22nd, which is why the airport had to be closed.

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 8h

#SE #Sweden #Coastguard present as well nearing #Arktika and #LadyD

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 8h

#SE #Sweden #Coastguard present as well nearing #Arktika and #LadyD

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 9h

Looking forward to the Gloger/Mascolo book, soon to be released; here’s meanwhile a graph posted on X (🧵by “Pedro” x.com/mfphhh/statu...), which is helpful as a quick reference on the various Merkel goverments’ Russia policies.

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 8h

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but a fly @claudialanz.bsky.social · 9h

Update:
CRYSTAL VLADIVOSTOK is on the move again.

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Ramon Zarate @oldsun.bsky.social · 9h

This is only 25km from where an Estonian security service officer was kidnapped in 2014 by the FSB in a raid across the border and jailed in Lefortovo prison

auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia has closed off a road/border passing through Russia after larger than usual groups of troops have been spotted.

Comment: I am hard pressed to find any insignia on those filmed and SE news claims "little green men".

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 12h

Shadow fleet tanker VIREL (9299874), former VIPER, at anchor in #GulfOfFinland after departing fr/Ust-Luga/RU on 25/09/25. Reported dest. Tallinn/EE. Curr'ly under flag of Vanuatu (prev'ly Palau, Panama, ...).
Sanctions & Bans: EU, UK (OFSI)
(12/10/25 16:30 CET)

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 12h

Shadow fleet tanker MARIEL (IMO 9247376), built in 2002, at anchor in #GulfOfFinland, dest. unknown. She departed fr.Duqm/Oman on 12/09/25. Curr'ly under the flag of Sierra Leone.
Sanctions & Bans: EU
(12/10/25 16:43 CET)

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Christian Panton @pa.nton.cx · 12h

Gambia - now 3rd sketchiest flag, following Russia and Comoros.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 12h

Free link: on.ft.com/435Cvfi Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 12h

Nu gør vi det igen. Snart udkommer Krigens Politik – en ny bog, jeg har skrevet sammen med @veterandrusianer.dk. Vi beskriver de politiske drivere til krig, som man bør kende for at forstå verden omkring os, og hvorfor alting virker til at gå i den forkerte retning for tiden.

Få Krigens politik af Anders Puck Nielsen som Indbundet bog på dansk

Få Krigens politik af Anders Puck Nielsen som bog på dansk - 9788773393758 - Bøger rummer alle sider af livet. Læs Lyt Lev blandt millioner af bøger på Saxo.com.

www.saxo.com

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 12h

A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world

The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia

Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives

open.substack.com

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Kasper Junge Wester @veterandrusianer.dk · 11h

Anders og jeg har det meste af året barslet med et bogprojekt, som vi nu endelig må fortælle om. Om halvanden uge udkommer Krigens Politik - en slags toer til Krigens Logik, som vi udgav i 2023, men med et større fokus på de ideologier og geopolitiske strømninger, der skaber konflikt i verden.

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 12h

Shadow fleet tanker ODUNE (IMO 9229374), built in 2002, flag of Sierra Leone, at anchor in #GulfOfFinland after departing fr/Ust-Luga/RU on 08/10/25. Reported dest. Tallinn/EE.
Sanctions & Bans: EU, UK (OFSI)
(12/10/25 16:54 CET)

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