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Russian stuff blowing up: Finland steps up patrolling Baltic Sea waters [1]
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Date: 2025-01-03
Finland isn’t playing around with Russia. One tanker, ironically called Lucky Lady, was found to be violating sanctions.
Translation:
Finnish and Estonian warships have effectively begun a blockade of shipping routes from St. Petersburg to the Baltic. They are detaining all gas and chemical tankers, gathering them in one place between Tallinn and Helsinki, and then checking them for involvement in violating sanctions. This began after the detention of the Eagle S tanker. Now another one has been caught.
x Финские и эстонские военные корабли фактически начали блокаду судоходных путей из Петербурга в Балтику. Они задерживают все танкеры газовозы и химовозы, собирают их в одном месте между Таллином и Хельсинки а затем проверяют на причастность к нарушению санкций. Началось это после… pic.twitter.com/PpXMxyNAIb — ⭐️Oles Filonenko⭐️ (@FilonenkoOles) January 2, 2025
Russians in the destroyed town of Toretsk toss a wounded comrade out the door like some kind of sacrifice.
x This is what Toretsk looks like.
What the Russkiy Mir "liberation" looks like.
And in the middle of it, Russian terrorists throws their wounded comrade out the door to die. Maybe he was to loud, who knows with those psychos. pic.twitter.com/Y3QPplu5rp — Kvist (@kvistp) January 3, 2025
A. It isn’t your home.
B. Tough shit.
x The Ukrainian Armed Forces delivered a fiery New Year's greeting to Russian forces:
"January 1st today. The Ukrainians hit our home. Everything burned: belongings, armor... Everything!" pic.twitter.com/RPxuj8MiQp — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) January 3, 2025
Another 1,080 losers. The number of Russian casualties has been lower lately due to a relative lull in the fighting, which might be because of the weather or the holidays or something else.
Russia continues to creep forward in the Pokrovsk area.
x Pokrovsk direction
Russians -after regrouping- once again became active in the Pokrovsk direction. On the western flank, Russian forces captured Novovasylivka and are pressing towards Vovkove-Zirove. Near Shevchenko, Russians are pushing along the railway tracks to Novoukrainka. pic.twitter.com/WbfdHdummU — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) January 2, 2025
Russia continues to target Kherson.
x My close friend’s family grocery store got hit by Russians for the sixth time (and it was flooded after they blew up the dam, too). She is a terrific person who helps people, a poet, cooks a storm…
Kherson. 💔 pic.twitter.com/XgzNLext3F — Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@ZarinaZabrisky) January 2, 2025
Is this guy drunk or what?
x 😁👀 straight into the pit pic.twitter.com/GDUqna6Jta — PS01 □ (@PStyle0ne1) January 3, 2025
Russia plants anti-tank mines, Ukraine collects them and sends them back to the Russians.
x 🇺🇦 Baba Yaga drones sending the Russian TM-62 anti-tank mines back to the terrorists, must be pretty irritating to get your own mines dropped on your dugout like that.
Should have stayed home in the swamp instead. pic.twitter.com/q5rLcvJjWp — Kvist (@kvistp) January 2, 2025
So, how’s the Russian economy doing?
x Russia's central bank halted dollar purchases as the ruble reached its lowest level since 2022, now at 114 rubles per dollar
The decline follows sanctions on Gazprombank and economic strain due to ongoing war costs, according to British Intelligence
https://t.co/Mynlrec8iw — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) January 3, 2025
x Inflation in Russia keeps growing. Economic experts say that real inflation hovers around 20% right now, and will keep growing.
Videos of soaring prices for groceries are going viral on Russian social media.
Some Russians also try complaining to their local authorities about…
https://t.co/I8whEHwnJs pic.twitter.com/G65lBnoBpe — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) January 3, 2025
A Russian grandma on Putin: “He grew up an evil little brat. He was unloved, unrecognized.”
These Russian grandmas have no more fucks to give.
x "I'd tell him [Putin] to go f*ck himself. I lived through that war, I know how hungry I was then. And now I'm hungry too! Russians are afraid of everything. Russians are afraid to speak." - a Russian grandma says.
Unfortunately, not a lot of Russians think like her.
https://t.co/1kfqj0WpGk pic.twitter.com/yJjkwJd8wP — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) January 3, 2025
Orban has turned Hungary into a pariah.
x Unwanted Viktor
Poland, which takes over the EU presidency, has refused to invite Hungary’s PM Viktor Òrban to the official ceremony.
Hungary’s ambassador in Poland is not welcome either.
📸 MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán pic.twitter.com/fvKgDxXYmx — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) January 3, 2025
Slovakia isn’t making any friends either.
x After a trip to Putin, Slovakia didn't know where Fico was for two weeks.
Fico only recorded videos on social media, from which it was unclear in which country the Slovak Prime Minister was. Meanwhile, his office refused to inform the media about the Prime Minister's… pic.twitter.com/YsS8QWlIJd — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) January 3, 2025
Fico only recorded videos on social media, from which it was unclear in which country the Slovak Prime Minister was. Meanwhile, his office refused to inform the media about the Prime Minister's whereabouts. Only in his latest video, in which he criticized Zelensky, did Fico reveal his location. He is not in Slovakia, but in Vietnam.
A Russian soldier apparently decided to commit suicide, but instead of shooting himself or exploding a grenade against his chest as others have done, he just walked casually up to Ukrainian positions and raised his rifle as if to shoot.
WARNING: Video shows the Russian being shot.
x A very strange incident occurred near the positions of the 🇺🇦63rd Mechanised Brigade in the Lyman direction.
A Russian soldier with a weapon approached the positions, the soldiers thought he wanted to surrender and shouted at him to stop and put his weapon down, but he didn’t do… pic.twitter.com/uv4hnQCpRQ — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) January 3, 2025
Meanwhile, in Transnistria, where gas supplies from Russia have been cut off, the government of Moldova offered to help them buy gas from another European source but Transnistria refused. They prefer to wait for Russia to resume shipments. The gas from Russia was free.
x ⚡️⚡️⚡️#Moldova: Tiraspol refused to accept Chișinău's assistance in supplying gas through an alternative corridor. They stated that they would wait for Gazprom to resume deliveries. — Denis Dermenzhi (@iamdenya_de) January 3, 2025
x The first humanitarian issues in the Transnistria region have emerged. The leader in Tiraspol announced that the activity of hundreds of enterprises is on hold, leaving thousands of people unemployed. Additionally, according to Vadim Krasnoselski, after the holiday break,… — GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo) January 2, 2025
Additionally, according to Vadim Krasnoselski, after the holiday break, students from the left bank of the Dniester will study remotely, and only some kindergartens will remain operational. "It is cold in 150 kindergartens, 130 schools, and an equal number of budgetary institutions in the region," reports the local press. At the first crisis cell meeting of the new year, Krasnoselski stated that the region has only 13 million cubic meters of gas left, sufficient to meet the gas needs in the south until January 20 and in the north (the Rîbnița and Camenca districts) until January 10. Meanwhile, 116,000 residential consumers can receive gas for cooking, according to IPN.
Meanwhile, the oil from those sunken Russian tankers continues to wash ashore all over the area.
x "The Crimean Wind" reports that oil spills from sunken Russian tankers are now drifting along the western coast of occupied Crimea.
Despite the lies of the so-called governor Razvozhayev about 'isolated spots', the fuel oil has reached Sevastopol and Balaklava Bay, and in… pic.twitter.com/A98BhVMFVJ — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) January 3, 2025
Many of these Russians considered missing will likely never be identified, not because identification is impossible but because Russia isn’t interested in doing it.
"Russians have over 100,000 missing persons in total, not including those we already know have died. Many missing Russians are scattered across our fields, their remains being carried away by dogs. Identification of these remains is of no interest to Russia." - said Bohdan Okhrimenko, a representative of the Coordination Headquarters.
x The Ukrainian hotline "I Want to Find" has received over 50,000 requests from relatives of missing Russian soldiers.
"Russians have over 100,000 missing persons in total, not including those we already know have died. Many missing Russians are scattered across our fields, their… pic.twitter.com/5vqyXdWtB5 — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) January 3, 2025
It’s hard to imagine why someone would want to help destroy their own city.
x A decade in jail for being a traitor
Ukrainian national Kateryna Kushnariova from Kharkiv helped the Russian FSB to better hit targets in her own city before Ukrainian authorities tracked her and her three accomplices down and arrested her in 2023. pic.twitter.com/SjxZcFM6HW — Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) January 3, 2025
Fiber-optic controlled drones are the new development that renders electronic warfare measures useless.
x A new threat looms: Russians predict the imminent deployment of "hundreds of thousands" of fiber-optic-controlled drones by the AFU—drones that are impervious to electronic warfare. This claim is allegedly supported by reports of large-scale component purchases from China.
On… pic.twitter.com/qTNk5XDnMd — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) January 2, 2025
The nuance is that FPV drones with fiber-optic control are already being actively used. Specifically, according to on-the- ground reports, in the southern part of the Pokrovsk direction (where, among other things, units of the Madyar's Brigade are operating), near Novotroitske, the enemy has almost entirely switched to fiber-optic control. Electronic warfare is ineffective, and the road section from Zholte to Novopustynka is literally filled with burnt-out vehicles. Some of them are combat vehicles, including tanks, but the majority are trucks and small transport vehicles for supply and evacuation. These drones are already quite numerous, flying almost every five minutes along the road, searching for targets.
More war crimes.
x 🤬 Russians deport 119 Mariupol high school students to St Petersburg for "re-education" – National Resistance Center
https://t.co/4nOwP0vJ1R — Ukrainska Pravda in English (@pravda_eng) January 3, 2025
Here’s an update on the civilian airliner from Azerbaijan that Russia shot down.
x 1/ Russian air defence crews reportedly shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 with two missiles fired from a Pantsir launcher near Grozny, after being 'blinded' by a Russian electronic warfare system, according to a detailed account of the incident on 25 December 2024. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/xfOu3QLaNN — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) January 3, 2025
2/ An account published by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which has often published information that appears to have been leaked from sources in the Russian security forces, describes some of the preliminary findings of the official Russian criminal investigation. 3/ It reports that Grozny was guarded by the following air defence systems: two Pantsirs, an S-300 (recently delivered from Syria) and a Buk air defense system. One of the Pantsirs was installed in the Visaitovsky district north-west of Grozny. 4/ The Pantsir unit had only recently been installed there after the same area was targeted by Ukrainian long-range drones earlier in December. Its three-man crew – commander, operator and driver – were interrogated by the Russian Investigative Commmittee. 5/ According to VChK-OGPU, "their air defence system fired two missiles: at 08:13:30 and at 08:13:40. The missiles exploded at 8:13:50 and 8:14:30. The latter explosion hit the plane." 6/ "According to the [Pantsir commander], the orders to launch both missiles were given from Rostov, by a commander named Borisov. 7/ "When asked about the targets, the combat vehicle commander explained that such a powerful electronic warfare system was in operation that it “jammed” not only civilian but also military equipment. This also affected the operation of the air defense missile system. 8/ "For some reason, the plane was not displayed in “green” on the air defense missile system’s radar. He believed that he had an unspecified target. 9/ "A direct question was asked whether he understood that there was a civilian plane in the kill zone, since the aircraft was flying at an altitude that was not typical for drones and had different parameters from the UAV. 10/ "The commander did not give a clear answer, explaining that an order was given for each “launch,” but the plane was not displayed on the air defence missile system as a civilian aircraft. Like, how did he know whose plane it was?
Here’s a Russian soldier who has figured out that the problem is the war.
x Looks like at least one man in Russia finally figured out what the rest of us already know:
“Then new children will be born. New families will be created and the demographic problem in Russia will be solved.
We need to get there somehow. We need to stop this useless and… pic.twitter.com/kbYZmP2L3G — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) January 2, 2025
Combat Cat takes a swat at a Russian FPV drone.
x #TeamTim - get a cat 'flork' ready please..
This is believed to be a Russian FPV drone - stopped by a feline friend... and the cat was fine, went to check the job was finished! pic.twitter.com/CLCYMsNZFJ — Tim White (@TWMCLtd) January 3, 2025
Alcohol may have been involved.
Dead Morose is a play on Ded Moroz, Russia’s version of Santa Claus.
x Dead Morose joyriding a Christmas tree behind an Audi while setting off fireworks pic.twitter.com/uLFhPq5iFb — Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires (@EPICGOPFAIL) January 2, 2025
Speaking of “Dead” Moroz.
x Russian Santa takes a selfie with a shop owner and then shoots him...
Ho-Ho-Ho pic.twitter.com/EYFxXFpM7c — Kvist (@kvistp) January 3, 2025
Rest in peace.
x Finnish volunteer soldier Aleksi Lysander has lost his life in combat in Eastern Ukraine. He was trained by the French Foreign Legion which he joined soon after turning 18.
Lysander was highly respected in Finland and Ukraine, known for his refusal to glamorize war while… pic.twitter.com/wrpmddPc7K — Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) January 1, 2025
Her son has returned home.
x A heartwarming video of a Ukrainian defender returning home to his mother.
May there be more reunions like this, may the light overcome darkness, and Ukraine overcome russia. pic.twitter.com/TUYGKmj27W — Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@rshereme) January 3, 2025
Well, that’s one way of doing it.
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