A third oil tanker came under attack near the coast of Turkey. Two others were crippled in an earlier strike. Also, a fourth tanker has been slowly sinking off the coast of Senegal in West Africa.
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Footage has emerged showing the aftermath of the attack on the Russian tanker Midvolga 2 in the Black Sea.
According to media reports, the vessel was traveling from Russia to Georgia, allegedly carrying sunflower oil. It is now moving toward the Turkish city of Sinop.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Ukraine has no connection to the incident involving the Russian tanker Midvolga-2 and officially denies any accusations spread by Russian propaganda, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tykhyi. He added that the supposed route from Russia to Georgia via Turkey’s free economic zone makes little sense.
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
An update from the tanker off the coast of Senegal:
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1/ An apparent attack on a 'shadow fleet' tanker off the coast of Senegal means that Ukraine may now be able to attack Russian interests worldwide, says Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots. He calls it a new and threatening phase in the war. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
2/ Kots, who writes for Komsomolskaya Prava, has asked how Russia should respond to the severe damage suffered on 27 November by the oil tanker Mersin. Its Turkish owners report that the vessel was hit by four external explosions while it was in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
3/ The crew is reportedly safe, but videos show the vessel down by the stern after the engine room flooded. The incident is strikingly similar to the confirmed Ukrainian attacks on 28 November against two oil tankers which were travelling to Russian Black Sea ports.
Ukraine attacked another base of the Chechen Akhmat unit.
Ukraine also struck a refinery in Oryol.
The most dangerous assignment in the Russian Army?
Go raise this flag on that building to show how awesome and powerful we are.
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Russian soldier Almaz was sent alone into Volchansk to raise a Moscovian flag on a ruined house. AFU surveillance drones were already tracking him, yet his commanders pushed him forward with no cover because they needed a propaganda clip for state TV.
#OSINT
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— OSINT Intuit™ (@urikikaski.bsky.social) November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ukraine had full visibility on his approach and a sniper eliminated him the moment he stepped into the open. No tactical value. Just another life thrown away so Skabeeva and Solovyov can announce progress in a city Russia cannot hold.
Hell’s Angels get sent to hell.
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On the Lyman front, a Russian assault group on motorcycles tried to break through and seize the positions of the tank crews of the 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade under the cover of fog. As a result, Ukrainian defenders tore the enemy to pieces, destroying 12 motorcyclists.
t.me/ombr66
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The U.S. has cut off some military aid to Ukraine.
He noted that until recently he could exchange text messages with Pentagon representatives around the clock, but now this channel of communication has been terminated. Now, to obtain information, he has to contact the German embassy in Washington.
Update from Kupiansk.
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🇺🇦 Most of Kupyansk is under the control of Ukrainian troops, - Joint Forces Group
Ukrainian military notes that separate groups of Russian invaders are holding out in the northern regions.
"The Russian leadership is still made up of pathological liars," the statement said.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Update from Pokrovsk.
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The Russians released a propaganda video claiming the complete capture of Pokrovsk.
The General Staff of the AF of Ukraine has refuted Russian fakes about the "capture" of Pokrovsk and Vovchansk. The situation there is difficult - neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces fully control the city.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A Russian FAB 3000 UMPK arriving in Pokrovsk. This is how Russia advances now. Erase a block, leave nothing to hold, move the line forward by meters, and repeat until the map changes shape. Ukraine’s ‘lose a city, win a war’ strategy depends on making every advance as costly as possible.
#OSINT
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— OSINT Intuit™ (@urikikaski.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What makes this especially obscene is that the Russians see no issue with rebuilding the theater and erecting a Christmas tree on the site where they murdered an estimated 600 civilians.
Another 1,110 Russians who should have stayed home.
Let’s check in on the Russian economy.
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Russian economic collapse: Russian Railways has urgently requested 200 billion rubles because it's out of money.
The government is afraid to give them money though because so many other state companies are in equally deep trouble and need money too.
Start making popcorn.🍿🍿🍿
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— Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
They should have named it the SS Minnow.
Doesn’t really matter what the Russian public wants or doesn’t want because they won’t do anything about it.
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Senior Russian officers privately admit what polls now confirm: Russia’s war has hit a wall
Internal survey shows 83% of Russians fatigued, 56% want immediate end. Only 23% support continuing - yet none will challenge a system that rewards obedience
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It was difficult to evacuate a wounded comrade so this Russian suggested cutting off his arms and legs to make it easier.
Another interception of a conversation between Russian occupiers and Ukrainian intelligence officers — this time about the “special features” of evacuating the wounded in the Pokrovskoye direction.
“You tell him, we’ll carry you anyway, with your legs cut off, on…. To make it easier. To make it easier for him, we can cut off his arms, legs, bandage everything, f…, tie him up,” suggests one of the occupiers.
“Yes, that’s right, and it will be easier for us to carry him then,” agrees the other.
Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Moscow today. It won’t end well.
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🇺🇸 The Russian side will send Steve Witkoff back “with a counter-proposal that Witkoff will screw up and present as a great deal,” a US official told WP.
Putin will try to return the talks to the original 28 points, which were changed by 🇺🇦🇪🇺. “And then everything will just fall apart,” he said.
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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I hope they remembered to bring their kneepads.
And it’ll happen again because Witkoff is as firm as a bowl of lukewarm Jell-O.
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“It has happened many times where we had co-ordinated our position with the US and then Witkoff goes to Moscow and, after seeing Putin, Trump puts out a statement that takes us back to square one,” said a senior Ukrainian official.
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— Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) December 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Putin must think he has more tanks than he actually has.
A British Army vet is accused of plotting assassinations of Ukrainian officials.
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Ross David Cutmore was detained by Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, in October for allegedly securing firearms and ammunition from Russia’s FSB to “carry out targeted killings on the territory of Ukraine”, Ukrainian officials confirmed to @financialtimes.com.
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— Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) December 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Something useful discovered at Chernobyl.
This pro-war group is from a convent in Belarus. Makes you wonder they are even allowed into countries in Western Europe.
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Sweden's Church just warned parishes: don't let these nuns in.
Their leader calls the monastery a "combat unit." Investigators found GRU ties. Their Christmas market sales fund Russia's war.
England and Poland already expelled them.
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Well, at least it’s better than a cemetery flooded with raw sewage.
