Guillaume de T’Serclaes

🇧🇪 - Toujours une joie de lutter contre la barbarie. - Rt does not endorse.

[Joe Barnes @Barnes_Joe]

🚨 NEW details emerging about the Russian warship firing upon a British yacht in the Channel earlier on Tuesday.

My source tells me the yacht may have edged a little too close to the Admiral Grigorovich before it was given several warning signals asking it to move away.

The problem was the yacht was not acting under its own power and therefore unable to immediately create distance. This is when the Russian ship fired a warning shot, although sources indicate this was definitly not aimed at the British vessel.

UK Government is seeing this as an isolated incident and not linked to the recent seizure of a shadow fleet vessel.

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

(FR/EN) 🇨🇩 Je suis outré par les déformations — délibérées ou non — de la position de la Belgique sur l'est de la RDC qui circulent en ce moment sur les réseaux sur la base d'une lecture totalement (volontairement?) biaisée de l'un de mes récents tweets.

Qu'il n'y ait pas d'ambiguïté : l'intégrité territoriale et la souveraineté de la RDC ne sont pas négociables. Pas de conditions, pas de préalables. Depuis le début, la Belgique a été à la pointe de la défense de ces principes au niveau international et le restera. De même, j'ai condamné l'agression rwandaise sans détour et je continuerai à le faire tant que l'ensemble des troupes rwandaises n'auront pas quitt�� le sol congolais.

Mais j'ai aussi toujours plaidé pour la mise en œuvre complète des accords de Washington signés par la RDC et le Rwanda. Ces accords sont limpides : le retrait des troupes rwandaises et la neutralisation des FDLR figurent dans la même phrase, à l'article 1.
Contrairement à l'intox qui circule, la Belgique ne conditionne pas l'un à l'autre. Elle demande simplement que chacun honore rapidement ses engagements librement consentis et reconfirmés à plusieurs reprises. C'est d'ailleurs exactement ce que disent les États-Unis par la voix de Massad Boulos, le Qatar, l'Union africaine et l'ensemble des partenaires du Groupe de contact international.

La population congolaise a trop souffert. Face à l'urgence, y compris l'épidémie Ebola, il faut agir maintenant ! Et faire taire les armes par toutes les parties.
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🇨🇩 I am outraged by the distortions — whether deliberate or not — of Belgium's position on eastern DRC now circulating on social media, based on a completely (deliberately?) biased reading of one of my recent tweets.

Let there be no ambiguity: the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the DRC are non-negotiable. No conditions, no preconditions. From the outset, Belgium has led the international defense of these principles, and it will continue to do so. Likewise, I have condemned Rwanda's aggression in no uncertain terms, and I will keep doing so until every Rwandan soldier has left Congolese soil.

But I have also consistently called for the full implementation of the Washington agreements signed by the DRC and Rwanda. Those agreements are crystal clear: the withdrawal of Rwandan troops and the neutralization of the FDLR appear in the same sentence, in Article 1.
Contrary to the disinformation being spread, Belgium does not make one conditional on the other. It simply asks that everyone swiftly honor the commitments they freely entered into and have reaffirmed time and again. This is exactly what the United States through Massad Boulos, Qatar, the African Union, and all the partners of the International Contact Group are saying as well.

The Congolese people have suffered far too much. Faced with the urgency, including the Ebola outbreak, we must act now! And silence the guns of all actors.

@BelgiumMFA @BelgiqueRDCongo

[UKMTO Operations Centre @UK_MTO]

JMIC ADVISORY NOTE 001 - UPDATE 056

Click here to view the full advisory.⤵️
https://t.co/9EazcBSA1v

#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec

[UKMTO Operations Centre @UK_MTO]

JMIC ADVISORY NOTE 001 - UPDATE 052

Click here to view the full advisory ⤵️
https://t.co/ZixzThAuIt

#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec

[Martin Kelly @_MartinKelly_]

⚠️ Possible Mine Sighting

Oman MRCC:

Suspected naval mine spotted floating west of the Inshore Traffic Zone in the Strait of Hormuz — inside Omani territorial waters.

#Straitofhormuz #Iran #maritime #maritimesecurity

[Virunga National Park @gorillacd]

It is with profound sadness that Virunga National Park confirms the deaths of two Park Rangers following a deadly armed attack on the ICCN post at Kamuhororo, on the southern shore of Lake Edward, this morning, Thursday 21 May 2026.⁠
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Read the full statement: https://t.co/rWtsDSnfGC

[Thord Are Iversen @The_Lookout_N]

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Naval footage from the nuclear exercise, first from the Northern Fleet.

It shows one unknown Delta IV-class SSBN departing, along with Ustinov, Levchenko and Gorskhov, led out by minesweepers.

[Theo Francken @FranckenTheo]

During the night from Monday 18 May to Tuesday 19 May, around 140 Belgian graves were vandalized at the Belgian military cemetery in Houthulst, which is managed by the War Heritage Institute.

A large number of metal memorial plaques were pried loose from the gravestones, with around ten of these stones suffering serious damage or being broken. Several of the plaques were also severely damaged.

All grave plaques were recovered by the WHI War Graves Service.

We are deeply saddened and shocked by this shameless act of vandalism at a place where we safeguard the memory of those who gave their lives for our country, our freedom, and our democracy.

The investigation into the exact circumstances of these events is currently being handled by the police.

#WHI

[UKMTO Operations Centre @UK_MTO]

JMIC ADVISORY NOTE 001 - UPDATE 045

Click here to view the full advisory⤵️
https://t.co/kj1ECASvct

#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec

[Windward @WindwardAI]

🚨 Hormuz Blackout Intensifies 🚨

Satellite imagery captured at 03:18 UTC shows total AIS silence across the Northern Hormuz Corridor.

• 47 vessels detected with Windward MSI — zero transmitting.
• A fresh dark STS transfer is underway between two Aframax tankers. Meanwhile, the Suezmax Karolos (9410208) remains anchored, now on its 5th consecutive day.
• 37 speedboats actively patrolling the northern sector.

No commercial transits observed. The corridor remains a dark staging ground.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Satellite imagery shows Russia has covered two nuclear-armed Borei-class submarines at its Kamchatka Pacific base — 7,400 km from Ukraine — in full anti-drone netting.

It's the first time entire submarines, not just their sails or piers, have been netted this way.

The subs each carry 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles with multiple warheads.

[Maxime PREVOT @prevotmaxime]

🇺🇦 Belgium fully supports President Zelenskyy's announcement of an open-ended ceasefire starting tonight. Ukraine is choosing peace, not for two days, not for a parade, but as a genuine offer to stop the killing.

The contrast speaks for itself. Russia's proposed ceasefire for May 8-9 is limited to two days to mark its own military celebrations, accompanied by threats of a massive missile strike on Kyiv if disrupted. On the very day of that announcement, Russian strikes killed seven civilians in Merefa, near Kharkiv.

A ceasefire that comes with a threat to bomb a capital city is a PR exercise. Ukraine's proposal is different. It is open-ended. It is unconditional. And it starts now, not in three days. Belgium calls on Russia to accept it and to use this moment to move from silence to dialogue.

Our support for Ukraine remains unwavering. The path to lasting peace requires genuine commitment from all sides. Ukraine has shown that commitment. Now it's Russia's turn.

@BelgiumMFA @Andrii_Sybiha

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli police say a 36-year-old Jewish man has been arrested over this assault on a French nun in occupied East Jerusalem.

Video shows her being shoved to the ground and kicked, renewing concern over violence against Israel’s religious minorities.

[Signal @signalapp]

A response to recent reporting in Germany, in service of clarity and accountability:

First, it’s important to be precise when it comes to critical infrastructure like Signal. Signal was not “hacked” — in that our encryption, infrastructure, and the integrity of the app’s code was not compromised.

However, sophisticated attackers have engaged in a harmful phishing campaign, posing as “Signal Support” by changing their profile display name and using social engineering to trick people into handing over their credentials — information that allowed these attackers to take over some targeted Signal accounts. This is something that plagues any mainstream messaging app once it reaches the scale of Signal, but we know how high the stakes are given the trust people place in us.
In the coming weeks, you’ll see us rolling out a number of changes to help hinder these kinds of attacks.

Because we don’t collect user data, what we know about these attacks comes from the victims of phishing. And from what victims have told us, the attacks followed a broad pattern: after tricking people into revealing their Signal credentials, attackers then used those credentials to take over their account and also frequently changed the associated phone number. Because such a change results in de-registering your Signal accounts, attackers prepared people for this by telling them that being de-registered was intended behavior, and that all they would need to do is “re-register,” or, create a new account. When they moved to create a new Signal account — one that was now decoupled from their hijacked account — the victims thought they were logging back in to their primary account. As a result, many didn't notice the takeover. The compromised accounts were then weaponized to target the victims' contact lists by posing as the owners of the account.

We understand the trust that people put in Signal, and how devastating this kind of social engineering can be. While it’s true that all messaging platforms are susceptible to scammers and phishing that betrays people’s trust and convinces them to “unlock the front door” where no backdoor exists, we are looking to do everything we can to help people avoid and detect such scams.

For the time being, please stay vigilant against phishing and account takeover attempts. Remember that no one from Signal Support will ever send you a message request or ask for your registration verification code or Signal PIN. For an added layer of protection, you can enable Registration Lock in your Signal Settings (Account -> Registration Lock).

[Admiral Tanguy Botman @COM_BelgianNavy]

België is een maritiem land. De Marine beschermt onze maritieme veiligheid en vrije scheepvaart, als fundament van onze welvaart.
@BelgiumDefence @TheBelgianNavy

https://t.co/n0X0WVTQLF

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

The US president is praising Allah and Iran is defending the Pope, welcome to 2026

[Department of State @StateDept]

🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.

That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.

[MoFA وزارة الخارجية @mofauae]

Joint Statement on the Strait of Hormuz

https://t.co/fVPAYozdF4

[Universal News @universalnewsx]

🔴 Iranian intelligence released the identities and phone numbers of the pilots who bombed Iran.

[PM's Office of Japan @JPN_PMO]

[Emergency alert]
North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. More updates to follow.