Over this weekend I signed off a request for military assistance - to assist and enable the National Crime Agency to board a Russian shadow fleet tanker travelling through the English Channel.
Our brave Royal Marine Commandos boarded the vessel in the early hours of this morning in a highly professional operation. We have the finest armed forces and law enforcement capabilities in the world.
This is a massive blow to Putin.
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I pay tribute to the brave Royal Marine Commandos who boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker overnight in the English Channel.
Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine is funded by their oil exports in defiance of sanctions.
As Leader of the Opposition, I support the Government in standing with Ukraine.
@JohnCleese He's suspected of working for a hostile foreign power to undermine the UK, same legislation used to detain George Galloway, which was passed by the Tories with cross-party support. Stop trying to make out he's a victim.
Our warriors have achieved good results in applying long-range sanctions against important facilities on the territory of Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
More than 700 kilometers from our state border, in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, SSU warriors struck an oil facility that was important for the reserves of the aggressor state.
Warriors of our army reached their targets in Russia’s Tula region – specifically, the Azot plant, whose operations are critical to explosives production capabilities.
Air traffic restrictions were imposed at six Russian airports, and overall, since yesterday evening, 28 regions of Russia have been under air raid alerts.
There were also hits on the occupier’s military logistics in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
Ukraine is carrying out its plan of long-range sanctions against Russia and the assigned tasks regarding mid-range strikes in response to Russia’s refusal to end this war. We have offered the Russian leadership every possible format for negotiations – and the only response was continued aggression and attempts to expand it. It stands to reason that the war is coming back to where it came from. Ukraine needs peace. Glory to Ukraine!
Today the flags fly at half-mast.
On the night of 14 June 1941, doors were knocked in the dark across Estonia. Mothers were given minutes. Children clutched whatever they could carry. More than 10,000 people — among them infants and the elderly — were loaded into cattle wagons and sent east, into the cold, into silence. Men were torn from their families and sent to camps from which most never returned.
They committed no crime. Their only offense was being Estonian, being educated, being landowners, being someone the regime decided to erase.
We lower our flags today not out of habit, but out of memory. For the empty chairs at kitchen tables. For the letters that stopped coming. For the graves that have no markers in the Siberian earth.
A nation that forgets its grief forgets itself. So we remember. We say their names. We teach our children why this day is quiet.
Mälestame. We remember. 🕯️🇪🇪
@not_airspeed Omg that plane is amazing. I used to fly on it vfrom London City to Dublin and was so surprised by how steeply it could climb I actually read up on it. It's super smooth in storms because the focus is on syncing the engines rather than constant speed. Your father was a genius!
Tulsi slapping a DNI logo on top of Russian intelligence products and claiming this is her work is not just a revolting act of plagiarism.
This is taking a foreign psychological operation from a country that openly declares its desire for our destruction and repackaging it to maximize damage against the hearts and minds of US civilians.
She is using a literal weapon of war designed by an adversary to destroy us and using it against us.
If this is true. I hope she goes to prison for this. I am very careful about saying that, but this is next level horrible.