Ukraine’s SOF Strikes Major Oil Refinery in russia’s Tatarstan
SOF deep-strike units struck the Taneko oil refinery in russia’s Tatarstan region overnight on June 12. Thread:
Russia has been quietly embedding military veterans and former mercenaries aboard its sanctioned oil tankers — not as sailors, but as watchmen tasked with keeping foreign crews in line and ships on course past European authorities.
There are now reports of widespread power outages in the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. There are claims online that a power station may have been hit.
HODGES: Ukrainians don’t need to attempt a large-scale amphibious landing to capture Crimea right now. They’ve taken a two-step approach. First, isolating Crimea by steadily eroding its mainland connectivity. Second, making Crimea untenable for Russians. There's nowhere to hide.
One of the targets hit in the so-called Crimea was the bridge in Armiansk.
Now they will have to take a detour via the Armiansk-Kalanchak road, which is much closer to the LBS
We would like to add: there are high hopes that, given the current capabilities of the mid-range strike, it is entirely possible to render the bridges inoperable by regularly striking them.
🚨🚨🚨 Cameroon has spoken on the 🇨🇲 TAGOR (IMO 9282481) case
🇨🇲🗣️ The government says the tanker intercepted by France is not registered in Cameroon and is not authorized to fly its flag.
⚠️ Another setback for the credibility of 🇷🇺 Russia's shadow fleet and the deceptive practices that help keep sanctioned oil moving.
🚨Latest Alumina Shipment is just about to leave Ireland for Russia with a cargo full of Alumina
Vessel ANNE - IMO 9433365 - was previously owned by a German company however the team is struggling to identify the new owners.
DWT = 7594
Est. Alumina 6835
Aluminium pot. 3417 tons
‼️German Fellas!
Estonian owned KAMILLA of Hansa shipping (previously delivered Alumina from Ireland to Russia) is currently on her way to occupied Viipuri (Vyborg), Russia from Lübeck in Germany
What is she carrying and why is Hansa involved? 🤔
This is one for German NAFO 🫡
As the scandal over Rusal's Irish plant deepens, @Billbrowder's warning to me in 2022 about @LeoVaradkar meeting "a key oligarch enabler" looks more prescient by the day.
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Shamrocks and Oligarchs
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Do Putin's Oligarchs Have Kompromat on the Irish Government?
● My OpEd for @irishexaminer today looks at Ireland's continuing deference to #Rusal and refusal to consider nationalising the #Aughinish refinery.
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🤯 A former Swedish Armed Forces member with top-secret clearance was exposed as a suspected Russian spy, per SVT.
In 2025, he visited Moscow to offer classified data to the FSB and GRU in exchange for Russian citizenship. He is concurrently under investigation for a December 2025 Moscow murder plot.
Ukrainian long range drones struck two crucial oil pump station in the Vladimir region, Russia. The Lebkovo and Vtorovo pump stations are part of a pipeline network supplying the Russian capital of Moscow with refined oil products. Pictures and NASA Firms show that the stations are burning.
The distance to one of the targets struck today is more than 900 kilometers, which has already become a routine operational range for Ukraine’s long-range weapons.
In the past, an operation like this was truly an Operation. Now it is routine.
The FP-5 is, in essence, a large jet aircraft without a pilot — which, broadly speaking, is what cruise missiles are, even though they are called missiles largely because that is how the terminology developed historically.
And so this jet aircraft — or several of them — flies deep into Russia almost like a scheduled airliner and strikes its target with impunity.
Obviously, when air defense systems are in short supply — and Russia does not have enough of them — you will protect individual sites in isolated clusters. But what prevents you from detecting an aircraft that has entered your airspace and sending something to intercept it?
If nothing prevents you — Russia does not really listen to anyone and barely observes international conventions anyway — then the explanation must lie in powerlessness and incompetence.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain how this enormous, steam-engine-simple brute travels almost 1,000 kilometers and calmly strikes a target of strategic importance.
And if the problem really is powerlessness and incompetence, then a natural question arises: why does Russia continue this war, which it started itself but which is proving utterly disastrous for it?