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🍊🇺🇸 is an unreliable ally
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian COI tanker “General Skobelev" & Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 class missile corvette SKR-532 “Boikiy” VISID returned to the Baltic Sea, 24 January 2026.

⚠️SKR-532 returning to Baltiysk from 6-month deployed ops in the Mediterranean Sea.
January 24, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🔺Research vessel activity - Breaking

Russian Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) operated icebreaking RV “Akademik Tryoshnikov” VISID departed the Baltic Sea, 23 January 2026.

⚠️Unit ENR Montevideo & deploying to Antarctica as part of the AARI 71RAE mission.
January 23, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The Mad Orange Fucker has really overstepped here. What an absolute disgrace.

USA = Unreliable ally
January 23, 2026 at 9:51 AM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian weapon transport COI “Mys Zhelaniya" entered the Sea of Marmara, PM 20 January 2026, following weapons delivery activity to Tobruk 16 January.

⚠️Unit will almost certainly conduct Bosphorus eastbound transit & enter the Black Sea, 21 January. @yoruk.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 AM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian COI tanker “General Skobelev" likely in company with Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 class missile corvette SKR-532 “Boikiy” completed eastbound transit of the English Channel, late PM 20 January 2026.

⚠️Units returning to the Baltic Sea.
January 21, 2026 at 7:54 AM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian COI tanker “General Skobelev" likely in company with Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 class missile corvette SKR-532 “Boikiy” commenced eastbound transit of the English Channel, 19 January 2026.

⚠️Units ENR Baltiysk. Of note, HMS Severn possibly FRE activation.
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian weapon transport COI “Mys Zhelaniya" entered the Sea of Crete, 19 January 2026, following a PVST to Tobruk for likely transloading activity.

⚠️Realistic possibility unit may transit the Aegean Sea towards the Black Sea.
@yoruk.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian weapon transport COI “MV Sparta IV arrived in the Tartus roads, 19 January 2026.

⚠️Unit likely awaiting a berth & may go alongside next 24 hrs. @yoruk.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Pr.20380 class missile corvette SKR-532 “Boikiy” & COI tanker General Skobelev” VISID passing STROG westbound, 15 January 2026 by Daniel Ferro

⚠️Skobelev returning to the Baltic Sea after delivery to the Levant. SKR-532 may also be returning home.
January 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
🔺Northern Fleet Air activity

At least one Russian Navy NFAF Tu-142 MPA concluded a nine hour sortie in the Barents Sea / Norwegian Sea, PM 6 January 2026.

⚠️Aircraft likely supported warship/subsurface ASW activity but may have conducted wider area surveillance (SUSCH) activity.
January 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian weapon transport COIs, “MV Sparta IV” & “Mys Zhelaniya” completed a westbound transit of the English Channel, 6 January 2026.

⚠️Units likely heading for the Levant region. @yoruk.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
🔺OOA activity - Breaking!

Russian Navy Northern Fleet Pr.1155 Udaloy class destroyer BPK-619 “Severomorsk” escorting Russian weapon transport COIs, “MV Sparta IV” & “Mys Zhelaniya” passed Dover Strait & commenced westbound transit of the English Channel, 5 January 2026.
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
🔺OOA activity - Breaking!

Russian Navy Northern Fleet Pr.1155 class BPK-619 “Severomorsk” highly likely departed the Baltic Sea, 3 January 2026.

⚠️Unit escorting Russian weapon transport COIs, “MV Sparta IV” & “MYS Zhelaniya” which are likely heading for the Levant region.
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
🔺Baltic Fleet - Update

Pr.22800 missile corvette “Amur” continues integration training & likely to be formally inducted into the Baltic Fleet ORBAT early in 2026, raising regional Pr.22800 count to five platforms (40 x Kalibr).

1 x Northern Fleet Pr.1155 Udaloy destroyer continues a BF roulement
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🔺COI activity - Update

Russian COI “Adler” completed a westerly transit of the English Channel, PM 26 December 2025.

⚠️Unit continues to head SW in the Bay of Biscay.
December 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🔺OOA activity - Heads up!

Russian Navy Northern Fleet Pr.22350 class SKR-461 “Admiral Kasatanov” may conduct an OOA deployment late 2025/early 2026, possibly with Pr.23130 tanker “Akademik Pashin”

⚠️Unit could relieve SKR-532 “Boikiy” in the Mediterranean Sea & may have already departed homeport.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🔺Russian shipbuilding - Update

Pr.11442M TARKR-080 Kirov class “Admiral Nakhimov” likely returned to Severodvinsk, 24 December 2025, having completed a third iteration of manufacturer’s sea trials in the White Sea.

⚠️Trials expected to continue early 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🔺COI activity - Update

Russian COI “Adler” & commenced a westbound transit of the English Channel, AM 25 December 2025.
December 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🔺Strategic Air activity - Heads up

At least six unidentified Russian Strategic aircraft (75290, 75291, 75293, 84157, 84158, 09414) airborne, AM 24 December 2025, UNLOC.

At least one aircraft active in short duration C2 communications.

⚠️Unknown if training or operations sortie
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🔺Baltic Sea activity

Danish Navy OPV P523 likely conducted daylight close surveillance I&W mission against Russian Navy Pr.1155 Udaloy class BPK-619 “Severomorsk” 21 December 2024.

⚠️ Realistic possibility BPK-619 relocating via Great Belt to observe “Ascalon” incident in north Øresund.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🔺Research vessel activity

PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RV “Akademik Boris Petrov” returned to Kaliningrad 20 December 2025, following survey of anchorages & approaches to Russian ports in the Gulf of Finland during mid-December.
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🔺 Research vessel activity

PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RV “Akademik Nikolay Strakhov” entered the southern Norwegian Sea, 21 December 2025.

⚠️Unit departed Murmansk 17 December & likely ENR survey tasking in the wider Atlantic region next 1-3 months. Note: unit may conduct enroute survey
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Remembering the crew of the Penlee lifeboat “Solomon Browne”Lost with all hands on 19 December 1981 attempting rescue of the crew & passengers of the stricken Union Star.

Service not Self
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🔺OOA activity - Update

Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet Kilo T636.3 class SSK B-265 “Krasnodar” & Northern Fleet Pr.1452 class tug “Altay” arrived in Algiers, 19 December 2025, for a 4-day regional engagement visit.

⚠️Units likely conducted STROG east, PM 14 December with SKR-532 “Boikiy” / Skobelev
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔺Image attribution correction

Droxford Maritime inadvertently mis-credited the library image of SKR-532 “Boikiy” in our posts of 14 & 15 December 2025.

The image (seen below) was in fact the work of Anders Dyhrbyrg Bruun.
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM