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Update:
Russian gunrunner LADY D lifted anchor and commenced Suez Canal passage southbound.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Interesting read!⤵️BBC dedicates much of its
www.bbc.com/news/article...
reporting on currently💥flagless💥 #ShadowFleet tanker
UNITY (IMO 9388792).
The crude oil tanker is anchored in Ust-Luga, but expected to depart w/destin. Tanjung Pelepas/Malaysia any time soon.
#BalticSea
(19.11.25 12:40 CET)
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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How Libya has become a regional hub for fuel smuggling
How Libya has become a regional hub for fuel smuggling
The massive diversion of subsidized petroleum products is fueling instability around Libya's borders, particularly with Sudan, according to a report by the American NGO The Sentry.
www.lemonde.fr
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Russian cargo vessel ALEXANDER UDALOV finished unloading and departed from Tartous/Syria, next destination Azov/Ukraine.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Russian gunrunner CRYSTAL STPETERSBURG enr to Nhava Sheva/India lifted anchor an commenced Suez Canal passage southbound.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
After spending quite some time in Oran/Algeria due to major technical breakdown Russian gunrunner ADLER is on the move again, likely towards Strait of Gibraltar westbound.
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Russian tanker VASILY LANOVOY enr from Ust-Luga/Russia is highly likely once more heading to Venezuela.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Russian gunrunner LADY D enr from St. Petersburg via Kaliningrad is now at anchor OPL Port Said.
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Russian icebreaker AKADEMIK FEDOROV enr from St. Petersburg to Cape Town/South Africa is passing Canary Islands.
Suppose icebreakers are of essence down there now ;-)...
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Russian spy vessel AKADEMIK BORIS PETROV enr from Murmansk to Kaliningrad did some zigzagging close to uw infrastructure off Lindesnes/Norway.
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Russian gunrunner ESENIYA (IMO 9194036) currently moored at Kolkota/India canged flag to Palau and name to LARA.

@pa.nton.cx
@vesselspotter.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Many people have wondered how the Finns defend Finland today, so here's a very short introduction to modern Finnish defence policy - and a brief synopsis of how the Finnish military would probably fight if any hostile country decided to invade. 1/
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Russian gunrunner NOVAYA ZEMLYA is back in the Med, enr from Kavkaz Russia to Tartous/Syria.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Speculation: a system was prepared for covert AIS-spoofing in Baltic Sea, designed to operate with only slight increases in reports (can occur from natural causes, eg adjusted antenna) that would evade capture.

Nov 2 someone f-ed it and accidentally sent out a much larger than planned data stream.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Russian gunrunner IRTYSH enr from Kavkaz/Russia is at anchor off Djibouti.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Russian gunrunner LADY D enr from St. Petersburg via Kaliningrad is passing Strait of Gibraltar eastbound, destination yet unknown.

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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Russian cargo vessel S.KUZNETSOV arrived at Tartous/Syria
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Russian spy ship AKADEMIK BORIS PETROV departed from Murmansk, is enr to Kaliningrad, currently Off Tromsø/Norway.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Russian icebreaker MURMANSK enr from St. Petersburg/Russia to Murmansk/Russia deviated course and reduced speed close to Norwegian platforms Kristin and Åsgard.
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Russian gunrunner CRYSTAL VLADIVOSTOK enr from Misrata/Libya to St. Petersburg/Russia is passing the Englisch Channel estbound.
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Russian gunrunner ENISEY is back in the Med, currently enr to Iskrnderun/Turkiye.
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.

In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It looks like some jamming/spoofing is going on in the Gotland area.
Cought my attention because BALTIC LEADER seemed to have popped up again. But now I'm pretty sure it didn't.

There's a bunch of vessels that just appeared once appr. 4 hours ago (examples below)

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November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Russian gunrunner LADY D enr from St. Petersburg is passing Dover Strait westbound.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
While Russian gunrunner BALTIC LEADER was dark on AIS for almost five months (disappeared from AIS north of Port Said) she made quite a journey and slipped through many closely observed narrows...
Now BALTIC LEADER is about to leave the Baltic, next destination yet unknown

bsky.app/profile/clau...
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM