'Russian Secrets': How Russia built an Arctic spy network using European equipment
23.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 70 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 7@pmolpmol.bsky.social
Digital investigations (OSINT) correspondent at the Danish broadcaster TV 2. Views are personal. I often block anonymous repliers.
'Russian Secrets': How Russia built an Arctic spy network using European equipment
23.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 70 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 7NPR on the Shadow Fleet, featuring a Danish maritime pilot.
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
Based on Lembke's research, I sense that opportunist influencers need to provoke with ever-more-visceral narratives to get prior-baseline dopamine reactions in their followers.
This might explain yesterday's deployment of "king crowning" & "feces showering" memes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jT...
DRONES OVER DENMARK: On Sept 28, just after 8 PM, a possible drone was spotted over the military area in Borris. Four witnesses say they heard automatic gunfire from the base as the “drone” passed. Flight data now shows a Widerøe passenger plane flew low over Borris at that moment. My latest:
17.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3Well, the Swedes shared something. The danish authorities have not shared anything really. It would be so easy for the Danish authorities to share a single photo or radar data that shows there was one or more drones from a “capable actor” in the Danish airspace.
15.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0DRONES OVER DENMARK: Swedish police files reveal new details about sightings near Copenhagen Airport on Sept 22. Danish police alerted Sweden, which then reported numerous possible drones. But a TV 2 review now shows nearly all those “drones” were likely planes instead. The latest from us:
15.10.2025 06:03 — 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 1Don’t know who needs to hear this, but Russian Navy KILO class submarines transiting to/from Mediterranean on the surface are routine. NATO of course watches them closely, as in this photo.
Russia does have increasing difficulty maintaining a presence in Med but this in itself isn’t a big deal
I am not sure. My needle is moving towards “no drones” at the moment.
07.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0DRONES OVER DENMARK: Copenhagen Airport insists there were drones over the airport on Sept 22. It offers no evidence, and no public footage or data that confirms drones were in the air. The airport also rejects the idea that the sighting could have been a small school plane. Our latest story:
07.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Following the interception of BORACAY / PUSHPA, two websites pretending to be the Benin Maritime Administration got removed from the Benin TLD (.bj). This was the websites that the false certificates pointed to.
This looks to me a lot like a government intervention
Happy to see my work pays off.
Shadow fleet tanker Pushpa a.k.a Boracay has left France.
03.10.2025 05:14 — 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1The prosecutor writes to us: "The hearing is scheduled for February 23, 2026, and will concern solely the offense of refusal to comply, as other matters were not found to be directly attributable to the captain. The first officer was released at the end of his custody."
02.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We don’t know. Authorities could easily end the speculation, yet all we get is: they can neither confirm nor deny.
02.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤷♂️
02.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The captain is summoned to appear before the Brest Criminal Court. The hearing is scheduled for February 23, 2026, and will concern solely the offense of refusal to comply, as other matters were not found to be directly attributable to the captain.
02.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1The captain is a Chinese citizen and the only charge against him is for "refusing to comply with a commanding officer’s orders during a ship inspection." The first mate is released and not charged.
02.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0French prosecutor writes: The ship was boarded on Saturday, September 27, 2025, by a French Navy frigate. There was inconsistencies regarding the tanker’s nationality during its communications with French authorities, and the captain refused to comply with orders during a ship inspection.
02.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0French authorities have charged the Chinese captain of the tanker Boracay (ex-Pushpa) after it was seized off the French coast on Sept 27. Suspected of being part of Russia’s “dark fleet” and sailing without flag, he faces trial in Brest on Feb 23, 2026 for refusing to obey orders.
02.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 38 🔁 7 💬 9 📌 1Jo, det spor undersøger vi også.
01.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DRONES OVER DENMARK: Oslo Bulk, owner of Oslo Carrier 3 near CPH Airport during the incident, says no contact from Danish/Norwegian authorities. NATO inspected the ship in Klaipeda. Company admits Russian crew/guards in 2016 but denies drone link. More: oslobulk.com/media-attent...
30.09.2025 14:19 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1More info in my latest piece here: nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2025-...
30.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2DRONES OVER DENMARK: French authorities tell us at TV 2 that the vessel Pushpa aka Boracay is under investigation for “lack of documentation on nationality/flag” and “refusal to follow orders.” Any link to Denmark’s drone incidents remains unknown.
30.09.2025 13:42 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1We are in contact with the French Navy - they are "looking into it" and have no further comments at the moment.
29.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0What to make of this? Bad signal or something else?
29.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DRONES OVER DENMARK: The tanker Pushpa, near Danish airports during the Sept 22 & 24 incidents, has suddenly stopped off France. It’s now anchored at Nantes. I’m trying to learn if French authorities are involved. Anyone know more?
29.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 106 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 6Wow!
28.09.2025 07:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DRONES OVER COPENHAGEN: Owners of the ship Oslo Carrier 3 — initially among my original 3 suspects — has connection to a Russian paramilitary group, Danwatch reveals. The ship lay off the airport at the incident monday and reflagged to Portugal this week. Read more: kortlink.dk/2t7fk
27.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1RUSSIAN WARSHIP IN DENMARK: FT, BBC & Bild wrote about a “hidden” Russian warship after Ekstra Bladet’s helicopter spotted it. But tourists had already photographed it Wednesday— right off one of Denmark’s naval surveillance stations 👀 (Danish): nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2025...
26.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 26 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Jeg har lige snakket med dem nede på Langelandsfortet. Der var turister som fotograferede det med mobiltelefoner inde fra land allerede i onsdags, hvor man tydeligt kunne se det fra kysten.
26.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0