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YouTube video by H I Sutton Russian LNG tanker Artic Metagaz ATTACKED in Mediterranean

New video - hot take on Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz burning, presumed sunk/destroyed, in Mediterranean today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgL...

Rough calcs...

The vessel plus cargo was likely valued at as much as $300,000,000

China unlikely to have paids for the cargo, so total loss to Russia.

Here's the original complaint. According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, at least 110 complaints received from 40 units in 30 different locations describe receiving similar briefings from officers who say that Trump is God's anointed working to bring about Armageddon.

15/ "Oh, by the way: we reported on the possibility of using Elon Musk's brainchild to control UAVs two years ago. Okay, we're bloggers, but didn't the relevant agencies take this threat into account back then?" /end

Source:
t.me/rybar/78059

14/ "And don't be fooled by the current neutrality of space—when Chinese Starlink-like satellites start flying over the US, they'll be the first to forget all treaties and start a war in space. And it would be disastrous if we were left with nothing in this area by then.

13/ "What's the point of all this? The point is that we need to start developing means to destroy thousands of Starlink satellites now. We need to fund it as a top priority.

12/ "Take the US, for example: can you imagine such drones using Starlink hitting Topol missile defence systems on duty? (For those who don't believe this, we recommend remembering [Operation] "Spider's Web," where they got by with even less.)

11/ "The effectiveness of enemy UAV strikes will increase significantly.

And we can think even more broadly and remember that there are actually adversaries more powerful than the so-called Ukraine.

10/ "The following will happen: if the enemy currently uses such drones to target air defence systems, radars, and substations only in the new regions, then under this scenario, they'll be able to strike anywhere they can reach.

9/ "And here's another awkward question. Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can't use such UAVs in the "old" regions [i.e. within Russia] because Musk never activated Starlink there. But what if the situation changes?

8/ "You can see what this looks like in videos of such drones in use, both on our side (before the Starlink problems) and on the enemy side.

7/ "This allows the drone to be controlled thousands of kilometers away from the LUCAS base station, right up to the target, and no electronic warfare can suppress it.

6/ "What was inevitable has happened: American "Geran-like" LUCAS drones have been equipped with Starlink [sic] terminals, enabling jam-resistant communications anywhere in the world where Elon Musk's network operates.

5/ "A real "wunderwaffe": Why we need to find a means of mass destruction for Starlink satellites now.

4/ Russian commentators typically don't distinguish Starlink from Starshield, and refer to both generically as Starlink. The widely-read Rybar channel, which is connected to the Russian state and believed to be partly coordinated by the Presidential Administration, writes:

3/ Starshield is a military counterpart to the civilian Starlink network, with a separate infrastructure and network. In contrast to the thousands of civilian Starlink satellites, there are far fewer Starshield satellites in orbit: reportedly at least 183, as of April 2025.

2/ Photos released by US Central Command show Starshield-equipped Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones being launched against Iran. The disclosure has caused widespread alarm among Russian military commentators.
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1/ Images showing that America's new LUCAS kamikaze drone is equipped with an integrated Starshield terminal have prompted a call from a prominent Russian warblogger for Russia to find "a means to destroy thousands of Starlink satellites now." ⬇️

We used to have proper war banners back in the day

Credible reports that ginormous Russian LNG (liquid natural gas) tanker Arctic Metagaz is on fire in Mediterranean. Reports suggest it was hit be a USV (uncrewed surface vessel)

Whether Iran linked or Ukraine, very big implications for Russian war effort

They're not ethnic Russians, so Putin won't care.

Russia-Ukraine war: How one Russian village lost its fighting-age men to conflict In the remote village of Sedanka in Russia's Far East, almost all of its fighting-age men have left to join the Ukraine war.

Sources:
🔹 meduza.io/feature/2025...
🔹 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🔹 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8478078

11/ Back in the village, the women left behind are mourning the 12 men who have died and at least 7 more who are missing in action – 29% of the entire able-bodied male population. They say there is now "no-one to chop firewood for winter to heat our stoves." /end

10/ "This is certainly a significant impact for small northern villages, especially where men's labour is valued."

9/ "The awarding of the honorary title 'Village of Military Glory' to the village of Sedanka is, of course, a very significant event for Kamchatka as a whole. Most of the male population participated in or is currently serving in the Special Military Operation zone."

8/ Nadezhda Gogoleva, chair of the Kamchatka Krai Committee of Families of Soldiers of the Fatherland, says it's a major achievement for the region:

7/ The law permits the government to award the title to settlements where 15% of the male population had participated or were participating in the war in Ukraine.

6/ Officials in the Kamchatka regional government have now approved a proposal to award the village the title of "Village of Military Glory", under a law adopted by the regional assembly in November 2025. It will be the first such award in Russia.

5/ "Most of the houses have no running water, heating, or [indoor] toilets. Life here has come to a standstill."

Facing grinding poverty, nearly two-thirds of the village's able-bodied men have chosen to go to Ukraine, which is further away than Anchorage in Alaska.

4/ A local journalist says it is "the most depressing place we've ever seen," comparing it to a medieval settlement. She says that the Soviet-era housing is being "eaten away by fungus. Even if it's not visible to the naked eye, you can easily tell by the smell."