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Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies and saboteurs FSB agents offer money on messaging apps for ‘quests’ to photograph targets and plant bombs

How Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies and saboteurs

Since last spring, Ukraine's SBU has arrested more than 700 people implicated in espionage, arson and bomb plots orchestrated remotely by Russian intelligence. Of those, around 175 (~25%) were under the age of 18. www.ft.com/content/5cb5...

SVT om överbelastningsattackerna: ”Djupt beklagliga” SVT:s digitala tjänster slogs ut av överbelastningsattacker under söndagskvällen. Liknande attacker har nyligen riktats mot andra svenska mediehus.

Sweden's public service TV company SVT has been under a DDOS-attack since yesterday, kicking their public facing systems (news, TV, etc) offline for parts of Sunday evening.

The attack might still be ongoing but is fully remedied.

SVT are among other things responsible for public announcements.

1/12 russia launches political party in Norway, using local collaborators/traitors to undermine support for Ukraine through an expensive ad campaign. Beware—this could happen in your country too!

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are.

Allow me to try.

Let’s begin with Adam Smith.

In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.

Over the last week, US military aid flights to Ukraine jumped, with 747 freighters delivering supplies from a number of locations:

2x from McGuire Air Force Base
3x from Joint Base Charleston
1x from Ramstein Air Base
1x from MacDill Air Force Base
1x from Biggs Army Airfield

Heja Sverige!

Excellent speech by Rasmussen. Too bad that nobody in Trump's administration understands what Rasmussen is talking about...

It speaks volumes that we are having to go and check if this is a real Trump pronouncement or not.

Something in Serbia is $500k/day interesting to US Military.

There has been several unusual surveillance flights last days.

Serbia is seeing large protests over corruption after a newbuilt canopy over a train station collapsed and killed 15 people.

Prime minister was forced to resign.

🇪🇺⚔️🛡️ "It's time for the European Union to take security and defense into its own hands," — Ursula von der Leyen

MAGA propaganda so bad that even russian propaganda is debunking it, what the hell is going on anymore

China and India stop trading in Russian oil because of US sanctions, Reuters reports China and India have stopped trading in Russian oil as US sanctions have caused a sharp rise in tariffs for tanker freight.

💸China and India stop trading in Russian oil because of US sanctions, Reuters reports

Egypt is the new destination for stolen Ukrainian grain: CMC's Russian flag handymax bulker Matros Shevchenko transited Bosphorus toward Black Sea en route to occupied Sevastopol after delivering 27000mt of stolen wheat to Alexandria. ——Matros Shevchenko is laden with cargo loaded in Damietta.

Once guns fall silent in Ukraine, Russia will begin military revival – British general A ceasefire in Ukraine would allow the Kremlin to replenish its forces and conspire with the “new axis of aggressors”, says British Lieutenant General Mike Elviss.

💯 Once guns fall silent in Ukraine, Russia will begin military revival – British general

Hopefully he keeeps his word.

📉 The Russian economy faced a sharp drop in export revenues in late 2024 due to sanctions, — Russian media with reference to the Russian Central Bank.

❗️Taking into account export and import services, the trade surplus of the Russian economy in December amounted to $2 billion.

Stalking the Seabed: How Russia Targets Critical Undersea Infrastructure With attention increasingly focusing on Russian activity against Western critical infrastructure at sea, what is the nature of the threat and how can it be countered?

Since this seems to be a current topic, a good read...
rusi.org/explore-our-...

150-200 cables are damaged each year, 15% (7-43) by anchors.

If we assume Baltic maritime activity is 5% of the global total (likely way too high) Baltic Sea ought to see 1.5 incidents per year.

2023 & 2024 averaged at 6 breaks annually, 4 x higher.

Map, visual aid for eyeballing 5%.

Great move.

Good. Very good.

The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola.

As someone who grew up on an island in the Mediterranean, I’m no stranger to blue skies.

But this Blue Sky is different 😃. Here, I’m new.

So as I do my first post, I look forward to connect, interact & continue to advance democracy. This is what we do at the European Parliament.

Watch this space.

Russia’s Hidden War Debt Moscow has been stealthily funding much of its war costs with risky, off-budget financing overlooked by the West. That funding is now under pressure, offering new leverage to Ukraine and its allies.

Excellent article. Russia won't be able to continue war in Ukraine forever. Not even years.
Russia’s Hidden War Debt open.substack.com/pub/navigati...

Danish navy and Swedish coast guard patrolling north Kattegatt. A follower spotted 'RUSSIAN WARSHIP' on AIS in this area a few hours ago.

Same area as corvette + submarine were spotted last week. It is just outside nuclear power plant Ringhals and where stalking of FI tanker happened.

Given the extraordinary amount of Russian naval activity around Baltic Sea today I thought I'd summarize what I saw:

* Corvette and sub stalks Finnish tanker NW Anholt

* Three navy tugs doing racetracks south Anholt

* Corvette enters Kattegatt from south

cont ....

There is a strong gale (43 knots) in Kattegatt and 3 Russian tugs are operating around a disabled Russian refrigeration ship (previously accused of spying).

The tug pulling looks to have problem. The two others are in what I think is a readiness pattern.

Submarine? Unknown.

✈️🇺🇦 For the first time in history, an F-16 destroyed 6 cruise missiles in one sortie, – Ignat

❗️According to the former spokesman for the Air Force, this was the result our pilot showed during a massive attack on December 13, 2024.

This morning a Russian corvette and a submarine stalked Finnish tanker JATULI.

JATULI was moving south in international waters, Kattegatt, when she met SKR-531. The corvette turned around, started following and soon thereafter a KILO submarine started driving alongside.

Src: mariner @tommyjb1967

US to announce “substantial” military aid package for Ukraine in coming days – media The outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden plans to announce its final military aid package for Ukraine on Thursday, 9 January, which is expected to be “substantial”.

🇺🇸 US to announce "substantial" military aid package for Ukraine in coming days – media

Azerbaijani President demands compensation and admission of guilt from Russia for downed plane On 27 December, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev demanded an apology and admission of guilt for downing an Azerbaijani Airlines plane from the Russian side.

😤 Azerbaijani President demands compensation and admission of guilt from Russia for downed plane