⛽🌊🚢🇷🇺👀 1/9 Everyone is watching the Russian destroyer ADMIRAL LEVCHENKO heading toward Gibraltar. But the most interesting ship in the group may be AKADEMIK PASHIN. Because PASHIN highlights one of the Russian Navy's less visible vulnerabilities: logistics.

🚨🚨🚨 Russia appears to be heading back into the Mediterranean. Exclusive imagery captured off Spain on August 24 shows a four-ship Russian group heading south: 🇷🇺 Destroyer ADMIRAL LEVCHENKO 🚢 Ro-Ro cargo SPARTA 🚢 Oil tanker GENERAL SKOBELEV ⛽ Replenishment oiler AKADEMIK PASHIN

🚨🚨🚨 Another maritime front where Russia is raising tensions. On August 20, 🇷🇺 Russia's Pacific Fleet conducted live-fire anti-ship missile drills around the disputed Kuril Islands, involving the cruiser VARYAG, nuclear-powered submarine OMSK and a coastal Bastion battery.

🚨🚨🚨 No stop in Murmansk for PORTOVYY. The naval escort ended on August 22 as 🇷🇺 ADMIRAL KASATONOV returned to Severomorsk, but 🇷🇺 PORTOVYY (9246621) kept going. Its AIS destination now reads VLADIVOSTOK, putting the 23-year-old LNG vessel on an unusual eastbound voyage via the Northern Sea Route. 🌏🧊

🚨💻👥🚩🚢 A Telegram recruitment post openly names sanctioned tanker 🇱🇷 WONDER STAR (IMO 9327425) while looking for seafarers. The offer provides surprisingly useful details: required rank, joining period and area, vessel size, year built, and a contact for applicants.

🚨🚨🚨 Striped to be stealthy, the Russian Navy launches vessels displaying a zebra-camouflage. Project 12700 minesweeper LEV CHERNAVIN was spotted at 🇷🇺 Baltiysk by Mr Frantarelli wearing disruptive camouflage and, just in case the paint isn’t enough, covered with anti-drone netting.

🚨🇷🇺🚢🎯🇨🇦 Canada has quietly become the leading sanctions jurisdiction targeting Russia's oil tanker fleet. According to the KSE Institute, Canada has designated 639 oil tankers, more than any of the six major sanctions jurisdictions it tracks.

🚨🚨🚨 A previously invisible Russian insurer emerges in the CAROLINE BEZENGI case. For weeks, the tanker stranded off 🇴🇲 Oman has been leaking oil, causing a major spill. But one question remained unanswered: who was actually standing behind the financial risk, and who would pay for the salvage?

🚨🚨🚨 A distress call from the hijacked tanker 🇪🇷 SIBU 1 (IMO 9204776). After six armed men boarded and seized the vessel in the Gulf of Aden, its AIS destination field was changed to “PRIRATE ONBOARD HEL” 🏴‍☠️ before the tanker changed course.

🚨🇷🇺🚢📍🇳🇴 LNG tanker 🇷🇺 PORTOVYY (IMO 9246621) continues north towards the Norwegian Sea, reportedly bound for Murmansk. 🇷🇺 ADMIRAL KASATONOV is still escorting her. Off Norway, a 🇬🇧 RAF P-8A Poseidon spent ~90 minutes monitoring the two vessels west of Trondheim.

🚨🚨🚨 Something worth watching in the Skagerrak. After replenishing the frigate 🇷🇺 NEUSTRASHIMY in the southern North Sea on 15 August, the support vessel 🇷🇺 PM-82 initially headed east towards the Baltic, reaching the Skagerrak on 17 August.

🚨🇴🇲 The CAROLINE BEZENGI salvage operation is now facing major hurdles off Oman. The grounded tanker lies in shallow, rocky waters, while monsoon conditions are complicating access and response efforts.

🚨🚨🚨 Fleet oiler 🇷🇺 AKADEMIK PASHIN has left Kaliningrad and is now transiting northbound through Denmark's Great Belt. No destination or ETA is currently indicated. Not far away, landing ship ALEKSANDR SHABALIN is also underway. 👀

🇷🇺🚢🧊🌍📅 1/8 Russia increasingly presents the Northern Sea Route (NSR) as the future of shipping between Europe and Asia. And the headline argument is attractive: it is shorter. But from a maritime perspective, distance is only one part of the equation.

🚨🚨🚨 Another Russian frigate, another tanker. Just three days after returning to Baltiysk, 🇷🇺 ADMIRAL KASATONOV sailed again and was photographed yesterday in the Fehmarnbelt alongside LNG tanker 🇷🇺 PORTOVYY (IMO: 9246621).

🚨🚨🚨 Crude oil tanker 🇬🇲 KAIROS (9236004) is a good illustration of what Russia's shadow fleet really means for Europe. Sanctioned by the EU and UK, damaged in the Black Sea and unable to sail under its own power, the tanker has been sitting in 🇧🇬 Bulgaria's Burgas Bay for months.

🚨🇷🇺🚢🧊🌏 Russia wants the Northern Sea Route to look like the future of shipping, but the ice has other plans. As Moscow ramps up Arctic oil shipments, a tanker has suffered serious hull deformation from ice, despite icebreaker assistance.

🚨🇵🇱🚢🚩 Poland is moving to amend its maritime law to hold captains and shipowners of flagless vessels accountable. The proposed rules would give Polish authorities more options when dealing with falsely flagged or stateless shadow fleet vessels operating in Polish waters.

🚨🇴🇲 Cleanup operations are underway after the CAROLINE BEZENGI grounded off Oman's coast. The tanker was reportedly carrying around 800,000 barrels of 🇷🇺 Russian crude, with oil now affecting some 12 km of coastline near a marine reserve.

🚨🚨🚨 Sanctioned Russian Ro-Ro 🇷🇺 ASCALON (IMO 9198226) is about to exit the English Channel, heading west with no destination declared. It departed St Petersburg on August 7 after a period of maintenance.

🚨🇷🇺⚓️💥🇺🇦 Two Russian missile-armed frigates were damaged in Novorossiysk during the overnight Ukrainian strike of August 11-12. Ukraine says four Russian warships were hit in total: ADMIRAL MAKAROV, ADMIRAL ESSEN, a BUYAN-M and VASILY BYKOV.

🚨🇷🇺🚩🚢🛡️ A telling adaptation aboard Russia’s shadow fleet. The sanctioned Suezmax 🇸🇱 CARUZO (IMO 9137648) was spotted in Istanbul with extensive netting around its superstructure and additional protection around the aft section.

🚨🇷🇺🌊❌ 1/5 Something historic is happening in the Med: Russia no longer appears to maintain a permanent naval presence there. For the first time since 2013, no Russian warship has recently been identified in the Mediterranean. This is probably more than a temporary absence.

🚨⚓️🇷🇺🛰️🛡️ Russia is now putting anti-drone nets over its nuclear submarines in the Pacific. Satellite imagery from 4 August shows more than six submarines protected at Rybachiy, Kamchatka, compared with just two in May.

🚨🚨🚨 Remember the shadow fleet tanker BELLA 1 (IMO 9230880)? On 21 December 2025, the tanker refused 🇺🇸 US Coast Guard orders to stop and fled across the Atlantic. During the pursuit, it changed its name to MARINERA and claimed to be sailing under the 🇷🇺 Russian flag, but it didn’t save it.

🚨🚨🚨 OMAN CONFIRMS IT: 390 KM². 🗣️🇴🇲 Oman's Environment Authority says oil pollution from the sanctioned CAROLINE BEZENGI (IMO: 9224439) has now been detected across approximately 390 square kilometres, based on its latest analysis, including satellite imagery.

🚨🚨🚨 Interesting Russian naval movements in the North Atlantic. The hydrographic ship 🇷🇺 ROMUALD MUKLEVICH was reported northwest of Ireland this morning, heading northeast. Its position had remained unknown for roughly a month, during which it may have operated as far south as the 🇵🇹 Azores.

🚢🇸🇪⚖️➡️🇺🇦 Sweden clears the transfer of CAFFA to Ukraine in a landmark ruling! Sweden detained 🇬🇳 CAFFA (IMO 9143611) on 6 March, after the vessel sailed under a false Guinean flag.

🚨🚨🚨 Cameroon moves to reclaim its flag from Russia’s shadow fleet Sanctioned vessels, flag-hopping, exploited shipping registries… 🇨🇲 Cameroon is now seeking to regain control over its flag and is discussing a reform of its maritime registry with Washington.

🚨🇸🇾🛢️🇷🇺📉 Syria is reportedly willing to drastically cut Russian oil imports: another sign of Moscow’s declining influence in a country that was once one of its closest regional allies.