Day: July 14, 2026

Russia conducted a jet drone strike on a Togolese-flagged general cargo vessel unloading agricultural fertilizer in the  port of Odessa today in what they are claiming is retaliation for strikes on their shipping.

3–5 crew were killed, several were injured and the ship caught fire.

It is the same pattern all the time.

Ukraine targets legitimate Russian-flagged vessels violating international sanctions that support Russia’s war economy and Russia attacks international shipping.

Ukraine strikes refineries and military factories and Russia attacks civilians in Kyiv.

The tactic is familiar: for every German soldier killed by the resistance, 100 French people would be executed.

At some point the Kremlin declared the Special Operation a “Terrorist Operation.”

At least they were being honest about their own intentions.

#OSINT  #PutinWarCriminal
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The Russian-language TG channel of pro-Kremlin mil-blogger  @rybar_america posted an opinion piece about President Trump’s approach to the conflict with Iran (attachment), including him notifying Congress last week that hostilities have resumed.

One of the editorial comments he made stood out because of its abject hypocrisy:

«The president is once again using the same tactics as his predecessors. He continues to insist that what is happening is not a war, but merely a “limited operation for self-defense and the protection of national interests.”»

That is true. The U.S. is four and a half months into a conflict with Iran, in which U.S. ground forces have not been deployed, and the president, for obvious legal and Constitutional reasons, does not refer to the operation as a war, something only Congress can declare.

Contrast this with the Kremlin’s “Special Operation,” which, after 12 years, including 4.5 years at full scale, has netted them almost 1.5 million casualties on Ukrainian soil, forced Russia into a war economy under mounting sanctions pressure on its oil exports, driven NATO to expand and strengthen rather than fracture, and built Ukraine into the most powerful ground army in Europe, second only to Russia’s, and closing.

LMAO, Rybar. Even your own Russian readers “understand” you’re projecting what the Kremlin is doing.

#OSINT  #Ukraine

In his morning summary today, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) Commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi laid out the objectives of the ongoing campaign against Russian shadow fleet vessels in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea (see link).

Overnight strikes added 11 vessels to the operation:

• 5 oil tankers
• 5 dry cargo vessels
• 1 tugboat

Cumulative total for the current operation now stands at 116 vessels struck.

#OSINT  #Ukraine
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  414 Magyar’s Birds (@414magyarbirds)Magyar’s poetry update: the shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.

+11⚓️🔥 on the night of July 14. In just 9 days, USF Birds have hunted down 116 vessels in the Sea of Azov as part of Operation “MoLoCHKa”: 5 oil tankers, 5 dry cargo vessels, and 1 tugboat.

The shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.

A lot of people don’t fully understand what’s happening around this naval battle. Where did all these tankers come from? What’s their mission? And why are the USF Birds hammering them without sinking them, instead turning them into ghost ships drifting at sea? I’ll find the time and record a video explaining it all.

For now, here’s the short version: PARALYZING russia’s feeder fleet – the small and medium 140-meter flat-bottomed “courier” tankers with a deadweight of around 7,000 tons – effectively cripples a major component of russia’s shadow fleet. It prevents the export of its “black gold” from river-port oil transshipment bases and loading terminals through the Volga–Don Canal and the Sea of Azov to large tankers. Those larger tankers can’t reach the oil terminals or ports because of their draft, so they’re forced to load offshore in the Black Sea from these courier tankers, each of them taking on cargo delivered by 12–15 of these little water shuttles.

Burning these worm-camels of the sea – along with the tugboats that keep dragging them around after they’ve been hit – also limits deliveries of scarce gasoline to Crimea through the shallow bottleneck of the Sea of Azov. That leaves road and rail tankers as the primary supply route – a far more dangerous option, since both remain under the fire control of the Freedom-Loving Ukrainian Bird, whether they move on asphalt or rails.

That turned into quite a sentence, but the curious ones will figure it out. I’ll explain the rest more clearly in another video soon. Promise.

Back to work, gentlemen! We’ve got a hell of a lot to do.

We will stand.
Moscow will fall, MoLoChKa⚓️is in action.
Crimea will be fed back up and rebuilt.

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