Med sådana vänner behöver Ryssland inga fiender! Antalet bekräftade förluster utgör 15 878 enheter, varav 3 036 stridsvagnar. Nu har västs granater kommit!Maritime Executive skrev:Shortly after midnight local time May 18 reports began coming in that a tanker had been struck while heading south in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. They are indicating that there was a fire aboard and damage to the vessel but it received assistance and was proceeding to an unnamed port.
U.S. Central Command is identifying the vessel as the Panama-flagged Wind (105,387 dwt) reporting that the crude oil tanker most recently docked in Russia and was bound for China. Databases reflect the vessel with registered owners in Cyprus and managed and operated from Greece.
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It is unclear why the Wind was attacked. There are no apparent connections to Israel, the U.S., or the UK which the Houthi declared as the targets of their efforts. At the end of the week, the leader of the Houthi reiterated the threat against all shipping linked to Israel and again said they were expanding their range claiming unconfirmed attacks on Israel.
Alleged Ukrainian drones target occupied Crimea, oil facilities in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai and St. Petersburg
Ännu en explosiv natt i Ryssland. Förr eller senare påverkas den ryska ekonomin av detta - utöver kriget och sanktionerna - oavsett hur mycket ryssarna ljuger.Euromaidan Press skrev:Overnight on 19 May, drones attacked an oil refinery and an air field in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, while explosions were also reported across occupied Crimea. A fire also started at a Saint-Petersburg oil depot, with local authorities claiming it wasn’t due to a drone strike.
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The HQ claimed that one of the drones “fell on the territory of the refinery” in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, and preliminary reports indicated that “there are no casualties or destruction, and no fires were recorded.”
Videos that emerged on social media show a powerful explosion at the facility:
The Kadyrov Regime in 2024
Samtidigt kan Rysslands uppmärksamhet behöva riktas åt ett annat håll...Riddle skrev:The Kadyrov regime relies on three pillars: use of force, which can be broken down chronologically by the monopolization of violence and typologically by actor type; federal support, which differentiates between stemming from Putin and from the other federal officials; and financial means, separated into how wealth is acquired and how it is stored. This piece concludes by demonstrating how these stabilizers are interconnected.
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The regime’s capability for the use of force, federal support, and financial means are all related. The development of force simultaneously helps and hinders federal support, providing stability while undermining the Kremlin’s authority in Chechnya. Federal support blatantly adds to financial means via subsidies, while financial means then enables the use of force.
This structure of the Kadyrov regime—even more than any alleged conferment by Moscow—will determine how power is attributed in a post-Kadyrov Chechnya. Accordingly, this means that the regime’s stakeholders, both established and new, are the actors to watch going forward.