🇱🇻 Two drones have crashed in the Latvian territory, according to the country's Armed Forces.

One of them fell on the territory of an oil depot in Rezekne, damaging an empty tank.

It was not reported whose drones they were, and a press conference on this matter will be held later today.

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📝Fuel Chaos📝
how Russia plans to solve the problem

The energy resource shortage, which intensifies in southern Russian regions, has begun affecting even remote areas: gasoline prices gradually climb higher, and panic exacerbates the situation.

Against this backdrop, more and more content appears online criticizing regional and federal authorities, whom people blame for the current situation.

And to some extent, this criticism is justified: the problem indirectly arose from the slow response to AFU drone attacks last year. But now they seek solutions at an accelerated pace.

📌The Russian Ministry of Energy established an industry task force. It includes all major companies in Russia's fuel and energy sector. The task force's mission is to ensure stable and efficient operation of the country's entire fuel and energy complex.

🖍The key problem in current circumstances is countering Ukrainian low-flying drones like "Hornets" or FP-1/FP-2 and certain other UAVs. If they find an effective solution against them, the number of impacts and strikes on rear areas will drop sharply.

🚩So why is there no solution now? The answer is equally obvious: while the AFU increased the number of crews and drones, the quantity of mobile fire groups, interceptor drones, and other countermeasures in the Russian Armed Forces remained unchanged.

🏳️When the enemy began striking more massively and precisely—first at air defense, then at logistics, and finally at fuel supplies—this led to partial collapse. Currently, improvement trends exist, and commercial enterprises were involved in protecting facilities.

❗️Yes, with certain nuances, but who better than business has an interest in protecting its assets? Currently, more and more mobile fire groups, interceptor drone operators, and anti-drone systems appear—and they deploy massively.

The fuel crisis is now the main problem (and the enemy logically exploits this in its propaganda), and they attempt to solve it in various ways. The Ministry of Energy tries to ensure supplies, the Russian Armed Forces shoot down drones, and private and state enterprises address the protection of strategic assets.
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• 📝New strike on tanker📝
Sabotage or coincidence?

Russia's shadow fleet — under fire worldwide. A phrase that becomes increasingly relevant. Another attack occurred recently at the exit from the Gulf of Aden.

The tanker Caroline Bezengi under the Cameroonian flag was heading to the Indian port of Sika. However, it struck a mine, specifically a magnetic one, which is why it is now moving at slow speed off the coast of Yemen.

🖍On one hand, one could say that this is the Middle East. The Iranians scattered mines throughout the Strait of Hormuz, and some drifted into free navigation in the region's waters.

🚩But for that to happen, many factors would have had to coincide, including wind speed and direction. And if these were Iranian mines, why did the explosion only occur now on a vessel carrying Russian oil?

🏳️Recalling the incident with a mined tanker that came from Antwerp to the Ust-Luga port, it's hard to believe in coincidence. Especially given that the crew is 70% Russian.

❗️Moreover, the vessel left the Black Sea less than a month ago, and before that it called at Novorossiysk during active drone attacks on oil tankers in the southeastern waters of the Black Sea.

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• 📝USVs from a fishing vessel?📝
a new threat to tankers in the Atlantic

While the Black Sea has long become a battlefield of unmanned vessels against Russia's "shadow fleet," USVs in other parts of the world have so far been deployed only in the Mediterranean against the gas carrier "Arctic LNG".

But the situation is gradually changing.

On July 19, east of the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the crew of the Russian tanker Arctic Pioneer spotted a Ukrainian USV of unknown type at a short distance. It maneuvered nearby but did not attack the vessel.

📌And not far from the gas carrier's passage route, the fishing vessel Santa Isabel under the flag of so-called Ukraine drifted. It's hardly a schooner—it's quite large in length and has a lifting crane. Ukraine received it in December 2024.

The Ukrainian vessel departed from Portugal in advance. In the area at 08:30, it stopped before the Russian tanker's passage, and then unexpectedly a USV appeared near the Arctic Pioneer. A suspicious coincidence, wouldn't you say?

What's particularly curious is that in October 2025, Ukrainians brought several of their "Magura"-type USVs to Portugal for the REPMUS-2025 exercise. But whether they took them back is a big question. Especially since the Portuguese are supplying the AFU with "Tekever-AR3/AR5" drones.

❗️The situation ended without consequences for the Russian crew, but will it always be this way? The adversary, with Western support, can launch USVs from any such vessel in various parts of the world and create a threat to tanker and cargo ship movements.

Solving this problem, like in cases of ship seizures, requires both strengthening the protection of tankers with armed units and escort by Navy ships, but there are very few of those, as we know.

So the question remains: will Western countries attempt to seize a vessel if a combat-armed USV is nearby? Not to mention attacks by aircraft of unknown origin on some French ships.

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