WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

⚠️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇷🇺 Britain, at the request of the US government, assisted in the seizure of the tanker "Marinera", the UK Ministry of Defense reported.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2008927650086027539

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸 According to Trump, he single-handedly ended wars, scared China and Russia into submission, and rebuilt the world.

Meanwhile, today the U.S. seized a Russian-linked oil tanker, ramped up enforcement operations, and raised tensions yet again.

The gap between rhetoric and reality keeps widening.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2008914810319388901

[Ravenlocke]

dana reposted

MaximKrivonosBattalionOfficial

Residents of a Ukrainian village joyfully welcome representatives of the TCC who have arrived for the New Year's holidays!

Finally, our constant recommendations are reaching the ears of the people of Ukraine:

Only united action can help us escape the clutches of the TCC criminals!

Only the preemptive elimination of these creatures will give you and your families a chance at salvation!

Only mutual assistance and support will be the key to success in the fight for life!

It is worth emphasizing that the majority of those who came out to resist the bandits and murderers were women! TCC employees fear any resistance, as they are accustomed to attacking individuals in groups. If they constantly encounter resistance from civilians, they will not be able to recruit anyone else to fight in this terrible war.

#Ukraine #UkraineNews #TCC #Mobilization #FreeUkraine

https://x.com/MKBattalionOf/status/2008938354788712569

[Ravenlocke]

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

🚨⚡️BREAKING AND UNUSUAL

Russia threatens to sink American ships!

Aleksei Juravlev (Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee in the Duma):

"We must respond militarily.. Hit them with torpedoes and sink their ships!
America is living in the euphoria of power after the Venezuela events, and it can only be stopped by a strong slap to its face in the open sea."

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2008974884110782494

[Ravenlocke]

Zlatti71

‼️🇺🇦💥Multiple explosions, gunfire, and fires: a massive attack on Kryvyi Rih is underway

▪️The city's energy facilities have been under almost continuous attack by Russian strike drones for several hours.
▪️Authorities are urging residents to stockpile water and charge their devices in advance due to the threat of serious power outages. It is reported that the situation in the city's power grid remains extremely unstable and is expected to deteriorate rapidly.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/2008984474218811521

[Ravenlocke]

-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 --

US Russia Clash;
US Seizes Tanker;
Moscow Sends Submarine;

US NO Support UK/EU Troops Ukraine Plan

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/2009025244410085663

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zt_62WmFxOM

[Ravenlocke]

Maryana Naumova 🇷🇺

WE ARE A PRIORITY TARGET FOR THE ENEMY:

"I am a reserve officer, a military pilot, who graduated from the Kachinsk Higher Military Aviation School. I considered it my duty not to stand aside when our knowledge, skills, and abilities are needed.

Since I am a former pilot, I was interested in the UAV direction, so I made a decision, froze my business and came here as a volunteer. At that moment, information about the formation of the "Nevsky" unit appeared on the internet. On November 22nd, I arrived at the formation site in the city of Tambov, and at the end of December we moved to the LBS.

Since April 23rd, we have been in Soledar...
I am responsible for everything related to UAVs, electronic warfare, and radio electronic reconnaissance.

We are located in the command post of our unit, where all information converges and from where combat orders for conducting hostilities and repelling enemy attacks are issued. We are a priority target for the enemy, and although there are no indispensable people, if something happens, it will take some time to restore control..."

Call sign "KACHA", head of the UAV service of the volunteer reconnaissance-assault brigade "Nevsky".

And we continue to work in Novorossiya
https://x.com/i/status/1904669598076518512
and the Russian military border area, we are filming material for our project "We are alive", talking and listening to ordinary Russian people, for whom war has unexpectedly knocked on their door.

Other interviews with servicemen of the "Nevsky" brigade can be viewed here,
https://x.com/i/status/2008879255879352355
here https://x.com/i/status/2008557527764553870
and here. https://x.com/i/status/2008555704789901474

Watch, listen, subscribe, help, participate.
No one will help us except us.

My RUTUBE
https://rutube.ru/u/maryananaumova/

War correspondent Mariana Naumova

To provide assistance you can do it here.
https://x.com/MaryanaNaumove/status/...pR1CFzQKw&s=19


https://x.com/MaryanaNaumove/status/2009004737715486797

[Bill Ryan]

There are multiple reports (though some are confused, and all this is 100% unconfirmed) that there has been an Oreshnik strike in Lvov.

Here's just one video:

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/169751



Ukrainian channels report that the ballistic missiles — allegedly Oreshnik — which struck the Lvov region covered 1,500 km in 15 minutes.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/169749

[Bill Ryan]

Another video, and it sure looks like an Oreshnik to me. (There's speculation now that this was basically another demonstration, a simple reminder to the EU of what this thing can do.)

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/169768

[Ravenlocke]

Maimunka News

‼️🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦💥🔥 The alleged #oreshnik strike may have targeted the Stryi gas field and an underground gas storage facility, according to Lvov based sources. #Russia #Ukraine

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/2009390250536194422

SIMPLICIUS Ѱ

"Oreshnik destroyed Europe's largest gas storage site....but at what cost?"

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/2009419281206055104

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺 An eerie glow can be seen in Lvov tonight in the aftermath of an Oreshnik strike.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2009408340494045449

[Ravenlocke]

The Other Side Media

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another video showing the Oreshnik strike on Lvov

Preliminary reports indicate that the Oreshnik struck the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske underground gas storage facility

This facility holds over 50% of Ukraine's total gas storage capacity — roughly 17 billion cubic meters

https://x.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/2009412703518117910

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇺🇦 4х MIG-31К took off, and again, an alert was issued across the entire Zelensky's concentration camp.


REPORTS OF KINZHAL STRIKES!!!

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2009419855188115542

[Ravenlocke]

Warning before the Oreshnik strike.

DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. Embassy in Kiev issued a Security Alert due to a "potentially significant air attack that may occur at any time over the next several days."

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2009327964488638772

[Ravenlocke]

Z.O.V Military

⭕️Information has been received that trains connecting Kiev to Europe are completely stopped.

Local sources report that the Perechyn-Kiev train is delayed by 4.5 hours.
There is no electricity.
The Budapest-Kiev train stopped in the middle of a field and has been there for two hours without electricity.
It is starting to get cold in the carriages⭕️

https://x.com/WarHunter2222/status/2009395360758669411

[grapevine]

INTERVIEW: The camel always tries to put its nose under the tent

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z6etV4RqOis

“The remedy is to thwack it. So how will Russia respond to the seizure of two of its tankers? Scott Ritter on America's illegal act of piracy in the North Atlantic and Caribbean and what now?”

A lively discussion between George Galloway and Scott Ritter about USA’s recent piracy and the likely outcome.

[Tintin]

Russian Ministry of Defence release footage of liberation of Zelenoye in Zaporozhye region.

Source: https://t.me/mod_russia_en/25185

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🫡 Units of the 5th Combined Arms Army's 394th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment (Vostok Group of Forces) took control over Zelenoye (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/25181) in Zaporozhye region.

🪖 Assault detachments captured an enemy area of defence on the territory of more than eight square kilometres. Air reconnaissance detected concealed positions and upcoming reserves of the enemy.

💥 The enemy launched five counter-attacks by separate assault groups in an attempt to regain lost positions. As a result of competent actions of the units, all the enemy attacks were repelled. The AFU lost a large number of manpower and hardware.

📍 The liberation of Zelenoye is an important tactical achievement.

[Tintin]

Here's a selection of the video footage of the Oreshnik missile strike on the believed to be Bilche-Volitsko-Uhersky underground gas storage facility in Lvov; much of the afterglow seen in one of these is likely gas burn-off, but one isn't absolutely certain on that:

[Tintin]

More on the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske underground gas storage (UGS) facility:

Source: https://t.me/CathedralGR/582



Text:

The Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske underground gas storage (UGS) facility which was rendered inoperable in yesterday's Oreshnik IRBM strike, was the largest in Europe, with a capacity of 17.05 billion cubic meters. It uses the depleted Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske gas reservoir to store gas up to 2km underground.

JSC Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of Ukrainian NJSC Naftogaz, owns and operates Bilche-Volitsko-Uherske, along with numerous smaller facilities, for a total capacity of over 30 billion cubic meters of capacity. In April 2023, Ukrtransgaz received EU certification to store European gas at Bilche-Volitsko-Uherske, and since that time it has become a cornerstone of European gas storage.

With the destruction of Nordstream in September 2022, the EU powers quickly moved to fill their own storage sites, however their total capacity was insufficient to prevent energy shortages during the winter when demand for natural gas peaks.

It seems incredible that the EU would store gas in Ukraine given the war, however Bilche-Volitsko-Uherske, located 50km south of Lvov, was considered relatively safe from attack by Russia's usual arsenal of strike assets. Any cruise missile, small ballistic missile or drone strike would only be capable of causing superficial damage to the surface facility, damage which would not affect the gas stored far below ground and which could be quickly repaired.

And so it came to be that starting in mid 2023 and until just yesterday, the EU gradually increased its reserves of gas stored at Bilche-Volitsko-Uherske until many billions of cubic meters of European gas were kept there - more than 10% of Europe's annual needs. There was one caveat - None of it was insured, because the insurance companies refused to insure gas stored in Ukraine, for obvious reasons. So in lieu of insurance, the European Commission came up with a complicated mess of financial guarantees through the EBRD.

After the Oreshnik strike, much of the Bilche-Volitsko-Uherske surface facility is ruined, including the well heads. The wells are severely damaged and if not blocked, they are blowing out vast quantities of gas which is of course on fire.

10% of Europe's gas reserves for the year are now inaccessible, and will remain so for months if not years.

@Slavyangrad

[Ravenlocke]

DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics

🇺🇸✡️🇮🇱 Ukraine Awards Major Lithium Project to World Jewish Congress President

Ukraine has awarded rights to develop one of its largest state-owned lithium deposits to a consortium with direct ties to the Trump administration, underscoring how the U.S.–Ukraine relationship has shifted from military alliance to transactional, resource-driven partnership.

The winning bid for the Dobra lithium field in central Ukraine includes Ronald S. Lauder, a billionaire cosmetics heir and longtime personal friend of Donald Trump, and TechMet, a mining and energy firm partly owned by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, an agency created during Trump’s first term.

Although Ukrainian officials insist the bid won on merit, the decision highlights Kiev's deliberate effort to court Trump-aligned business interests as it seeks U.S. backing in negotiations with Russia.

The Dobra field is among Ukraine’s most valuable lithium reserves, the project will operate under a production-sharing agreement, with investors extracting lithium while sharing output with the Ukrainian government. Under a prior U.S.–Ukraine minerals deal, half of Ukraine’s revenue from the site will flow into a joint U.S.–Ukraine investment fund, effectively prioritizing American commercial interests.

The deal raises potential conflicts of interest, since the same U.S. agency overseeing that joint fund also holds an ownership stake in TechMet.


https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2009679571277492506