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May 20, 2022, 9 tweets

🇷🇺 RUSSIAN NAVAL MOVEMENTS 🇷🇺
🕐191501Z MAY - 201500Z MAY 22 🕐
OVERVIEW
- Large number of VOI's in the Black Sea
- 3 Frigates are off Sevastopol or have returned to base.
- #VaryagSAG at sea in East Med

#OSINT #RussiaUkraineWar
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EUROPEAN WATERS OVERVIEW

- Single VOI transiting west from the ST. Petersburg area.
- No VOI traffic in the Northern part of Europe. (If you have information or sources on Northern Fleet Movements and Baltic Fleet movements, please DM me)

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MED and INDIAN OCEAN OVERVIEW

- Varyag SAG is back at sea in the MED (Location Unk)
- 2 x Syrian flagged VOI's off Turkish waters
- Russian Units continue there presence at the mouth of the Aegean sea
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BLACK SEA

-#Admiral Makarov RTB to Sevastopol before returning to sea
-#BykovPTG and 2 #RopuchaLST off #snakeisland
-#RFNLadnyy and #AdmiralEssen on approach to Sevastopol at the end of the reporting period
-No further information on #KiloSSK activity. Worst case - At Sea
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SEA OF AZOV

- Nil change from last reporting period
- #PJ22160 #BykovPTG #PavalDerzhavin at sea off Mariupol
- 2 x #NatyaMCM active in the sea
- #RFNNikolayMaru and #KaptianGuriev at sea

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SEVASTOPOL/NOVOROSSIYSK NAVAL BASES

- #AdmiralMakarov sailed into and out of Sevastopol today.
- 2 x #RopuchaLST sailed
- #IvanKhursAGI sailed this morning
- #NatyaI sailed
- #RFNBora615 Sailed this afternoon. Sat off the coast
- Novorossiysk remains unchanged

MEDITERRANEAN

-#UstinovSAG sat off Crete and is disaggregated
-#RFNVyazma conducted stationary RAS with unk unit
-#VasiliyTatishchev remains in the Med. likely heading for the Tyrrhenian sea
- #VaryagSAG at sea (unlocated at sea)
- #AdmiralKasatonov pictured alongside Tartus

Key Points:
Both Slava's are at sea
Black Sea Kilos are likely at sea
5th Operational Squadron is disaggregated

End of Report

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