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Feb 22 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Same day Putin begun restoring the Soviet Union, oligarch Roman Abramovich new yacht, MY SOLARIS, was rushed out of dry dock and appears to be getting readied to leave Barcelona (#Spain)
Being a good sanctions candidate, hope the departure can be halted...
#Russia #Ukraine #OSINT
The shipyard in Barcelona is the same one used by Putins yacht in the past years, for reference :
At the same time, Abramovich other yacht, the even bigger ECLIPSE, left port in Saint Martin and its currently enjoying the sun in front of one of the island beaches. Being the Caribbean paradise under EU control, might want to be sure it doesn't leave its waters too...
BTW, Putin's own yacht GRACEFUL, left in rush Hamburg shipyard just a couple weeks ago to retire to safe Russian waters
More yachts
Just found this great thread on oligarch vessels in Barcelona
Since yesterday, MY SOLARIS, while possibly undergoing sea trials has been keeping rigorously over the 12 nautical miles limit for Spanish territorial waters, just out of Barcelona but out enough to be in international waters.
MY SOLARIS is entering Barcellona harbour.
Plus, better general map with many more vessels and updated positions
MY SOLARIS is now docked in Barcelona after what looked like 36 hours of sea trials.
The vessel could possibly be ready to sail for good in hours / days. #sanctions #russia #Ukraine

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Feb 22
Here some of the most famous Russian oligarchs yachts and their current (22/2/2022) location around the world.
Many are in western waters where, according to the owner ties to Putin, might/should be seized...
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CLIO, the yacht owned by Oleg Deripaska, was missed by marinetraffic.com terrestrial ais receivers but vesselfinder.com has a more up-do-date position for her, suggesting she could now be in the Baa Atoll (Maldives),close to where NIRVANA of Vladimir Potanin is Image
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Interesting topic with multiple faces to it.
First the types of content:
1) people posting to social media videos / images / text about armaments.
2) "analysts" professional and amateur which extrapolate data from open sources (otpcial sat, sar, radio data, ais, adsb, etc)
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Zelensky had to be extremely cautious with words (and actions),passionately letting out the rage he and most Ukrainians must be feeling would just serve Putin internal propaganda further "justifying" RU future actions.
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At the same time by not saying things Russia propaganda can use to further convince Russian public of the gov rightfulness, he is doing the little he can to empower the few still living Putin opposers inside Russia.
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Sentinel-1 data suggests that #Russia has a new toy which has tested/activated somewhere near Rostov-on-Don.
Still hard to pinpoint the source, but the interferences recorded by the C-SAR satellites are among the strongest ever detected and have a unique pattern.
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Been nerding out on the bullet trajectories simulation from the scene of recent Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassination in #Iran, more soon, but in the meantime, the result of processing over 1 million possible bullet trajectories shows few possible firing position (red spheres) #OSINT
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-relevant area divided into 1.2 million 0,4meters voxels to test.
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BTW, shadows / sun position is realistic too, set at 2 pm for the correct coordinates of the attack.
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