UPDATE: Ex-People's Deputy Serhiy Vysotskyi says: "It was confirmed to me: two missiles of the Ukrainian anti-ship complex "Neptune" defeated the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser "Moscow"! Two hits out of two!"
Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs:“They say that today two orc sailors smoked in the wrong place on the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser. Here, bang bang rattle, something exploded. And the cruiser "matskva" almost sank...
...In the coming year it will not be combat-ready. Why is the ancient Roman God of the Seas Neptune here? Nothing to do with it! :))"
Violent riots have broken out in Linköping, Sweden. One or more cars are on fire and stones are being thrown at police. This is in connection with the Danish right-wing politican Rasmus Paludans planned speech in the city, where he said that a Quran would be burned
Police cars have been damaged. Police have temporarily backed away.
Thread: Pentagon press secretary statement: “We’re not quite exactly sure what happened here. We do assess that there was an explosion — at least one explosion on this cruiser — a fairly major one at that, that has caused extensive damage to the ship,”
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“We assess that the ship is able to make its own way, and it is doing that; it's heading more towards now we think the east. We think it's probably going to be putting in at Sevastopol for repairs, but we don’t know what exactly caused that,”
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"The explosion was sizable enough that we picked up indications that other naval vessels around her tried to come to her assistance, and so eventually that wasn’t apparently needed. So she is making her own way across the Black Sea and we’ll continue to try and monitor this"
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Stavanger Airport in Norway is being evacuated. Police have received a report of a suspicious object at the security check -- possibly a IED or a homemade bomb. Ems enroute.
#BREAKING: If Finland applies for NATO membership, it should be prepared for large-scale and unpredictable influences and risks, such as an increase in tensions on the Finnish-Russian border, Security policy report states