BREAKING: A sanctioned Russian LNG tanker, Arctic Metagaz, part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, is on fire off the coast of Malta and Libya. The vessel was attacked by unknown naval drones. /2. Arctic Metataz current location.

More details by Times Malta: timesofmalta.com/article/russia…

🪡🧵/1. Footage shows the NEMESIS unit of the @usf_army “bombarding” NATO armored columns during drills in Estonia.

NEMESIS, a Ukrainian unit that participated in major NATO exercises in Estonia, helped simulate a drone-dominated battlefield for the Alliance.
Below is a thread with NEMESIS drone operators insights and the experience they gained during the drills. /2. The military exercise Hedgehog-2025 took place in Estonia in May last year.

More than 16,000 service members from 12 NATO member states, as well as Ukraine, participated in the drills — including operators from the 412th Nemesis Brigade.

/1. (WSJ) - NATO conducted large-scale military exercises in Estonia, the Hedgehog 2025 drills, bringing together more than 16,000 troops from 12 member states, with Ukrainian drone operators serving as a simulated adversary.

The exercise laid bare a sobering conclusion: Alliance is not ready for a battlefield where drones dominate the sky and make every move visible and vulnerable. /2. The exercises goal was to recreated a battlefield packed with threats and constant drone activity, pushing units to operate under pressure and testing how well they could adapt in real time.

From the outset, things did not go as smoothly. In one scenario, a NATO battle group of several thousand troops, including a British brigade and an Estonian division, advanced as if the battlefield had not fundamentally changed, effectively ignoring the drone threat as though it did not exist.

“The NATO battle group simply moved around without camouflage, setting up tents and armored vehicles. Everything was destroyed,” said one participant who acted as the opposing force.

Just now: Russian air defense missile struck residential buildings in Russia’s Krasnodar region.

https://twitter.com/exilenova_plus/status/2013702836224221209

/2. Footage shows the launch of a Russian air defense missile followed by its rapid fall onto residential buildings.

(1/8) In Sweden, nuns from the St. Elisabeth Convent, originally based in Belarus, embedded in 20 churches, worked for Russian intelligence and raised funds for the Russian army while posing as a charity. (2/8) This exposure forced the Swedish Church to issue an official warning to other Catholic communities, stating that nuns of the St. Elisabeth Monastery direct their earnings toward supporting Russian nationalism and Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine, while maintaining close ties to the GRU.

In Sweden, those nuns became known as the “Z-nuns.”

The Ukrainian company UkrArmoTech delivered 402 new armored vehicles of domestic production during December 2025.

16 UAT-TISA, 24 UAT-FOX armoured pickup trucks, 30 GYURZA-02 and 333 GYURZA-01. (Photos in the same order)

https://twitter.com/mil_in_ua/status/2010798754690187766

/2. UAT-TISA

Vehicle complies with STANAG 4569 Level 1. Protection covers 7.62×51 mm non-AP fire beyond 30 m and the effects of a 155 mm HE-fragmentation round at ≥80 m.

Mine protection withstands a 3 kg TNT equivalent and DM 51 grenades detonated under the hull center.

After the strikes, the fires are visible along the entire length of the Tuapse Marine Oil Terminal

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1984753120056938910

/2. Moment of the strikes

/1. During a tense meeting at the White House on Friday, Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms, warning that Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if Kyiv refused. - Financial Times /2. During the meeting with Zelenskyy in the White House Trump was “cursing all the time”, tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points Putin had made in their call a day earlier. - Financial Times.

🔥🛢️ Salavat Oil Refinery was hit in Bashkortostan, Russia. 1300km from the frontline.

Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has a capacity of 10mln tons of oil per year. /2. Additional photos of smoke rising from the territory of Salavat Oil Refinery.

Clear look on one of the missiles which targeted Russian base in Donetsk.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1965106819757736228

/2. Debris of one of the missiles which targeted Donetsk

🔥🛢️/1. Tonight there is a very large attack on the Russian Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery with a capacity of 7.9 million tons per year, Samara region of Russia.

According to eyewitnesses, at least dozens of drones hit the refinery. The entire territory of the Novokuybyshevsk refinery is shrouded in smoke and fire after the attack. /2. Russian witnesses report at least 17 drone strikes at Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery.

🔥🛢️/1. Russian Volgograd oil refinery was targeted tonight. Strong fires began on the territory of the oil refinery and continue to this moment.

Volgograd oil refinery has the capacity of 14,5 million tons of oil per year. /2. Volgograd oil refinery on FIRMS after the attack.

🎯/1. Today, a lot of targets across Russia were attacked. This thread will collect information about all the struck sites overnight, based on available data:

➤ Oil refineries in Ryazan and Novokuybyshevsk
➤ Radar base hit in Feodosia, Crimea
➤ Primorsko-Akhtarsk Airfield — Shahed launch site
➤ “Elektropribor” military plant in Penza
➤ Rail logistics infrastructure in Rostov region /2. Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery with capacity 7.9mln tons. AVT-11 unit (with refining capacity 6mln tons) was hit causing a big collumn of fire to emerge. FP-1 long range kamikaze drones were used for the attack. (53.0845579, 49.9236466)

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1951521746185588972

Bryansk, Russia — reportedly near the airport area. A detonation occurred following a Ukrainian strike. The explosion appears consistent with the ignition of rocket fuel — possibly from an air defense system or another missile-carrying military asset. /2. Bryansk, Russia. Geolocation of the explosion from the direction of the airport.

https://twitter.com/moklasen/status/1930733258213585146

‼️BREAKING: Right now the SBU is striking the Russian military airfield Belaya in the Irkutsk region by controlling drones in real time, receiving a video signal from the drones! (Video is from the Irkutsk region)

Belaya Air Base, located approximately 85 km northwest of Irkutsk in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, serves as a strategic site for long-range bomber operations. Situated about 4,000 km from Ukraine, it hosts Tu-95MS, Tu-160, and Tu-22M3 bombers equipped with Kh-101, Kh-555, and Kh-55 cruise missiles, enabling long-range strikes against Ukrainian targets.

This is the furthest Ukrainian drone attack during the entire war!

🚨At the very same time second Russian airbase in Olenegorsk, Murmansk region, is also under drone attack!

Olenya Air Base near Olenegorsk, Murmansk region, is about 1,800 km from Ukraine. Russia uses it to launch Tu-95MS, Tu-160, and Tu-22M3 bombers armed with Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles in long-range strikes against Ukraine. /2. Belaya, Irkutsk region. Strong detonations on the ground observed by the locals from the direction of the airbase. 4400km from the frontline!!!!!!

💥/1. This morning, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was passing by the Volkswagen Golf when the planted IED was triggered and explosion happened. Immediately after that, his body was thrown several meters away.

As Russian media now report: “Preliminary, the car filled with explosives could have been specially driven to the house where the soldier lived. The IED was filled with striking elements with a diameter of about 6 mm. The car did not belong to him.” /2. Moment of the detonation of the planted IED device wich killed Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow region this morning.

💥/1. Just now, Russian ammunition depot, 65km from Moscow was targeted, secondary detonations are ongoing! /2. 51st Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) of the Russian Ministry of Defense, military unit 11785.

Stored ammunition/missiles:
- According to open sources, the arsenal is intended for storing artillery shells, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), air defense missile system components (for example, S-300), tactical missiles (type 9M79 "Tochka-U"). (56.1008148, 38.7493493) t.me/exilenova_plus…

🍄/1. Tonight drones targeted Russian military airfield in Engels, Saratov region of Russia. A strong explosion was reported. /2. An ammunition depot at the Russian Engels airbase was attacked

https://twitter.com/dmojavensis/status/1902615617221620071

/1. Just now. Explosion occurred in Moscow, Russia.

According to preliminary data, the person killed in the explosion may be the creator of the "Arbat" battalion of the Russian and also the President of the Boxing Federation of the so-called DPR and, Armen Nagapetovich Sargsyan.

The incident occurred 12km from Kremlin. /2. Photo of the Armen Nagapetovich Sargsyan. It is also known that he had a conflict with the Chechens. So in February 2024 there was even a shootout between his security and a Chechen militant in Moscow. Then three people were hospitalized with bullet wounds. As a number of Russian media wrote, it was provoked by his daughter's car accident.

‼️North Koreans captured on the Kursk front:

“Our warriors captured North Korean soldiers on the Kursk front. These are two soldiers who, although wounded, survived, were taken to Kyiv, and are communicating with Security Service of Ukraine investigators.

This task was not easy: usually Russians and other North Korean military personnel finish off their wounded and do everything they can to ensure that there is no evidence of the participation of another state – North Korea – in the war against Ukraine.

I am grateful to our soldiers of Tactical Group No. 84 of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and our paratroopers who captured these two.

Like all prisoners, these two North Korean soldiers are being provided with the necessary medical care.

I have instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to provide journalists with access to these prisoners. The world must know what is happening.”- Zelenskyy. t.me/V_Zelenskiy_of…


/2. Additional photo materials.

❗️/1. Russian air defense most likely caused the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane during UAV attack on Chechnya:

An Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed this morning. 67 passengers of which 5 crew members were on board. 32 people survived the crash. All survivors were in the tail section of the plane. 🧵 /2. The plane took off from Baku at 6:50 Moscow time and was scheduled to land in Grozny at 8:20. But just before landing in Grozny, the plane turned around and flew across the Caspian Sea towards Kazakhstan. Where it crashed.