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🔍 Maritime OSINT 🚨 Tracking Russian naval and energy flows 🌐 Open-source intelligence Also on X: x.com/TiaFarris10

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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 A maritime bottleneck is building off 🇷🇺 Russia's Baltic ports. As of 30 September, around 150 vessels were reported waiting in the Gulf of Finland for Russian ports: 65 tankers and 85 cargo vessels.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Russia's detention of 🇨🇾 VÄSTERBOTTEN (IMO 9436226) didn't last long. The cargo ship was stopped and inspected by 🇷🇺 Russian border guards while transiting Russian waters on its way to Sillamäe, along a route used under an arrangement between Russia, Estonia and Finland.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨🇬🇧 The UK has sanctioned five more LNG carriers linked to Russia's energy trade. The five LNG carriers designated today are 🇷🇺 CHAIVO (IMO 9331048), PORTOVYY (IMO 9246621), ALEKSEY KOSYGIN (IMO 9904546), KONSTANTIN POSIET (IMO 9904704) and PYOTR STOLYPIN (IMO 9904675).
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨🇷🇺🚢🇩🇰👀 1/5 A Russian tug spent five days operating near critical Danish subsea cables. Between 18-23 September, 🇷🇺 SARMAT (IMO: 8027133) repeatedly operated between Læsø and mainland Denmark, close to the routes of the island's power and data cables.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨🇷🇺 YURIY ARSHENEVSKIY (IMO 8406705) could possibly be heading for the Black Sea. Since 25 September, the Russian cargo ship appears to have remained off 🇹🇷 Tuzla, after transiting the Dardanelles.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Sanctioned tanker 🇸🇱 MIRES (9299771) is currently heading north off Ireland Sanctioned for transporting 🇷🇺 oil, MIRES left Russia in early Aug at 15m draught, reached 🇮🇳 Mumbai and departed at 9m. It is now returning north at the same draught, consistent with a ballast voyage back toward the Baltic.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Something significant is happening to the flag registries hosting Russia's shadow fleet. The numbers speak for themselves: 🇰🇲 Comoros: 107 sanctioned tankers → 14 🇬🇦 Gabon: 127 → 0 🇵🇦 Panama: 193 → 14 🇧🇧 Barbados: 0 remaining 🇵🇼 Palau: 0 remaining
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🇷🇺 Russia's shadow fleet is actively manipulating the maritime information environment Analysis of findings presented by 🇺🇸 reveals vessels equipped with multiple switchable AIS transponders, GPS-spoofing capabilities, remote access to onboard computers and tools to rapidly alter ship documentation.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 The scars of the Black Sea drone war are becoming increasingly visible. New footage shows the heavily damaged Cook Islands-flagged cargo ship 🇨🇰 VOLGA-4007 (IMO 8728816) off Trabzon, more than a month after it was reportedly struck by four drones while departing 🇷🇺 Novorossiysk on 20 August.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 An interesting and unusually brief southward sortie by Russia's Pacific Fleet corvette 🇷🇺 REZKIY REZKIY departed port on 11 September, transited the Tsushima Strait southbound on 12-13 September and passed between Yonaguni and Iriomote on 15 September, heading into the Philippine Sea.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Interesting clustering of shadow fleet tankers off the UK/Ireland coast. AILANA (9232888), AZORIN (9285859), STILGAR (9291250), KOUSAI (9285835) and AKTROS (9257814), all currently sailing under the 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone flag, have followed remarkably similar patterns in recent weeks.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨🇷🇺 ADMIRAL GRIGOROVICH, which departed Baltiysk on 19 September, does not appear to have relieved 🇷🇺NEUSTRASHIMY as previously considered. Meanwhile, fleet oiler AKADEMIK PASHIN, SPARTA and GENERAL SKOBELEV entered the English Channel last night, returning from 🇸🇾 Tartus.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sanctioned shadow fleet tanker 🇸🇱 FULGER (IMO 9326718) is heading for the Barents Sea. The 159,000-DWT tanker has sailed from Suez through the Mediterranean and up the Atlantic coast of Europe, and is now off northern Norway.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨🇷🇺 YURIY ARSHENEVSKIY (IMO 8406705) is back on the move. The ageing Russian cargo ship is heading east through the Aegean, following a familiar route.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 And SEA OWL I isn't alone. Just a few miles away, sanctioned tanker JIN HUI (9430272) has been stuck off Trelleborg since May. 🇸🇪 Swedish authorities boarded the vessel while it was entering the Baltic. It claimed to be Syrian-flagged, but 🇸🇾 Syria confirmed it had never registered the tanker.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Remember SEA OWL I (IMO 9321172)? The sanctioned tanker was boarded by 🇸🇪 Swedish authorities off Trelleborg in March after suspicions that it was sailing under a false 🇰🇲 Comorian flag. More than six months later, it still hasn't left.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨📈💰🚢🇷🇺 War risk insurance costs rise for Russian Black Sea voyages. The Joint War Committee has expanded its high-risk area to cover almost the entire Black Sea.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Russia's Syrian Express has exited the Mediterranean this morning. 🇷🇺 Destroyer ADMIRAL LEVCHENKO, SPARTA, GENERAL SKOBELEV and AKADEMIK PASHIN have passed through Gibraltar westbound after returning from 🇸🇾 Tartus.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 What is DORRY doing? Sanctioned tanker 🇨🇲 DORRY (IMO 9298595) is showing some rather unusual behaviour. After sailing north in the Atlantic, it abruptly reversed course, followed by a 3-day gap in publicly visible AIS positions.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌍🌊🇷🇺🚢👀 1/8 Something interesting is happening to Russia's maritime export geography. Disruption in the Black Sea is pushing Moscow to adapt Baltic and Arctic terminals for grain exports. It reduces Russia's Black Sea exposure, but shifts the pressure elsewhere.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 300 Russia-linked vessels in 11 weeks. 🇺🇦 Ukraine says its drones have disabled hundreds of vessels associated with 🇷🇺 Russia's shadow fleet across the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. 💥 134 vessels disabled in the Sea of Azov 💥 166 vessels hit in the Black Sea
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 A potentially significant breach of Russia's naval sector. 🇺🇦 Ukrainian hackers claim to have obtained technical documentation covering 70+ 🇷🇺 Russian naval projects reportedly including submarines, frigates, navigation and hydroacoustic systems.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🇷🇺 NEUSTRASHIMY has been forward deployed on escort duties in the English Channel/North Sea since early July, taking over from 🇷🇺 ADMIRAL GRIGOROVICH, which had been operating in the area since April.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 So, Mediterranean it is. The sanctioned 🇷🇺 Ro-Ro BALTIC LEADER (IMO 9220639) is now approaching 🇩🇿 Oran after leaving Saint Petersburg with no destination declared. The route is becoming familiar.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
⛽🌊🚢🇷🇺👀 1/8 Twice in six weeks, intelligence ship 🇷🇺 VASILIY TATISHCHEV appears to have helped sustain frigate 🇷🇺 NEUSTRASHIMY in the North Sea. That raises a bigger question: does Russia have enough auxiliary capacity available to sustain prolonged deployments? 👇
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Russia's Caspian Flotilla flagship 🇷🇺 TATARSTAN (Project 11661) is now covered by large anti-drone nets in Kaspiysk, Dagestan. Around 1,000 km from the Ukrainian front, the Russian Navy is still adapting its ships and bases to the long-range drone threat. Distance is no longer protection.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: It was RFS 🇷🇺 SOOBRAZITELNY (531). The Russian warship involved in Monday's flare incident with a 🇩🇰 Danish Fennec has been identified as the Baltic Fleet Project 20380 / Steregushchiy-class corvette.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Port of discharge confirmed: 🇱🇾 Tobruk. 🇷🇺 ANASTASIIA (IMO 9349291) and 🇷🇺 YURIY ARSHENEVSKIY (IMO 8406705) docked in Tobruk on September 13, followed by the Ropucha-class landing ship ALEKSANDR SHABALIN on September 14.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 This is not how professional navies manage close encounters. On 14 September, a 🇷🇺 Russian frigate in international waters off Gedser fired two flares towards a 🇩🇰 Danish Fennec conducting routine surveillance. One reportedly passed within metres of the helicopter.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 On 13 September, the civilian search-and-rescue vessel 🇺🇦 SAPFIR (IMO 8728531) was reportedly damaged during a 🇷🇺 Russian drone attack on a port in the Odesa region. According to Ukrainian authorities, SAPFIR was clearly marked as a civilian SAR asset.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨🇯🇵 Something unusual is happening in the Sea of Japan. On September 7, two simultaneous ship-to-ship oil transfers were detected offshore between tankers arriving from Russia's Arctic route and vessels operating with their AIS switched off.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Once is unusual. Twice starts to look like a pattern. On 11 September, frigate 🇷🇺 NEUSTRASHIMY was observed with AGI 🇷🇺 VASILIY TATISHCHEV east of the Galloper Wind Farm, in what appears to have been a resupply operation. 🇳🇱 DSS GALATEA was monitoring nearby.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Russia's only deep-water, ice-free port on the Caspian Sea has come under drone attack. On the night of September 9, drones struck Makhachkala in Dagestan, with debris reportedly causing fires in the seaport area.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 The sanctioned Ro-Ro cargo ship 🇷🇺 BALTIC LEADER (IMO 9220639) is on the move again. After its late-July call at 🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire, BALTIC LEADER returned to Saint Petersburg. Now, it is underway again with no destination declared.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: The toll at Novorossiysk appears worse than initially reported. New imagery indicates that three Russian missile carriers were struck: 🔹 a Project 21631 Buyan-M 🔹 ADMIRAL ESSEN 🔹 ADMIRAL MAKAROV
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Could WHITE CONDOR I’s withdrawn Cameroonian registration explain why it never entered the Strait of Gibraltar? The sanctioned tanker 🇨🇲 WHITE CONDOR I (IMO 9255244) has been loitering southwest of Gibraltar since 28 July, over 40 days.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨 UPDATE: The Kalibr-capable frigate 🇷🇺 ADMIRAL ESSEN has been identified among the vessels struck overnight in Novorossiysk. This marks at least the third reported strike on the frigate this year, following attacks in March and again during the major strike on Novorossiysk on August 12.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Major strike on Russia's Novorossiysk naval base overnight. According to 🇺🇦 Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, several warships, including missile carriers were hit.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Remember HS LEGEND? The sanctioned tanker once active in Russia's oil trade has resurfaced under a new name, thousands of miles away in 🇻🇪 and 🇧🇷. Now sailing as 🇷🇺 ARKHITEKTOR (IMO 9381744), tanker has gone through multiple name and flag changes since its involvement in Russian oil exports.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 LADY MARIIA (9220641) has reportedly been struck in the Mediterranean. On September 6, the heavily sanctioned 🇷🇺 Ro-Ro LADY MARIIA (9220641) was reportedly struck by drones in the Mediterranean after departing 🇩🇿 Oran.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨🇷🇺💥🚢📈 Russia's war in the Black Sea is increasingly being fought against civilian shipping. Figures presented at the UN this week show that Russia attacked more than 50 civilian vessels during summer 2026 alone.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Another Russian naval convoy heading south. New imagery captured today off Spain shows 🇷🇺 Russian landing ship ALEKSANDR SHABALIN sailing alongside cargo vessels ANASTASIIA (IMO 9349291) and YURIY ARSHENEVSKIY (IMO 8406705).
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 A Russian offshore support vessel was reportedly hit by a Ukrainian USV inside the port of Sochi this morning. The target was reportedly 🇷🇺 NEFRIT (IMO 9297773), a 91-meter Multipurpose Supply Vessel used to support offshore oil and gas operations.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 A Russian state-owned vessel has been arrested in Norwegian waters. On September 2, 🇳🇴 Norwegian authorities seized 🇷🇺 PROFESSOR MOLCHANOV (IMO: 8010348) in Barentsburg, Svalbard, enforcing a court order issued on August 31 following a request by 🇺🇦 Ukraine's Naftogaz.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨🇦🇱 Albania turns away tanker linked to Russia's shadow fleet 🇸🇱 HANUMAN (IMO 9295048) was denied entry to the Port of Durrës and turned away 12 miles offshore.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Russia's Syrian Express is moving through the Mediterranean with AIS dark. Exclusive photos taken yesterday, September 1, show 🇷🇺 destroyer ADMIRAL LEVCHENKO, Ro-Ro cargo ship SPARTA and tanker GENERAL SKOBELEV continuing east through the Mediterranean.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 The EU boarding of 🇨🇲 SUN (IMO 9293117) on August 30 puts the spotlight on a textbook shadow fleet tanker. SUN, a 21-year-old Suezmax tanker, was sanctioned by the EU and the UK in 2025. 🇧🇯➡️🇨🇲 It used a fraudulent Benin registry from July 2025 to February 2026 before switching to Cameroon.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨🇷🇺 ADMIRAL NAKHIMOV is approaching a return to service after nearly three decades of operational unavailability. Commissioned by the Soviet Navy in 1988, its modernization alone has taken more than a decade. The result will be a heavily armed warship, but at what cost?
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 The attacks made the ships visible. Now look at the network behind them. Further investigation into the fleet managed by Samsun Shipping Ltd., following the drone attacks on 🇨🇲 LIDER BORDO MAVI (8009088) and 🇨🇲 L KOCATEPE (8019887), raises broader questions about its structure and operations.
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Russian Forces Spotter @tiafarris10.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 The sanctioned tanker 🇬🇶 WENDRIX (IMO 9299886) transported Turkish oil from the port of 🇹🇷 Mersin to 🇷🇺 Primorsk/Vysotsk. This marks the fifth such shipment since July 2026.
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