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Due to Western sanctions and Ukraine's continuous airstrikes, Russia's oil production has sharply declined.

Bloomberg, citing its sources, reports that the drop in crude oil production in Russia has reached a record low in the last 18 months. In December, Russia produced 9.3 million barrels of crude oil per day — 100,000 barrels less than in November and 250,000 barrels less than the quota set for Russia by OPEC+.

This production decrease is explained by the fact that Western sanctions have affected Russia's two largest oil-producing corporations (Rosneft and Lukoil), and due to fears of secondary sanctions, a large portion of the oil got stuck at sea.

Additionally, Ukraine has launched a large-scale campaign of attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure.

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According to Bloomberg, Chinese oil refineries, which can no longer receive discounted Venezuelan crude oil following the Trump administration's increased pressure on Venezuela and actions against the Maduro regime, are switching to Canadian heavy oil as an alternative, considered the closest substitute.

Shipments via the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline are currently mainly headed to China — this is positively viewed both in Canada's Alberta province and in the capital Ottawa, which are trying to diversify oil exports beyond the United States.

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This is what a strike by a Russian "Oreshnik"/"Kedr" (RS-26) ballistic missile looks like, tonight in Lviv

Again, without warheads, just empty submunitions - duds. Just like a year and a half ago in Dnipro. HOW THIS MISSILE WORKS - The RS-26 reaches its target, splits into parts, and then the combat unit itself is divided into many small hypersonic warheads, which in the "original" missile have a special combat unit (a nuclear one)

DISTANCE - If we measure from Kapustin Yar to Lviv, it's somewhere around 1800-2000 kilometers in 13-15 minutes. The speed was around 12,000 kilometers per hour

On radars, such a target is not visible, most often not until the moment of descent on the target

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Russia spent a lot of money to drop the equivalent of 36 red Olympic standard weight plates across the Lviv region.

The kinetic "warhead" has 4X less power than a FAB-250 bomb.

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It's true. It was 'Oreshnik' that struck the Ukrainian Lviv region today. Again, like in November 2024 in Dnipro. But due to its low precision, Putin can't rely on this impressive high-velocity derivative of RS-26 ‘Rubezh’ IRBM to destroy assets in Ukraine (unless they are nuclear- or chemical-armed).

Putin's only purpose in launching it today towards Lviv is to escalate intimidation on the West, including Europe, amid increased pressure from Washington and the European capitals to make a peace deal.

Also, don't believe in Russian propaganda about the "underground gas facility" destroyed. In fact, it targeted an location of a very deep network of natural gas chambers to store natural gas inside earth. It's basically exhausted reserves that keep being refilled every season.

The Oreshnik's six small, even nor armed with explosives, warhead fragments barely scratched the ground surface.

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"Oreshnik" or the most expensive brick in the Universe. The fricker bleated about new "physical" principles, kinetic weapon. Let's break it down. The explosion of 1 kg of TNT releases 5 MJ of energy. An ordinary FAB-250, carrying 94 kg of TNT, explodes with 450 MJ of energy. What the fricker launched released 36 elements with a total mass of 630 kg of concrete. Concrete is 45% denser than TNT. When accelerated on the final stretch to a speed of 10M, each of the 36 "bricks" hits the Earth, releasing 100 MJ of energy. Which is equivalent to the explosion of 25 kg of TNT. 4 times less than the FAB-250.

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The White House excluded Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from months of planning to oust Nicolas Maduro because her previous opposition to military action in Venezuela cast doubt on her willingness to support the operation, people familiar with the matter said.

As a Democratic congresswoman in 2019, Gabbard said the US needs to “stay out” of Venezuela, and as recently as last month she railed against “warmongers” pushing the US into conflict.

The exclusion was the latest evidence of long-running tension over Gabbard’s role in the Donald Trump administration, and has underscored how the president’s decision to oust Maduro — despite campaigning against starting new wars — has widened fissures not only among his MAGA supporters but also within his team.

Tulsi’s people even pointed to that hilarious tweet to push back on this story.

A senior intelligence official pushed back against the characterization that Gabbard had been excluded, saying she provided intelligence that helped the overall mission, even if it was less operational and more analytical. An ODNI spokeswoman referred Bloomberg to a social media post Gabbard wrote Tuesday lauding servicemembers for the operation’s “flawless execution” of the move to capture Maduro.

“President Trump promised the American people he would secure our borders, confront narcoterrorism, dangerous drug cartels, and drug traffickers,” she wrote. The post broke a days-long silence after other top national security officials cheered the operation in press conferences, TV interviews and on social media.

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Where Mr. Hegseth had marginalized his Ukraine-supporting generals, the C.I.A. director, Mr. Ratcliffe, had consistently protected his own officers’ efforts for Ukraine. He kept the agency’s presence in the country at full strength; funding for its programs there even increased. When Mr. Trump ordered the March aid freeze, the U.S. military rushed to shut down all intelligence sharing. But when Mr. Ratcliffe explained the risk facing C.I.A. officers in Ukraine, the White House allowed the agency to keep sharing intelligence about Russian threats inside Ukraine.

From what I understand, [CIA Director] Ratcliffe has it figured out as follows. He lets the different factions in the WH duke it out for Trump's favor, and once they've battered and bloodied each other sufficiently, he steps over their bodies and says, "Actually, Mr. President..." Usually this happens during their weekend tee off sessions. It's a strategy that has met with marked successes and very likely explains the expanded cooperation with Ukraine at the intel-sharing level.

Russia no doubt understands the CIA remains intelligent (heh) and focused on its original adversary. When they recruited Witkoff to manage Trump’s capitulation, they specifically ordered him not to bring CIA.

[This is] Why Ratcliffe was completely cut out of the Dmitriev-Witkoff process.

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The ships now crossing the Atlantic are among a larger group of sanctioned tankers that made an apparently coordinated attempt to evade the blockade last weekend, departing Venezuelan waters en masse. Of the 16 vessels involved, only one, the M Sophia, was boarded by U.S. forces, in the Caribbean on Wednesday.

Of the remaining 15 tankers, four were spotted heading east in the Atlantic Ocean, at least 400 miles from land. A second group of five vessels was detected sailing northeast through the Caribbean on Monday. The same day, a U.S. Navy destroyer was also pictured steaming toward the tankers heading across the Atlantic. One tanker reappeared off the coast of Colombia, according to TankerTrackers.com, a company that tracks global oil shipments. The positions of the remaining five ships are unknown.

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“We can even smuggle nuclear weapons”: officers of the 291st regiment of the Russian Armed Forces and “Vostok-Akhmat” have set up an arms smuggling operation through Crimea.

Ukrainian hackers from the Group 256 Cyber Assault Division, in cooperation with InformNapalm, conducted a CYBINT operation.

The facts about the supply chains of smuggled weapons from the combat zone to temporarily occupied Crimea have been exposed. In turn, the peninsula serves as a hub for the further transportation of weapons to the "black markets" in Russian regions, as well as to Europe, West Asia, and Africa, by involving tankers of the Russian "shadow fleet".

During the operation, the accounts of Russian officers were hacked, including Major Yevgeny Dmitriev – the platoon commander of the Russian assault company "Storm V" of the 291st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (42nd Motor Rifle Division, 58th Combined Arms Army), which is currently operating on the Zaporizhia direction. The facts of cooperation between Russian officers and representatives of the Kadyrov's battalion "Vostok-Akhmat" in the field of illegal arms sales have been exposed.

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