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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Tuesday of using oil tankers for intelligence gathering and sabotage operations.

The operation took place at 4:31 a.m. in the waters of Lake Onega, located within the territory of the Republic of Karelia.

The port of Tuapse is one of the main facilities for oil exports from southern Russia. Damage there could disrupt supply logistics and increase risks for maritime transport in the region.

This was the second Russian provocation on September 19th, after three Russian MiG-31 interceptors entered Estonian airspace without permission in the morning near Vaindloo Island and remained there for almost 12 minutes.

On the night of September 12th, drones attacked Russia’s largest oil terminal, the Port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea, located in the Leningrad region.

A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker loaded a cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project last week, making it the sixth loading from the plant so far this year, according to shiptracking data from analytics firms Kpler and Vortexa.

It was launched on June 14, 2022. In October-November 2023, it was transported via Russia’s inland waterways to the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg for completion.

The Achilles and Elyte tankers, each carrying around 700,000 barrels of Urals crude, are anchored near the port city of Jamnagar.

Russian forces tested a new naval strike drone during the large-scale July Storm military exercises.

A Russian port in the Baltic Sea has ordered ship hulls to be inspected before allowing them to dock.

The Russians plan to “increase the capacity” of the ports of Skadovsk and Genichesk in the occupied part of the Kherson region.

Russia has launched the construction of the fifth large landing ship of Project 11711 Ivan Gren for the Black Sea Fleet.