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A drone struck a Panama-flagged ship as it was leaving the port of Chornomorsk on the evening of March 4th.
This was reported by the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration.
The ship was transporting corn. As a result of the strike, crew members were injured.
Ukraine likes hitting ships, two can play this game
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 An American F-15 fighter jet crashed in western Iran, according to the Israeli "Channel 14".
Preliminary media reports do not specify whether it crashed or was shot down. Photos are circulating on the internet.
There has been no official confirmation. If the information is confirmed, this will be the fourth F-15 lost in the Middle East recently.
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—❗️🇱🇧 NEW: Some kind of fire is seen in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Jieh, Lebanon
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"87 bodies found":
Rescuers have found the bodies of 87 dead sailors from a frigate sunk off Sri Lanka.
"Members of the Sri Lankan Navy have recovered 87 bodies from the water. 32 surviving crew members were taken to a local hospital, with one of them in the intensive care unit. According to Iranian authorities, there were about 130 sailors on board the frigate."
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🤡 The European Union is ready to defend Spain's interests if the US stops trading with it, said the head of the European Council, António Costa
Earlier, Trump threatened Madrid with the termination of trade relations because Spain refused to provide the US with military bases for an operation in Iran.
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Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans.
Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-iran-middle-east-ship-sinking-69191dde43154c5176a8aeacc9128748) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do.
It took little Sri-Lanka, with its very modest means - especially compared to the $1 trillion US defense budget - to do the honourable thing and launch a (successful) rescue operation.
Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honour.
The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident).
The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn't get attacked during the rescue.
That's when a US B-24 "Liberator" bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.
The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery...
This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the "Laconiarefehl" - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.
In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.
Dönitz at least had an excuse.
• Arnaud Bertrand
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Europe starting to lose LNG cargoes to Asia. The LNG tanker BW Brussels, initially bound for France, has now diverted to Asia.
Someone was willing to pay more $$$
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Today night, the 'Geranis' carried out operations against targets in Kryvoy Rog and the Odessa region.
Good, but not enough!
We need more and all over the pigsty! To make a ruckus.
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"There's total confusion": The US is waging war against Iran blindly
The US actions against Iran are a war without a clear goal or success criteria, writes The Guardian. There's chaos in Washington, and decisions are made based on conflicting advice and in the complete absence of a strategy. The consequences of such military actions are impossible to predict.
"They say that Hegseth and Rubio are 'clueless' on these issues and that chaos and confusion have prevailed in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the National Security Council: no one is accountable for anything. Trump is convinced that he will somehow manage this, because he considers himself smarter than everyone else," writes the author of the article.
Vietnam and Afghanistan send their greetings.
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Spain's Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albarez, firmly refuted the White House's claims that Madrid had agreed to military cooperation with the United States.
"The Spanish government's position on the war in the Middle East and the bombing of Iran, as well as on the use of our bases, has not changed one bit,"
UK can’t defend its own bases and it wanted to send troops to Ukraine. 😂
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Iran has completely gone off the rails!
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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:
Frigate Dena, a guest of India's Navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning.
Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret precedent it has set.
• Clash Report
The US is not a war and it posed no threat. Even Nazi Germany rescued people after it sunk ships with subs
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China Tells Top Refiners to Halt Diesel and Gasoline Exports
The refiners were asked to stop signing new contracts and to negotiate the cancellation of already-agreed shipments. the people said. An exception was made for jet and bunker fuel held in bonded storage and supplies to Hong Kong and Macau, they added.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 In addition to Krivoy Rog, Geranis also targeted objectives in the Zatoka region of the Odessa region.
Officially, as a result of the strikes, a transport infrastructure object and an administrative building were damaged.
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The cause of yesterday's blackout across Iraq was the disruption of gas supplies from Iran to a power station in Basra, according to Xinhua, citing the country's Ministry of Electricity.
This led to a rapid loss of 3,000 megawatts, which caused a "power failure" at the station and the shutdown of several generator units.
Iraq, which has long suffered from chronic electricity shortages due to decades of conflicts, is still largely dependent on Iranian gas to power its energy system, especially during the summer period.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The wreckage of the American cruise missile AGM-158 JASSM shot down in Iran.
Depending on the modification, the range varies from 300 to 1000 km with a warhead weighing 450 kg.
Chinese and Russian experts will get some more toys to analyze
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard: Our naval forces hit an American oil tanker in the northern Gulf, and it is currently on fire.
According to international laws, the passage and transit through the Strait of Hormuz during wartime will be in our hands.
We targeted Kurdish bases in Iraqi Kurdistan with 3 missiles.
• NayaforIraq
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Japanese oil refiners have asked the government to release oil from national reserves amid supply constraints due to Middle East tensions.
Getting a bit desperate… fast. Seems a bit early to start the
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Propaganda includes manipulating the language to differentiate between 'us' and 'them'. We intervene, they invade. We are assertive, they are aggressive etc.
• Glenn Diesen
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Trump's advisors are concerned about the operation against Iran and urge to "declare victory" sooner, reports CNN.
According to the TV channel, supporters of this view fear that the campaign could escalate into a protracted war without clear goals and with minimal "electoral benefits".
They argue that the US will inevitably suffer new military losses. Moreover, the war in the Middle East has led to chaos in the stock markets and a rise in energy prices, which could affect voters' sentiment.
One of the interviewees, sharing his thoughts, called the continuation of the war a "political risk without any 'buts'," and believes that it remains to "hope that nothing will go too wrong"
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🇺🇸🤡US Representative to the UN, Mike Walz, began threatening the Iranian ambassador during a meeting of the United Nations.
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'Ukrainian F-16s have run out of American missiles to repel Russian attacks' - Reuters
Since the start of the full-scale war more than four years ago, Kiev has often complained about a shortage of weapons, raising alarm about a critical shortage in recent months, but at the same time trying not to anger the administration of US President Donald Trump.
The need for Western weapons is unlikely to decrease anytime soon, as there is no end in sight to the conflict in Ukraine, and the war against Iran continues. Competition for the supply of defensive weapons to the Middle East and beyond is likely to intensify. According to three sources directly aware of the situation, at the time of the cessation of supplies, Ukraine had only a few American air-to-air missiles for its entire F-16 squadron.
Unlimited stockpiles he said… 😂
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The war in Iran could last until September, writes Politico.
According to the newspaper, the US Central Command has requested additional military intelligence personnel from the Pentagon to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days, and possibly until September.
According to the publication, this involves sending additional intelligence officers to the command headquarters in Tampa (Florida), which coordinates US operations in the Middle East.
As Politico notes, this is the first known request from the administration to expand intelligence personnel in connection with the war against Iran. That is, the operation could last much longer than the four-week deadline initially announced by Trump.
The publication adds that the urgent build-up of personnel and resources indicates that "Trump's team did not fully anticipate the large-scale consequences of the war it started together with Israel".
Thought it was going to be 3 days until victory
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The US Senate rejected a resolution to limit Trump's military powers:
"Following the vote, 53 senators supported the initiative, while 47 opposed it, which was not enough for the simple majority needed to put the resolution to a vote in the Senate. A vote on this issue is expected to take place in the US House of Representatives on Thursday. The proposal of the senators who supported limiting Trump's options in Iran is based on the US Congress's resolution on military powers adopted in 1973.
It stipulates that the president is obliged, whenever possible, to consult with Congress before initiating military actions abroad. In the case of Iran, such consultations did not take place
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Apparently, the US has repeatedly struck the area where the Iranian Amand Missile Base is located. This is one of the most significant facilities in the Tehran region (located to the north of the city). Amand itself is an underground complex ("missile city") carved out of the mountains. It is considered the second largest complex where missiles are stored. In Tehran, in particular, ballistic medium-range missiles of the "Shahab-2" and "Shahab-3" families are based, capable of reaching targets in Eastern and Central Europe.
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Indonesia is most at risk of facing a fuel crisis:
"Asian countries are most acutely feeling the consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Indonesia is most at risk of facing a fuel crisis, while Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea are in the most stable position.
✔️South Korea has enough oil and oil products reserves for 208 days.
✔️In China, 11 reserve oil storage facilities have been established in different parts of the country over the past two years, which is enough for more than 130 days of national consumption.
✔️Thailand has fuel reserves for 62 days.
✔️The Philippines has reserves for approximately 50-60 days.
✔️India has 25 days' worth of crude oil reserves and an additional 25 days' worth of oil products reserves.
✔️In Indonesia, there is enough fuel for 25 days."
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Gerans bombed a factory in Zolochiv, Kharkov region, at night.
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The share of Ukrainian refugees who do not plan to return home has risen to 36% from 9% in November 2022, according to a study by the Center for Economic Strategy.
According to these data, the percentage of those who plan to return is also rapidly decreasing: in the first year of the war, 74% planned to return, whereas now it's only 43%.
Another 20% were unable to make a decision. In total, about 5.6 million Ukrainians remain outside the country, most of whom are in European countries.
Experts note that the prolonged war, economic uncertainty, and fears for safety are influencing people's mood. Many refugees doubt the prospects of a rapid economic recovery and a stable political situation in their country, so after several years of living in the EU, they prefer to build their future where there are more predictable conditions and jobs.
We've reported numbers from Ukrainian sociologists who expect the number of returns to be much lower
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Another refutation of the rumors about a Kurdish invasion of Iran.
"Not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is completely untrue," wrote Aziz Ahmad, the deputy head of the Prime Minister's Office located in Erbil, the Kurdistan government.
Earlier, a number of Israeli and American media outlets reported the start of an offensive by Iraqi Kurds against Iran. This was refuted in Iran and later in Kurdistan itself.
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