Anonymous ID: 1c45f7 March 8, 2026, 11:15 a.m. No.24357884   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8027 >>8103 >>8361 >>8390 >>8467 >>8473

https://www.rt.com/russia/634143-sweden-seizes-cargo-russians-crew/

 

Sweden seizes cargo ship with ten Russians on board

Stockholm suspects the vessel of being part of what it claims is a “shadow fleet”

 

Sweden has intercepted a cargo ship believed to be part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea, the country’s public broadcaster SVT reported on Saturday, citing the Swedish Coast Guard.

 

Moscow maintains that the notion of a Russian-operated “shadow fleet” is unfounded. According to Kremlin officials, the term is used to describe vessels that transport cargo outside the coverage of London-based insurance brokers.

 

Russia insists that even if such ships carry sanctioned cargo, Western countries have no legal basis to enforce these sanctions on the high seas under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

 

The Caffa, the vessel in question, was reportedly seized on Friday in cooperation with Swedish police aviation and the National Task Force. Authorities are currently conducting searches and questioning the 11 crew members, 10 of whom hold Russian citizenship.

 

The ship is listed on Ukraine’s sanctions list and sails under the flag of Guinea, although the Swedish Coast Guard says its flag status remains unclear.

 

According to tracking data, the cargo ship departed Casablanca, Morocco, in late February, bound for Saint Petersburg, and was expected to arrive on March 10. Built in 1997, the vessel had previously sailed under the flags of Malta and Russia before switching to the flag of Guinea, the data tracked by VesselFinder shows.

 

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Anonymous ID: 1c45f7 March 8, 2026, 11:38 a.m. No.24357961   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8021 >>8027 >>8103 >>8361 >>8390 >>8467 >>8473

seriously

 

https://www.rt.com/news/634174-iran-us-lego-video-pr-war/

 

Iran deploys Lego VIDEO in PR war against US

The cartoon depicts devastating Iranian retaliation against the American and Israeli military after a deadly strike on the Minab girls’ school

 

Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic.

 

The animation, dubbed ‘Narrative of Victory,’ was widely circulated online on Sunday. It opens with a cartoonish figure of US President Donald Trump – accompanied by the Devil – reading the Jeffrey Epstein files.

 

The US president is then shown going haywire and ordering strikes on Iran, apparently implying that the attack was meant to distract everyone from a domestic scandal involving the late sex offender’s ties with American elites.

 

The video then depicts an attack on an Iranian girls’ school in Minab, which left more than 170 people dead, with a vengeful Iranian soldier examining the ruins and getting ready for retaliation. Tehran has blamed the attack on Israel and the US, while Trump has claimed the destruction was caused by Iran itself.

 

The clip goes on to depict waves of Iranian missile and drone strikes, including attacks on a UK airbase in Cyprus, multiple targets in Israel, and sites across the Gulf region. As the devastation spreads, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shown fleeing, oil traders panic, and Iranian drones destroy a US aircraft carrier. One of the final scenes shows a US military transport plane unloading a coffin draped in the American flag.

 

The release came days after the White House posted its own PR video on X. The clip opened with a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas meme showing protagonist CJ saying “Ah sh*t, here we go again,” before cutting to footage of US strikes on Iran, each hit overlaid with the game’s “wasted” screen that appears when the character dies.

 

This is not the first time Iranian media have used Lego-style animations in their messaging. In June 2025, during the 12-day war with Israel and the US, a similar video depicted Tehran’s response to strikes on the Isfahan nuclear facility as a victory.

 

That clip showed Trump and Netanyahu standing beside a devil figure before Iranian missiles hit Israeli targets, ending with the line: “We are the ones who control the game.”

Anonymous ID: 1c45f7 March 8, 2026, 12:34 p.m. No.24358112   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.rt.com/news/634185-eu-country-veto-ukraine-loan/

 

Another EU country ready to veto Ukraine loan

Doing so is a “legitimate tool” to make Kiev resume oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak prime minister has said

 

Bratislava is ready to block a planned EU loan for Ukraine if Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is voted out of office in the upcoming election, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. It would be a justified means of compelling Kiev to resume Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, he said in a statement on Facebook on Sunday.

 

A €90 billion ($105 billion) EU emergency loan for Ukraine was vetoed by Orban last month after Kiev halted vital Russian oil supplies to both Hungary and Slovakia via the Soviet pipeline. Kiev claimed it was damaged by Russian strikes – something Moscow has denied. Hungary and Slovakia – both heavily dependent on Russian energy – accused Kiev of deliberately cutting it off in a bid to exert pressure on them.

 

“[Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky] is permanently harming us and he thinks that he will force us to change our stance on the war” Fico said.

 

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