Swedish agency MSB shifts focus from preparing for peace-time crisises to war preparedness. Come 2026 the name changes to MCF, Swedish civil defence and resilience agency. The agency will be headed by a general straight from the army, interviewed below www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/darf...

NATO made a record 16 interceptions Dec 10-17. Normal week 2025: median 3, mean 4 scrambles. December weeks 2024: 2, 7, 2, 0 2nd highest: 12 in July.

There is an ongoing operation at Swedens main naval base Muskö after a civilian spotted and photographed an unidentified craft in the water at lunchtime. Searches have not revealed anything sofar but is ongoing. Photo: witness Link to src below

...Severomorsk arrived in/near port (probably Baltiysk) today following 10-day underway (15-24 December) within the Baltic Sea

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

Påminnelse. Där sker troligen mer militär aktivitet än vanligt i Sverige just nu. Så länge det inte kommuniceras öppet ska varken jag eller ni berätta om det. Inga tips tack. Tipsa däremot gärna försvaret : www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/informati...

Russian destroyer SEVOROMORSK is moving north through Great Belt, possibly towards ADLER incident in south Sweden. ETA 6 hours at present, moderate speed.

Russian weapon transport ADLER has been detained by Swedish Customs. She is not allowed to leave as long as investigation regarding sanction breaches and other crimes is ongoing. www.sydsvenskan.se/skane/nyfike...

Russian weapons transport ship ADLER was boarded during night by SE special forces (police, NI) in concert with security services, customs, coast guard and prosecutor. Ship claims engine breakdown and is anchored at one of Baltic Sea's main entry points. (Archive pic)

An unknown 160m long vessels was present at south mouth of Danish straits Dec 18. Area has seen ample NATO patrols last days. There is a realistic possibility the un-identified ship is recent reinforcement and capability increase destroyer Severomorsk of Russian Northern Fleet.

7 out of the 24 servers serving time from United States are offline due to a power outage. (Precise time is important, like really, really important for almost everything.) Last month US NSA was accused of attacking China's time keeping infrastructure.

Suggestions regarding Russian armed forces weapon transport ADLER, stuck inside Sweden.

It's Julmust on the rocks

Russian logistics ship ADLER is at anchor IN Sweden. Possibly broken down. Usually runs heavy weapons to Russian bases in Africa / Middle East. Was inspected by military aircraft 2h ago. Swedish Coast Guard just arrived to area.

NATO is flying two unarmed and seemingly unescorted signals intelligence aircraft over Black Sea, one in range of ground based air defence. Might not be a first, but historically manned flights have had fighters escorts and there have been several incidents with aggressive behavior from Russian AF.

Russian border guards briefly intruded (decimeters) into Estonia today. Estonia has increased patrols and demanded an explanation from Russian authorities. Video+map in article news.err.ee/1609888417/r...

US has instituted a blockade on "all sanctioned oil tankers in and out of Venezuela" (And claims Venezuela stole land and oil from US!?)

Operational Russian Baltic Fleet has increased in number, activity and has been reinforced by addition of at least one destroyer. There are more, heavier and more active Russian warships in Baltic Sea. Baltic Fleet does not have a destroyer (til now.) Since early 2025 one has been present.

Russia has two armies, about 100k to 150k soldiers, standing in Belarus, according to German politician, colonel, Foreign affairs and disarmament-committee member Roderich Kiesewetter. This figure was earlier today somehow misinterpreted to the infamous "360k troops". archive.is/XpzGz

So the SBU had full access to Novorissisk’s dock cam huh

Swedish navy confirms presence of Russian military staff on shadow fleet tankers in Baltic Sea. Further states that RU navy vessels have increased presence and believes it is partly to protect the shadow fleet. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Swedish navy confirms presence of Russian military staff on shadow fleet tankers in Baltic Sea. Further states that RU navy vessels have increased presence and believes it is partly to protect the shadow fleet. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

As Russian so called hybrid attacks continues the documentation project of dr @amaragraps.bsky.social entered a new phase. It is now easier than ever to help build the database keeping track of all the attacks. Do join!

As Russian so called hybrid attacks continues the documentation project of dr @amaragraps.bsky.social entered a new phase. It is now easier than ever to help build the database keeping track of all the attacks. Do join!

Swedens military air transport resources just saw a sudden re-prioritisation. Coming Monday a yearly Christmas flight was planeed, where SE Air Force Hercules transports fly across Sweden in formation. The flight has been cancelled, citing 'militarily prioritized operations'.

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

That symbol on the helmet is not a U.S. military insignia, but it does resemble a Jerusalem cross and also mirrors imagery often used by neo-Nazi or white supremacist groups.

Yesterday Russian navy tanker GENERAL SKOBELEV idled by Sweden's border a few hours until a Swedish corvette approached and maneuvered at high speed. The tanker is often accompanied by proper warships and is at present shadowed by Danish navy leaving Baltic Sea. 'Håll gränsen' AIS-caveats apply

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Steel plant SSAB Oxelösund mid Sweden has suffered a 'large explosion'. Cause unknown, no souls hurt, smaller fires reported. The plant produces ~4k ton steel a day and is among Sweden's largest industries. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/expl...

The railway Warsaw - Lublin has been attacked with both explosives and sabotage. "unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians. This route is also crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine" says Polish PM Donald Tusk.

It bears repeating how Russian shadow fleet tankers increasingly carry military officers in official Russian navy uniforms. The officers escort, intimidate, obfuscate documents and are generally uncooperative according to the Danish pilots who have an unique insight into these ships.

Put 289 GB of secret infrastructure data with Someone else™ >–––– transmission in progress –––> Get rekt.

AIS-spoof-station WHISKEY 365 in Finland is offline. It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2. Now offline since a few hours. Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.

The AIS-receiver station responsible for the mass spoof event Nov 2 in Baltic Sea show anomalous data patterns during 8 more days but returned to normalcy Nov 9. From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h. Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.

The AIS-receiver station responsible for the mass spoof event Nov 2 in Baltic Sea show anomalous data patterns during 8 more days but returned to normalcy Nov 9. From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h. Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.

Swedish police and armed forces operated tonight at Landvetter, Gothenburg, Swedens second largest airport. Drone(s?) were sighted around 17UTC and air traffic was put on hold with flights diverting. Still no photos as far as I know :-/ www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

Ivan’s GNSS jammer locations 😎 that’s all.

Det kan ju inte vara något annat en rysk operation för att slå sönder den ukrainska järnvägen.

Query: "Red buildings with 'Iran Air Cargo' painted on the roof". Results in 0.32 seconds. Semantic search of geospatial/aerial imagery data. piminto.obliscence.com

Nov 2 Russian subsea sabotage/intel vessel YANTAR was allegedly operating just off the Netherland coast, among a good chunk of European critical infrastructure. The ship is specialized in subsea missions and ran by highly secretive GUGI, Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research.

Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea. In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.

Russian ship YANTAR, specialized in underwater missions of sabotage/intelligence/engineering/research has made one ping in the Baltic Sea today. Last seen on AIS by Skagen, Denmark in Jan 2025 Operated by Main Directorate of Underwater Research (GUGI) Likely a stunt, like 2024

Russian Navy’s landing ship, last seen outside German Lübeck a few days ago, weeks before of Danish island Langeland, now seen escorting gunrunner cargo ship SPARTA IV further north. Starting to smell like a continuous armed presence in Danish straits. I believe new.

HNLMS Johan de Witt (L801) and a German naval vessel are operating in the Irish Sea tonight, quite close to where Yantar hovered last November. German SIGINT vessel OKER is further north, in the Firth of Clyde.

Danish Armed Forces tried to shoot down a drone that was intruding over an army base a few days into the Danish drone debacle a few weeks ago. Several army sources and witnesses nearby told Radio4.dk

Both #SB123 #SB-123 and Aleksandr Frolov #AleksandrFrolov on the move @auonsson.bsky.social @pa.nton.cx @claudialanz.bsky.social @spotkanienamesie.bsky.social #Russia #Baltics #BalticSea

Topical “graph of truth” by Katja Berlin in Die Zeit — Q.: Who takes an interest in German infrastructure? Black column: German federal governments until a couple of years ago Blue column: German federal governments as of a couple of years ago Green column: Russia Touché.

🚨Amazing: 🇳🇴 Norway’s drone detection system protecting Oslo Airport comes from 🇨🇳 Chinese company DJI Aeroscope, with system updates coming directly from DJI in China. Unexpectedly that 🇨🇳 system was down for a full 19h from the evening of September 22nd, which is why the airport had to be closed.