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Box with human skull and bones found near school in Leningrad region
2025-06-19
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Near one of the schools in Kolpino, plumbers found a wooden box with a human skull and bone fragments. This was reported on June 18 by the press service of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Saint Petersburg.

“During excavation work on Vavilov Street in the city of Kolpino, the remains of a wooden box containing a human skull and bone fragments were discovered at a depth of about 2 meters,” follows from the department’s publication on the Telegram channel.

A procedural investigation was organized into this fact. Investigators examined the scene of the incident, the bone remains were sent to an expert institution to establish the person's gender, age, and how long the remains had been in the ground, the Investigative Committee concluded.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Concentration of Russian ships in the eastern Mediterranean
2018-08-28
[Overblog RusNavyIntel- Russia with Google Translate]

Note: Stilted Language due to Google Translate artifacts

The Russian strike group took up residence off Syria. This time, no carriers, but a concentration of ships among the most recent admitted to active duty in the Russian Navy. And for the most part, these units are capable of implementing Kalibr cruise missile fire.

Currently cruising off Syria is a group of 11 ships , including:

- the missile-launching ship Marshal Ustinov (Project 1164, Northern Fleet), which arrives from the Baltic Sea, and Kronstadt, where it took part at the end of July at the Feast of the Fleet. After nearly seven years in repair / modernization in Zvezdochka (Severodvinsk), he was reportedly given anti-ship missiles P-1000 Vulkan, a report recently broadcast on the Perviy Kanal chain vented the range of "1000 km" .. .

- the ASM Severomorsk battleship (Project 1155, Northern Fleet). This ship accompanies Marshal Ustinov . It can also be assumed that this group is escorted by an SSGN (Project 949A for example, such as K-266 Orel who also participated in the Fleet Festival off Kronstadt).

- escort Pytliviy (Project 1135M, Black Sea Fleet)

- the Admiral Grigorovicth frigates , Admiral Essen, Admiral Makarov (Project 11356M, Black Sea Fleet), the latter operating at the same time his rally to the Black Sea from the Baltic Sea, which she left on 18 August. These ships are equipped with Kalibr missiles.

- the small missile launchers Velikiy Ustiug, Grad Svyazhsk (Project 21631, Caspian fleet) and Vichniy Volochek (Project 21631, Black Sea Fleet), the latter having been paid to the fleet on 1 June. These ships are equipped with Kalibr missiles.

- the classic attack submarines B-268 Velikiy Novgorod and B-271 Kolpino (Project 0636.3, Black Sea Fleet), which are breaking a longevity record for their combat mission in the Mediterranean. These ships are equipped with Kalibr missiles.



What can be said about the composition of this group that completes a tanker, the Ivan Bubnov (Black Sea Fleet)?

- three naval formations are concerned: the Northern Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Fleet,

- with 11 combat vessels, the number of ships in this group is in a high average , as this figure tends to be around 5 to 6, plus support ships ,

- of the 11 units, 8 are capable of firing Kalibr missiles, giving this group a powerful strike ability ,

- of the 11 units, 8 were admitted to active duty in the last 24 months ,

- in the event of strikes, it will be the "baptism of fire" for the small missile ship Vichniy Volochek , and the first operational mission in the Mediterranean for her sister ships which have arrived from the Caspian Sea.




What is the purpose of this deployment?

The Russian media highlight the desire to dissuade the United States to carry out new strikes against the Damascus regime. However, if that were to happen, we can assume that it would be "in good intelligence" with the Russians, as in April.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian long range bombers hammer ISIS positions in Deir Ezzor
2017-11-05
Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian forces directed several strikes on the sites of ISIL terrorist organization in the city of al-Bukamal in the southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city.

“Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers struck ISIL targets near the town of al-Bukamal in Syria on Saturday,” the Ministry said in a statement.

Command centers and weapon depots were among the targets hit by the bombers which flew over Iran and Iraq, according to the statement.

On Friday, long-range bombers Tupolev-22 and the submarine The Kolpino have dealt a massive missile and air strike against ISIL terrorists and infrastructure near al-Bukamal. Six strategic bombers Tupolev-22 and six submarine-launched cruise missiles Kalibr hit terrorists’ fortifications, weapons and ammunition depots, manpower and command centers.

Source: SANA
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian subs hit terrorist targets with ‘Kalibr’ cruise missiles in Syria
2017-10-06
[RT] Russian submarines have fired Kalibr cruise missiles from the Mediterranean hitting terrorist targets in Syria, the Defense Ministry said. The strikes were to support Syrian troops waging ground offensive in Deir-ez-Zor province.

The submarines ’Veliky Novgorod’ and ’Kolpino’ launched 10 missiles on Thursday when patrolling the Mediterranean, ministry front man General Igor Konashenkov told news hounds.

The front man said the submarines fired the missiles while submerged.

Before the missile strikes, Russian surveillance detected Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) targets in Deir-ez-Zor province, including command centers, large ammunition depots and hangars housing terrorists' armored vehicles, the ministry added.

"To hit these targets, Velikiy Novgorod and Kolpino submarines of the Black Sea Fleet have performed two multiple launches of Kalibr cruise missiles from the Mediterranean," the front man said.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Restores Control over New Areas in Deir Ezzor, Russians and Kurds pile on
2017-09-15
The Syrian Army units operating in Deir Ezzor on Thursday regained control over new areas in the western and eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city in the framework of their wide-scale military operations to uproot terrorism.

SANA’s reporter said that the army units regained control over Damen battalion, southwest of the Airport, and the first water-pumping station in al-Mrai’eyeh.

The reporter added that the Air Force and Artillery of the Syrian army destroyed, in intensive strikes, ISIL positions and movement axes, killing a number of terrorists in the villages of Aiyash, al-Jeneineh, Howeijet Saqer, al-Mrai’eyeh and al-Husseinyeh in the countryside of Deir Ezzor province.

Source: SANA

Russian submarines attack Daesh targets in Dayr al-Zawr

[Iran Press TV] Russia says it has launched a missile attack against positions held by ISIS in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr from the submarines stationed in the Mediterranean Sea.

In a statement released on Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said seven Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from Russia’s Velikiy Novgorod and Kolpino submarines in the eastern Mediterranean. The missiles, it said, hit all the planned targets, which were within a range of 500 to 670 kilometers.

The targets that came under the attack included "control centers, communication hubs, bully boy weapons and ammunition warehouses in ISIS (ISIS)-controlled areas in southeast Dayr al-Zawr," the statement read.

Earlier this month, the Syrian government forces broke the three-year-long ISIS siege on Dayr al-Zawr city, the lovely provincial capital of the oil-rich province of the same name.

US-backed forces capture ISIS stronghold in eastern Deir Ezzor

[AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the strategic district of al-Husseiniyeh along the eastern bank of the Deir Ezzor Governorate, Kurdish activists reported on Thursday evening.

The capture of the al-Husseiniyeh District by the Syrian Democratic Forces leaves the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 in serious trouble in Deir Ezzor, as their units are now besieged in a large pocket around the lovely provincial capital.

Al-Husseiniyeh was also a major supply hub for the terrorist group that was used to replenish provisions for Islamic State fighters in western Deir Ezzor.

With al-Husseiniyeh captured, the Syrian Democratic Forces can now turn their attention to the remaining areas occupied by the Islamic State along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River.
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