News The Insider 18 June 2025 The Marathon tanker bearing its former name, Seaborn. Photo: Airdrone RO / Marinetraffic The Marathon, a tanker from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet,” is en route to the Danish exclusive economic zone (EEZ) carrying 100,000 tons of crude oil, according to a report by local outlet Danwatch .

The strike group of the American aircraft carrier "Gerald Ford" should be deployed in Europe next week, CNN reports . Thus, this is the third aircraft carrier in the immediate vicinity of the place of military conflict between Israel and Iran. This was reported by the American official representative and two other sources familiar with the situation. The planned deployment of Ford in the zone of responsibility of the European command was scheduled at the end of last year.

The Office of the FSB of Russia for the Ulyanovsk Region announced the detention and arrest of a resident of Tuva, who allegedly collected information about the state of the state border between Russia and Mongolia. The Russian, who allegedly worked for the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, was accused of Gosizman.

A lack of voltage control capacity in the power grid triggered a chain reaction that led to the large-scale blackout in Spain and Portugal on April 28, Spanish Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said Tuesday, citing the findings of an official investigation. According to the full report, released on June 17, several power plants failed to regulate voltage as required under existing regulations in the moments leading up to the outage.

In Moscow, the deputy chairman of the Russian Movement Strelkov (RDS/RDVS), the author of the Telegram channel “Soldier Pravda” Mikhail Polynkov, which is also part of the unregistered political party “Russian Spring”, was detained.

The news The Insider June 18, 2025 Marathon tanker with the previous name The tanker of the Russian “shadow fleet” Marathon (UDAYA) left the port in Primorsk and goes in the exclusive economic zone (IEZ) of Germany. The ship goes towards the Big Belt Strait, which belongs to IEZ Denmark. Danwatch writes that the tanker is loaded with 100 thousand tons of oil. Judging by the detection services of ships, the DNK Navy Patrol P524 patrol ship has already approached it.

Law enforcement agencies of Armenia presented the owner of the Russian group of companies Tashir, billionaire Samvel Karapetyan accusations of public calls to seize power (Article 422 of the Criminal Code of Armenia). This was reported by News.am with reference to a statement of lawyers. Karapetyan was detained at night in Yerevan. The night before, a search was held in his mansion. “A group of persons was detained.

The ADALYNN tanker, which is 23 years old, belongs to the so -called Russian shadow fleet - a group of obsolete vessels that are used to circumvent sanctions in the transportation of Russian oil and work in violation of basic marine safety standards. In the list of “shadow fleet”, which is leading Greenpeace, it is made under the previous name - Mission. Also, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine is ranked to the "shadow".

On June 18, mobile Internet disappeared in St. Petersburg. According to Fontanka, the Committee for Informatization and Communications of the City Administration said that the shutdown is associated with the conduct of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF). “Such measures are necessary to ensure the safety of measures,” the statement said. PMEF opened on June 18 and will last four days.

Although the vessel is transmitting a Comoros flag via its AIS (Automatic Identification System), an earlier investigation by The Insider and Starboard Maritime Intelligence revealed that it is not officially registered in any country. Following the report, Denmark’s Maritime Authority confirmed it had contacted the tanker’s crew, but was misled. “Upon a call from the Defence Command, the ship UDAYA/MARATHON stated that it was sailing under the Comoros [flag].

The Governor of the Omsk Region Vitaly Hotsenko said that there was one private clinic in the region where they were abortion. He announced this after the first meeting of the regional council on the implementation of state demographic and family policy on June 17. For what reason the rest of the clinic stopped taking abortion, Hotsenko did not specify. According to the last census , 1.8 million people live in the Omsk region.

POLITICS Michael Borodkin 18 June 2025 In the early hours of June 13, Israel launched a sweeping, carefully coordinated assault on Iran’s nuclear program. The operation began with Mossad agents striking from inside Iran, where they targeted air defense systems, missile launchers, and military command centers. That was just the beginning — soon after came waves of strikes from the air and sea.

News The Insider 18 June 2025 Emergency workers carry a body out of the rubble of a residential building in Kyiv struck by Russia on June 17. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (Telegram: @dsns_telegram) The number of people killed in the June 17 Russian missile strike on Kyiv has risen to 28, according to the most recent update by the city’s mayor Vitalii Klitschko. “So far, the deaths of 28 residents of Kyiv have been confirmed.

The Israeli Defense Army (IDF) reported on strikes on Iranian military facilities - the production of centrifuges and components for missiles.

The Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei in the circulation quoted by Reuters, citing the Tasnim Iranian Agency, replied to recent statements by US President Donald Trump, who called Iran to unconditional surrender. Khamenei said that the Iranian people “never give up”, and emphasized: the country will firmly stand before the “imposed war on and before the imposed world”.