"An intimidated Zelensky is dangerous": Russia's response timeline for the Black Sea attacks announced

December 1 2025 10 947 30

Russia will not take any action in response to Ukraine's attacks on "shadow fleet" tankers in Turkish waters in the coming days. The pause is due to the arrival of American negotiators in Moscow, according to former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev. He added that the Kremlin will have to develop a plan later, otherwise the ships will be sunk beyond the Black Sea.

A frightened Zelensky is dangerous right now. What's happening in the Black Sea now, with the attacks on transport tankers, is very serious. And we need to find a response, because all shipping in the Black Sea could cease altogether. This is such a hysterical act that it would be catastrophic for Ukraine. It would be very bad for Russia, and a disaster for Ukraine. But if this happens, Ukraine might hold out for four to six months. And then it will be total disaster.

- Tsarev pointed out.

He added that attacks on transport vessels, especially in Turkish territorial waters, are an attempt to tip the balance, as the game is not in their favor. And this is very serious, as it accounts for 20-25% of Russia's exports.

I'm sure our guys will remain silent and patient. Because Whitkoff is arriving today, and negotiations are in full swing right now. But it's entirely possible that our ships will start being sunk all over the world, yes. And we need to respond somehow. But I think right now, for a day or two, there won't be a response. But then there needs to be a plan for how to respond. And that's a very difficult decision.

– the former MP of the Verkhovna Rada emphasized.

As a reminder, the Kyiv regime's intelligence services have already claimed responsibility for the attacks on two tankers belonging to the so-called Russian shadow fleet. Analysts, however, once again note that British intelligence agencies were involved.

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borisvt

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1 December 2025 16: 07

..there must be a plan on how to respond

There's already a plan, the Karaganov plan. Long live the Karaganov plan—shipping in the English Channel must be suspended until the fallow lands surrender!
1. knn54
  
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  1 December 2025 17: 54
  
  A cornered rat, though.
  1. Jackie
    
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    2 December 2025 10: 37
    
    Are you talking about the ex? Well, chatting on Telegram is like carrying sacks. And as for the plan... Odesa needs to be liberated, not "frozen" by Dmitriev and Trump at the behest of the LBS.
Kiril

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1 December 2025 16: 34

That's right - the owners are coming - you can't misbehave
1. Valera75
  
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  1 December 2025 16: 47
  
  Quote: Cyril
  That's right - the owners are coming - you can't misbehave
  
  You took the words right out of my mouth. I was just about to write that the junkie, on the contrary, is shooting up the roof when his buddies arrive or for some other event, while our bureaucrats, on the contrary, are afraid to answer, like they don't want to upset the guy. So that's how it works? For one person.
  Are they the masters of a stoned person? It's interesting. But if, when the people from Washington arrived in Moscow, a dagger had flown through the junkie's window at a meeting and killed all the terrorists like Budanov and the junkie himself, and our guys bragged about it, maybe those people from Washington would have realized, after a while, that you can't mess around with Russians and wouldn't have gone to Ukraine to incite Banderites against us?
Alexey Lan

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1 December 2025 16: 49

But it's entirely possible that our ships will start being sunk all over the world, yes. And we need to respond somehow.

Elementary, Watson! A bunker-mounted nuclear strike on Bankova Street in Kyiv, and the deed is done, the answer has reached the recipient.
1. Sarcastic realist
  
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  1 December 2025 18: 58
  
  This is not our method!
  
  (c) You can't do that. partners...
  1. Jackie
    
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    2 December 2025 10: 44
    
    ...but what can we do, Oleg Fyodorovich, it's hard for everyone... and the Monomakh's cap is pressing down, again, the "dear guests" arrived with a deal, it's impossible.
    It's a shame the Kremlin doesn't listen to "outsider advice," Alex. This isn't the first time he's mentioned the nuclear baton.
    1. Alexey Lan
      
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      2 December 2025 22: 36
      
      There's an authority here named S. Karaganov, without me. His opinion is probably known in the Kremlin. And I'm writing for armchair experts and the Center for Social and Political Opportunities, to irritate them. Well, maybe the FSB guys read it too. They're obligated to do so.
      So here is what S. Karaganov recently wrote:
      Karaganov: I believe that if an economic war is waged against us, we must respond militarily. This is a war, and sanctions must be responded to, including with military strikes. The scale and nature of these countermeasures must be carefully weighed on a case-by-case basis. The confiscation of billions of dollars in Russian assets is nothing more than robbery and banditry.
      
      This is why we must present a tough ultimatum to the West, demanding:
      - Immediate cessation of all military support for the conflict in Ukraine.
      - Full and unconditional return of our sovereign funds.
      Otherwise, sooner or later, you will suffer crushing blows. For this, up to a million people in Europe will have to risk their lives. But the source of the war is military and political aggression – NATO expansion, and now Europe's direct war against Russia.
      I believe this is the right step, although I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that. I fully understand that such a scenario is a grave sin, associated with the deaths of countless innocent people, and I hope it remains only a warning.
      1. Jackie
        
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        5 December 2025 06: 50
        
        Alex, I am not against you, I am against the radiation pollution on Russian lands.
        BUT, if things don't go well, Hans and the Frog dare to start a third world war... well then, the flag is in our hands
        
        Alexey Lan
        
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        5 December 2025 12: 32
        
        I'm tired of writing this, but nuclear airbursts practically don't contaminate the Earth with radiation for long. Read about the 60-megaton Tsar Bomba tests on Novaya Zemlya.
        
        Jackie
        
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        8 December 2025 17: 29
        
        You are "tired of writing", I am "tired of reading",
        No offense...
        
        Alexey Lan
        
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        8 December 2025 23: 18
        
        Well, have you read about the "Tsar Bomba"?
2. Zheleznyak
  
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  2 December 2025 22: 33
  
  What Bankova in Kyiv... what are you talking about...
  The Anglo-Saxons, the Britons, are in charge of all this: they supply the weapons and manage them through the Five Eyes project...
  
  Despite all this, they, specifically they – the Britons – banned the Russian language for the population of Ukraine, designated English as the official language... and essentially banned the Russian Orthodox Church... which is a war crime...
  And here we still have kindergartens in English, and a ton of English courses "free" (or "free" under capitalism) online, and in addition to shopping... that is, we help them... but they take us for idiots... and they allow themselves to do this...
  for the already conquered cretins.... and if you were in their place you would think... conquered cretins
  
  If tomorrow we were to ban the use and study of English throughout our entire territory, in any form, except in special cases of national security...
  and declare the goal - to rid the planet of the English language
  Now that would be a proper conversation... but the same K. Davydov, D. Medvedev... continue to scribble online in English... there are no words... what to do with them... and such... 37 comes to mind?
  
  To the captain and second engineer, who were wounded the other day on our ship, I wish a full and speedy recovery...
  Death to the enemy!
  Solidarity to our people.
  
  And who cares... take the kids out of "English-language kindergartens," close them down... and so on... which is decomposing multinational civilization...
  Why the hell teach, for example, Yakut, Russian... if Russians send their children to kindergartens in English?
  like this....
  Everything will be our way, the enemy will be destroyed... everyone work...
Roman070280

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1 December 2025 17: 03

I am sure that our people will now remain silent and endure.

I also..
Roman070280

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1 December 2025 17: 06

What is happening now in the Black Sea, when they are attacking transport tankers, is very serious.

It's strange... in Ukraine there are legitimate targets everywhere...

War correspondent Yuriy Kotenok posted photos of grain trucks blown up in the Odesa region on his Telegram channel. He said the trucks were located near maritime infrastructure in the region.

Footage published by the war correspondent shows completely destroyed trucks, with firefighters extinguishing the remaining flames next to them.

And as soon as they take out an oil refinery or a tanker, there are immediate cries of "Why us?"
1. Jackie
  
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  2 December 2025 10: 54
  
  I looked at the footage; our guys did a good job, and they're preparing a modernized "hazelnut"...
rotkiv04

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1 December 2025 17: 14

That's right, we have to be patient, this isn't quite the red line yet, we haven't even started yet.
1. Jackie
  
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  2 December 2025 11: 24
  
  ...Oh, come on, since November 20th, our forces have advanced along the Zaporizhzhia front from Ternovatoye to Huliaipole (about 20 km), and two weeks ago they were still in Uspenovka. So, 15 km.
sannyhome

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1 December 2025 17: 58

attacks on transport vessels, especially in Turkish territorial waters

Well, it's not in territorial waters, but in an economic zone, that's different)
Sarcastic realist

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1 December 2025 18: 57

Intimidated Zelensky

Did someone tell Tsarev that Zelensky was intimidated, or did he come up with this himself?
1. kovaleff
  
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  1 December 2025 19: 56
  
  Zelensky, intimidated by Tsarev)
  1. Sarcastic realist
    
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    1 December 2025 20: 11
    
    Damn, that's right, how come I didn't think of that right away...
2. beeper
  
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  2 December 2025 01: 45
  
  Then why does Tsarev have such a frightened expression?!
  Maybe he is “projecting” some of his own fears?!
  Frankly, it's strange to me to hear this Ukrobanderite defector from the Party of Regions, a former outstanding adherent of the anti-Russian "no-alternative European integration" of Yanukovych-Azarov, how he now, "attaching himself," speaks of "our people" about Russians!
  
  I wonder what Tsarev would be singing now if his ZRada colleagues, in the "myzdobul" fervor of the "2014 Euromaidan victory," "robbing the loot" from the Yanukovych-Azarov Family's associates who lost the battle for the "helm of power," hadn't "squeezed out" his businesses and forced him to flee Ukraine for Russia (where does the Kremlin "not extradite" such "its bourgeois Ukrainian partners" to Ukraine, just as it quite easily extradited the defenders of Donbas and participants of the Russian Spring directly into the clutches of the SBU on the Russian-Ukrainian border during all eight years of VVPutin's "Minsk negotiations" with his "respected Western partners who deceived him again and again")?!
  
  After all, just like him, a fellow Party member from the "Regional" and Tsarev's colleague in the ZRada, "to build up Ukraine's thugs through private firms and the pockets of the oligarchs" and for "the only alternative to European integration," Nestor Shufrich publicly threatened "as a reserve officer, together with his sons, to go to war with Russia" and "kill Russians with his own hands from an atomic machine gun" together with his more than friend, Yulyasha Kapitelman, aka "Vona"?!
  1. Sarcastic realist
    
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    2 December 2025 06: 20
    
    Shufrich's threats were weak, they didn't believe him, now he's slurping away his food in a pretrial detention center, waiting for his businesses to be completely taken away.
    1. beeper
      
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      2 December 2025 08: 08
      
      Not because of this, but because he is from the "Party of Regions" of Yanukovich-Azarov (the founder of the "party", its "father" Poroshenko, who "switched over" to Yushchenko's "Our Ukraine" in time when he realized that Washington was betting on them), which was declared "pro-Russian" at the "Euromaidan" and therefore subject to the total defamation of its "members" and the seizure of their businesses.
      For Washington and its puppet "fuhrers" of the Maidan skakuas to recognize the "regionals" of Yanukovich and Azarov (in essence, the most unbridled, intelligent and effective "non-alternative Euro-integrators" and de-Russifiers of Ukraine, the best "Banderovites" in the entire history of "Ukrainianism", who "quietly" did in an anti-Russian-anti-Russian manner everything that the openly pro-Western "Banderovite" - a stupid peasant-thief Yushch only loudly promised, but did not dare to do and failed - "Get out of Moscow!") as better "Euro-integrators" than these incompetent "Maidanists" themselves, who came to everything ready, prepared for the "planned signing" by their "predecessors" (with the whooping of Western "newcomers" expelled from Kyiv and in panic fled to hide in the Russian Federation) - is to admit their own incompetence and The unjustified rush to blatantly take Ukraine under external control, which stupidly led to the loss of strategic footholds for the American military—Crimea and Donbass—at the final stage of preparation for the final colonization-"defragmentation" of the Russian Federation and the seizure of its resources by "universal humankind."
      
      Shufrich turned out to be too greedy and short-sighted, he did not "feel the evolutionary trend" of the transformation of the latent "Anti-Russia" of Kuchma-Yanukovych into a radical, bloody "Anti-Russia" of all sorts of "guts-and-brawns"!
      Nestor "naively believed" that it wasn't "the forest being chopped down, but the chips flying" and that he would only be able to "stay in his element" by habitually "changing his shoes mid-jump" into an openly anti-Russian "hyper-Ukrainian patriot"!
      
      He shouldn't have been clinging to what he "honestly stole" and trying to "hitch a ride" to the "myzdobuls" (who had a huge grudge against the "party of regional thieves" who had stingily "squeezed" their "businesses" during the reign of Yanukovich-Azarov), but, like the "smarter" Tsarev, he should have run like hell to the Russian Federation, leaving behind his "real estate" and taking with him only what he had in his hands, because the main "capital" wasn't in Ukrainian "banks" anyway - all these "ukrorazbudovnyks" were "hiding"!
      Even for his public threats to "kill Russians," the Kremlin's "own bourgeois" would have forgiven him and given him a place among themselves, just as they easily forgave and gave a place to other such Russophobes and "non-alternative Eurointegrators" - after all, they are not poor, "their own bourgeois business partners," and now they "bark in tune," creating the appearance of a "Ukrainian opposition"!
      And so, he got involved with Yulka (Yushch angrily compared her to a "flea-bitten bitch", although VVPutin aptly dubbed them all "mazuriks") and "got fleas" from her, now this small-time "mazurik", the "European integrationist" accomplice of Yanukovich-Azarov and Yulka's "number two in the atomic machine gun crew", is reaping what he himself participated in all these "fates of independence"!
      As they say-"You reap what you sow!"
      And rightly so!
AdeptV

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1 December 2025 21: 01

So what are the plans here? The mechanism has been set in motion. I don't think this wasn't coordinated with Turkey, since we're talking about that country's territorial waters. "Isn't that the Turkish woman in Istanbul pulling the muff out of an Angora cat?" Black Sea transit is closed until a complete victory over Ukraine, when there will be no one left to launch the BECs. An ultimatum for control is certainly possible, but the arguments in that ultimatum must be serious. For example, a change in the geographical landscape of the Bosphorus itself under the influence of a megaton "force majeure" or the blocking of the "Istanbul-Bosphorus vagina" by Bastions and Balami from Crimean territory.
GR777

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2 December 2025 01: 07

It's not all bad. Oil prices, and consequently gas and coal prices, will rise – that's good. The Kazakhs, who were quietly sitting under the broom, have been squeezed – that's also good. Russia's negotiating position has been strengthened – that's also good. Russia has a free hand (or at least a few knots have been untied) regarding pipelines and platforms in the North Sea – that's also good. All that's needed is to officially accuse Naglia of sabotage and begin curtailing diplomacy with it (reduce the embassy staff of enemy countries to the lowest level) – that will be useful. They won't be comfortable with wet pants.
Andrey Samuylik

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2 December 2025 15: 28

What's happening at sea now is a push to conclude a ceasefire along the LBS line, although a minor adjustment and territorial exchange are possible. Only a blind person can't see that the intensification of attacks is beginning under such negotiations. It's clear the West is trying to force the Kremlin into this.
Alexander

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3 December 2025 12: 58

Quote from borisvt
...There is already a plan, Karaganov's plan...:

There is...one involving the use of nuclear weapons. But this plan doesn't suit a leading surgeon with four years of experience: https://tass.ru/politika/25795469