#Black Sea
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![A massive explosion lights up the night sky over Tuapse, Russia, following a drone strike on port infrastructure, November 2, 2025. (Photo: Open source)]( "A massive explosion lights up the night sky over Tuapse, Russia, following a drone strike on port infrastructure, November 2, 2025. (Photo: Open source)")
![Russian Navy Baltic Fleet landing ship, the Alexander Shabalin, passes the Bosphorus in 2016. (Source: YorukIsik/X)]( "Russian Navy Baltic Fleet landing ship, the Alexander Shabalin, passes the Bosphorus in 2016. (Source: YorukIsik/X)")
![Illustrative image. Belgium Alkmaar-class minehunter Narcis M923 at Zeebrugge naval base, on December 12, 2012. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Illustrative image. Belgium Alkmaar-class minehunter Narcis M923 at Zeebrugge naval base, on December 12, 2012. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Russia Launched Operation to Lift Mi-24 From Black Sea After 16 Months Underwater. Here’s What They Found]( "Russia Launched Operation to Lift Mi-24 From Black Sea After 16 Months Underwater. Here’s What They Found")
![One of Only Four: Ukraine Sinks $60M Russian Support Vessel in Black Sea Raid]( "One of Only Four: Ukraine Sinks $60M Russian Support Vessel in Black Sea Raid")
![Ukraine’s Owl With a Sword: How Military Intelligence DIU Is Crippling Russia’s War Machine]( "Ukraine’s Owl With a Sword: How Military Intelligence DIU Is Crippling Russia’s War Machine")
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- War in Ukraine
Faced with Russia’s full-scale war, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (DIU) has emerged as a leading force. From defending Kyiv on day one to pioneering naval-drone raids that have downed Russian warships, helicopters, and even fighter jets, DIU might not spin spider webs—but its owl-and-sword emblem suggests something just as deadly.
-88470b24a5ecc0af4bfa5a216e4ae4b6.webp "One of Only Four: Ukraine Sinks $60M Russian Support Vessel in Black Sea Raid")
-afd47c3daded7971dacf2865539af619.jpg "Ukraine’s Owl With a Sword: How Military Intelligence DIU Is Crippling Russia’s War Machine")
