The West imposed sanctions against only 9% of tankers carrying Russian oil

The United States and Great Britain have so far sanctioned only 9% of vessels carrying Russian oil.

To date, out of approximately 1,000 tankers transporting Russian oil, sanctions have been imposed on about 90, Andriy Klymenko, head of the Black Sea Strategic Research Institute monitoring group, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

According to him, Russia has reoriented its marine oil exports from the EU countries to such countries as Turkey, India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil and African countries.

The world cannot interfere with the transportation of Russian oil through the Bosphorus Strait, because it is controlled by Turkey, which is currently one of the largest importers of Russian oil and oil products.

About 60% of oil products that Russia exports from Black Sea ports go to Turkey — three times more than before the start of the full-scale war.

Currently, sanctions have been imposed against about 90 vessels out of 1,000 that transport Russian oil. In order to reduce Russia’s ability to export it, it is necessary to expand the sanctions lists as much as possible, and to include not the owners or operators, but the ships themselves, Klymenko noted.

In this case, vessels will not be able to pay for services in dollars and euros and, accordingly, will not be able to use the services of pilots in the Baltic straits. Also, these tankers may have problems with paying for services in the Suez Canal.

USM previously reported that Great Britain added 11 more vessels to the sanctions list, which were involved in the transportation of oil or oil products from the Russian Federation.