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German Foreign Minister Johannes Wadeful has announced plans to step up surveillance of the Russian naval fleet under sanctions after suspicious incidents in the Baltic Sea.

The incident with the Jaguar tanker has shown that the Russian military is ready to protect the “shadow fleet.”

The EU and UK are discussing sweeping sanctions at a summit in Albania over Russia’s stance on the ceasefire in Ukraine.

Swiss sanctions have extended to the seaports of Astrakhan, Makhachkala, Novorossiysk, Primorsk and Ust-Luga.

As a result of the strikes on strategic objects in Sudan, a naval base that the Russian Federation was trying to build on the Red Sea coast was damaged.

Estonian military prevented a possible threat to underwater infrastructure by removing the vessel from a potentially dangerous area.

The Russian vessel “Sparta IV”, which regularly transports military equipment from Syria, has been sailing with its AIS turned off for 16 days.

The 17th package of EU sanctions against Russia includes restrictions against 189 vessels of the “shadow fleet”.

The new package of restrictions will include sanctions against the “shadow fleet”, as well as the financial and energy sectors of Russia.

The European Union is preparing new sanctions against the so-called “shadow fleet” of the Russian Federation, in particular – against 25 tankers in the Baltic and North Seas.