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Graham stressed that Washington “will not give up trying to lure Putin to the negotiating table,” but another rejection of compromises should have consequences.

Sweden has detained the Adler, a dry cargo ship whose owner is under EU and US sanctions for allegedly transporting North Korean ammunition to Russia.

On the evening of December 21, drones attacked the port of Taman in the Krasnodar Kray of the Russian Federation.

In the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the SBU’s Alpha hit a tanker of the Russian “shadow fleet” with aerial drones.

China is increasing its imports of Russian liquefied natural gas to circumvent Western sanctions by using a “shadow fleet.”

The Russian Federation is recruiting people with military backgrounds to its “shadow fleet” who spy on EU waters, monitor captains’ actions, and may be involved in sabotage.

A Russian tanker hit by drones began to sink near the sea terminal of the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Products Plant.

The EU Council announced the expansion of the sanctions lists, adding 41 vessels that are part of the so-called shadow fleet of the Russian Federation.

Tanker trips from Novorossiysk are increasingly taking a coastal corridor along Georgia and Turkey, lengthening the crossing and making monitoring more difficult.

A drone attack in the oil tanker port of Rostov-on-Don caused the Valeryi Gorchakov, a ship of the so-called shadow fleet, to catch fire.