Russia

The market reacted to the possibility of new US and EU sanctions against Russian crude oil.

On the afternoon of Thursday, September 4, the Russians fired two ballistic missiles at the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district.

Russia is urgently trying to replace Western software for managing shipping in ports and on warships.

In the port of Murmansk, due to complaints from Russian sailors, the tanker Unity under the flag of Lesotho, which is part of the so-called “shadow fleet” of Russia, was detained.

The country is gradually abandoning its energy dependence on Russia, increasing supplies from the USA, Nigeria and Angola.

The main reasons were the decline in world oil prices and the strengthening of the ruble.

The “Kapitan Mironov” vessel (IMO:9077563), which stole grain from ports in the temporarily occupied territories, was sent for scrapping to Turkey. This was reported by Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist for the SeaKrime project of the Peacemaker Center. According to her, the dry cargo ship Kapitan Mironov, built in 1995, was scrapped in the Turkish port…

The country is proposing several legal mechanisms to launch this process and considers further delay unacceptable.

Berlin and Paris are calling for tougher restrictions to cut off Moscow’s access to financing the war through third-party intermediaries.

The American oil giant Exxon Mobil, which withdrew from the Russian market in 2022, is considering a return.