Sanctions

Ukraine has called on the International Maritime Organization to strengthen counteraction to Russian attacks on civilian shipping and the activities of the Russian shadow fleet.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on European countries to stop tankers of the Russian shadow fleet and create mechanisms for confiscating Russian oil.

During the Greenpeace action in the Baltic Sea, a Russian warship accompanied the Kira K tanker of the shadow fleet, which was transporting Russian oil.

A court in Germany has ruled that the Dilbar superyacht, linked to the family of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, is no longer considered frozen under the EU sanctions regime.

The head of the Spanish port of Bilbao, one of Europe’s main gas import hubs, has called for a postponement of a ban on Russian gas.

The bulk carrier Grumant unloaded more than 17 thousand tons of wheat loaded in the Turkish port of Iskenderun, loaded in the occupied Sevastopol.

Instead of destroying ships, the new drones will escort them to ports for further seizure of cargo.

The US Treasury Department has removed two Russian dry cargo ships from its sanctions list, the “Gennady Yegorov” and the “Vyacheslav Arshinov”.

EU leaders at a summit in Brussels agreed to extend the current sanctions against Russia for a year instead of the traditional six months.

Canada has imposed new sanctions on Russian “shadow fleet” tankers, as well as on the energy and military-industrial complex.