Sanctions

Latvia and Lithuania are considering restrictions on the transshipment of Russian grain through their ports amid growing transit from Russia.

The response to the attempted sabotage at Leipzig airport could be restrictions on tourist visas for Russians and additional sanctions against “shadow fleet” tankers.

EU forces from Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI have boarded the tanker MV SUN in the Mediterranean Sea to check its flag.

Emmanuel Macron proposes holding a separate meeting of ministers of the Coalition of the Willing to strengthen measures against the “shadow fleet”.

With the strengthening of the sanctions policy of the EU and the US, obsolete ships of the “shadow fleet” are increasingly being sent for recycling.

Among the vessels exposed are dry cargo ships transporting agricultural products from the TOT, oil tankers and gas carriers of the sanctioned Arctic LNG-2 project.

On July 31, US Vice President J.D. Vance, during a conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asked Ukraine to stop attacks on oil tankers in the Black Sea.

The United States has begun to transfer old tankers seized as part of its efforts to combat sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Venezuela for disposal.

The new owner of the 106-meter superyacht “Amadea”, which the US confiscated from Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, is 27-year-old Dubai billionaire Abbas Sajwani.

The United Kingdom has expanded sanctions against Russia, focusing on energy exports, the “shadow fleet”, the financial sector and the defense industry.