shadow fleet

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on captains and companies of the Russian shadow fleet.

EU countries have unused potential for sanctions against Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea, which accounts for about 70% of the flow.

On Wednesday, July 30, the President of Ukraine signed a law on the application of sanctions to vessels of the so-called Russian “shadow fleet”.

Washington has real naval tools capable of paralyzing the transportation of Russian oil, even without new sanctions or tariffs.

The restrictions target Russia’s oil sector and vessels involved in illegal oil transportation.

The European Union has approved the 18th package of sanctions against Russia. The EU called it “one of the toughest ever.”

The new law allows the blocking of vessels transporting weapons, military personnel, or working for the Russian Federation in circumvention of sanctions. This was reported by People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko. On July 16, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported in the second reading a bill that allows the application of sanctions to vessels and aircraft…

Archival data of the captain of the tanker Sable indicate systematic evasion of sanctions and involvement in reconnaissance and sabotage activities.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s Directorate of Maritime Security identified 20 more vessels of the Russian and 11 of the Iranian “shadow fleet”.

The heads of a family-owned company that supplied ship spare parts to Russia’s “shadow fleet” have been arrested in the Netherlands.