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The first tanker with 40 thousand tons of Russian diesel fuel is to leave Ust-Luga for the United States in the near future.

The scheme provides that investors will be able to buy idle sanctioned vessels, repair them and carry only legal oil.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering easing sanctions against some of the “shadow fleet” vessels to increase available tonnage and reduce record tanker freight rates.

Belarus has shipped its first shipment of potash fertilizers to the United States in four years after the easing of US sanctions on the Belarusian potash industry.

Three of the five tankers that were hit by the US military in the Gulf of Oman on September 8 have connections with the Russian shadow fleet.

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 White House has urged Ukraine not to attack non-Russian vessels in the Black Sea after a tanker chartered by the American company Chevron was hit.

The European Parliament has supported a non-binding resolution to ban alumina exports to Russia.