Ukraine imposes sanctions against captains of Russia’s shadow fleet
4.08.2025 - 10:56
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on captains and companies of the Russian shadow fleet.
The relevant decree was published on the presidential website on August 3.
As Zelenskyy noted, three sanctions packages have been prepared, and the first package has already been applied today.
“Sanctions against captains of the Russian shadow fleet, and we will synchronize all of this — all of these packages — with our partners so that the pressure works in most jurisdictions,” the president said in an evening address.
The president also agreed to introduce Ukrainian sanctions next week to synchronize them with the restrictions already introduced by partners.
The first annex to the sanctions includes 94 captains of the Russian shadow fleet. The vast majority, 85 people, are Russian, but there are also four Chinese, two Georgians, and one citizen each of Iran, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India.
“There were recorded facts of loading oil by these vessels under the leadership of the said captains in the ports of the Russian Federation in late 2024 – early 2025 and unloading in the ports of Turkey, India, China and others. Our intelligence has collected all the information about them,” said Vladislav Vlasyuk, the presidential commissioner for sanctions policy.
Sanctions against the captains and companies have been imposed for 10 years.
Earlier, USM reported that Zelenskyy signed a law on sanctions against vessels of the Russian “shadow fleet”.
