Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at the Trafigura Group tanker Marlin Luanda on January 26.
The Trafigura Group tanker Marlin Luanda, which was attacked by the Yemeni Houthis, was carrying Russian oil products for the production of fuel and plastics. The raw materials were loaded onto a ship in Greece, indicating that the carrier violated EU and US sanctions on the export of Russian petroleum products. This was reported by the Bloomberg news agency on Saturday, January 27.
Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at the Trafigura Group tanker Marlin Luanda on the night of January 26. The impact occurred approximately 55 miles southeast of the city of Aden. A fire broke out on the ship.
The media believe that this incident also indicates that the United States and its allies have not sufficiently weakened the military capabilities of the Houthis.
According to analytics firm Kpler, the tanker took its Russian-origin cargo through a so-called “ship-to-ship transfer” from a section of the Gulf of Laconia in southern Greece, which plays a key role in the supply of Russian. oil in the world market.
Trafigura, along with other commodity traders such as Glencore Plc, Vitol Group and Gunvor Group, was one of the biggest suppliers of oil from Russia before the full invasion of Ukraine.
Following the introduction of US, European and UK sanctions against Russian energy exports, Trafigura moved away from these flows.
Company CEO Jeremy Ware said the company continues to trade small volumes of petroleum products from Russia.
“The fact that the company took the cargo via ship-to-ship transfer off the coast of Greece sheds light on how one of the world’s largest commodity traders is using less transparent means to continue to facilitate export of petroleum products from Russia, while everything in Ukraine The war is still going on,” the publication notes.
As you know, on the night of January 12, the United States and Britain launched strikes against the Houthis because of their attack on ships in the Red Sea.
Russia immediately responded by requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. However, the next day, the Houthis made the mistake of attacking a tanker carrying Russian oil.
Source: korrespondent
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