The joint “call to action” aims to disrupt the fleet of about 600 ships that Moscow uses to transport about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that 44 European countries had approved a common plan to counter Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers used to evade international sanctions. Bloomberg wrote this on Friday, July 19.
According to a statement issued by Downing Street, the joint “call to action” aims to disrupt the fleet of around 600 ships that Moscow uses to transport around 1.7 million barrels of oil per day.
The UK government also announced sanctions against 11 tankers used to transport Russian oil.
“Together with our European partners, we sent a clear message to those who enable Putin’s attempts to evade sanctions: we will not allow Russia’s shadow fleet and the dirty money it generates to move to European waters and our security will be at risk,” Starmer said.
The UK government says the fleet is funding Russia’s military machine in Ukraine and posing an environmental threat to European waterways. Moreover, some ships are also used as listening stations and for transporting weapons.
Russia, amid Western sanctions, has assembled a shadow fleet to transport its oil around the world, and now there is growing evidence that Moscow has begun doing the same with liquefied natural gas.
Earlier we wrote that the Indian company Reliance refused to supply oil to the Russian Federation using Sovcomflot tankers.
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