An out-of-control tanker is drifting north of the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.
According to the Maritime Emergency Rescue Service working at the scene, there are about 99 thousand people on board the tanker. tons of oil, writes Bild.
We are talking about the tanker Eventin, which flies the flag of Panama. The 248-meter-long vessel loaded oil in the Russian port of Ust-Luga and set sail on January 6.
The tanker Eventin is 18 years old and is part of the so-called Russian shadow fleet, with the help of which Russia is circumventing Western sanctions imposed due to the war in Ukraine.
The so-called Russian shadow fleet consists of more than 100 tankers and other cargo ships in poor technical condition. They sail under the flags of other countries in the Baltic Sea, and their owners often remain unknown.
Source: Racurs
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