Helsinki, Feb 11, 2025 (AFP) - Russia's 'shadow fleet' brings 'high risk' of oil spill

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2025-02-11

As ageing and deficient tankers in the "Russian shadow fleet" traffic the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a major oil spill disaster looms, experts told AFP. Security analysts say Russia is operating a large "shadow fleet" of hundreds of vessels, seeking to dodge the sanctions Western nations imposed on its oil exports over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Often rusty and obsolete, they operate in the Baltic Sea without Western prote......

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