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ust-luga burning again ukraine now hitting russian oil port every other day — shadow fleet tankers load here keep waiting offshore · post smoke billows over horizon traffic towards facility

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Ust-Luga burning again: Ukraine is now hitting this Russian oil port every other day — the shadow fleet tankers that load here keep waiting offshore

Some drones entered Eatonia but were not intercepted, with a spokesperson noting that Russia's use of electronic warfare to deflect Ukrainian drones was likely behind the crossings.

byYuri Zoria

ust-luga fire again drone strikes keep russia's baltic oil ports burning ukraine targets war revenues · post port seen plane following ukrainian 29 2026 video supernova+ image_2026-03-29_19-44-32 news reports

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Ust-Luga on fire again: Drone strikes keep Russia’s Baltic oil ports burning as Ukraine targets war revenues at source

Drone strikes have now hit Ust-Luga multiple times in days, targeting revenues that stand to grow as global prices rise amid the Iran war.

byBenjamin Murdoch

ukraine hits ust-luga primorsk third time five days — pace suggests kyiv trying destroy russia's baltic oil export ports beyond repair · post smoke rising above port near leningrad oblast

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Russian Aggression

Ukraine hits Ust-Luga and Primorsk for the third time in five days — the pace suggests Kyiv is trying to destroy Russia’s Baltic oil export ports beyond repair

NASA satellite data confirmed new fires at both ports; together they handle 2 million barrels of Russian crude exports daily. A drone also struck Severstal's blast furnace in Cherepovets in the same night.

byYuri Zoria

eu's 21st russia sanctions package target shadow fleet banks firms selling stolen ukrainian grain—politico · post altura vessel f5e0350f09933f86b813143d8314ece5e124eab757d855543e066b8431273664152698jpg ukraine news reports

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International

Sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker struck by drone near Istanbul, 140,000 tons of oil on board

The ALTURA had transported millions of barrels of Russian crude to India and China before the strike.

byBenjamin Murdoch

40% russia's oil exports offline mostly due ukrainian drone strikes — worst disruption russian history · post ust-luga export terminal fire after ukraine's attack overnight 25 2026 exilenova+ 8d15778b-2781 -45fe-a583-f63e05c12c84

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International

Reuters: 40% of Russia’s oil exports offline, mostly due to Ukrainian drone strikes — worst disruption in Russian history

Russia earns roughly a quarter of its state budget from oil and gas. This week's attacks halted oil loadings at both Russian Baltic Sea terminals.

byYuri Zoria

russian dry cargo vessel irkutsk, formerly named alfa m

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Money Matters

Ukrainian grain was stolen, relabeled Russian, and sold to a UN food program supplier—the paperwork said nothing about Mariupol

The same Russian family builds attack drones for Russia’s war on Ukraine and exports stolen Ukrainian wheat. Some of it reached a UN food program supplier in Turkey.

byPeeter Helme

Smoke seen coming from the port of Primorsk, Russia, following a reported Ukrainian drone strike on the site, 23 March 2026. Photo: Exilenova+

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Ukraine hits Primorsk – the Baltic port keeping Russia’s shadow fleet in business

A hit on a fuel storage tank at Primorsk forced evacuations and shut down air traffic at Pulkovo Airport.

byBenjamin Murdoch

same week russia fired 1550 drones 1260 bombs ukraine sanctions relief let sell more oil pay kyiv says · post ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy 20 2026 photo_2026-03-20_12-38-50 prompted iran war

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In the same week, Russia fired 1,550 drones and 1,260 bombs at Ukraine — sanctions relief let it sell more oil to pay for them, Kyiv says

Zelenskyy is calling for shadow fleet tankers to be stopped in European waters, not escorted through.

byYuri Zoria

eu's 21st russia sanctions package target shadow fleet banks firms selling stolen ukrainian grain—politico · post russian vessel deyna boarded french navy forces mediterranean 20 2026 hd2nuouxmaa-5_h ukraine news reports

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French Navy stops Russian shadow fleet ship in the Mediterranean: “Profiteers of war”

Macron says the Deyna's crew helped finance Russia's invasion while evading international law.

byBenjamin Murdoch

swedish police coast guard boarding vessel sea owl ombord red 2 strongly linked combat

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Sweden boards Russian shadow fleet tanker heading for Russian port under suspected false flag

Prosecutors probe seaworthiness after coast guard stops sanctioned Sea Owl I off Trelleborg.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Russia plans to re-register 80 shadow fleet tankers under its own flag to evade Western sanctions, Ukraine intelligence says

As European countries and the United States tighten their grip on Russia's shadow oil fleet, Moscow is not retreating — it is re-flagging. Ukraine's intelligence service reports that roughly 80 tankers are slated for Russian registration, a move the agency says will make it easier to deploy intelligence operatives on board and harder for the West to act.

byMaria Tril

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Opinion

Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers.

Wagner veterans ride Russia's oil tankers through NATO waters. The cargo could fill Europe's reserves. Nobody stops them.

byOleh Savytskyi

india russia's biggest oil customer — now it's detaining shadow fleet tankers · post one three us-sanctioned intercepted indian coast guard approximately 100 nautical miles west mumbai 6 2026 hahxkbabgaetxuh

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US sanctions don’t work: Russian tankers shipped $11 billion in oil last year. That’s enough to bomb Ukrainian cities for eight months

The tankers were sanctioned. They shipped oil anyway.

byOlena Mukhina

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Money Matters

US gives India 30 days to offload 140 million barrels of Russian crude—oil its own sanctions stranded at sea

Washington’s waiver covers crude that accumulated offshore after its own pressure campaign cut India’s Russian imports by more than a third.

byPeeter Helme

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“We take these vessels out one by one”: Belgium seizes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker

Zelenskyy urges continent to not just stop sanctioned tankers but seize them and redirect the cargo.

byBenjamin Murdoch

canada sends 449 armored vehicles ukraine allocates $15 bn military aid all-out war's 4th anniversary · post ukrainian army's canadain senator mrap roshel news reports

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Canada sends 449 armored vehicles to Ukraine, allocates $1.6 bn in military aid on all-out war’s 4th anniversary

Ottawa also extended its military training mission through 2029 and sanctioned 100 Russian shadow fleet vessels.

byYuri Zoria

iran hit abu dhabi peace talks — zelenskyy says next ukraine-russia-us round still days away · post ukrainian president volodymyr 14 2026 photo_2026 -02-14_22-11-42 us-pushed trilateral remains track despite us-iran

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Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “playing games” with Trump — and names the one thing that would actually hurt Putin

It's not battlefield weapons. It's cutting Moscow's revenues funding Russia's war machine, he told FT.

byYuri Zoria

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Zelenskyy sanctions 225 shadow fleet captains from 11 countries for smuggling Russian oil

Some 188 of the tankers whose captains Ukraine just sanctioned are already on the sanctions lists of seven Western nations — but the people steering them were not, until now.

byMaria Tril

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges (ret.) warns Germany's Suwalki Gap wargame missed the war Russia is already fighting. Background: German Leopard 2 tank of NATO's enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Lithuania

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Interview

Ben Hodges: stop treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene

Former US Army Europe commander Ben Hodges on why Europe keeps treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene

byDaniel Thomas

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Ukraine sanctions 91 shadow fleet tankers used to transport Russian oil

Each shadow fleet tanker "should be viewed as an element of financing the Russian war machine," Ukraine's sanctions commissioner said as President Zelenskyy

byMaria Tril

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Ust-Luga burning again: Ukraine is now hitting this Russian oil port every other day — the shadow fleet tankers that load here keep waiting offshore

Ust-Luga on fire again: Drone strikes keep Russia’s Baltic oil ports burning as Ukraine targets war revenues at source

Ukraine hits Ust-Luga and Primorsk for the third time in five days — the pace suggests Kyiv is trying to destroy Russia’s Baltic oil export ports beyond repair

Sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker struck by drone near Istanbul, 140,000 tons of oil on board

Reuters: 40% of Russia’s oil exports offline, mostly due to Ukrainian drone strikes — worst disruption in Russian history

Ukrainian grain was stolen, relabeled Russian, and sold to a UN food program supplier—the paperwork said nothing about Mariupol

Ukraine hits Primorsk – the Baltic port keeping Russia’s shadow fleet in business

In the same week, Russia fired 1,550 drones and 1,260 bombs at Ukraine — sanctions relief let it sell more oil to pay for them, Kyiv says

French Navy stops Russian shadow fleet ship in the Mediterranean: “Profiteers of war”

Sweden boards Russian shadow fleet tanker heading for Russian port under suspected false flag

Russia plans to re-register 80 shadow fleet tankers under its own flag to evade Western sanctions, Ukraine intelligence says

Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers.

US sanctions don’t work: Russian tankers shipped $11 billion in oil last year. That’s enough to bomb Ukrainian cities for eight months

US gives India 30 days to offload 140 million barrels of Russian crude—oil its own sanctions stranded at sea

“We take these vessels out one by one”: Belgium seizes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker

Canada sends 449 armored vehicles to Ukraine, allocates $1.6 bn in military aid on all-out war’s 4th anniversary

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “playing games” with Trump — and names the one thing that would actually hurt Putin

Zelenskyy sanctions 225 shadow fleet captains from 11 countries for smuggling Russian oil

Ben Hodges: stop treating Russian sabotage like a crime scene

Ukraine sanctions 91 shadow fleet tankers used to transport Russian oil

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