russian sanctioned tankers continue to operate freely in European waters, polluting the seas with oil.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f According to a journalistic investigation, at least five tankers from russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d have left oil slicks near European coasts, despite some of them already being under UK sanctions. This highlights that the threat posed by russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d to Europe also has an environmental dimension.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f russian companies find ways to bypass restrictions by changing flags, owners, and routes. Tankers often turn off their transponders and ignore environmental and navigation rules, creating risks of accidents and ecological disasters in the Baltic, North, and Mediterranean Seas.<\/p>\n
The \u201cshadow fleet\u201d problem goes far beyond sanctions policy \u2014 it is a European security issue. When vessels linked to russia operate uncontrollably near NATO countries\u2019 coasts, it is not only about evading sanctions but also about russia\u2019s deliberate destabilization of the situation in European states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian sanctioned tankers continue to operate freely in European waters, polluting the seas with oil. \u25ab\ufe0f According to a journalistic investigation, at least five tankers from russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d have left oil slicks near European coasts, despite some of them already being under UK sanctions. This highlights that the threat posed by russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}