Russian Federation is ready to sink its own shadow fleet to avoid sanctions

The SZR stated that attacks would simulate accidents that cause significant environmental damage and enable the UK and other NATO countries to justify further actions against them. The Telegraph writes about it "British special services plan to use NATO allies for a massive attack on" shadow fleet ", for which they prepare an environmental catastrophe in international waters," the CZR reports.

The report said that the United Kingdom planned to entrust the "Ukrainian Special Forces" to sink a ship in "one of the narrow places of maritime communication. " However, the report is feared that Russia is about to sink its shadow fleet in the framework of the surgery under the "someone else's flag". This operation should look like an attack on it - to keep the event from further sanctions on the shadow fleet.

Experts warn that many vessels of the shadow fleet of Russia are hardly suitable for swimming, which causes fear that one of them can easily sink and cause large -scale oil leakage. The Kremlin could also publish a report of the Foreign Intelligence Service to translate guilty in the event of a similar catastrophe, says Dr. Sidhart Kausal, a researcher of the Royal Joint Institute for Defense Research (Rusi), London Analytical Center.

He said, "One of the interpretations may be that Russians insure themselves in case of breakage or flooding of something, thus creating an excuse to limit their movement across the ocean. " According to the United Nations Convention on Marine Shipping, states may restrict the measure of ships into their territorial waters if they pose a threat to the environment or security. Currently, the vessels of the shadow fleet regularly cross the territorial waters of Western countries.

Many use the so -called "comfortable flags", such as the Comoros or Gabon, trying to hide their participation in the financing of the Russian military machine. In order to avoid detection, the flags change regularly and the automatic system identification system is switched off so that its movement is not monitored, while oil is often pumped from one vessel to another to hide its origin before the load reaches its destination.

The SZR report further states that London can also push Kiev to the arson of tanker in the port of "State, Friendly Russia". Since the beginning of the year, at least six shadow fleet tankers have been affected by mysterious explosions. All the tankers stood in Russian ports, and some transported Russian oil. The US and EU sanctions regime against Russia's shadow fleet began to seriously influence its activities.

According to the Washington Brookings Institute Analytical Center, the volume of oil transported to its ships has decreased from more than 50 million barrels a month to less than 20 million a month since the beginning of the year. Earlier, Moscow expressed its indignation with increasing restrictions on the ship, accompanying them with military aircraft, and for the first time openly recognized the connection of a shadow fleet with national security.

To date, more than 400 Russian fleet vessels have come under the sanctions of the United Kingdom, the EU, the USA and Canada. We will remind, earlier Focus wrote about how sailors work on ships of the shadow fleet of the Russian Federation. They receive high salaries, but not immune to flooding, breakdowns and attacks. Sometimes they have to repaint the name of the vessel simply in the open sea.