By Eliza Popova
The Central Command on Emergency Situations at sea (CCME) reported that three tugboats worked to tow a 274-meter tanker under the Panama flag to a safe place: Port Zasnitz on the island of Ryugen. According to Marinetraffic monitoring group, the Eventin ship goes under the flag of Panama, he is 18 years old. The tanker loaded oil into the Russian port of Ust-Luga and reached the Egyptian port of Said on January 6.
According to the open data, the last flights tanker operated to the Indian port of Vishakhapatnam. India has not joined sanctions against Russia and is inferior only to China in terms of Russian oil purchases. German Foreign Minister Annalen Berbb said that the "old" oil tanker is another example of the threats that Russia is for European security.
Since the Western countries have imposed sanctions on Russian oil exports, the Kremlin has begun to use old, sometimes Soviet tankers, known as its "shadow fleet" to transport petroleum products to buyers around the world. "Using the rusty fleet, Putin not only bypasses sanctions, but also deliberately at the risk of tourism stopping in the Baltic Sea," Berbbb said on January 10.
The Kremlin, which previously refused to respond to the accusation of the use of the "shadow fleet" until the incident with the Eventin tanker commented. We will remind, in December two Russian tankers were crashed off the coast of the occupied Crimea, pouring thousands of tons of fuel oil into the Black Sea. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the vessels - who were almost 50 years old - "were not to be exploited at all.
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