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To spread: since the beginning of 2025, six vessels that came to Russian ports h...

Explosions on Russian tankers become a series: Eco Wizard - sixth a year

To spread: since the beginning of 2025, six vessels that came to Russian ports have been explosions. The last incident happened on July 6 at the port of Ust-Luga on the Eco Wizard tanker, which belongs to the so-called "shadow fleet" of the Russian Federation.

According to the US newspaper Newsweek, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation began an investigation into an explosion on the Eco Wizard tanker in the Russian port of Ust-Lugu, which occurred on July 6 in the Leningrad region, on the bank of the Gulf of Finnish, then connected with the "Tinov Fleet". Since the beginning of 2025, it has been a sixth tanker that came to Russian ports and suffered from the explosion.

The previous tanker Vilamoura became, the explosion occurred near the shores of Libya. He transported about a million barrels of oil. Analysts point to the possible involvement of Ukraine in tankers accidents. Olga Polishchuk, a specialist in Aceled (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data), said Newsweek that the last incident is not unreasonable to assume the involvement of Ukraine.