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VOA Russian: Europe targets Russia's 'shadow fleet'


FILE - The Russian oil tanker Volgoneft-147 stands in Muscat's Mina al-Fahl port, Feb. 7, 2000.
FILE - The Russian oil tanker Volgoneft-147 stands in Muscat's Mina al-Fahl port, Feb. 7, 2000.

Leaders of 12 European countries agreed at a meeting in Tallinn to expand sanctions against Russia's "shadow fleet" that is used by Moscow to sell oil and evade Western sanctions. Several European states imposed new policies on Russian vessels transiting through European waters to curb Russia's ability to use profits from illicit oil sales to fund its war in Ukraine.

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