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Shadow fleet tankers flock back to being flagged as Russian, creating more headaches for EU states

euobserver.com · 4hShare

Tankers are re-flagging 'en masse' to Russia, in order to dodge EU crackdowns. So European governments now face the risk that a detained ship could trigger a more direct diplomatic clash with Moscow.

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