{"id":140061,"date":"2025-05-19T07:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/eu-ministers-call-for-coordinated-action-on-russian-shadow-fleet-in-baltic-sea\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:40:29","slug":"eu-ministers-call-for-coordinated-action-on-russian-shadow-fleet-in-baltic-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/yleinen\/eu-ministers-call-for-coordinated-action-on-russian-shadow-fleet-in-baltic-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"EU ministers call for coordinated action on Russian \u2018shadow fleet\u2019 in Baltic Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140061\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Calls to step up and coordinate the interdiction of the unflagged Russian \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of oil tankers in the Baltic Sea were made this weekend before the EU foreign ministers\u2019 meeting on Monday, which is expected to impose sanctions on 180 ships, taking the total number of ships sanctioned by the EU to 350. The efforts to stop the fleet, estimated to be carrying as much as 85% of Russia\u2019s oil exports and so funding roughly a third of Russia\u2019s budget, is seen as a critical proof of the EU\u2019s determination to keep the economic pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spoke on Saturday with the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, over the latest steps against the shadow fleet, a group of 500 or so ageing and poorly insured tankers using flags of convenience to export Russian oil to countries such as India, in defiance of sanctions mounted in 2022 by the G7 countries, including Canada. But the Lithuanian foreign minister, K\u0119stutis Budrys, said current enforcement was ineffective and now faced the threat of Russian military reprisals. About three loaded shadow tankers a day pass through northern European waters, including the Danish Straits and the Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Lennart Meri conference in Tallinn, Budrys highlighted uncertainty about the law on interdiction in international waters, and fear of an all-out military confrontation with Russia. The Estonian defence minister, Hanno Pevkur, called for all sanctioned ships to be debarred from entering EU economic exclusion zone waters, as they are debarred from entering EU ports. The move would severely restrict the Russian fleet but would arguably breach maritime law.<\/p>\n<p>The battle over the shadow fleet intensified last week when a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 jet flew into Estonian airspace in what looked like a reprisal for a tanker named the Jaguar, likely to be carrying Russian oil, being escorted out of Estonian economic waters by the country\u2019s navy. It was not clear if the ship, already subject to sanctions by the UK, was sailing without any flag registration, the surest legal ground for interdicting a ship.<\/p>\n<p>The Estonian navy believed the ship, part of the Russian shadow fleet, might pose a threat to nearby underwater cables, and contacted it to check its status and registration. Faced by resistance from the Jaguar crew, the Estonians drew back from trying to board the ship to inspect its cargo, and instead escorted it into the international waters of the Gulf of Finland on its way to the Russian port of Primorsk. As the ship was being escorted, a Russian jet entered Estonian airspace for a minute without permission.<\/p>\n<p>It is seen as the first incident in which Russia has shown military force in support of the shadow fleet, and the first entry into Estonian airspace for at least three years. The fleet is thought to have expanded, possibly to as many as 700 largely uninsured tankers, to circumvent rules that deny high-quality insurance to ships carrying oil to be sold above $60 a barrel. The innovative US-designed oil cap policy balances two objectives \u2013 limiting Russian revenues for its war machine, while maintaining the supply of oil for the world economy. Ships that operate without insurance can be sanctioned by G7 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/18\/eu-foreign-ministers-call-for-coordinated-action-on-russian-shadow-fleet-in-baltic-sea\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-ministers-call-for-coordinated-action-on-russian-shadow-fleet-in-baltic-sea\/\">EU ministers call for coordinated action on Russian \u2018shadow fleet\u2019 in Baltic Sea<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[5126,555,18819,655],"class_list":["post-140061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-baltic-sea","tag-csr-news-en","tag-russian-shadow-fleet","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}