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Exclusive: Inside Russia's shadow fleet
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Exclusive: Inside Russia's shadow fleet

April 1, 2026
The Kyiv Independent
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The vessels are old, their hulls streaked with rust, and their ownership obscured behind layers of shell companies.Yet the tankers that make up Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, the armada used to move sanctioned oil across the globe, are kept running with modern Western technology including Starlink, an

Exclusive: Inside Russia's shadow fleet
The Kyiv Independent
The Kyiv Independent

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