Ship violating sanctions by transporting Russian oil to Europe struck by explosion in Italy

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/17/7498825/

by Lion8330

27 comments

  1. IVG reported that the cause of the explosion is unknown. However, the vessel’s crew states that they heard two loud bangs and the damaged hull shows concave deformation, indicating the likely use of explosive devices.

  2. **TL;DR:**

    • Two explosions occurred in the city of Savona in northern Italy on the moored oil tanker Seajewel. The vessel’s crew states that they heard two loud bangs and the damaged hull shows concave deformation, indicating the likely use of explosive devices.

    • The Savona Coast Guard is conducting an on-site investigation with divers. Earlier, Ukrainska Pravda found out that the tanker was spotted unloading in the Romanian port of Constanța after arriving from the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

    • Sources in law enforcement agencies reported that theTanker was supposed to be heading to the Russian city of Novorossiysk for transshipment. The Seajwel is one of the tankers that were loaded with Russian cargo three times in 2024 (in February, March and May) and came back after each unloading.Read more: Russia continues to ship oil directly to the EU despite sanctions, investigation finds.Support UP or become our patron!.

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  5. I didn’t see anything.

    Did you?

    That’s what I thought.

  7. This is coincidentally a fantastic way of enforcing sanctions against a desperate sanction breaker.

  8. Where were the French? Finally making up for the Rainbow Warrior

  10. Russian ship… Doing Russian ship stuff. Nothing to see here.

  11. At least it won’t be cutting any cables for a while.

  14. Kinetic sanctions are effective. More of this to tighten the noise on the shadow fleet

  17. Honestly, this could be completely private and random actors.

    I just about guarantee if someone starts tracking, recording and publishing the movements, locations and identities of all the ships and the site gains notoriety, you’ll get non-state citizen actors.

  18. Bond, I shouldn’t be reading about your exploits on the internet.

  22. If every ship violating sanctions gets hit, soon Russia will have no shadow ships and no more funds to continue its war. Then the war will be over without talks.

  23. Savona mentioned!

    (My grandmother was born there, and we used to go there basically every year, because she still had a flat there even though she lived, like us, in England. It’s really a lovely town.)

  24. Here’s to more. Hopefully a few disappear beneath the waves.

  25. Really sucks that sinking these pieces of floating trash would cause a huge ecological catastrophe ; /

  26. Just impound them and confiscate the cargo. No need to blow them up.

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