What is Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and how does it work?

Paris –

France’s interception of an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” draws attention to how the vessels allegedly operate to escape Western sanctions.

What is the ‘shadow fleet?’

Russia has reportedly built up a flotilla of old oil tankers of opaque ownership to get around sanctions imposed by the European Union, United States and the G7 group of nations over Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine that started in 2022.