{"id":720866,"date":"2026-01-26T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/720866\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:23:12","slug":"what-is-russias-shadow-fleet-and-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/720866\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Russia\u2019s \u2018shadow fleet\u2019 and how does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Paris \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s interception of an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; draws attention to how the vessels allegedly operate to escape Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the \u2018shadow fleet?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s all-out invasion of Ukraine that started in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris \u2013 France&#8217;s interception of an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; draws attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2661,332,7661,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-720866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-oil","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","11":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115958789572152431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}