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EU Mulls Targeting Visas in Shadow Fleet Crackdown, Estonia Says
Last month, EU foreign ministers agreed to work on imposing further restrictive measures on the so-called shadow fleet of tankers transporting oil.
Photographer: Ali Mohammadi/BloombergEuropean Union member states are discussing a raft of new measures against the shadow fleet to further clamp down on Russia’s circumvention of oil sanctions, according to Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal.
Among measures being discussed on the EU level are “trade policies, visa policies” as well as “denial of services” to the flag states of the shadow fleet ships, Michal told reporters in Helsinki on Tuesday. Rough estimates show “a little bit less than half of Putin’s war chest comes from shadow fleet,” he said.