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Ukraine has imposed sanctions on more than 50 Russian captains and one Iranian captain said to be involved in Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” used to circumvent Western sanctions, as per a decree signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The tankers they command are considered part of the shadow fleet that Russia uses to evade sanctions imposed over its war on Ukraine, for example in the transport of oil.<\/p>\n
The European Union has imposed sanctions on dozens of these vessels, but there are believed to be many others.<\/p>\n
Most of the ships named in the Ukrainian decree are already on sanctions lists, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reported.<\/p>\n
The sanctioned captains will have any assets in Ukraine frozen and be banned from entering the country or docking with their ships in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“It is vital that we keep pressuring Putin’s shadow tanker fleet, which transports oil around the world and earns money for Russia’s terror and war,” Zelensky said in his daily evening address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n