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[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe they just want an excuse to bully Ukraine into stopping attacking Russian oil refineries.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That, and Europe just figured out how to deal with a large portion of Russia’s shadow fleet. This gives that fleet US protection.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How are they dealing with them?

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Fly a helicopter over them (usually when they enter a country's economic zone), drop some units onto the ship, check the registration, confirm that it's fraudulent, seize the ship.

A few have been taken this way, but Russia has started sending military escorts and I assume they're taking different routes. I haven't seen any news for a while about how/if they're dealing with the shadow fleet now.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah you got it on the nose