Once they make it a habit of destroying ships in the Russian shadow fleet, availability of crews and insurance will dry up, further reducing Russian economic power, pushing Russia closer to the tipping point. Ukraine doesn't need to destroy them all, just make it so most ships are unwilling to do Russia's business.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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I believe shadow fleet vessels are already uninsured. The way the sanctions are enforced is through insurance.
Yeah and they are buying old ships that would otherwise be headed to dismantling outfits.
Crispy clear videos from these sea drones... Love everything about this!
Except for the reason 🤬 Piss off to your own country, azzholes.
Lol Russia is fucked
I hope they are targeting empty tankers, and not ones full of crude oil.
They were empty and headed to Novorossiysk to be loaded.
They are
They are empty? Or full of oil?
Yes!
That's realarming.
They are targeting empty ones
They were returning under ballast, so not full of oil.
Not anymore!
They're empty. You can tell by how high they are in the water. That doesn't mean that there isn't an environmental impact. An empty tanker still has a lot of crude oil contamination and marine fuel (which is nasty nasty stuff).
Slava Ukraini!
lol. I love it. Attacking combat ships, they have to move in quick. With tankers, these guys just troll right up next to them!
ill look it up, but what is a "shadow fleet"?
Ships that aren’t officially Russian but wink wink nudge nudge in fact are.
Plausible deniability for Russia
ty!