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Kremlin threatens to deploy navy if Europe seizes more Russian shadow fleet vessels (kyivindependent.com)
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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet

Various tactics are adopted to make it harder to track vessels in the shadow fleet; these include renaming the ships, changing their country of registration, sailing under false flags, switching off tracking signals, and broadcasting false locations.

Even disregarding all the politics around sanction evasion and espionage, this stuff is reason enough to seize these vessels.

this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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