All the headlines from our Russia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2025 // Sweden said Saturday it will step up insurance checks on foreign ships in a move aimed at tightening controls on Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet ” of aging ships.The government in Stockholm said that,...
May 27 2025 // Hackers working for Russian military intelligence targeted Western technology and logistics companies involved in shipping assistance to Ukraine, the U.S. National Security Agency said.The hackers were trying to obtain...
May 23 2025 // A European official said on Thursday that the United States is “not convinced” about lowering the Group of Seven nations (G7) price cap on Russian crude oil. The European Union has proposed revising the cap...
May 22 2025 // Aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital has booked a further $654 million in proceeds from insurance settlements over the past year related to jets stranded in Russia following Western sanctions, the Irish-headquartered...
May 20 2025 // The EU will propose to G7 finance ministers this week to lower the current $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil as part of the new sanctions package against Moscow, European Economic Commissioner Valdis...
May 19 2025 // Russia detained a Greek-owned oil tanker on Sunday after it left an Estonian Baltic Sea port, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said, adding it had alerted NATO allies to the incident.The Liberia-flagged ship Green Admire was...
May 16 2025 // Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a “shadow fleet” defying...
May 13 2025 // India has approved three Russian insurers, including a unit of top lender Sberbank, to provide marine cover to ships arriving at Indian ports, a government notification shows, helping Moscow maintain oil supplies to a key...
May 8 2025 // The European Union’s executive arm is set to propose a new package of sanctions targeting Moscow’s covert fleet of oil tankers as it seek to crank up pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine.The...
Apr 28 2025 // Kyiv detained a ship it says was part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” which illegally exports grain from areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces.A dry cargo ship was detained in Ukrainian territorial...
Apr 25 2025 // Four new Russian companies have sought India’s approval to provide insurance for crude oil tankers docking at ports in the South Asian nation, according to people familiar with the matter.India’s shipping...
Apr 15 2025 // A German court will weigh a request to release a seized oil tanker that is believed to be part of a so-called shadow fleet used by Russia to circumvent oil sanctions, Germany’s finance ministry said on Monday.The...
Apr 14 2025 // Estonia’s navy stopped and boarded a sanctioned, Russia-bound vessel in the Baltic Sea on Friday over its insurance status and suspicions that the vessel belonged to Moscow’s shadow fleet, which facilitates the...
Apr 2 2025 // The insurance issued to dozens of aging oil tankers used by Russia to skirt international sanctions was bogus, according to Norwegian authorities now investigating the small firm behind the forged...
Mar 27 2025 // Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago, according to data collected by The Associated Press.They...
Mar 24 2025 // Aircraft lessor Air Lease Corp. said on Monday it has received $328.5 million in cash, as part of certain insurance settlements related to its aircraft which were blocked from leaving Russia after the country’s...
Mar 21 2025 // Germany seized a decrepit tanker found adrift off its northern coast in January that is believed to be part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to circumvent oil sanctions, Spiegel news magazine reported on Friday, citing...
Mar 14 2025 // Chinese state oil companies are shying away from Russian oil this month, with two importers halting purchases while two others scaled back volumes as they assess compliance following recent U.S. sanctions on Moscow,...
Mar 13 2025 // The captain of the Solong container ship that crashed near the UK is a Russian national, the ship’s owner said.The rest of the crew are a mix of Russian and Filipino, shipping company Ernst Russ AG said in a...
Feb 27 2025 // The head of the world’s largest aircraft leasing company, AerCap, said on Wednesday that Russia may look to buy used aircraft or engines if and when its markets reopen but that he saw no rush by Western lessors to...