On Nov. 28, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked two Gambian-flagged oil tankers in Tรผrkiyeโs Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea. The tankers were heading to the Russian oil terminal located at Novorossiysk. They are believed to be part of Russiaโs shadow fleet, which is a term used to describe the fleet made up of Russian-related aging oil tankers operating under the flag of a third party to avoid unilaterally imposed Western sanctions on Russia.
Since then, there have been a few more incidents. Another oil tanker, a Panamanian-flagged one, sank near the coast of Senegal as a result of an assumed sabotage, and on Dec. 2, a Russian-flagged tanker sailing from Russia to Georgia was attacked again in the Black Sea, about 80 miles
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