Countries are increasingly frustrated that Russia uses these creaky oil tankers to dodge Western sanctions designed to reduce Moscow oil revenues and drain its war box. Exports of oil and gas represent almost half of the total kremlin tax revenues and are at the heart of finance his war in Ukraine.
Zhuravlev, the leader of the Nationalist Party Rodina, said that any decision to grasp oil tankers would also encourage the “reprisal measures” of Moscow, who could include “the boarding of Western ships in the Baltic, but also the active measures of our Baltic fleet, which is certainly not no match for the range of small boats from the Baltic countries.
Meanwhile, Ukraine praised the proposals of the countries, which took a new movement after Finland grabbed a ship of the Russian shadow fleet in December, which suspected it of sabotaging several cables from the Baltic Sea .
Andriy Yermak, who heads the office of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Monday that new initiatives were “very important now because every day of disturbed logistics seriously affects Russia’s ability to finance war”.
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