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Posted on 06/08/2026 10:24:50 AM PDT by marshmallow
This applies to tankers described by Brussels as "shadow fleet"
NICOSIA, June 8. /TASS/. EU member states have authorized their warships operating in the Mediterranean as part of Operation IRINI to detain foreign tankers suspected of transporting Russian oil as part of what Brussels describes as the "shadow fleet," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
TASS has summed up what is known to this moment.
Kallas’ statement
EU member countries have authorized their warships to detain foreign tankers suspected of shipping Russian oil, Kallas said.
This applies to tankers described by Brussels as "shadow fleet."
According to Kallas, the main objective of the measure is to "curb Russia from funding" its military operation in Ukraine.
Operation IRINI
"Operation IRINI has changed the rules of engagement and has now started to board the ships as well," she said.
In her words, "the idea is to change the best practices that different countries [of the EU] are doing with those ships."
Operation IRINI was launched by the EU in the Mediterranean in 2020 to inspect commercial vessels and prevent illegal arms shipments to Libya, however, it did not succeed in achieving that objective.
Opinion
The authorization to EU vessels to detain tankers with Russian oil in the Mediterranean will only add to the risks of further escalation, Konstantin Basyuk, deputy chairman of the defense and security committee of the Russian Federation Council, or upper house of parliament, told TASS.
Europe continues staking on confrontation instead of trying to find long-term mechanism of security, he said.
This decision is geared against "the prospects for the resumption of normal relations and establishing lasting peace in the future" rather than against Russia’s economy, Basyuk added.
Protection of ships
In March, Russia’s Maritime Board chaired by presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev worked out additional measures to protect Russian-registered vessels or those sailing from Russian ports.
Shipowners working with Russia received instructions to seek protection from the Russian Navy, Patrushev said.
Apart from that, monitoring of cargo ships carrying freight for Russia has been tightened.
It was stated that the Russian Navy will "ensure safe navigation based on the facility-by-facility and zone-by-zone approach."
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Ukraine needs to develop a robot submarine to start torpedoing these shadow tankers
I don’t know if this is escalating quickly but it is escalating.
Yes, a little like the “law of entropy.” If the ceasefire and peace talks go on any longer there will be time for lots of things to fall apart.
The first night of the ceasefire, retired Gen. Keane said on Fox News: “The Iranians wanted to get a ceasefire. Now they got their ceasefire.”
Every day there is a chance of a big blowout after a deadly attack on the US forces, or proof that China has re-armed Iran including shoulder mounted missiles to fire at ships and increased murder of Iranian dissidents who are dying while they wait for the US to get the bombing going.
https://energyandcleanair.org/april-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/ Russian:
Coal export revenues grew by 5% month-on-month
Pipeline gas export revenues increased by 15%
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) revenues increased by a massive 25%
pipeline crude oil exports have increased by 36%
Russia’s fossil fuel export revenues increased by 4%
There is a global market and global price for fossil fuel.
US supply has increased. But Russia is still there. 100 days of Iran blockade dictates supply and price, not edicts of the EU. The US should have been ready to supply more from Alaska, etc.
“Warships”?? What warships? EU fleet is sparse and needs constant maintenance. And they are severely lacking skilled knowledge base to keep them running and staffed - well, because they have killed off the caucasion population and replaced it with a muslim horder who is only good at raping and stealing.
And UK can’t help. Just reported that all their subs are sitting in port and not sailable. So, even with their crappy navy, the Putinistas could probably still come out on top in a naval battle. Sad indeed because we’ll have a world war where the two main combatants are fighting with literal rust.
Great Britain and Nazi Germany fought a war for five and a half years with nearly no oil revenue.
AFAIK the russkies still have their subs.
THIS isn’t going to end well....
Don’t need your Russian lies & propaganda
On a site probably loaded with viruses and spyware ... no thanks!!
Make Piracy Great Again seems to be everyone’s new strategy
Your Momz had some virus.
Got her some penicillin and she fine now.😂
“torpedoing these shadow tankers”
No wonder Trump was overconfident about achieving peace between Ukraine and Russia.
European countries are torpedoing his efforts at every turn, then they ask the United States for money and arms to continue the bloodshed.
“Ukraine needs to develop a robot submarine to start torpedoing these shadow tankers”
Russia could do something similar, or just reduce its missile stockpile. The EU had better hope the sun shines and wind blows.
*******
Could the US military beat Ukraine?
Could the US military beat a Prophet Army doing what Ukraine does?
Could the Russian military do what the US military could do in those cases?
You usual childishness.
Stay scared, little boy.
Many of these images are of small villages in Russia where Putin probably gets most of his Russian soldiers:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5&form=HDRSC3&first=1
The Russian troops are used to hard lives.
And if the tankers refuse, are they going to fire on them and start a war?
Tankers are unarmed merchant vessels, how can they resist?
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