As the European Union (EU) continues to take steps to constrain Russia’s revenue streams and energy export capacity to bring the Ukraine crisis to an end, it has rubber-stamped a new raft of sanctions against the country, expanding its crackdown on the Russian energy industry and widening the net around the shadow fleet with 46 more vessels added to the listed pool.

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