Tag: ShadowFleet
Maritime Trade Enters the Age of Armed Passage
The modern maritime order is designed to separate a ship's right of passage from the nationality of its owner, the origin of its cargo and the political allegiance of its customer. Across several of the world's most important sea lanes, that separation is beginning to break down.Iran is seeking payments…
Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Largest Online Retailer Again
Ukrainian drones struck Wildberries logistics centers in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk overnight into July 22, sparking large fires and injuring at least eight people, according to Ukrainska Pravda. Drones also hit an oil depot in Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, where a fire spread across roughly 800 square meters.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the…
Russian Frigate Holds Live-Fire Drill Off UK Coast
A Russian Baltic Fleet frigate, the Neustrashimy, carried out a live-fire weapons exercise in international waters roughly 40 nautical miles south of Plymouth on Monday, the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed. The Royal Navy monitored the exercise throughout and continues to track the vessel, according to ITV News.The Russian ship…
How Sanctions Created a Parallel Maritime System
What began in 2022 as a workaround to Western sanctions has evolved into one of the most important pieces of strategic infrastructure in the modern global economy. Russia depends on it to finance its war in Ukraine. Iran relies on comparable networks, built over decades of sanctions, to keep exporting…
Ukraine Hits Two Wildberries Logistics Centers in Russia
Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries logistics centers in Russia overnight into July 18, hitting facilities in Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, and Elektrostal, Moscow region, according to the Kyiv Independent.Tambov Oblast Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said seven people were killed and 24 injured in the Kotovsk strike, which hit the facility during a…
Ukraine’s Naval Drones Disable 23 Shadow Fleet Ships
Ukraine struck 23 vessels tied to Russia's shadow fleet over two nights, while parallel strikes hit a railway hub in occupied Kerch, in what commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi describes as a campaign to disable rather than destroy Moscow's sanctions-evading logistics.Brovdi, head of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said operators struck 11…
Ukraine Turned the Sea of Azov Into Russia’s Economic Front
The Sea of Azov is no longer a secure Russian rear area – and for the first time since Moscow seized control of its coastline, the disruption is hitting Russia's export economy as well as its military logistics.Over nine days ending July 14, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said their sea…
Ukraine Claims New Sea of Azov Strikes as Russia Suspends Canal Traffic
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) said they struck at least 28 more Russian-linked vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight, bringing the total number targeted over the past six days to 76, according to USF commander Robert "Magyar" Brovdi. The figures have not been independently verified.Reuters reported that Russia's border…
How Ukraine’s Drones Are Draining Russia’s Fuel Tanks
Ukraine's long-range strike campaign has pushed Russia into its most widespread fuel crisis of the war, disabling as much as 40% of the country's refining capacity and splitting Russia into rationing zones and stockpiling zones. The pressure now extends beyond refineries to the tankers supplying occupied Crimea, isolating the peninsula's…
