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EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said earlier in April that the bloc is preparing its 14th round of sanctions against Russia, which should be adopted in spring.

The Swedish Navy has confirmed for the first time that Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" in the Baltic Sea may be engaged in espionage. Source: European Pravda, citing Swedish television channel SVT Russia's "shadow fleet" moves daily through the Baltic Sea with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of petroleum products on board.

Swedish Navy chief Ewa Skoog Haslum said some of the ships from the shadow fleet have been found to possess communications and signals equipment not usually associated with cargo vessels, leading to concerns they could be used in "hybrid operations."

"Adopting the 14th sanctions package is one of the most important things," Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said when he arrived in Luxembourg for a ministerial EU meeting.

Sweden’s foreign minister wants the next round of EU sanctions to address Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers and to ban EU imports of Russian LNG.

The new EU sanctions package against Russia will impose limits on the shadow fleet of tankers delivering Russian oil. Source: Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom, as reported by Reuters Details: On the eve of the EU foreign ministers' conference in Luxembourg, Billstrom stated that the new, 14th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation will include extra measures against a fleet of tankers that circumvent sanctions and transport Russian oil.

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Russia's dark fleet poses a significant threat to maritime security, forming the basis of Moscow's grayzone aggression against Western institutions.

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The Marshall Islands, one of the most popular flag states for oil tankers, has shut down an insurance company that has been offering insurance services to oil tankers part of the growing “dark fleet”