Fly a helicopter over them (usually when they enter a country’s economic zone), drop some units onto the ship, check the registration, confirm that it’s fraudulent, seize the ship.
A few have been taken this way, but Russia has started sending military escorts and I assume they’re taking different routes. I haven’t seen any news for a while about how/if they’re dealing with the shadow fleet now.
Maybe they just want an excuse to bully Ukraine into stopping attacking Russian oil refineries.
That, and Europe just figured out how to deal with a large portion of Russia’s shadow fleet. This gives that fleet US protection.
How are they dealing with them?
Fly a helicopter over them (usually when they enter a country’s economic zone), drop some units onto the ship, check the registration, confirm that it’s fraudulent, seize the ship.
A few have been taken this way, but Russia has started sending military escorts and I assume they’re taking different routes. I haven’t seen any news for a while about how/if they’re dealing with the shadow fleet now.
Yeah you got it on the nose