President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decrees implementing the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on sanctions against 225 captains of ships of the Russian shadow fleet and entities serving the Russian military-industrial complex.
This was reported by the presidential press service.
The sanctions list includes citizens of 11 countries, including Russia, India, and the Philippines. Monitoring of the situation in the Black, Red, and Baltic Seas has shown that these captains were operating vessels of the Russian shadow fleet and transporting oil in circumvention of sanctions by the EU, G7, and other states.
Most of these tankers – 188 – are already under sanctions by the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
“We continue to convince partners of the importance of individual sanctions against tanker captains. Systematic work on a sanctioned tanker is sufficient grounds for consequences. We must discourage the desire to work with Russian oil, because this is direct financing of the war,” said Vladyslav Vlasyuk, the presidential advisor on sanctions policy.