Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Can the ambiguous legal position of stateless tankers unlock Russia's shadow fleet? The European Union's new sanctions package, its 19th since the invasion of Ukraine, is testing that hypothesis. Internal files show proposals to blacklist 120 more ships, a total of 568, with priority on 16 tankers that have...

It started with a leak hundreds of leaked internal Rostec documents, posted to the web by the Black Mirror hacker collective, that spelled out export information defense analysts had long speculated about. Hidden in the tables was customer code "364," a reference for Iran, on a package of 48...

It is not usually that a small inland lake is the battleground for a wham of note in contemporary naval combat. But on the pre-dawn of October 4, Ukrainian commandos made Russia's Lake Onega in the republic of Karelia just that a battleground for one of Moscow's most advanced...