Sweden seizes cargo ship with ten Russians on board

By RT International

Sweden has intercepted a cargo ship believed to be part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea, the country’s public broadcaster SVT reported on Saturday, citing the Swedish Coast Guard.

Moscow maintains that the notion of a Russian-operated “shadow fleet” is unfounded. According to Kremlin officials, the term is used to describe vessels that transport cargo outside the coverage of London-based insurance brokers.

Russia insists that even if such ships carry sanctioned cargo, Western countries have no legal basis to enforce these sanctions on the high seas under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea…

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