Britain slow to act against Kremlin’s ‘shadow fleet’ of sanction-busting tankers

Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin, a research fellow specialising in sanctions at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank, said the detentions by the US, France, Finland, Estonia and others showed that “there is ample scope for stronger action against the shadow fleet, including in the English Channel...As demonstrated by US interventions, a handful of detentions can have a deterrent effect and degrade shadow fleet operations"...at sea, Gonzalo Saiz says, the UK is not stepping up to the “great expectations” placed on it by Europe.