Russia’s ghost fleet gliding through Channel despite UK’s pledge to act

To avoid being confronted in the Channel, growing numbers of tankers are travelling around the UK’s west coast, according to Gonzalo Saiz Erausquin of the Royal United Services Institute, suggesting that the UK’s current rules of engagement act as a meaningful deterrent. These ships still reach their destinations, but longer routes add time and cost. The Ministry of Defence says Russian oil revenues have reached their lowest level since the start of the war in Ukraine."