“Greece’s navy has extended its naval exercises for another four months as the country tries to prevent Russia from transporting oil off its coast.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
According to a message on the website of the Hydrographic Service of the Greek Navy, the maneuvers, which were supposed to end on November 15, will now continue until mid-March – more than ten months after they began. In general, this is already the sixth extension of the beginning of training.
The training takes place in the Laconian Gulf of the country, which at a certain point became a place for Russia to transfer oil to obsolete tankers. As a result, Athens announced in May that it would conduct naval exercises in the region, barring the entry of commercial vessels.
The government has previously said the drills are aimed at stopping shipments of cargo identified by the world’s shipping watchdog as posing a risk to maritime safety.
Read also: European Parliament urged EU to more determined sanctions against shadowy fleet of Russia After that, transshipment of Russian oil moved to new places, including in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and off the coast of West Africa.
As reported by Ukrinform, Russia found new places for transshipment of oil – in June, the first Russian oil tanker under US sanctions carried out a secret transshipment to another vessel near the coast of Singapore.
Also, in view of Greek efforts to curb Russian trade, Russia began transshipping crude oil from smaller tankers to larger ones on the Moroccan coast in the Mediterranean.
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