US senators have prepared a law against Russian “shadow fleet” – ft

According to Financial Times, American senators have developed a new legislation that should significantly expand the US sanctions on the “shadow fleet” of Russian oil tankers.

Source: “European Truth” with reference to ft

Details: The article states that the legislation reflects the increasing interest of legislators in Washington in increasing pressure on Moscow in order to block Putin’s financing of war.

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The publication learned that the shadow fleet will be awarded on Friday Republican senator Jim Rishm, chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations, and Senator Gin Shahin from the Democratic Party.

In the case of adoption, the legislation will also be directed against Russian projects for the production of liquefied natural gas and expand sanctions against the country’s defense industry.

“Putin will use all possible means to avoid US sanctions, and the United States is taking rigid measures against this illegal” shadow fleet “of ships, which he uses to finance his war,” Rish said.

The bill has the support of a group of senators from both parties, as well as Trump Allies Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate Committee on Intelligence.

Among the senators, there is a strong support for Moscow to feel greater consequences for its war in Ukraine. Last week, a group of senators from both parties put forward a new bill that recognizes the Russian Federation with a state that supports terrorism for the abduction of Ukrainian children during the war.

A separate bill on Lindsey Graham’s sanctions was presented this year with the senator-democrat Richard Blumental and attracted more than 80 co-authors.

The leader of the majority in the Senate John Tun said he was waiting for the “green light” from the White House before bringing this bill to the vote.