The United Kingdom introduced the largest package of sanctions to date against Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers on Thursday, 17 October. Source: press service for the UK government, as reported by European Pravda Details: The latest sanctions target 18 Russian oil tankers and 4 liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers,

The UK issued a fresh round of sanctions on Russian oil and gas carriers, and said three government bodies will act to challenge vessels hauling fuel for Moscow in the English Channel with dubious insurance.

Britain has imposed sanctions on 18 further Russian oil tankers and four liquefied natural gas vessels, the largest batch of sanctions to date against the country's so-called "shadow fleet," the government said on Thursday.

According to an internal analysis prepared by the coast guard’s satellite services and seen by POLITICO, the likely source of that stain was Innova, a tanker roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower that at the time was hauling 1 million barrels of sanctioned oil from Russia on its way to a refinery in India.

The British government sanctioned 18 tankers and four LNG carriers Thursday with its largest package of designations yet to target the Russian shadow fleet. The move takes the number of oil tankers targeted by the British government this year to 43, with the new round including vessels from state carrier Sovcomflot.