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Urgent Action by Ukraine and Romania Required: Moldova to Fall Victim of the Crimean-Style Annexation Scenario
04 October 2024
While Ukrainian Moldova experts believe that Russia won't be able to do anything to prevent the country's upcoming referendum on joining the EU because the two states have no common border, the reality is that Moldova has the Danube port of Giurgiulesti that, as the BSIS predicted earlier, now receives DIRECT ships from Novorossiysk and Tuapse.
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Crude Oil and Oil Products Exports from the Russian Baltic and Black Sea Ports in April-August 2024. Part 1
10 September 2024
Since April 2024, the Monitoring Group, in addition to continuing its now traditional monitoring of maritime exports of crude oil and petroleum products from Russian Black Sea ports, has also started monitoring of maritime exports from the country's Baltic Sea ports. Below, for the first time, we offer a consolidated analysis of oil exports from those two seas - the Black and the Baltic, that amount to about 80% of Russia's total of oil and oil product maritime exports.
Maritime Exports of Russian Petroleum Products Through its Baltic Sea Ports: July 2024 Database
22 August 2024
In July 2024, 60 violations of the export of Russian petroleum products (excluding crude oil) from the Baltic Sea were recorded. 2.9 mln tons of Russian petroleum products were delivered through the Russian ports of the Baltic Sea.
Russian Blood-Soaked Export
Russian Baltic Sea Ports Petroleum Products Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of July 2024 Violations
22 August 2024
In July 2024, 4 violations (168.974 tons) of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian petroleum products (excluding crude oil) to the transshipment points and EU ports from the Baltic Sea were recorded. The voyages were made by tankers belonging to shipowners registered in the following countries: Greece, Italy and Azerbaijan.
Militarization of the Black Sea
On the Necessity to Adopt a Law of Ukraine on the Territorial Sea of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait and the North-Eastern Part of the Black Sea
19 August 2024
The Ukrainian parliament condemned the state policy of the Russian Federation on the growing militarization of the Black and Azov Seas and the Kerch Strait, and systematic cases of hampering or blocking of international navigation by the Russian Federation, which undermines security and stability in the region and beyond.
Crimea Under Occupation
On the Necessity to Adopt a Law of Ukraine on the Territorial Sea of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait and the North-Eastern Part of the Black Sea
19 August 2024
The Ukrainian parliament condemned the state policy of the Russian Federation on the growing militarization of the Black and Azov Seas and the Kerch Strait, and systematic cases of hampering or blocking of international navigation by the Russian Federation, which undermines security and stability in the region and beyond.
Databases
Russian Baltic Sea Ports Petroleum Products Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of July 2024 Violations
22 August 2024
In July 2024, 4 violations (168.974 tons) of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian petroleum products (excluding crude oil) to the transshipment points and EU ports from the Baltic Sea were recorded. The voyages were made by tankers belonging to shipowners registered in the following countries: Greece, Italy and Azerbaijan.