LONDON — The U.K. is imposing fresh sanctions on 30 oil tankers from Russia’s so-called shadow fleet as it tries to squeeze Vladimir Putin’s funding of the war of Ukraine.
Billed as the largest British package of its kind, the U.K. government said it hoped the move would clear shipping lanes of unsafe traffic and curb “malign behavior” that has seen Russian ships continue to haul millions of barrels of crude oil and petroleum products around the world for sale in spite of Western sanctions.
The announcement came as Foreign Secretary David Lammy used a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy to urge allies to maintain pressure on the Kremlin.
“Russia’s oil revenues are fueling the fires of war and destruction in Ukraine,” Lammy said in a statement.
