Vladimir Putin has intensified Russia's deployment of its so-called shadow fleet to bypass Western sanctions, according to an expert's warning. This growing concern has escalated throughout the year, ...

Amid reports of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers evading sanctions, maritime data analyzed by iFact shows vessels hiding their movements across the Black Sea before appearing in Georgian waters.

The listing could make it more challenging for U.S. forces to board the ship, which an arm of the Kremlin’s maritime authority says is now flying the Russian flag. By Christiaan Triebert and Nicholas ...