Since the start of a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, against the Russian Federation and some of its citizens, partner countries have introduced seven packages of sanctions and a number of personal bans. In May this year, the European Union agreed to a partial embargo on Russian oil.. Nevertheless, journalists from the Schemes project have discovered possible ways to circumvent European restrictions, Radio Liberty reports..

European countries have banned ships flying the Russian flag from entering their ports, but this does not mean that Russian ships cannot freely navigate in the Black and Azov Seas. It is also interesting that ships leave the Russian coast loaded, and return already empty.. Schemes journalists using the MarineTraffic service tracked the main routes of Russian tankers and discovered several possible ways to circumvent sanctions at once.

The first of them is a well-established course for Turkey. The countries continue active diplomatic and economic relations, while it was previously reported that Putin turned to Erdogan for help in circumventing sanctions. And it is quite possible that certain agreements were reached. In May and August of this year, Russian tankers left the ports of Azov and Kavkaz and freely reached the Turkish coast. In response, empty Turkish tankers also visited hospitable Russian ports and successfully returned to their homeland..

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There is also free navigation between Russia and Georgia.. According to information from the MarineTraffic service, a loaded tanker left the Kavkaz port in August in the direction of Batumi, upon arrival the cargo remained in the country.

The next, rather tricky scheme is to reload the " That is, since Russian ships cannot enter European ports, nothing prevents them from unloading without sailing to land.

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Researching MarineTraffic data, Schemes journalists noticed that over the past few months, thirteen tankers owned by Russian companies have been following the same route.. Tankers depart from Russian ports in the Azov and Black Seas, then head to the Romanian port of Constanta and stop 17-20 miles from the coast. After some time of "

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Journalists published the names of these vessels: Mekhanik Antonov, VF Tanker 1, VF Tanker 4, VF Tanker 5, VF Tanker 6, VF Tanker 8, VF Tanker 11, VF Tanker 12, VF Tanker 13, VF Tanker 18, VF Tanker 21.

Further from the Romanian coast, Russian oil is transported in two ways. Either directly on the ships under the EU flag goes to the final beneficiary, or the storage tanker New Legend under the flag of Liberia, permanently staying at the port of Constanta, "

Thus, Russian energy resources, bypassing sanctions, can enter the European market.

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Also, the Schemes journalists managed to find out that the tankers used in transit belong to the Volga Shipping Company of Vladimir Lisin, the richest man in the Russian Federation according to Forbes. It is also interesting that the Russian oligarch is not included in almost any list of personal sanctions.. The only country that has introduced a restriction against Fox is Australia.. That is, neither in the USA, nor in Europe, nor even in Ukraine, the work of his companies is not prohibited.. This situation allows you to freely receive super profits on the transportation of oil and oil products during the war..