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FT: Russias Shadow Fleet Tankers Fake Coordinates to Avoid Ukrainian Attacks In

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The Financial Times reports at least 12 sanctioned tankers transmitted false coordinates in the Black Sea, including dual AIS positions, as Russia seeks to evade sanctions and avoid Ukrainian strikes.
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At least 12 sanctioned tankers in the Black Sea transmit false, fixed coordinates, although they travel hundreds of kilometers themselves. Six of them simultaneously reported being in two places, writes the Financial Times. 🔵 How the scheme works. When passing through the Bosphorus, where the Turkish authorities demand to transfer the location, the tankers briefly turned on the real coordinates, continuing to broadcast a false fixed position.Fo…

Russia’s “shadow fleet” is using a new scheme to disguise the movements of oil tankers in the Black Sea by making them appear to be in two different places at the same time, according to an investigation by the British newspaper Financial Times, which found that at least 12 sanctioned ships used identical devices to broadcast false coordinates. The manipulation allows their actual location to remain hidden hundreds of kilometers from the positio…

A tanker appears near the Bosphorus. At the same time, it is transmitting a signal that it is about 800 kilometers away, on the Turkish coast. It has not moved with some unimaginable speed: it has created a… A tanker in 2 places at once: The new bay of the Russian shadow fleet - ΘΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ

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Naftemporiki broke the news on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
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