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Sweden Seizes ‘Shadow Fleet’ Ship Suspected of Carrying Grain From Occupied Crimea

Summary by Kyiv Post
Although prosecutors did not explicitly link the vessel to Russia, Sweden’s coastguard previously said the ship’s captain was a Russian national suspected of using false documents.

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The Presidential Administration explained how confiscation changes the rules of the game. After Sweden confiscated a vessel carrying stolen Ukrainian grain, Ukraine called on other countries to act equally systematically to stop the illegal export of resources from Russian-occupied territories. According to RBC-Ukraine, Vladislav Vlasyuk, the Ukrainian President's Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, made this statement in a comment to journalists…

In Sweden, a dry cargo vessel, Caffa, which had previously been detained off the coast of the country, was confiscated and, according to the Ukrainian side, could carry grain stolen from the temporarily occupied territories.

This was reported by the Prosecutor General's Office of Sweden and the Göteborgs-Posten.Prosecutors of the Swedish National Unit for Combating International and Organized Crime are working on a request for legal assistance from another state. As part of this request, a decision was made to arrest the vessel so that the court could consider its possible transfer to another country and its inclusion in a foreign criminal investigation. In accordan…

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Splash247 broke the news on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
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