If you look out from the Baltic beaches at Helsingborg, Jastarnia or Warnemunde, you can see the giant tankers that belong to the Russian shadow fleet. These are the ships that bring oil from Russia's harbours and ship it to the world market, in violation of international sanctions. On Thursday, MEPs have a chance to vote to stop this.
Since 2022, when Russia began a large-scale war with Ukraine, more than a thousand Russian oil tankers have sailed through the Baltic Sea. Many of them are in poor condition and uninsured. Environmentalists are ringing alarm bells.