despite warnings by UK ministers that shadow fleet <\/a>vessels can legally be stopped.<\/p>\nOf the three that we’ve idenfitied, location data from vessel-tracking website MarineTraffic indicate that both the Ariadne and White Condor I are currently passing through the Channel. <\/p>\n
Data for White Condor I, which is falsely flying the flag of the Caribbean island Aruba, put the tanker is to the south of Portsmouth, travelling east.<\/p>\n
Before entering the Channel, the tanker stopped at a Brazilian port in mid-December, unloading its cargo. Prior to that, its tracking data indicates White Condor I had come from a port in Russia.<\/p>\n
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Tracking data for Ariadne, which is listed in Russia\u2019s maritime registry, places the ship a short distance behind the White Condor, also sailing east.<\/p>\n
MarineTraffic data indicates Ariadne is carrying cargo. It shows the tanker docked at a Russian port in mid-November, before travelling to Egypt and then heading north towards the Channel.<\/p>\n
BBC Verify has also identified a third tanker, Anastasiia, sailing in the Channel. This vessel is sanctioned by the US, but not by the UK.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defence has told BBC Verify that \u201cdeterring, disrupting and degrading the Russian shadow fleet is a priority\u201d, but declined to comment on \u201cspecific operational planning or give a running commentary on live maritime traffic websites\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sanctioned tankers identified in the English channel, despite UK warningspublished at 13:17 GMT 12 January 13:17 GMT 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-404522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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