Germany is working to secure a drifting Russian oil tanker, believed to be part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to fund its war in Ukraine, after it lost control in the Baltic Sea.

Germany has recovered a heavily laden tanker stranded off its northern coast, by towing the stricken vessel. According to the German authorities, the vessel was part of the Russian “phantom fleet”. The 274-meter-long Eventin was sailing between Russia and Egypt with almost 100,

An oil tanker believed to be part of Russia’s efforts to evade international sanctions went adrift and had to be towed ashore by a German tugboat.