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Are shady Russian private military organizations or whatever just completely unable to get their hands on a Norwegian or Finnish or Estonian flag or something?

• gxnxcxcx 1y ago
  They seem to be able to more easily acquire flags of convenience from further away, and optionally some kind of nominal insurance from different providers likely to pass muster at a first glance (I have zero maritime expertise and just wanted to add some supplementary context to the parent of your post). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet https://eutoday.net/eu-sanction-issuers-of-fake-flags-to-russias-fleet/ https://eutoday.net/eu-sanction-issuers-of-fake-flags-to-rus... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/30/world/asia/russia-oil-ships-sanctions.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/30/world/asia/ru... https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/over-100-ships-have-sailed-without-legitimate-insurance-from-the-norwegian-company-ro-marine-1.17565216 https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/over-100-ships-have-sailed-wi...