Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment.

The "shadow fleet" comprises often aging, uninsured ships that aim to evade sanctions on Russian energy exports.

Russia is using non-sanctioned vessels and rerouting others to keep oil exports going, maritime data shows, but risks sanctions on even more ships.

Terrifying scenes in the Arctic's Kara Sea as a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker vessel crashed into a cargo ship it had ...

The Ukraine war has had the biggest effect on tanker trades as Europe has diversified its suppliers of oil and products away ...

The Kremlin is suspected of deploying the vessel to stalk the seabed, gathering intelligence that could be used in acts of ...

The Russian navy is very proud of its new spy ship, the Yantar, which is now doing Argentina a favor by helping to search for a missing submarine, ARA San Juan, which disappeared on 15 November in ...

which Moscow had hoped would be a $500m hub for exporting Russian agricultural products to the wider Middle East. That was a bad omen for the naval base, said Sidharth Kaushal, a senior research ...

The Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says New Zealand is asking for too much oversight over its deal with China, which ...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin shake hands after signing a joint communiqué in Hanoi, January 14, 2025. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre ...

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic ...

The Yantar, which has been in service for about a decade, is a highly sophisticated spy ship, developed by Russia’s Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research specifically to hunt for critical ...