EU approves 17th sanctions package on Russia

Well, for one, this was back in Janiary, i.e. under Biden. For two, I removed my comment, because someone else posted the "600 ships" figure above, and I noticed my comment was nonsense.

The US sanctioned the Russians? This sounds like a good idea, but it still confuses me. I thought Trump was in bed with Putin?

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"member" here represents that a ship is 1 among 200 of the 600 shadow fleet ships

I'm pretty sure It is 200 vessels.

Hungary and Slovakia, the EU’s two most pro-Moscow countries that remain heavily dependent on imports of Russian energy, supported the package due to its relative weakness, EU diplomats said.

Finance ministers from Sweden and Lithuania explicitly called for an 18th package of sanctions after Russia ignored the EU’s Monday deadline for a 30-day ceasefire.

almost 200 members of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil-exporting vessels

Why do they sanction crew members rather than ships?