Overview
- The UK announced on June 16 new sanctions that add several LNG carriers to its blacklist and broaden listings of shadow‑fleet vessels, a step London says will raise the number of sanctioned ships above 600.
- Canada issued parallel measures and G7 leaders agreed to tighten restrictions on Russian oil and gas exports, according to a Financial Times report citing a French diplomatic source.
- The package targets networks used to evade sanctions by obscuring ownership and payments, including the A7 payment system and several Russian banks and intermediaries that British officials associate with sanctions circumvention.
- London also listed a GRU‑linked procurement firm called Neptune and announced a separate £210 million pledge to let Urenco supply enriched uranium to Ukraine's Energoatom for nuclear plants over the next two years.
- The shadow fleet refers to vessels and middlemen that hide who owns ships to keep exporting energy; disrupting these routes could reduce Russia's export revenue and force buyers and brokers to reroute payments and shipments through third countries.