Almost at the same time as an operation to secure the Eventin oil tanker stranded off Germany's coast, another tanker — called Jazz — that had set sail from Russia reported problems in the Baltic Sea near Rügen, Germany's biggest island. According to agency reports, the crew was able to resolve the problems linked to the engine failure it had reported itself. The tanker is now moored off the coast of Skagen in northern Denmark. This is also where the Eventin is supposed to be taken, but as of Thursday German authorities were not allowing it to continue its journey.

In contrast to the Eventin, the Jazz does not appear on the "shadow fleet" document compiled by the environmental organization Greenpeace, which lists "previously unsanctioned crude oil tankers older than 15 years that have exported oil from Russia several times since the start of the war." There are about 190 such vessels in the list. Russia is thought to be using tankers flying under a different flag to circumvent the international oil........

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