Ukraine’s president will ask for more help to block Putin’s growing ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers carrying sanctioned crude to buyers
The Ukrainian president, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, will attend an extraordinary meeting of the British cabinet on Friday to bring fresh impetus to efforts to stopwas elected prime minister two weeks ago and the first foreign leader to address cabinet in person since the US president Bill Clinton in 1997.
This will be Zelenskiy’s second visit to the UK since the war broke out. He last travelled to Britain in February 2023, when heSince Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the number of oil tankers masking their identity and running without proper insurance has increased, allowing the Kremlin toThe maritime analyst Lloyd’s List Intelligence said the numbers of such vessels had doubled in the past year.
It is understood the defence ministers of both countries will also sign a defence export support treaty to boost weapons supply to the battlefield. It is said to be designed “to fire up both the UK and Ukraine’s industrial bases and increase military hardware and weaponry production”.
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