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On the first objective results of the strategic operation against Russia's oil exports in the Black Sea. (Operational statistics are obtained from an exclusive Ukrainian source – a database of tankers carrying Russian oil and oil products, created by the Black Sea Strategic Studies Institute and supported by the institute's monitoring group.)
After a long verification we can say the following:
For the first 15 days of August, 2026-th voyages of tankers with oil products from ports of the Azov Sea were not recorded.
The raid transshipment, which was in the Black Sea at 10–20 miles south of the Kerch Strait, has ceased to exist.
In total for 15 days of August, 2026-th recorded export voyages of oil products (excluding crude oil) from ports of the Black and Azov Seas totaling about 240 thousand tons.
The recorded volume of exported oil products is four times less than the corresponding period in July 2026-th and 7,5 times less than in the first half of June 2026-th.
A significant number of oil product tankers that regularly carried oil products for export from the Azov Sea have been more than a month with disabled automatic identification systems – either in Russian ports, or near the Turkish Black Sea coast ports of Samsun, Trabzon – as well as at berths in the Marmara Sea, because they have nowhere to return to. There were cases of sale of such tankers, since owners do not see prospects for returning to ports on the Azov Sea...
Source: Andrii Klymenko / Facebook
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