Covert Maritime Intelligence and Russia’s Shadow Fleet
[By Catherine Marie Abbott] It is widely documented that Russia has leveraged various threat vectors to employ coercive and ancillary irregular tactics against allied nations, including the pervasive use of sanctioned shadow fleet vessels. Acting as a threat multiplier through decentralized and opaque ownership structures, these ships have operated in concert with Russian intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR) assets. Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources note that crew composition varies considerably. Some vessels reportedly operate with supernumerary Russian personnel with documented...
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