and flagged in places like Gabon or the Cook Islands. Some of the vessels are owned by the Russian state Sovcomflot shipping ...

"Everyone associates the Cook Islands with New Zealand", so a Cooks vessel possibly aiding Russia's shadow fleet isn't ideal, ...

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The vessel, flying the Cook Islands flag, is believed to be part of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet," a collection of hundreds of ships that Moscow uses to move oil and circumvent sanctions on ...

AFP reported Finnish authorities seized a Cook Islands-registered ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea, suspecting it caused a power cable outage and damaged or broke four internet lines.

President Biden's administration says it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector over its ...

Finnish authorities were investigating the cutting of an undersea power cable in the Baltic Sea on Thursday.

Russia is believed to be behind dozens of hybrid attacks, like arson or sabotage, on NATO soil since the Ukraine war started.

Russia is accused of using aging tankers to damage undersea cables. Analysts say it gives the cover of plausible deniability.

Finnish authorities believe the tanker may be linked to Russia. By Johanna Lemola and ... an aging oil tanker registered in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. The vessel is being held under ...

"Had it continued for another 12 minutes, the carnage would have been much worse than the four basic cables that were there," ...