Sparta IV is another Russian transport ship heading to the Syrian port of Tartus to retrieve military equipment left behind ...

Russia has continued to transport the commodity via an aging fleet whose links to Moscow are hidden, often through shell companies. The EU has been struggling to clamp down on the Russian vessels, ...

Explosions were reported on board an oil tanker believed to be used by Russia's "shadow fleet," docked in Ust-Luga in northwest Russia, near President Vladimir Putin 's home city of St. Petersburg.

At the same time, other Russian container ships, laden with weapons from Syria, departed the Mediterranean Sea and headed ...