Event 335

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "BSR"
  ],
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Multiple countries are explicitly listed as participants in an official announcement made in Tallinn, per direct quotes and named sources in a major trade outlet.",
  "countries": [
    "Estonia",
    "Latvia",
    "Lithuania",
    "Sweden",
    "Norway",
    "Denmark",
    "Finland",
    "Poland",
    "Netherlands",
    "Germany",
    "United Kingdom"
  ],
  "country": "Estonia",
  "defense_prep": {
    "links": [
      "https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151858/Baltic-countries-to-check-dark-fleet-insurance"
    ],
    "title": "Baltic countries to check dark fleet insurance"
  },
  "description": "Baltic and Nordic countries, along with Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK, announced coordinated steps in Tallinn to require proof of insurance for suspected 'dark fleet' tankers transiting their waters, aiming to disrupt Russian oil shipments and shadow fleet activity.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-05-01T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "The Nordic Baltic 8 countries plus Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK have agreed to take further steps to 'disrupt and deter Russia’s shadow fleet' in an announcement made in Tallinn.",
    "\"‘IMAK fleet’ tankers will be asked for proof of insurance if they pass through the waters of several European nations.\"",
    "\"The 12 countries said the ‘information collected by the participating states, including relating to those vessels that choose not to respond to requests, will be assessed and acted upon together with our international partners.’\"",
    "\"We are determined to hold them to account — including through sanctions-related action — for the risks they pose and the support they are providing to Russia’s war against Ukraine.\""
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "The Nordic Baltic 8 countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland) as well as the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and the UK said they would take 'coordinated steps to disrupt and deter Russia’s shadow fleet.'",
    "\"Suspected dark fleet vessels will be asked to provide proof of insurance if they pass through their waters, which include some crucial shipping lanes.\"",
    "\"Questions have been raised about the realistic threats that policy carries, but Reed Smith partner Alexander Brandt said if he were a dark fleet owner, the announcement from the 12 countries would make him 'uneasy.'\""
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151858/Baltic-countries-to-check-dark-fleet-insurance"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "The Nordic Baltic 8 countries plus Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK have agreed to take further steps to 'disrupt and deter Russia’s shadow fleet' in an announcement made in Tallinn.",
            "\"‘IMAK fleet’ tankers will be asked for proof of insurance if they pass through the waters of several European nations.\"",
            "\"The 12 countries said the ‘information collected by the participating states, including relating to those vessels that choose not to respond to requests, will be assessed and acted upon together with our international partners.’\"",
            "\"We are determined to hold them to account — including through sanctions-related action — for the risks they pose and the support they are providing to Russia’s war against Ukraine.\""
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Baltic countries to check dark fleet insurance",
  "location_text": "Tallinn",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_335_1763923576_265801c8.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Shadow Fleet strategy check their insurance.",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151858/Baltic-countries-to-check-dark-fleet-insurance"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Baltic, Nordic, and several European countries announce proof-of-insurance checks for suspected shadow fleet tankers to deter Russian sanctions evasion.",
  "url": "https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151858/Baltic-countries-to-check-dark-fleet-insurance"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "BSR",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "BSR",
  "Date": "1-May-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Baltic countries to check dark fleet insurance",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151858/Baltic-countries-to-check-dark-fleet-insurance",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Shadow Fleet strategy check their insurance.",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}