Event ad36f914-8330-4842-9f4a-4f5626e1346e

Approved event from Hybrid War Tracker

Status: Approved Confidence: Low Category: Sanctions Country: Latvia Country: Estonia Country: Lithuania Country: Finland Country: Poland Country: Bulgaria Country: Greece Country: Germany Country: European Union

Source: https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1818646314508226740

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Event Time

1y ago

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Created

1mo ago

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Updated

1mo ago

Summary

Headline: Russians changing Russian license plates to Ukrainian to evade confiscation in Europe; Latvian authorities and others ban Russian plates

Short Summary: Russians are changing Russian to Ukrainian license plates to avoid vehicle confiscation as multiple EU countries, especially Latvia and Baltic states, ban or seize Russian-plated vehicles.

Description

Russians are reportedly altering their vehicle license plates from Russian to Ukrainian to circumvent confiscation and sanctions in EU countries. Services for manufacturing Ukrainian license plates are offered cheaply in Russia. Several Baltic and EU states have instituted bans or confiscation policies regarding Russian-plated vehicles.

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Russians have started to massively change their license plates from Russian to Ukrainian ones to circumvent sanctions or to avoid having their cars confiscated.

Latvian authorities have started to confiscate vehicles with Russian license plates, in order to transfer them to Ukraine.

The following countries have banned cars with Russian license plates from entering the European Union: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece.

Countries that will confiscate (or fine with deportation) cars with Russian license plates that were imported into Europe before the ban: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany.

In Russian cities, services for making duplicates of Ukrainian license plates are offered en masse and cheaply...offering to make Ukrainian license plates for about $30.

Source

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1818646314508226740