European Union naval forces inspected a suspected oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and found that the ship was sailing with a fake flag.

The EU foreign policy chief, on the social network X, wrote that the EU’s Irini Operation forces carried out this inspection on 22 Aban and, in accordance with Article 110 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that the tanker’s fake flag identity, Medag, was confirmed.

Kaya Kallas added that the European Union will continue to disrupt Russia’s shadow fleet at sea and through diplomatic channels.

She also said that the EU foreign affairs ministers are due to adopt a new list of sanctions against Russia on Monday, covering banks, buyers, and companies supporting the shadow fleet.

Earlier, EU member states reached a preliminary agreement to add 145 new individuals and entities to the sanctions list, including 50 Russian banks and a number of companies and ships associated with circumventing Moscow’s oil sanctions.

After the West imposed an oil price cap, Russia uses hundreds of aging tankers with ambiguous ownership and fake flags to transport oil.