Financial Times: Russian vessels in the Black Sea are using an unusual and potentially co-ordinated method of spoofing their tracking systems to hide voyages, as Moscow brings the shadow fleet under its own control to protect it from attack.
At least 12 sanctioned tankers appear to have used identical devices to transmit false, frozen positions even as the vessels sailed hundreds of miles away, according to Ollie Ballinger, a specialist in shadow fleet tracking at University College London. He said this appears to be a co-ordinated method of deception…