It has been revealed that Russia continues to find new sanctions loopholes for exporting its LNG to fund its war chest and continue attacking Ukraine. Russian natural gas company Novatek has taken steps toward beginning shipments from its Arctic LNG 2 project. Russian ownership of the ice-capable Arc7 LNG carrier Pyotr Kapitsa has now been transferred to an entity out of the United Arab Emirates. This appears to circumvent the many loopholes in US and EU sanctions.

Ukrainian group Razom We Stand campaigns to end the war by drying up Putin's funding for war through full and complete sanctions on Russian fossil fuel exports.

Oleh Savitskyi, Campaign Director at Razom We Stand, stated, "Russian LNG industry is now under the gun of US sanctions. Putin’s friends at Novatek are in real trouble. They won't be able to run the Arctic LNG 2 project economically without additional LNG tankers. Sanction enforcement must be tightened now to prevent Russians from using shell companies in UAE and elsewhere to operate a new shadow fleet of LNG tankers."

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