{"id":538768,"date":"2026-05-03T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=538768"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:40:49","slug":"ukraine-strikes-two-tankers-of-russia-s-shadow-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-strikes-two-tankers-of-russia-s-shadow-fleet","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Strikes Two Tankers of Russia\u2019s \u201cShadow Fleet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian forces struck two tankers belonging to Russia\u2019s shadow oil fleet in waters near the entrance to the port of Novorossiysk. Ukrainian President <strong><b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/18852\">said<\/a> both vessels had been actively used to transport oil in circumvention of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy thanked Chief of the General Staff <strong><b>Andrii Hnatov<\/b><\/strong> for overseeing the operation, as well as counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Navy.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUkraine\u2019s long-range capabilities will continue to develop comprehensively \u2014 at sea, in the air and on land\u201d<\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_55261\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suN4b8ricl4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian forces struck two tankers belonging to Russia\u2019s shadow oil fleet in waters near the entrance to the port of Novorossiysk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said both vessels had been actively used to transport oil in circumvention of sanctions. Zelenskyy thanked Chief of the General Staff Andrii Hnatov for overseeing the operation, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":538767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f718253e9e8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukraine Strikes Two Tankers of Russia\u2019s \u201cShadow Fleet\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-538768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}