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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia


Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.

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