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Russia is practicing using nuclear warheads

Russian forces are practicing using nuclear warheads, Reuters reports citing Russian media. It is the second exercise of the same kind in less than a month – in early July, similar exercises were conducted in two different regions.

At the beginning of June, Russia exercised together with Belarus with a focus on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the news agency writes.

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Russia is suspected of building a new "shadow fleet" of LNG tankers

A group of unknown companies registered in the United Arab Emirates has in the past year bought over 50 older tankers for liquefied fossil gas, LNG. Now the suspicion is growing that it is in fact Russia that is expanding its "shadow fleet", writes the Financial Times.

Experts at the trading platform Kpler describe it as a complex network that "may have links to Russian interests". They note, among other things, that some of the LNG vessels that have recently changed hands are now plying routes used to transport gas from Russia.

Russia already uses a fleet of an estimated 400 oil tankers to round off the sanctions imposed by the EU and the G7 countries in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.