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Russia’s inland waterways hold strategic significance. This is due to three reasons: first, the country has a large number of ...

Vladivostok also served as a naval base for Russian warships in the Pacific. Russia wants to hold onto Vladivostok because it is the major Russian possession on the Pacific coast. Despite that, if ...

An Iranian dry cargo vessel has suffered an accident in the Caspian Sea. It was tracked on the same route used by ships suspected of carrying weapons from Iran to Russia. Source: Russian media outlet ...

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Ukraine struck three Russian oil rigs operating in the Caspian Sea on Sunday following Moscow’s large-scale bombardment over the weekend that left thousands without heat or power in Kyiv. Footage ...

Ukraine overnight targeted three drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea owned by Russian oil major Lukoil in the latest move to weaken Russia’s economic capacity to fund its war effort. The platforms, ...

Officials say that France’s navy, working with intelligence provided by the United Kingdom, intercepted an oil tanker in the ...

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium said an offshore mooring is back online, enabling crude to flow through a route that accounts for about 90% of Kazakh oil exports.

The Royal Navy shadowed a Russian Navy corvette and an oil tanker through the English Channel in a two-day operation ...