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The EU will mass arrest ships of the Russian "shadow fleet" - Politico writes that the Union countries are already negotiating this operation. To this end, they can invoke international law to detain ships for environmental or piracy reasons. If this does not work, the countries will pass their own laws to detain more ships at sea. Finland and Estonia, for example, intend to create a list of "reliable" insurance companies. If the ship is insured by a company that is not on this list, it can be seized. "Almost 50 percent of the oil approved by Russia is transported through the Gulf of Finland, which poses a threat to the environment and underwater infrastructure. "We cannot block the entire sea, but we can control more..." said Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna. According to estimates, the shadow fleet already transports over 80 percent of Russian oil. Last year, 348 such vessels left Baltic ports, accounting for 40% of the Russian Federation's total oil exports, or a third of Moscow's annual defense budget. In addition to the EU's proposals to blacklist 74 tankers from the shadow fleet, the Nordic and Baltic countries are now independently discussing how to legally begin seizing more Russia-linked vessels, officials and diplomats said.