Russia’s war on Ukraine has redrawn the global oil map, re-routing fleets of skyscraper-sized tankers on longer voyages as they shuttle crude shipments that are essential to the global economy.
The Wall Street Journal analyzed data from a ship-tracking firm Spire Global Which led to about 3,000 such ships searching for those leaving Russian ports in the period before and after the Russian invasion on 24 February. ties and left the Kremlin scrambling to find the money it needed to fund its war machine.