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Estonia-Russia ship standoff portends a harsher tone on the Baltic Sea

By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo, Defense News May 22, 2025

MILAN — Russia’s detention of a Greek-owned ship that departed from Estonia – days after Estonian forces tried to intercept a Russia-bound tanker – signals Moscow’s willingness to deploy military power more overtly to protect its shadow-fleet, a vital pillar of its war economy, experts say.

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