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The U.S. and other western countries have issued sanctions on Russian oil exports since 2022. The Planet Money team explains how the country's shadow fleet of aging oil tankers evades policing.

Ukraine is still finding thousands of foreign-made parts in Russian weapons over three and a half years into the war.

The restrictions placed this week on Rosneft and Lukoil, which account for about half of Russia’s daily oil production of 9.5mn barrels a day, are the most significant blow delivered by Donald Trump’s administration against an industry that is the economic driver of Vladimir Putin’s regime.