This letter to the European Commission calls for its intervention in view of the French authorities’ inability to enforce the EU’s port sanctions, while other Member States are strictly implementing them. To this end, it documents the Shtandart’s stopovers in La Rochelle, its participation in the 2025 Gulf Week and the risk of further stopovers in spring 2026.
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Sanctions alert: in La Rochelle, the Russian vessel Shtandart continues to circumvent EU regulations, despite the clarification from the European Council and the decision by the French Council of State
Letter from the ‘Union des Ukrainiens de France’ and the ‘No Shtandart in Europe’ collective to the European Commission, for the attention of the department responsible for monitoring the application of sanctions.
The "Shtandart" In Europe 