With Attacks on Oil Tankers, Ukraine Takes Aim at Russia’s War Financing

Ukraine has used drones four times in the past few weeks to hit oil tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet, escalating the war in the seas and showing that Ukraine’s security services agency feels increasingly emboldened to launch audacious attacks and claim them publicly. One ship was struck by aerial drones on Thursday night in the Mediterranean Sea, more than 1,200 miles away from Ukraine. The other three were hit by sea drones in the Black Sea. The attacks are the first on Russia’s sanction-defying oil tankers that Ukraine has acknowledged since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The security agency also…