The Albanian port of Durrës (an Adriatic coastal city and Albania's main commercial harbour) has barred the oil tanker Hanuman from docking after Ukraine's military intelligence agency, the GUR, identified it as part of Russia's "shadow fleet" — a network of vessels used to circumvent Western sanctions on Russian oil exports. The ship, flying a Sierra Leone flag, was turned away on 29 August; the GUR says it has transported at least 452,000 tonnes of fuel out of Russia since the start of 2025, primarily from the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Albania, a NATO member and EU candidate state that has aligned with EU sanctions since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, welcomed the move as a sign of growing international cooperation in closing off maritime routes that Moscow relies on to sustain its oil revenues.