{
 "slug": "g7-evian-russian-energy-sanctions-uk-neptune-gru-procurement-shadow-fleet",
 "title": "G7 Agrees to Squeeze Russian Energy as Britain Sanctions the GRU's Neptune Network",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/g7-evian-russian-energy-sanctions-uk-neptune-gru-procurement-shadow-fleet/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/g7-evian-russian-energy-sanctions-uk-neptune-gru-procurement-shadow-fleet/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-06-16T14:27:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:53:54.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÉvian-les-Bains, 16 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, leaders agreed on 16 June to increase pressure on Russia “notably through sanctions on oil and gas,” after a session attended by President Zelensky\n * Britain announced fresh sanctions the same day, designating more than twenty shadow-fleet tankers and a GRU procurement network it named “Neptune” — three companies and ten GRU officers accused of covertly buying Western technology for the Russian arm",
 "countries": [
  "russia",
  "ukraine"
 ],
 "domains": [
  "diplomacy",
  "mena-energy-security"
 ],
 "capabilities": [],
 "tags": [
  "international-affairs",
  "mea-mena-energy-security",
  "russia-ukraine-conflict"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "france",
  "russia",
  "united-kingdom"
 ],
 "inferred": {
  "countries": [
   "france",
   "russia",
   "united-kingdom"
  ],
  "domains": [],
  "capabilities": []
 }
}