Seeing Russian tankers off Dover

When is a shadow fleet not a shadow fleet?

Perhaps when it’s shipping millions of dollars' worth of crude oil through the English Channel in broad daylight.

The UK has imposed sanctions on the Russian oil trade since the start of the full invasion of Ukraine - but tankers helping to fund Putin’s war machine are operating in the Channel with apparent impunity.

Niall is joined by Sky’s business correspondent Paul Kelso - who trailed some of these ‘shadow fleet’ vessels in the English Channel.

Producers: Paul Wilkinson and Tom Gillespie

Editor: Mike Bovill