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The MV Smyrtos Interdiction: Can Stateless Vessels on the High Seas be Seized and the Crew Prosecuted?
[Thea Coventry is a PhD candidate in international law and adjunct lecturer at Leiden University, specialising in maritime security, transnational criminal law and state jurisdiction.] Since 2025, the number of stateless and falsely flagged vessels transporting sanctioned Russian oil through the North and Baltic Seas has almost quadrupled. In June 2025, in response to this development, the Nordic-Baltic 8++ States announced...