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VOLGO-DON 205

Person of interest

VOLGO-DON 205 is an entity of interest. It has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Vessel				[sources]
Name	VOLGO-DON 205				[sources]
Build Date	1977				[sources]
Call Sign	`UCWG`				[sources]
Description	The vessel has been implicated in grain theft schemes involving shipments from ports in the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) of Crimea, Ukraine, during which its Automatic Identification System (AIS) was disabled, followed by transshipment operations in the Kerch Strait area. It has violated the so-called "Crimean sanctions" by making port calls at closed Ukrainian ports in the TOT of Crimea, Ukraine. This activity forms part of a broader scheme to "legalise" stolen Ukrainian grain by redirecting it to third countries under the guise of grain of russian origin. In June 2022, the russian-flagged vessel transported more than 12,000 tons of wheat and barley from the temporarily occupied closed port of Sevastopol for transshipment to the Port Kavkaz (russian federation). The vessel has been seized by a Ukrainian court in the framework of criminal proceedings related to violations of the procedure for entry into and exit from the temporarily occupied territory.				[sources]
Flag	Russia				[sources]
IMO Number	`IMO8959166`				[sources]
MMSI	`273374000`				[sources]
Past Flags	Belize · Cambodia				[sources]
Type	23				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-09	Last processed	2025-11-12	First seen	2025-10-06

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Ukraine	ГУР МО України		-	-

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Company Person of interest	security_manager	2006-10-25	-
Volga-don Shipping JSC (current Company Azovo/don Shipping Jsc)

Owners
Owner	Percentage held	Start date	End date
Volgo-don 219 Shipping Ltd Person of interest	-	2009-07-31	-

Sponsors and accomplices of Russian armed aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine · GUR

Source data IDs: ua-ws-50e7ceef7519d32537335435ee582a0f1fcb3272 · ua-ws-vessel-359

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