{"id":6214,"date":"2026-06-15T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:06:44","slug":"russian-shadow-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"Russian Shadow Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6214\" class=\"elementor elementor-6214\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b9bcf6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0b9bcf6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0ec607 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b0ec607\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today, Sir John questioned the government on what further action the UK can take to protect Ukraine from what further action the UK can take to stop dual-use technology, such as washing machine microcircuits found in Russian missiles fired on Kyiv, being used to kill more people in Ukraine.<\/p><p>He contributed to a House of Commons statement on UK action against the Russian Shadow Fleet, welcoming the Government\u2019s response while raising concerns about continued support for Russia\u2019s war effort. He highlights this use of dual-use technology from third countries in Russian weapons and asks what further steps can be taken to prevent these components being used in attacks on Ukraine. The debate also addresses sanctions enforcement, international cooperation and efforts to restrict the resources supporting Russia\u2019s military activities.<\/p><p>Watch the full clip of his question, and the government&#8217;s reply, here:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f2f250 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5f2f250\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a6392a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"1a6392a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/ORbPC4jWggg&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;play_on_mobile&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;cc_load_policy&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John welcomes UK action against the Russian Shadow Fleet and urges further measures to prevent dual-use technology reaching Russia and supporting attacks on Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}