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Welcome to the BDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, a major expansion of Ukraine's campaign against Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers.

For the first time in the war,

Ukraine has struck a Russian tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, delivering another significant blow

to Russia's energy revenues and their clandestined global shipping network. Later in the show,

the manhunt for the Brown University shooter has come to an end. The suspect, who is now also linked

to the murder of an MIT professor, has been identified and found dead. But key questions about

motive while they remain unanswered. I'll have the details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

We've been tracking Ukraine's increasingly aggressive campaign against Russia's so-called

shadow fleet, that's the armada of tankers that Moscow relies on to quietly move sanctioned oil

around the world. And this week, Kiev crossed an important new threshold. For the first time

since the war began, Ukraine struck a Russian shadow fleet tanker operating

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