# Russia's Arctic Oil Shortcut Runs Into a Wall of Ice

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- Published: 2026-10-26T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
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A group of sanctioned Russian tankers dropped anchor some 1,300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in July after getting stuck and hunkered down for a long wait in the frozen waters at the top of the world. Help from two nuclear-powered icebreakers was several days' voyage away. The ships were stuck near the Vilkitsky Strait, a 55-kilometer-wide choke point between the coast of northern Siberia

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