VICTORIA K

The vessel has been engaged in the export of Ukrainian grain and coal from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. It routinely employs deceptive shipping practices near the Kerch Strait and within Ukrainian territorial waters in the Sea of Azov.
Between 2024 and 2025, the vessel transported over 20,000 metric tons of coking coal from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian port of Mariupol using the following sanctions-evasion routing scheme: the vessel formally called at the russian port of Temryuk, then disabled its Automatic Identification System (AIS) and sailed to Mariupol for loading. After loading, it returned to Temryuk with cargo, reactivated AIS, and then proceeded to its final destination.
In one documented case in May 2025, IMO 1041348 exported approximately 7,500 metric tons of wheat from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian port of Berdyansk (Zaporizhzhia Oblast) to Egypt.
Technical management of the vessel is carried out by the russian company OOO "Krechet" (ООО "Кречет", TIN 6167197524, Rostov Oblast). The company’s former director, Alexander Soldatov (Александр Солдатов, TIN 614104187473), has served as the acting director – since 27 July 2023 – of the occupation-established "Mariupol Sea Port Administration" (Государственное Унитарное Предприятие Донецкой Народной Республики "Администрация морского порта города Мариуполя", TIN 9310000303). OOO "Krechet" also manages three additional vessels (IMO 9045601, IMO 9419084, IMO 9454125) involved in the export of Ukrainian coal from Mariupol.
On November 25, 2025, Ukraine imposed sanctions on the vessel.