Putin's Pollock: U.S. seafood imports fuel Russian war machine

In this photo provided by the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin attends the launch ceremony for Mekanik Sizov, a super trawler belonging to a company partly owned by sanctioned businessman Gleb Frank in St. Petersburg, Russia. A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine. But shortcomings in import regulations means that Russian-caught pollock, salmon and crab are likely to enter the U.S. anyway, by way of the country vital to seafood supply chains across the world: China. (The Kremlin via AP) (The Kreml…