French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that French forces intercepted and seized a tanker belonging to Russia's shadow fleet near the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a direct statement from the president. The vessel's name and further operational details were not immediately disclosed.
French forces interdicted a Russian shadow fleet tanker off Sicily on Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron announced. The operation, conducted in the Mediterranean Sea, marks a significant escalation in European efforts to enforce sanctions on Russian oil exports. As The Zioneer reported at 13:23, initial accounts of the interception had come from the source InsiderPaper; Macron's on-record confirmation now provides presidential-level backing. The seizure follows a pattern of similar actions: on Sunday June 14, British forces boarded a shadow fleet tanker in the English Channel, and on June 10, Ukraine struck another such vessel in the Black Sea. The shadow fleet comprises aging, often uninsured tankers used to circumvent Western sanctions on Russian crude. No details on the vessel's name, cargo, crew, or next port of call have been released.
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