British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday morning that UK armed forces intercepted a Russian oil tanker from the so-called shadow fleet as it tried to pass through the English Channel, according to reports.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this morning that UK armed forces intercepted a Russian oil tanker from the so-called shadow fleet as it attempted to transit the English Channel. The announcement follows an earlier report, published at 09:18 Jerusalem, that UK defense forces had boarded a Russian shadow-fleet vessel in the same waterway. The interception is the latest in a series of Western operations targeting vessels used by Russia to evade sanctions on oil exports. A separate, unrelated strike by Ukraine on a shadow-fleet tanker in the Black Sea was reported by Asaf Rozentzweig (N12) on June 10. The UK has neither released the tanker's name nor specified the extent of the operation beyond the interception itself.
4 developments
- StrongFrance seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker off Sicily coast, Macron says
- DevelopingRussian Foreign Ministry spokesperson warns UK embassy in Moscow in wake of English Channel warship incident
- DevelopingRussian 'shadow fleet' suspected of launching drones over European military sites
- DevelopingUkraine says it struck a Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker in the Black Sea
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