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Keir Starmer says operation involving National Crime Agency has delivered ‘yet another blow’ to Russia and Putin British armed forces intercepted and boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday, Keir Starmer has confirmed. In a six-hour operation, the first...
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Keir Starmer says operation involving National Crime Agency has delivered ‘yet another blow’ to Russia and Putin British armed forces intercepted and boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tank...
British forces boarded and seized a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the English Channel early Sunday in the first military operation of its kind conducted by the UK.
LONDON (AP) — Armed British forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker Sunday that is suspected of being part of the Russian “shadow fleet,” shipping oil in violation of international...
Specially trained officers led the first UK-led operation of its kind on Sunday morning
The United Kingdom’s Armed Forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet attempting to sail through the English Channel on Sunday in a “blow” to the Kremlin amid its more than four year war wit...
British forces on Sunday intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the English Channel, the defence ministry said, in a six-hour operation hailed by Kyiv. Na...
LONDON (AP) — Armed British forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker Sunday that is suspected of being part of the Russian “shadow fleet,” shipping oil in violation of international...
Marines were joined by National Crime Agency officers in the six-hour long operation in the early hours of Sunday.
Britain’s defense ministry said it was the first time that British forces had acted alone to stop a ship in the fleet, a collection of vessels that Russia uses to move fuel and evade sancti...
The British armed forces have intercepted the sanctioned oil tanker in a bid to disrupt the oil revenue that helps fund Russia's war in Ukraine.
Keir Starmer said the six-hour military operation delivers 'another blow to Russia and reminds those fuelling (President Vladimir) Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide'
LONDON (AP) — Armed British forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker Sunday that is suspected of being part of the Russian "shadow fleet," shipping oil in violation of international...
LONDON (AP) — Armed British forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker Sunday that is suspected of being part of…
Prime minister hails ‘yet another blow to Russia’ as part of effort to clamp down on those fuelling Ukraine war
“This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
British armed forces intercepted a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel on Sunday, for the first time leading an operation to disrupt the oil revenue that help...
The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence says the SMYRTOS was in the English Channel and will be held off the south coast during investigations.
British forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker on Sunday morning, its Ministry of Defence said, in the latest effort to disrupt Moscow’s sanctions-evasion network.
The vessel was intercepted in the early hours of Sunday morning and is now anchored off the coast of England.
UK armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday, the Prime Minister said.
The operation lasted six hours and was supported with aircraft from the Maritime Air Group, an RAF P-8 aircraft, as well as the vessels HMS Sutherland and HMS Ledbury.
Britain is investigating a sanctioned tanker that is suspected of being part of the Russian "shadow fleet," shipping oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow's war on Ukraine.
British forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the English Channel early on Sunday, the first UK-led operation of its kind targeting Russia’s so-called shadow fleet.
British forces intercepted a UK-sanctioned oil tanker accused of belonging to what has been dubbed Russia's "shadow fleet" in the English Channel on Sunday, in what the country’s defence mi...
Britain’s armed forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker, the Smyrtos, in the English Channel on Sunday
It is the first time the British navy has boarded an oil tanker sanctioned for its ties to Russia. Defense Secretary Dan Jarvis said the operation was carried out in 'close coordination wit...
The vessel Smyrtos will be provisionally moved to an anchorage off the south coast of England
The ships — usually aging tankers with dubious ownership — are banned from accessing U.K. ports and services.
Britain’s armed forces have boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker, the Smyrtos, in the English Channel.
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