The UK military has intercepted an oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet in the English Channel, according to Prime ...

Keir Starmer said British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning ...

Keir Starmer says operation involving National Crime Agency has delivered ‘yet another blow’ to Russia and Putin ...

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 have seized a Russian shadow-fleet oil tanker that was trying to transit the English Channel, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says. “This successful operation ⁠⁠delivers yet another ⁠⁠blow ...

Keir Starmer said the operation "reminds those fuelling Putin’s war in Ukraine that they cannot hide".

UK’s Royal Marines conduct first-of-its-kind operation in the English Channel, causing other tankers to turn around.

Marines were joined by National Crime Agency officers in the six-hour long operation in the early hours of Sunday.

Royal Marines have seized a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the English Channel for the first time. Royal Marine Commandos and law enforcement officers from the National Crime Agen ...

Royal Marine commandos storm Russian shadow fleet tanker in English Channel - Specially trained officers led the first UK-led operation of its kind on Sunday morning ...

British commandos boarded and intercepted a ⁠sanctioned ⁠Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the ⁠Channel on Sunday, leading for the first time an operation to disrupt the oil revenue ​that helps fund ...