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

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.

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

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

British forces have boarded and 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 ...

French forces aided by British military personnel, boarded the ship - thought to have come from Russia carrying oil in breach of strict sanctions - in international waters.

Navy commandos boarded the ship under cover of darkness by fast-roping from a helicopter in the dark, according to footage ...

Forwarder, a Russian-flagged ship which left port in Primorsk last week, entered the Channel on Wednesday evening.

The vessel SMYRTOS was intercepted on Sunday morning, June 14, in a move that has been described by the Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis as a blow to 'Putin's illegal war' ...

Britain’s armed forces have boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker, the Smyrtos, in the English Channel. The U.K.

It comes after the UK announced earlier this month that it had intercepted and boarded the Russian shadow fleet tanker ...

British armed forces on Sunday ⁠intercepted a Russian shadow fleet ‌oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel ...