France Seizes Another ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker; Russia Decries ‘Piracy’

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France Seizes Another ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker; Russia Decries ‘Piracy’

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France seized a tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s sanctions-evasion “shadow fleet” and was taking it to Réunion. Moscow denounced the seizure as piracy, highlighting tensions over enforcement of Western sanctions and maritime activity.

France's military was taking a tanker suspected to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet" skirting Western sanctions to Reunion island on Tuesday in what Moscow called another act of "piracy."

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