UK boards and seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker in English Channel

Prime minister says British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph , Dan Jarvis said he had a “big responsibility” towards soldiers who risk their lives for the country. Jarvis, himself a former soldier, said he was still working through the detail of the defence investment plan, which will lay out.

Keir Starmer says operation involving UK armed forces 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 of its kind to be led by the UK, Royal Marine commandos and officers from the National Crime Agency boarded and took control of the vessel, Smyrtos, which was sailing under a Cameroonian flag. Continue.

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