France Navy detains another Russia 'shadow fleet' tanker – Macron
French naval forces detained a Russia tanker belonging to the "shadow fleet," French President Emmanuel Macron reported.
"We are staying the course. This morning in the Mediterranean Sea, the French fleet detained another vessel from the ‘shadow fleet’ — the Deyna. The war in Iran will not force France to abandon its support for Ukraine, where Russia’s aggressive war continues. These vessels, which bypass international sanctions and violate maritime law, are war profiteers. They seek to profit and fund Russia’s military actions. We will not allow this," Macron wrote on social network X.
As Reuters reports, citing local officials, French naval forces inspected an oil tanker under the flag of Mozambique in the western Mediterranean after the vessel, which departed from the Russia port of Murmansk, was suspected of sailing under a false flag.
According to the French Prefecture of the Mediterranean, the operation was conducted jointly with British allies.
