French interception. The French navy boarded and diverted a Russia-linked sanctioned oil tanker in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend. France’s Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic said in a statement that authorities intercepted the vessel, which had departed from Murmansk, Russia, more than 400 nautical miles west of the French region of […]
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French authorities suspected the vessel of carrying a false flag.
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