France Seizes Russian Shadow-Fleet Tanker Off Sicily

Macron Says Paris Will Not Allow Sanctions Evasion or Financing of Russia’s War

France has seized a tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet, President Emmanuel Macron said.

According to him, the French Navy detained the tanker Deliver off the coast of Sicily.

“We will not allow the shadow fleet to circumvent sanctions and finance Russia’s war effort,” Macron wrote on X.

The tanker Deliver was sailing under the flag of Cameroon from Primorsk to Singapore.

This is already the fifth Russian vessel detained by French authorities.

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