Keir Starmer says operation involving National Crime Agency has delivered ‘yet another blow’ to Russia and Putin ...

Keir Starmer said British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning ...

French forces aided by British military personnel, boarded the ship - thought to have come from Russia carrying oil in breach ...

Keir Starmer said the operation "reminds those fuelling Putin’s war in Ukraine that they cannot hide".

The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence says the SMYRTOS was in the English Channel and will be held off the south coast during investigations.

UK’s Royal Marines conduct first-of-its-kind operation in the English Channel, causing other tankers to turn around.

Forwarder, a Russian-flagged ship which left port in Primorsk last week, entered the Channel on Wednesday evening.

Royal Marines have seized a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the English Channel for the first time. Royal Marine Commandos and law enforcement officers from the National Crime Agen ...

THIS is the moment French commandos storm a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Royal Marine commandos storm Russian shadow fleet tanker in English Channel - Specially trained officers led the first UK-led operation of its kind on Sunday morning ...

British forces on Sunday (June 14, 2026) intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the ‘Hybrid war’, the Defence Ministry said. The six-hour operation in the early ...

LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - British armed forces intercepted a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel on Sunday, leading for the first time an operation to disrupt the oil revenue ...