France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia’s sanction-busting “shadow fleet”.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was “subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag”.

The French navy, with the assistance of allies including the UK, boarded the vessel on Thursday morning between Spain and Morocco. French maritime authorities said that a search of the vessel had “confirmed the doubts as to the regularity of the flag”.

Russia’s embassy in Paris said it had not been informed of the seizure.

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    12 hours ago

    I wrote this on another post, but copying it here because it’s same shit, different user (or is it?)

    Yeah you’re leaving about a tonne of relevant details and context out.

    Like that I too can make idiotic assertions.

    Ukraine bombed Russian oil refineries! How could they, they’re so evil, can you imagine them attacking European infrastructure?

    See what I did there? I left out the little tid bit of Russia being a cruel dictatorship supported by oligarchs who invaded Ukraine for bullshit reasons and has committed genocide multiple times now, which is the reason for Ukraine fighting back.

    Now you do you. Look at what you wrote and point out the list of issues that explains all you wrote, but that you conveniently left out.

    Illt wait

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      8 hours ago

      Did you assume I was defending Putin on this?

      Putin’s a piece of shit and I hope all his crap gets plundered and the proceeds transferred to the Ukrainian drone fund.