Belgium's special forces boarded and seized an oil tanker from the "shadow fleet" Russia uses to circumvent Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, in an overnight operation announced Sunday

Belgium seized an oil tanker belonging to the Russian shadow fleet on Sunday and suspected of sailing with a ‘false flag and false documents’, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken...

March 1 - Belgium seized an oil tanker belonging to the Russian shadow fleet on Sunday and suspected of sailing with a \"false flag and false documents\", Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Europe is ramping up the targeting of Moscow’s fleet of vessels suspected of carrying sanctioned oil or damaging undersea infrastructure.