Putin Blasts French ‘Piracy’ After ‘Russia-Linked’ Tanker Boarded, Captain Arrested “The tanker was seized in neutral waters without any justification, and they were apparently looking for some kind of military cargo, drones, or something else,” Putin said Thursday at the Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi, condemning the French takeover of an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” which seeks to evade Western energy sanctions as an act of “piracy”. “There’s nothing there, there never was, and there can’t be anything,” Putin asserted of the boarding action which took place earlier this week. The tanker… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
