LONDON: Britain supplied monitoring and monitoring assist for a French operation to board a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in a bid to choke off the funds that gas Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UK defence minister John Healey stated on Thursday (Jan 22).
Healey stated this assist included a vessel, HMS Dagger, monitoring the tanker because it handed by the Straits of Gibraltar. The tanker, named the Grinch, is topic to UK and European sanctions for facilitating commerce in sanctioned oil and kinds a part of a rising internet of the so-called “shadow-fleet.”
“Deterring, disrupting and degrading the Russian shadow fleet is a precedence for this authorities,” Healey stated in an announcement.
“I can verify that the UK has supplied monitoring and monitoring in assist of the French operation to board the tanker Grinch.”
He stated Britain and its allies had been stepping up their response to so-called shadow-fleet vessels, which he described as serving to finance Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
