The French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that an oil tanker located near the French shoreline is linked to Russia’s covert maritime operations, which are bypassing Western sanctions related to the Ukraine conflict. The tanker, identified as “Pushpa” or “Boracay,” was reportedly involved in drone flights over Denmark and has been under scrutiny by European naval experts.
AP News reports that the Brest prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation into the crew’s “refusal to cooperate” and “failure to justify the nationality of the vessel.” The ship departed from the Russian oil terminal in Primorsk on Sept. 20 and has been near Saint-Nazaire, France, since Sunday.
