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U.S. Still Plans To Seize Runaway Tanker Despite Its Renaming And Addition To Russian Database

A tanker travels off the coast of Venezuela. (Credit: AFP)

U.S. forces are still planning to seize a runaway oil tanker to enforce its blockade off such vessels dealing with Venezuela, even despite it changed its name and was added to a Russian database.

CBS News reported on the development, citing two officials with knowledge of the plans, who claimed that forces would rather seize the ship than sink it.

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