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Katrine Bussey

UK was ‘absolutely willing’ to support US in seizing Russian tanker – minister

Douglas Alexander said assisting the US operation to seize a Russian tanker was in the UK’s ‘national interest’ (US_EUCOM/X/PA) -

The UK was “absolutely willing to step up” and support a US operation to seize a Russian flagged tanker in the North Atlantic, a member of Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has said, adding that doing so was in “our national interest”.

Douglas Alexander said the ship was “part of the shadow fleet that funds Russia’s war effort in Ukraine”.

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