This is the 4th ‘Shadow Fleet’ ship seizure by French troops.
As Europe is raging with rearmament efforts, Euro-Globalists continue with their non-stop campaign against Russia – but, mind you, they’re directing their military assets against ‘soft targets’ such as defenseless oil tankers.
Today it arises that the French navy has intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker linked to the Russian trade.
The operation took place in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, and the ship was taken to a French port.
Unsurprisingly, Russia protested the ‘illegal action’ that bordered on ‘international piracy’.
🇫🇷 France seizes another Russian “shadow fleet” tanker
French President Macron announced that French forces, with support from the UK and other allies, intercepted the tanker Tagor in international waters of the Atlantic.
The vessel was transporting Russian oil as part of the… pic.twitter.com/v9XE30bOiW
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 1, 2026
French authorities said the inspection ‘confirmed suspicions regarding the irregularity of the flag flown’.
“To try to skirt Western sanctions, Russia has relied on old vessels, known as the shadow fleet, to ship its oil and gas. France and Britain have both vowed to obstruct such vessels as part of a European strategy to combat the oil revenues that help fund Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine.”
“‘It is unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions, violate the law of the sea, and finance the war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine for more than four years’, Macron wrote on X.”
RT reported:
“Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has condemned the French seizure of an oil tanker in international waters as ‘borderline piracy’. Paris had hailed the move as the enforcement of anti-Russian sanctions.
The crude oil tanker Tagor was boarded by French commandos in the Atlantic, with support from the UK and other countries, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday while presenting footage of the raid.
Macron claimed the vessel posed environmental and safety risks and was engaged in the ‘circumvention of international sanctions’, referring to restrictions adopted by a number of Western countries targeting Russian foreign trade. The measures were imposed without a UN mandate following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Peskov rejected Macron’s claim that French forces had acted in accordance with international law. He said Russia would ‘draw on this negative experience’ when adjusting the ‘measures we take to ensure the safety of our shipments’.”
“We consider such actions illegal and bordering on international piracy,” – Peskov about the seizure by the French Navy of the tanker Targot, which was sailing from Russia.
Clearly President Macron didn’t get enough excitement from the burning streets of Paris this weekend. pic.twitter.com/qNNGzQMSjG
— Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) June 1, 2026
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