{"id":10623,"date":"2026-06-14T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:43:00","slug":"uk-oil-tanker-from-russias-shadow-fleet-blocked-in-the-english-channel-on-starmers-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10623","title":{"rendered":"UK: Oil tanker from Russia&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; blocked in the English Channel on Starmer&#8217;s orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">     British authorities intercepted today (6\/14) oil tanker belonging to the Russian \u201cshadow fleet,\u201d which was attempting to pass through the <strong>English Channel<\/strong>, in a move with significant geopolitical implications. <\/p>\n<p>     According to a statement from the British Ministry of Defense, the target of the operation was the tanker \u201c<strong>SMYRTOS\u201d<\/strong>. The operation involved British Royal Navy commandos, along with specially trained officers from the National Crime Agency (<strong>NCA<\/strong>). <\/p>\n<p>     The ship remains off the southern coast of Britain, while investigations by the relevant authorities continue. <\/p>\n<p>     The British Ministry of Defense stated that the authorities\u2019 actions took place within British territorial waters and were based on both domestic legislation and international law. <\/p>\n<p>     British Prime Minister <strong>Keir Starmer<\/strong> announced that he had given the order to intercept the ship in a post on X. \u201cThis successful operation deals another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"> In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel.<\/p>\n<p>This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin&#8217;s war in Ukraine that we will not\u2026     <\/p>\n<p>     \u2014 Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 14, 2026 <\/p><\/blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    British authorities intercepted a tanker belonging to Russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d today (June 14), which was attempting to pass through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}