Moscow considers France's detention of the ship, and arrest of the captain, an act of piracy.

French naval forces board suspicious oil tanker off coast of France, suspected of involvement in Russia's shadow fleet.

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that an oil tanker immobilized off the French Atlantic coast had committed “very serious wrongdoings” and linked it to…

PARIS: French police have arrested two crew members of a tanker suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet after the French navy boarded the vessel over the weekend, Prime…

Moscow considers France's detention of the ship, and arrest of the captain, an act of piracy.

Vladimir Putin denounces seizing of the vessel as an act of ‘piracy’ and warns it could provoke confrontation