LONDON: Britain provided tracking and monitoring support for a French operation to board a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in a bid to choke off the funds that fuel Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UK defense minister John Healey said on Thursday. Healey said this support included a vessel, HMS Dagger, monitoring the tanker as it passed through the Straits of Gibraltar.

Vessel named the Grinch is intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea, suspected of being part of Russia's 'shadow fleet'

UK intelligence was used by French navy to raid sanctioned vessel

LONDON: Britain provided tracking and monitoring support for a French operation to board a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in a bid to choke off the funds that fuel Russia’s…