It is the fourth such ship that France has seized since September last year on suspicions of belonging to the “shadow fleet,” which Russia is believed to use to circumvent Western sanctions.

Russia has reportedly built up a flotilla of old oil tankers of opaque ownership to get around sanctions imposed by the European Union over Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion of…

The French Navy has boarded another oil tanker from Russia as Paris steps up its campaign against Moscow’s so-called "shadow fleet" of vessels suspected of evading international…