Kaja Kallas, the EU chief diplomat, has announced that the EU's Operation Irini in the Mediterranean Sea had stopped a tanker suspected of belonging to Russia's shadow fleet for inspection.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the move was aimed at increasing pressure on what she described as "Russia’s shadow fleet"

A European naval mission boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of sailing under a false flag this week, the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Wednesday.