#tanker-detention

#tanker-detention

The captain of an oil tanker that authorities in France have detained off the country's Atlantic coast and that President Emmanuel Macron has linked to Russia will go on trial in February over the crew's alleged refusal to cooperate, a French prosecutor has said. Macron has alleged that the tanker belongs to Russia's shadow fleet of ageing tankers of uncertain ownership that are avoiding western sanctions over Moscow's war in Ukraine.