Source: Politico
“Russia threatened retaliation if the EU follows through on new proposals to grab more Moscow-linked oil tankers in the Baltic Sea, warning it would treat any seizures as an attack. Alexei Zhuravlev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, on Monday said that ‘any attack on our carriers can be regarded as an attack on our territory, even if the ship is under a foreign flag.’ His comments come after POLITICO revealed that countries including Finland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia were considering new legal mechanisms to detain more of Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet — aging vessels with obscure ownership and unknown insurance.” (02/11/25)