{"id":615255,"date":"2026-06-01T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:12:09","slug":"france-intercepts-sanctioned-russian-oil-tanker-with-uk-help-macron-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615255\/","title":{"rendered":"France intercepts sanctioned Russian oil tanker with UK help, Macron says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These vessels, which fail to adhere to the most basic rules of maritime navigation, also pose a threat to the environment and to everyone&#8217;s safety,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a video shared by the French president, armed naval officers could be seen boarding the tanker via a helicopter. The BBC has not verified the footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previously, French authorities had allowed these ships to continue operating after .their owners paid fines but have since vowed to block them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced in March he similarly had granted permission for the UK military to board sanctioned Russian ships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8pvgw802no\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost 200 Russian &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; vessels had entered UK waters <\/a>as of 11 May since the prime minister threatened to intercept them in mid-March, BBC Verify analysis suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD said at the time it was &#8220;disrupting and deterring&#8221; shadow fleet vessels, without providing specific details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;These vessels, which fail to adhere to the most basic rules of maritime navigation, also pose a threat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}