Global tensions surge after the U.S. Navy seizes another oil tanker linked to Russia and Venezuela, triggering furious ...
Russian MP Alexei Zhuravlev called for attacking with torpedoes, to sink a couple of American coast guard boats - normally, they guard their shore several thousand kilometres away from it.
The Marinera seizure by US forces raises legal and diplomatic questions over maritime law and sanctions enforcement, amid Russian protests and heightened US-Russia tensions at sea.
The U.S. carried out operations Wednesday to seize the oil tankers Marinera and Sophia, officials announced.
An alleged Iranian vessel which carries weapons for Russia, the cargo ship Rona, sinks in the Caspian Sea after dozens of ...
He likened to seizure of the Marinera, previously called Bella 1, to "an attack on Russian territory" as it was flying under the Russian flag. He said: "We need to provide a military response: attack ...
Russia has deployed naval assets to the Atlantic to protect an oil tanker that is being actively pursued by US forces.
Aleksey Zhuravlyov, first deputy head of the Russian Duma's defence committee, said the US seizure of oil tanker Marinera, was like 'an attack on Russian territory' ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. military said, as the Trump administration targets sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela ...