3 d. ago Royal Navy tracks Russian warship and oil tanker through English Channel

The navy said two patrol ships, supported by a Wildcat helicopter, were dispatched to intercept the Russian warship Boikiy

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3 d. ago Russian ships are intercepted in the English Channel as UK warns Putin 'we know exactly what your navy is doing'

UK warships and aircraft were activated to shadow Russian vessels during a two-day operation in coordination with NATO allies.

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3 d. ago WW3 fears grow as Royal Navy intercepts Russian ships in English Channel

As peace talks begin between Ukraine and Russia with the US, the Royal Navy has intercepted Russian ships in the English channel during an operation with NATO allies

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3 d. ago Royal Navy warships activated to intercept Russian vessels in the English Channel

UK warships and aircraft have been activated to meet the Russian corvette Boikiy and accompanying oil tanker MT General Skobelev as they sailed towards the North Sea

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6 d. ago Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows

European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensionsDonald Trump has a stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply as a result of Europe swapping its dependency on Russia for reliance on the US, analysis has shown.In part due to the war in Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russian pipeline gas, European countries have become dependent on shipments of US liquified natural gas (LNG), according to a paper co-authored by the Clingendael Institute, in The Hague, the Ecologic Institute, in Berlin, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Russian captain did 'absolutely nothing' to stop ship from 'obvious collision course' with oil tanker which killed one crew member, court hears

Vladimir Motin, 59, was on sole watch duty when his vessel smashed into the US oil tanker the Stena Immaculate, causing the death of Mark Angelo Pernia, 38.

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1 week ago Russian ship captain to blame for crewman's death in 'entirely avoidable collision'

Captain Vladimir Motin's ship the Solong collided into the US oil tanker the Stena Immaculate after leaving Grangemouth last year.

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1 week ago Russian shadow fleet ships could be seized by British forces

Development comes after the UK supported a US operation to seize a Russian flagged tanker in the North Atlantic

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2 w. ago British troops could follow Trump's lead and board Russian 'shadow fleet' ships carrying sanctioned oil under plans being considered by government

On Wednesday, US forces seized two tankers linked to Venezuelan oil exports in 'back-to-back' operations in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean.

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2 w. ago Celebrity SAS fans will 'need tissues' as warning issued hours before new episode

A Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins star has issued a warning to Channel 4 viewers ahead of tonight's episode

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2 w. ago Putin's week of 'humiliation' at the hands of Trump: Experts explain how Russian dictator has been 'put in a corner' by Atlantic ship raid and Maduro capture as US flexes its muscles around the world

Donald Trump has put Vladimir Putin 'in a corner' by taking Venezuela's leader prisoner and storming a Russian oil tanker this week, experts have said. 

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2 w. ago ‘We are not for sale’: chair of Greenland’s top labor union rebukes Trump’s call for annexation

Exclusive: SIK leader Jess Berthelsen rejects Trump claim that the US needs Greenland for ‘national security’Greenland “will not be annexed”, the longtime leader of its largest labor union has declared, refuting Donald Trump’s claims that the Arctic territory’s current status poses a national security threat to the US.In an interview with the Guardian, Jess Berthelsen, chair of SIK, Greenland’s national trade union confederation, said people in the territory do not recognize the US president’s allegations that Russian and Chinese ships are scattered throughout its waters. “We can’t see it, we can’t recognize it and we can’t understand it,” he said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Shadow fleet’ ships moving sanctioned oil reflagged to Russia at rising rate

Lloyd’s List analysis suggests 40 suspicious vessels joined Russian registry last year, with 17 reflagged last monthForty ships accused of belonging to a large “shadow fleet” moving sanctioned oil for Venezuela and others were reflagged to Russia last year in an apparent attempt to gain Kremlin protection from American seizure.Analysis by the shipping intelligence publication Lloyd’s List suggests that of those, at least 17 suspicious vessels joined the Russian registry over the past month, compared with 15 ships in the previous five months of 2025. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sanctioned Russian oil tanker 'spotted sailing through English Channel' a day after US seized another rogue ship off Iceland

The ship was sanctioned by the US when it was named Tia in 2024, but it is now sailing under a false name.

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2 w. ago EU accused of fuelling Putin’s war by importing Russian liquefied natural gas

Despite Brussels’ pledge to ban Russian LNG by 2027, shipments to European ports increased in the last yearEuropean governments have been accused of fuelling Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as new data shows the Kremlin earned an estimated €7.2bn (£6.2bn) last year from exporting its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU.Brussels has pledged to ban imports of Russian LNG – natural gas that is supercooled to make it easier to transport – by 2027 but an analysis suggests there is yet to be any letup in the vast quantities being received at European ports from Russia’s LNG complex on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reflagged by Russia, spied on by UK, seized by US: why so much interest in a rusty tanker in the Atlantic?

Ship has long been part of shadow fleet used to dodge western sanctions. It had no oil onboard – but was it carrying Russian weapons?A massive, rusty crude oil tanker floating north through the Atlantic has become the centre of global interest after it was followed for days and eventually seized by US forces while Russia’s military rushed towards it.Despite not carrying any oil, the 300-metre-long ship is clearly of value. Theories for why range from speculation that high-value Russian weapons are hidden in the hull, to the ship’s potential to become a symbolic trophy in a transatlantic power struggle between Washington and Moscow. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘No state has the right to use force against ships,’ says Moscow after US seizes Russian

Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over in North Atlantic with second Venezuela-linked vessel seized in CaribbeanPeople in Greenland, share your views on Donald Trump’s commentsMeanwhile, in the UK, Nigel Farage has offered his take on Trump’s plans to control Greenland, saying it would be “outrageous” for the US to seize it from Denmark.Farage says he agrees with Starmer that the fate of Greenland must be decided by Greenland and Denmark, not the US – but sided with Trump on “some genuine security concerns” that require further presence there.“What I will say is this. There are some genuine security concerns around Greenland and that becomes ever more relevant with a retraction of the ice caps as we head towards the North Pole. There is a strong feeling in British intelligence circles, and many in Nato, that there needs to be a significant Nato base located directly on the north of Greenland.At the moment, it would appear that is something Greenland is not particul...

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2 w. ago US facing showdown with Russia close to UK as Marinera oil tanker 'seized in raid'

The Marinera oil tanker, formerly known Bella-1, could spark World War 3 after reports of a raid on the vessel by by US forces had led to is alleged capture, as Russian ships and submarines stand by

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2 w. ago Marinera ship tracker live: Putin sends navy escort as Trump ‘plans to seize’ banned Venezuelan oil tanker

British military are reportedly among Nato forces tracking the tanker

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2 w. ago Superpower showdown in the North Atlantic: Putin sends submarine and naval ships to defend rogue 'Russian' oil tanker hunted by US and British forces as vessel races past Scotland

Russia has dispatched navy assets to protect a sanctioned oil tanker as it crosses the Atlantic, amid mounting threats from the US to seize the vessel.

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