US Seizure Of Russian Tanker Puts Shadow Fleet On Notice
TheUS seizureof a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic dramatically raises the stakes in Washington's naval blockade of Venezuela, blowing apart an apparent Kremlin strategy to reflag its shadow fleet ships to offer them protection and stoking wider tensions with Moscow.
Some 21 flagless vessels have adopted Russia's flag since the United States seized a shadow fleet tanker called theSkipperin the Car