The oil tanker on the French forces is linked to the Russian “Shadow Fleet”

The French soldiers resigned an oil tanker believed to be part of the Russian “Shadow Fleet”, who were used to evading the sanctions imposed by the war in Ukraine.

Burakai left Russia last month and was outside the coast of Denmark when unidentified drones forced the temporary closure of many airports last week. It has been established off western France for a few days.

French President Emmanuel Macron said at the European Union leaders in Copenhagen on Wednesday that the crew committed “serious crimes”, but he did not clarify.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia is not aware of the ship.

AFP news agency quoted a source as saying that the French military personnel boarded the ship on Saturday.

Macron refused to be extracted on the issue of whether the ship may have been used as a platform for drone flights that caused this turmoil in Denmark last week.

Prosecutors opened in Brest an investigation into two charges: an order to stop and fail to justify the nationality of the ship’s flag.

Many Western countries imposed sanctions on Russian energy by reducing imports and expanding the price of oil after the start of Russia’s extensive invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

To evade these sanctions, Moscow built the referred to the name of the “shadow fleet” from tankers that could block its ownership and movements.

Russia is believed to have a fleet of several hundreds of tankers registered in other countries and is used to export gasoline. Macron said that the shadow fleet in Russia contained between 600 and 1,000 ships.

Burakai, also known as Pushpa and Kiwala, is the Benin ship that has been attached but listed under the UK sanctions and the European Union against Russia.

It was detained by the Estonian authorities earlier this year to sail without a good country’s knowledge.

It started from the Russian PRIMorsk port outside the Saint Petersburg on September 20 and sailed through the Baltic Sea and Denmark, before entering the North Sea and continuing through the English channel.

He was scheduled to arrive at Vadinar in northwest India on October 20, according to the data of the marine traffic tracking site. However, a French warship followed after it took over on the British coast, then changed the path and headed east towards the French coast.

European Union leaders meet in Copenhagen Under pressure to increase the European defense after a series of Russian incursions into the European Union airspace, and days after the drones targeted.

Copenhagen airport, followed by many Danish airports and military sites on the Gotland Peninsula, faced drone last week.

“From a European perspective, there is only one country … ready to threaten us, which is Russia, and therefore we need a very strong answer.”

The Danish authorities did not find any evidence that Russia was behind the disruption of drones last week, but Friedrixen explicitly linked them to alleged hybrid attacks such as Russian drones over Poland.

She told reporters on Wednesday that this was part of a pattern that had to be shown from a European perspective.

The most severe incursions for countries on the eastern side of the European Union, such as Poland and Estonia.

A number of member states have already supported the plans of the multi -layer “wall aircraft” to discover them quickly, then follow and destroy drones.