UK charges captain of Russian shadow fleet tanker
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Dramatic footage showed the Royal Marines commandos storming the private quarters of the ship, the Smyrtos, in the pre-dawn hours.
One by one, Royal Marine commandos wearing night vision goggles fast-roped from a hovering CH-47 Chinook on to the deck of a Russian shadow vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning.
UK Royal Marines seized the sanctioned Russian oil tanker SMYRTOS in the English Channel, spotlighting the shadow fleet's growing use of USDT stablecoin
