French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said that the French Navy had boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, asserting that France would not tolerate "any violation" of international law.
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to "cut off Ukraine from sea," after Kyiv's underwater drone strike on two tankers belonging to Russia's so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea.
Moscow on Thursday declared a national state of emergency following an oil spill caused by two separate incidents involving Russian tankers in the Black Sea.
Following a strike by Kyiv on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea, Russian and Ukrainian troops intensified their attacks, damaging a blood transfusion centre, a university, and an aeronautics facility in Ukraine