{"id":2463463,"date":"2026-06-17T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463463"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:20:46","slug":"royal-marines-intercept-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-marines-intercept-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Marines intercept Russian shadow fleet tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcvzdEmmyuc?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Royal Marine commandos boarded the Russian shadow fleet tanker &#8211; the Smyrtos &#8211; early this morning in a six hour operation, backed by British military aircraft, a frigate and a minehunter.  <\/p>\n<p>The vessel has been accused of exporting Russian oil products for at least a year &#8211; in breach of international sanctions. Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister welcomed the raid, saying &#8220;every such vessel stopped, means less money for the Russian war machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Russian shadow fleet tanker intercepted<br \/>\n3:03 &#8211; Operation &#8220;saved thousands of lives in Ukraine&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LcvzdEmmyuc\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Marine commandos boarded the Russian shadow fleet tanker &#8211; the Smyrtos &#8211; early this morning in a six hour operation, backed by British military aircraft, a frigate and a minehunter. The vessel has been accused of exporting Russian oil products for at least a year &#8211; in breach of international sanctions. Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781688044_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463465,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463463\/revisions\/2463465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}