{"id":2463667,"date":"2026-06-17T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463667"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:00:48","slug":"royal-marines-take-control-of-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-marines-take-control-of-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-bbc-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Marines Take Control Of Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shn42vhtnkg?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Royal Marine Commandos have boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Marines, joined by National Crime Agency officers, with the support of the RAF, intercepted and boarded the vessel in a six-hour operation &#8211; the first operation of its kind by UK armed forces. <\/p>\n<p>The vessel, Smyrtos, will be held and monitored off the south coast of England as investigations continue, the MoD said.  <\/p>\n<p>Joe Pike joins Laura and Paddy to go through what we know about the operation, and put it into context in light of a week of resignations over the government&#8217;s defence investment plan.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:10 What did the operation involve?<br \/>\n06:12 How the operation unfolded<br \/>\n08:24 Wider strategy against Russia\u2019s shadow fleet<br \/>\n10:09 Defence spending pressures explained<br \/>\n12:05 Political fallout after defence resignations<br \/>\n16:11 Leadership tensions inside government<br \/>\n18:17 Defence funding choices and trade-offs<br \/>\n21:43 Iran talks<br \/>\n25:26 What a potential deal could mean<br \/>\n27:03 Planned social media ban for under-16s<br \/>\n31:41 Scotland match reaction<br \/>\n32:00 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=shn42vhtnkg\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Marine Commandos have boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning. Marines, joined by National Crime Agency officers, with the support of the RAF, intercepted and boarded the vessel in a six-hour operation &#8211; the first operation of its kind by UK armed forces. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2463668,"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-2463667","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\/1781697646_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463667","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=2463667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463669,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463667\/revisions\/2463669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}