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\n\t\tThe U.S. seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by a Russian submarine on Wednesday, after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic as part of a U.S. «blockade» of Venezuelan oil exports, two U.S. officials told Reuters<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThis appeared to be the first time in recent memory that the U.S. military has seized a Russian-flagged vessel.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThe operation took place after the tanker, originally known as the Bella-1, slipped through a U.S. maritime blockade of sanctioned tankers in the Caribbean and rebuffed U.S. Coast Guard efforts to board it. The seizure effort was first reported by Reuters.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tIn a post on X, the U.S. military’s European Command said the Trump administration had seized the vessel for violating U.S. sanctions.<\/div>\n
\n\t\t«The blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in FULL EFFECT \u2014 anywhere in the world,» U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in reply to that post.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThe U.S. officials, who were speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday’s operation near Iceland was being carried out by the Coast Guard and U.S. military.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThe Coast Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThe officials said Russian military vessels were in the general vicinity of the operation, including a Russian submarine. It was unclear how close the vessels were to the operation, but there were no indications of a confrontation between U.S. and Russian military forces.<\/div>\n
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\n\t\tThere was no immediate comment from Moscow. However, Russian state media outlet RT published an image of a helicopter hovering near the ship.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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