Russia’s shadow fleet has received a well-deserved blow

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the UK and its Prime Minister Keir Starmer after London carried out its first operation to seize a Russian shadow fleet tanker.

The operation in the English Channel came at the end of a tumultuous week for the Prime Minister which saw Defence Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns quit over a deepening military spending row.

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The six-hour operation in the early hours was supported by aircraft, including Chinook helicopters, and navy vessels such as the frigate HMS Sutherland.