The Cook Islands says a US sanctioned oil tanker is falsely using their country's identifiers to evade capture ... The Bertha was sanctioned for transportation of Iranian crude oil in December 2024, less ...
The development deepens the confrontation over the tanker formerly known as the Bella 1, which the United States wants to seize but which Russia has sought to protect ... .
Russia has dispatched navy assets to protect a sanctioned oil tanker as it crosses the Atlantic, amid mounting threats from the US to seize the vessel ....
It has been reported that the vessel was due to collect oil in Venezuela before US PresidentDonald Trump declared a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers transiting to or from the country ... oil tanker.