Jenny Gross and Genevieve Glatsky
A frame grab from a video posted on social media by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, showed a helicopter flying over Centuries, another oil tanker, which was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday.Credit...Agence France-Presse, via U.S. Homeland Security Secretary
The seizure by U.S. forces of a Russian-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, part of an effort to choke off most Venezuelan exports of crude, ended a two-week pursuit on the high seas and escalated a confrontation with Moscow. U.S. authorities led by the Coast Guard intercepted the vessel, the Marinera, in the waters between Scotland and Iceland, the U.S. military said. The operation was part of the Trump administration’s blockade of some tankers transporting oil from Venezuela.
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