Lavrov Calls Tanker Seizures “Piracy”—And Threatens Retaliation
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Lavrov Calls Tanker Seizures “Piracy”—And Threatens Retaliation
Russia will take “mirror” and potentially asymmetric measures in response to Western countries detaining vessels linked to its oil trade, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned, The Moscow Times reported on November 10.
The European Union is becoming a military bloc suffering from "mania of greatness", said Russian Foreign Ministry head Sergei Lavrov, comparing the EU's actions with the era of slavery and piracy. "The European Union, turning into a military bloc (and clearly suffering from the mania of greatness), remembered the times of slavery and piracy and took up the open capture of foreign ships and the theft of their cargo," said Lavrov in an article for…
Russia has vowed to take retaliatory measures in response to Western countries seizing ships from the so-called Russian shadow fleet. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused European countries of "piracy."
The European countries are at risk of retaliation because of attempts to establish their own rules of international navigation, and Moscow considers it unacceptable to detain foreign vessels and confiscate their cargo on the pretext of fighting the so-called shadow fleet, and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of the consequences of such a policy in an article for the newspaper Kommersant.
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