{"id":4154,"date":"2026-03-01T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:44:06","slug":"belgium-seizes-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4154\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium seizes Russian &#8216;shadow fleet&#8217; tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Brussels \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s special forces boarded and seized an oil tanker from the &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; Russia uses to circumvent Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, the government said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said the vessel was intercepted in the North Sea during an overnight operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, a vessel from Russia&#8217;s shadow fleet was intercepted in the North Sea,&#8221; Prevot wrote on X, thanking Belgian special forces for their &#8220;exceptional professionalism and courage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels \u2013 Belgium&#8217;s special forces boarded and seized an oil tanker from the &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; Russia uses to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3250,2637,390,449,941,88],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-ethera","tag-oil","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}