statement<\/a> published on Sunday, the ministry added that the vessel, the Green Admire, was undertaking a navigational route established in a deal between Russia, Estonia and Finland.<\/p>\nThe Baltic nation will redirect traffic to and from Sillamea exclusively through Estonian waters to prevent similar incidents in the future, it added.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s incident shows that Russia continues to behave unpredictably,\u201d Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said. \u201cI have also informed our allies of the event,\u201d he said, referring to other NATO members.<\/p>\n
Estonian Public Broadcasting (EPB), citing the Transport Administration, reported that the Greek tanker was carrying a cargo of shale oil destined for Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It added that such incidents had never occurred before.<\/p>\n
Vessels leaving Sillamae usually move through Russian waters to avoid Estonia\u2019s shallows, which can be dangerous for larger tankers, the EPB said.<\/p>\n
The incident took place after the Estonian navy on Thursday tried to stop an unflagged tanker that was said to be part of a Russian \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of vessels sailing through Estonian waters. Russia responded by sending a fighter jet to escort the tanker, violating Estonia\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n
The \u201cshadow fleet\u201d is meant to help Moscow maintain its crude oil exports to avoid Western sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Estonia redirects maritime traffic to prevent future incidents after Russia\u2019s detention of the Green Admire oil tanker. Russia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1112,299,769,12,28137,285,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-112588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-estonia","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-finland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oil-and-gas","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114530758689638571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}