{"id":470149,"date":"2025-10-03T04:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470149\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:10:15","slug":"putin-vows-significant-response-as-russia-europe-tensions-soar-in-wake-of-ship-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470149\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin vows \u2018significant\u2019 response as Russia-Europe tensions soar in wake of ship seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned France\u2019s detention of a Russian-linked ship as \u201cpiracy\u201d, vowing a \u201csignificant\u201d response to what he called European threats as tension flared.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Russian leader\u2019s warning came after the French navy on Saturday detained and boarded an oil tanker that has been blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia\u2019s sanction-busting \u201cshadow fleet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The ship, the Boracay, has been linked to mysterious drone flights over Denmark last month, including military sites, part of a recent spate of drone sightings and airspace violations in European countries blamed on Russia &#8211; though Moscow denies responsibility.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The airspace incidents are adding to tension between European nations and Moscow, already riding high over Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Photo: Sputnik via AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6d0b20bc-ff2e-4d20-aaea-66c1cc36170b_4f9ae36a.jpg\" title=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Photo: Sputnik via AP\"\/>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Photo: Sputnik via AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">French President Emmanuel Macron urged European countries to do more to thwart Moscow\u2019s efforts to skirt Western sanctions, telling a summit in Denmark that Europe needed to \u201ckill the business model\u201d of using ageing, foreign-flagged tankers to transport Russian oil by detaining such ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned France\u2019s detention of a Russian-linked ship as \u201cpiracy\u201d, vowing a \u201csignificant\u201d response&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[29621,156540,155428,37039,365,7667,1112,2000,299,5187,1699,36,730,2301,770,12840,41238,145189,332,16512,52867,156541,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-470149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-benin","10":"tag-boracay","11":"tag-brest","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-dmitry-peskov","14":"tag-estonia","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-moscow","22":"tag-poland","23":"tag-president-emmanuel-macron","24":"tag-president-vladimir-putin","25":"tag-primorsk","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-russian-navy","28":"tag-shadow-fleet","29":"tag-sochi","30":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115308280991326758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470149","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=470149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}