Russia plays it cool on Estonias shadow fleet ship seizure

Estonia seized one of Russia’s “shadow fleet” vessels on Friday (April 11),  just two days after approving a new law that allows it to use force to sink such ships if they pose a national security threat. RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan condemned the first as “state-sponsored piracy”, while Russian President Vladmir Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev speculated that Britain might be behind the […]
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